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Amandine’s voice has a story, her biography on the
Eurovision website tells me. Once upon a time this little girl dreamt of a duet
with Whitney Houston, we’re informed. Oh. Well at least she’s had some time to
become accustomed to her dreams not coming true. In fact she seems to have turned
things into a living nightmare for the poor chap in her video. “I’m going to
give you hell” she growls, whilst a beau is trussed up on an occasional chair
looking for the life of him as if he’s regretting whatever it was he’d
consented to. Amandine meanwhile appears to be concocting some kind of love
potion by crushing red hot chillies with a pestle and mortar before she gets
bored of that and takes up voodoo instead. You almost forget there’s a song
going on, which is perhaps her goal as it’s not very good. Well, maybe that’s a
little unfair; it’s ‘different’, and I suppose that’s worth an extra mark or
two. It starts out making you think it’s going to be a bluesy number, but given
the visuals it’s more like a rage. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt
though, she might just be pre-menstrual. An extra mark for managing to make it
look interesting on the video, but I’m not sure how’s she’s going to manage to
do so on stage without looking completely terrifying. Bottom quarter again for
France I think, which is a shame as their willingness to experiment most years
ought to be rewarded.
My score: 4 points
Monty x
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