This is a quote from a blog entry I posted in March regarding t.A.T.u.’s break-up:
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What would I like to see? How about a lifetime honour that’s not from MTV Russia: let them perform during the Eurovision…
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And this is what was posted on Thursday (that I just read):
TATu who represented Russia at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest have announced that they will perform at the first 2009 Eurovision song Contest semi final on Tuesday of next week.
And now I’m experiencing that familiar crash I get after finding out about new t.A.T.u. projects. That, “DMY, you know this won’t be as good as you’re picturing it.” Crash! But you see, the first time t.A.T.u. were on Eurovision, I didn’t properly savour the experience. I barely knew them, and from what I can remember thinking back, all the press thought they were going to do something scandalous during their performance. So I remember finally seeing it and being like, “Wow, Russian girls frolicking on stage – shocker! And they were never heard from again!”
I literally cannot even think straight enough to post this, I’m so consumed with a mixture of excitement and anxiousness that I won’t be able to sleep tonight! And the thing of it is, it’s not even been officially confirmed by EBU! Ack, I need a life; preferably that of someone in Spain who’s won £110 million!
Firstly, the subdued breakup of t.A.T.u. was officially announced on their blog. Out of the ashes came two new projects, neither connected, but both potentially exciting.
What to say… there’s still a lot left unfinished, and the fans have been assured closure, but I’m skeptical as to whether the majority of what’s been promised will surface in the coming months. It may be a good year before we hear an official announcement regarding their films release. What would I like to see? How about a lifetime honour that’s not from MTV Russia: let them perform during the Eurovision halftime-show in Moscow (I know it’s hardly the Superbowl, but I don’t know what else to call that typically boring part when you’re supposed to start televoting). Apparently the spot’s already been taken by a Cirque du Soleil performance, but I think that harks back to my earlier statement of this interval being typically boring. Aqua got to perform in the 2001 Contest shortly before their breakup, it should only be fair as one of Russia’s most profitable exports they grant them this honour! Now, whether or not t.A.T.u. would actually accept it, is another question.
Secondly, Amanda Bynes has a new comedy Pilot in the works! “Canned” sees Amanda take on the role of newly-unemployed Sarabeth, adjusting the life outside the workplace along with her other friends after being exploited by their boss. What I’d like to see? The report says the character’s a naïve midwesterner – so how about letting Amanda show off her versatility and give her a little accent!
If you don’t know me, I’m what you would call an Amanda Bynes fanatic. I used to run the only British website about her and have been a fan since 2001. She’s lately had somewhat of a career dry-spot, but rather than bitching about it, I’ve appreciated seeing her taking time off and evaluating things in her life (let’s just brush over those several months she spent with Paris Hilton’s future husband). She’s working on a new script with Andy Fickman, the director of her most successful lead-role film “She’s The Man”, and a new fashion line. But this is exciting, getting back to what she does best! The ABC Productions Pilot should start taping next month, and I’m pretty sure those things are open to a live audience, so no doubt I’ll have more news on this project as it develops.
Question: What do you get if you take Lady GaGa’s current worldwide chart-topping single, Just Dance, and mix it with a two-year-old, should-have-won-Eurovision entry from Russia?
Answer:
Lady GaGa vs. Serebro – #1 Dance Song
There’re two versions available to download, the first has Colby’s rap in the middle, whilst the second is a tiny bit longer and has Lady GaGa’s rap in the middle. I know it’s already at the top of the charts, but it wouldn’t hurt to support Lady GaGa’s world domination and buy the song if you’re one of the 7 people who haven’t already! And despite being two-years-old, Serebro’s debut song is still as catchy as it was back when you first might have heard it along with me, being performed in Helsinki! As such, you can also buy it from iTunes, and loads of other places.
You know how it is: it’s late at night… you’re feeling somewhat amorous… your hands begin to wander… and before you know it… you’re googling your own name! Yes, now you know my dirty secret – don’t act like you’ve never done it! Sometimes I just like to see if I was mentioned anywhere without my knowledge. As you know I like to make mash ups and unleash them upon the unsuspecting world, mostly to mediocre success, but sometimes I find them mentioned in the weirdest of places (NME magazine’s website, played on a Belgium, and a French radio station to name a few places).
Well, during tonight’s googlebatory session I discovered my newest mash up (t.A.T.u vs. Bronski Beats) was included in a weekly podcast, recorded last December, called Ramdom Thoughts. I’m not sure how popular it is, but the Facebook page has 91 fans so I take that as a big compliment, to not only be included amongst the likes of some amazing talent like Divide & Kreate, Norwegian Recycling and Hi-Brid (who is ultimately responsible for my Bronski Beat mash up, given that I’d never really heard the song before his mash up of it with Klaxons), but paid the compliment, “How can you make that song better – tomsbrain certainly did!”
