Eurovision 2009: Flor-de-Lis, Portugal
Eurovision 2009 is close. So close we can taste it. It tastes like blood. Oh, wait, no, that’s where we’ve tried to chew our own tongue off because we can’t stand Eurovision. Our mistake.
Anyway, want to know the Eurovision news for the day? It’s an unusual one – today’s Eurovision profile is a song that we don’t completely hate. In fact, we really wouldn’t mind if it won. In other news, we’re going to spend the rest of today scrubbing the shame from our bodies with our fingernails.
Here’s the Eurovision 2009 profile for Flor-De-Lis from Portugal…
Portugal · Flor-de-Lis, Todas as ruas do amor
You know what you get with a Portuguese Eurovision entry, and that’s a desperate reminder that Portugal has more to it culturally than a couple of hundred bright pink English skinheads throwing garden furniture into a hotel swimming pool. This year, we’re proud to say, is no different at all – Todas as ruas do amor by Flor-de-Lis is full of all kinds of traditional Portuguese instruments. And it’s this total absence of nasty dance beats or old mulleted men in silver suits who think they can single-handedly stop all wars (hello Holland) that makes Todas as ruas do amor so disarmingly lovely. Portugal doesn’t stand a hope in hell of winning Eurovision this year, although on the basis of what we’ve heard from the rest of the continent so far, it absolutely should.
What makes it different is the difference in intent. Most popular music today is born out of drugs, greed, hate or satanism, and you can select other dark corners of the soul for variety, the debilities are endless. However some small enclaves of people on earth still maintain an innate sweetness, actually caring for each other instead of bashing the crap out of each other. We used to call that harmony, an obsolete term derived from the Greek which seemed to indicate a state of detoxification.
Por el colorido, por la puesta en escena, por salir a pasárselo bien, por el pop-folk animado, actual y de calidad, por la canción, por ellos, ¡Portugal 12 points!
Muy bien, gran elección.
me encanta esta canción. es preciosa. la puntuaon muy bajo.