{"id":1560,"date":"2007-05-12T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/eurovision-please-please-let-france-win\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T00:27:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T00:27:39","slug":"eurovision-please-please-let-france-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/eurovision-please-please-let-france-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision: please, please let France win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les Fatales Picards are a work of absolute genius. That bald guy – perfect! Sadly no cheerleaders during the live finals, but still. Fantastic stuff – they’ve single-handedly revived my interest in pop music:
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Update:<\/strong> Actually, sod that – maybe Ukraine… Genius also (though in a rather more contrived way, for which I’ll deduct points – France still my favourites…):<\/p>\n

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Update 2:<\/strong> But more importantly, why the hell is the German entry all about ruling the world? Should we be getting nervous? (And unless my ears deceived me, in their appeal for votes they said something along the lines of “we conquered you…” Erm…)<\/p>\n

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Update 3:<\/strong> The German entry’s lyrics<\/a>. It IS all about ruling the world! Or maybe Angela Merkel. I’m not sure any more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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