I’m sorry, I’m done gushing, but I just want to put it out their and say I am grateful. All this Internet stuff, you never really get an accurate measurement of how well received your work is, so it’s nice to actually hear some feedback! In terms of my next Mash Up, unless anything jumps out it at me (I’m really into Shiny Toy Guns and Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head at the moment), It’ll be back to my ol’ faithful t.A.T.u gals and an attempt at mashing their biggest hit, All The Things She Said… so not a job I’m taking lightly! Speaking of never knowing where my name ends up, if anyone with contacts at the BBC is reading this, can you please book t.A.T.u to appear/perform in this misguided attempt at getting us out of the bottom places in Eurovision thing on a Saturday nights with Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd-Webber. I know they’re in LA at the moment, but you’ve got 5 weeks to make it happen.
The all important list of British entrants hoping to get through and represent United Kingdom in this years Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki were announced this week. And I bet you’re all just dying to know what my opinion is of them (I must warn you that the following reviews are lined with so much sarcasm that you may begin to feel nauseous)!
I was immediately thrilled to read Scooch had reformed to take part… but my joy soon turned to laughter when I heard there pitch. Flying the Flag (For You) is about as retro-ninties-gay-pop as it gets; they haven’t learnt one thing from their quick demise over 6 years ago and a part of me thinks they were cryogenically frozen back then and thawed out a little too late, completely missing the MySpace Music revolution and pulling faces of confusion when the words “Take That Reunion” were mentioned.
Brian Harvey, the only one from East/E 17 that you can remember, hasn’t changed one bit either; still trying to sound like R. Kelly and still doing a crap job of it. He’s entering Making Your Mind Up with a song called I Can, but from me it’s a “Please Don’t”.
Not satisfied with the success of her Barbara Streisand cover, Liz McClarnon tries her hand at Euro-glory with a particularly depressing song called (Don’t it Make You) Happy… what do you think, Liz ‘I-wrote-this-song-myself’ McClarnon?
Some French chick called Cyndi (or Cindy, for those of you with dislexya) has actually come up with a song that screams “last place”… in Making Your Mind Up. However if this were given the chance to go through it would probably give us our highest final position since Jessica Garlick. Shame about the face though, she looks like a German dominatrix version of Shelley from Coronation Street!
Rounding off with what I think is our best shot from this sorry bunch of “artists” are another blast from the past, Big Brovaz, whose song Big Bro Thang is great because it’s exactly like all their old songs, only now everyone is actually into listening to all that sort of music.
And that’s it… unless I’ve manged to overlook someone whose song would be so vile that I would immediately repress the memory of ever listening to it… Nope, that’s all!
Sorry for not posting sooner, but now I’m back at home everything’s a bit normal. It’s my birthday in a couple of days, that should be semi-interesting I guess. The Eurovision Song Contest is on Saturday this week, the semi-finals were on tonight along with the launch of Big Brother VII, but more about that later. First off, I’m glad to see Finalnd made it through, who would of thought such a kick-ass song could come from Finland? Not I! It’s a shame Greece don’t have a sense of humour as Iceland was entertaining, but aren’t they always. Please stop getting your hopes up UK. We will not win, we will be lucky to even reach the Top 10! Thank god for the remote control, once Finland performed I flicked in between this and Big Brother.
Ah Big Brother, or as I like to refer to it, The Human Microwave. You pop in a person and 3 minutes later you get something that passes for a celebrity. So who’ve we got in the house this year? BONNIE, 20, CARE WORKER: Is her accent even British? I think they deserved to be booed going in, just to show them they’re not a zelebrity yet! PETE, 24, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SINGER: He is just an attention seeking faker… So, this years winner?! (first impressions, please read above) GEORGE, 19, STUDENT: Hello to this years Stuart, if he does not find his Michelle then he will be out of there quicker than a hobnob in a cuppa. SHABAZ, 37, UNEMPLOYED: I think he has a hard shell. Definitely the least annoying so far, and that’s saying something. LEA, 35, MODEL: I wonder how long before she breaks down crying… Apparently 6 seconds. Eww, Shabaz has gone down in my expectations. If he clings onto Lea anymore her boobs will pop out. MIKEY, 23, SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: A lads lad. I have no kind words, I’m too busy watching Iceland, now she has a personality worth writing about. DAWN, 38, EXERCISE SCIENTIST: A pessimist… Is it an act, is she a suicidal outcast? No… She’s just a wannabe in sheeps clothing. GLYN, 18, LIFEGUARD: I literally had to cover my mouth to stop from throwing up. Welsh? What region of Welsh produces that kind of accent? RICHARD, 33, WAITER: Channel 4…? I thought I accidentally stumbled onto Adult TV there for a second, and that’s not a good thing. GRACE, 20, DANCE TEACHER: Her clothes are real, unfortunately so is her personality. But with this lot it’s actually a breath of fresh air. Hello to my new least annoying housemate, whilst Shabaz is now the most annoying housemate EVER! SESER, 26, ENTREPRENEUR: Everything was going so well until he got nude. I want to gouge my eyes out. NIKKI, 24, MODEL: Attention, we have our bunny boiler. As if we didn’t need more proof she is dressed up as a bunny. You’d better watch out George! Oh and as for IMOGEN and LISA, I have no witty words for them. They appear about as normal as normal can be in the Big Brother house.
