See the strange, shiny people in this picture?
How can you NOT…!
They (she?) is/are Verka Serduchka…and they are the Ukraine’s entry into the final round of the Eurovision Song Contest…a contest that takes camp to a new and preposterously disturbing level.
You may recall my previous post, lamenting the fact that Doctor Who has been postponed this week, to allow for the broadcast of Eurovision on BBC One. You will recall that my opinion of the Eurovision was rather…poor (ok, I think it makes the loser rounds of American Idol sound like Mozart composing for Julie Andrews at the height of her powers!)…but nothing prepared me for the summary of tonight’s dog-and-pony show, coutresy of CBC.ca:
The typically wide-ranging finalists for this year’s 52nd edition include a Ukrainian drag queen dancing about in a glittery silver outfit, a Belarus man who won a Russian Pop Idol TV show, a Hungarian blues singer, and a Georgian woman who delivered one electronica-influenced song while being raised and lowered by modern dancers performing under her voluminous pink skirt.
That’s right…this is the Communist revenge on civilization! Their their attempt to rule Eastern Europe ruined, the ex-dictatorial regimes of the former iron curtain nations have rebounded with a selection of the oddest, scariest, most repulsive song-and-dance acts ever conceived of by modern man! Dali would go blind…Picasso would have a nervous breakdown…KISS wouldn’t know where to look…and ABBA would dive screaming into the sea, never to be seen again!
Strangely enough, morbid curiosity is pulling at me to actually try and watch some of the highlights of this terrifying spectacle…which means, I will need to find someone to slap me silly as quickly as possible. My glorious Doctor Who postponed for a variety show that would horrify the AbFab girls?
You want more proof? The second picture on this page is of last year’s winner: monster-rock band Lordi, from Finland. They won with a rousing rendition of their signature song, Hard Rock Hallelujah!
No, I didn’t make that up. You think ANYONE could make up the viking/heavy metal/vampiric THINGS in that picture? I’m surprised TV screens didn’t explode across Europe!
