The country that gave us a-ha in the 80s has selected their entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Norway will be represented this year by pop sensation Tooji, and his song “Stay”. The 23-year-old singer, in something of an upset, beat out 15-year-old Nora Foss Al-Jabri, in the finals of Norwegian’s Eurovision song selection contest Melodi Grand Prix.
Foss Al-Jabri is a lovely girl and her song “Somewhere Beautiful” is […]
This weekend, while we were all watching Paul McCartney trying to remember the words to “Rhinestone Cowboy”, Hungary made their final selection for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great… … umm, with great… great… oh, whatever.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the men of Compact Disco, a sullen bunch who make up in shoulder pads what they lack in stage presence. Sadly, I can’t see […]
Katy, interrupted: midway through a performance of her single “E.T.”, just minutes after head Foo Fighter Dave Grohl speechified about celebrating the human element in music-making (specifically learning how to sing and play instruments); in the same Grammy Award broadcast that at once celebrated the power of one particular voice (the late Whitney Houston) while also inexplicably celebrating the spectacle of loathe-able mediocrity that is Chris Brown; in the middle of a performance that […]