A bit like football: UK afraid of the Netherlands
First the Dutch media spat on it, then others like me joined in the chorus. But once ‘Calm before the storm’ sung by duet The Common Linnets made it through to the Eurovision Song Contest finals last Tuesday, the Dutch press fashioned reasons to like the song, one of which makes sense: the most economic use of guitar chords for the biggest amount of win. Newspaper Metro UK says, “The song is perhaps the most simple ever seen at the Eurovision Song Contest. It has just three chords and the first half of the song is shown in a single camera take.”
Maybe austerity will finally hit Eurovision. Then again, maybe this is just the ‘pride before the fall’.
UPDATE: Hey, the Dutch won second place.
(Dutch country music to hit song festival, Photo of Microphone by visual dichotomy, some rights reserved)
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