I Feel Like Chicken Tonight
After a busy Eurovision weekend, I did just what a Eurovision blogger should do and not report on ANY of it. Apologies. A lot of semi-finals and quarter-finals took place, but no entries have been picked so you’ve missed NOTHING! Finland, Romania, Lithuania and Latvia all progressed this week in finding their entries, as did Iceland, and I shall inform you about what they’re up to later in the week, you lucky Eurovision enthusiasts.
Anyway, the most exciting thing to happen this weekend was in Norway. Their national final competition, Melodi Grand Prix, is NOT letting me down! After two semi-finals, we already know four of the eight songs that will be in Norway’s national final a week on Saturday. Last week they chose the rather clubby “Hooked On You” and the greatly funky “Love On The Dancefloor”. This weekend they chose two stompers for their national final.
One of these songs is “Ven A Bailar Conmigo”, a highly un-Norwegian piece that is more suited to Latino Spain. But, by golly, it’s good. And it’s the catchiest song I’ve heard so far this Eurovision season. Great fun, great performance and a really great song. But it was the other song that qualified for the Norwegian Final this weekend that took the limelight.
Ladies and Gentleman, get ready for “Chicken Rodeo” performed by Dusty Cowshit.
Dusty Cowshit are a fabulous band, six country-men strumming fiddles, ukuleles and banjos whilst performing their best yokel anthems. “Chicken Rodeo” is one of those songs that you KNOW will be good before you actually hear it. But you really should anyway, because it’s truly magnificent. It’s funky, it’s country and I just love that repetition of “run chicky, run chicky, chicky, chicky, chicky, run”… it’s truly marvellous. We’ve had Alf Poier, LT United and now I think we may have found our novelty entry for 2007.
But don’t write it off! Cos it is actually brilliant! As much as I love some of the other songs in Norway’s national final so far (and I’ve not heard all of them yet), this has to be the winner! Norway gave us glam rock in 2005, ice dances in 2006, now surely it’s time for chickens? This could be the best song of the year!
The next Eurovision semi-final is on Saturday, where two more songs will qualify for the Norwegian final. The following Thursday, all the songs that came 3rd and 4th in the three semi-finals will compete to grab the final two places in the Norwegian final, to take place on 10th February. From what I’ve heard so far though, it’s got to be Dusty Cowshit for Norway. If not, it’d be FOWL play. Geddit? Fowl play? Well it made me laugh.
Anyway, the most exciting thing to happen this weekend was in Norway. Their national final competition, Melodi Grand Prix, is NOT letting me down! After two semi-finals, we already know four of the eight songs that will be in Norway’s national final a week on Saturday. Last week they chose the rather clubby “Hooked On You” and the greatly funky “Love On The Dancefloor”. This weekend they chose two stompers for their national final.
One of these songs is “Ven A Bailar Conmigo”, a highly un-Norwegian piece that is more suited to Latino Spain. But, by golly, it’s good. And it’s the catchiest song I’ve heard so far this Eurovision season. Great fun, great performance and a really great song. But it was the other song that qualified for the Norwegian Final this weekend that took the limelight.
Ladies and Gentleman, get ready for “Chicken Rodeo” performed by Dusty Cowshit.
Dusty Cowshit are a fabulous band, six country-men strumming fiddles, ukuleles and banjos whilst performing their best yokel anthems. “Chicken Rodeo” is one of those songs that you KNOW will be good before you actually hear it. But you really should anyway, because it’s truly magnificent. It’s funky, it’s country and I just love that repetition of “run chicky, run chicky, chicky, chicky, chicky, run”… it’s truly marvellous. We’ve had Alf Poier, LT United and now I think we may have found our novelty entry for 2007.
But don’t write it off! Cos it is actually brilliant! As much as I love some of the other songs in Norway’s national final so far (and I’ve not heard all of them yet), this has to be the winner! Norway gave us glam rock in 2005, ice dances in 2006, now surely it’s time for chickens? This could be the best song of the year!
The next Eurovision semi-final is on Saturday, where two more songs will qualify for the Norwegian final. The following Thursday, all the songs that came 3rd and 4th in the three semi-finals will compete to grab the final two places in the Norwegian final, to take place on 10th February. From what I’ve heard so far though, it’s got to be Dusty Cowshit for Norway. If not, it’d be FOWL play. Geddit? Fowl play? Well it made me laugh.
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