What can be worse than a bad song? A bad song performed by a very famous singer. Dana International, for example, who won the Israeli preselection for ESC a few moments ago with one of the most casual and boring songs ever. As expected. Yeah, it's no news that everyone expected her to win. Her name is much too big in Israel to be ignored, at least when it comes to Eurovision affairs. Whenever she choses to nominate herself, she's almost automaticly made a winner, like her mere participation pushes the button of "selected". We've had the same thing before.
It also happened two years ago, when she wrote a song for Boaz Mauda's internal preselection and won. Well, yes. Many would say that in the end her "election" was all for the good, because Boaz and his song reached a good result. But who knows? The other songs in his preselection might have taken him into an even better position. One thing is for sure: Boaz reached a good position in ESC because he's a great performer who felt connected to the song. Not because Dana wrote it. The problem is that the public in Israel believes in the latter.
I think it's almost like believing in charms and magic. No person is a mascot for Eurovision. Not even Johny Logan. I am entertaining myself with the thought of her not having success in ESC this time. Of course I want my country to succeed, but a result which is not top 10 will prevent a future Dana dictature in everything that concerns ESC in Israel.
If to relate to the Kdam in general, I think it was quite a shameful event. The presenters - beautiful talented ex-Eurovision participant Shiri Mimon and Actor Aki Avni seemed to improvise their texts rather than to come up with something ready and witty, as required. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it just looked embaressing and improffessional. The sound quality was horrible and ruined some songs completely. The postcards were, again, improvised - something that worked well for artists with charizma and good camera attitude, and worked very horribly for artists who are not especially inteligent or talkative. The only good thing was the songs. I was really surprised by the wide selection, and the level of modernity that characterizedm them. Not that it matters, after the worst and most boring and old-fashioned song of the ten was chosen.
Traveling to Dusseldorf is starting to seem less and less attractive for me now. Everybody knows how good it feels to be present at the event when your country has a good song that everybody like. And everybody knows how pointless it feels to travel all the way to the host country and not be able to support your country because it happened to choose a bad song by apparently giving power to the stupid population who knows nothing about music.
Now Sweden is my only hope. If my favorite country has a good song, or at least a song I can live with, I would be more than satisfied and may be ready to ignore my bitter Dana-feelings. For my part, it means that Linda Bengtzing should be chosen, or at least Swingfly or the playtones, who are also frequent stars in my playlist.
You know what? I could also live with Sanna as a representative of Sweden. I don't like her song, but she's been trying for so many years, and most of her entries in the past were excelent. Besides, she can turn shit into gold, as a friend of mine said, because she's such a great performer. It doesn't really matters with what song she's coming. So Sanna will also be okay with me. But please, just don't let Brolle or The Moniker or some other song that will take all the fun out of Eurovision for me be chosen. That's selfish of me, I know. But aren't we all?
(Posted in my old blog on 8/3/2011)
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