And those are our 14… About the exact age and/or IQ you need to enjoy this drivel. Ah, at least there’s always the possibility of Dawn hanging her herself or Pete spontaneously combusting. Thank god for channel surfing, no doubt I’ll form a more well-rounded opinion sooner or later.
And now another rant about The Eurovision Song Contest: Semi Final that determined the final 10 of the 24 finalists in Saturday’s contest…
Live Show:
Read my new Total Film through most of it, boring and some sound issues got especially annoying during the best song of the night!
The 10 Semi-Finalists:
Hungary: Bit forgetful, but still good.
Romania: Not bad, I can see how it got votes.
Denmark: Blaeck! Sympathy vote I assume.
Norway: COME ON, COME ON, COME ON! A sure winner 
FYR Macedonia: Definately deserved.
Croatia: The Snake Charmers! I didn’t know snakes could dial phones!
Latvia: More sym-pathetic voting!
Switzerland: This song is definately my second favourite, and the Ninja Vanilla girls are gorgeous!
Moldova: Erm… Whatever, it’s too late.
Israel: Alright, I can’t say it’s a bad song but I can say they were better ones.
And My #11…
Belarus: Unfortunately the live version let this great song down.
My 5 favourites… (in no specific order)
1: Norway
2: Switzerland
3: Albania
4: Cyprus
5: Germany
This is the point in time where I miss school. Purely for it’s sociality (if that’s even a word). Miss bitching on a morning about the Eurovision and Big Brother, texting is just not the same, I’m tempted to schedule an emergancy last minute Eurovision party… Or maybe I’ll wait, it is my birthday in 15 days after all! No-one better not come this time, or else I’ll be uber-mad! I made pointless ramblings about some of this year’s ESC entires…
Estonia – Estonia have the talent to go all the way (as we’ve seen
already) but as much as I’ve praised this song before, I don’t see it doing as
well, just because of the amount of better entires. Possible Top 5.
Albania – Catchy! Am interested to see how this will be performed.
Andorra – Mysteriously hypnotising, could subliminaly persuade viewers to vote!
Austria – Yoddle…. No-ddle!
Belarus – My favourite now, even if the keyboards are a bit ‘ninties-pop’! Should do well, can see it getting high points from Great Britain.
Belgium – Aww… Pretty! Less X-Factor, more Snooze factor!
Bosnia & Herz – Nooooooooooooooooooooo! And Feminnem, come on!
Bulgaria – Hmm, will probably land somewhere in the middle.
Croatia – Nah, but if snakes could vote they’d choose this!
Cyprus – Catchy, very catchy. I like it a lot and consider it’s chances of winning high. Flaw could be that it’s similar to Albania’s, whichever comes later will be disregarded as a copy
France – One of the best French entries for ages, I knew they had some decent artists lurking in there somewhere!
Germany – Sounds like Avril Lavigne, could definately get into the top 5.
Greece – Good, if not slightly annoying. This year’s entries seem to be full of snake charmers!
Hungary – See post above. Snake Charmers, seriously!
Iceland – You’re right, someone’s ripping off Toxic! Good tune, weak
lyrics.
Ireland – Did I read this was remixed… Good job, but still crap lyrics.
Israel – Blaa, went in one ear and out the other
Latvia – Might tap into a certain niche of voters
Norway – Wow, that was a relief, I was beginning to think this
competition was full of balads! Norway kicks ass
The hype for Eurovision 2005 has started I see. We pick our representative in 2 weeks. Don’t make a fool of us Britain. Here’s my opinion of the songs short-listed for the UK…
Javine: Sounds a bit like ‘My Perogative’. For the past 2 years all the songs have sounded a bit Turkish, like this one.
Tricolore: LOL! You have to be kidding me.
Katie Price: Don’t know how well she’d sing live to be honest. The song is to weak.
Gina G: Trying to make a comeback? Don’t do it by representing us, the 90’s are over if you didn’t heard.
Andy Scott-Lee: Straight off I want to say I hate the Scott-Lee clan. But this is my second favourite.
I wrote a song fit for the Eurovision… Back in 2000, I don’t know how well it’d do in today’s competition but I’d sure like to find out how to submit one… Just that who would I feel comfortable with singing it. Imagine if I wrote a song and then someone like Gina G sang it. I’d be mortified. We’ve been doing better in the junior Eurovision then the real Eurovision which just goes to show how much of a part politics play in the voting of the Adult Eurovision. But it’s so easy to blame politics when the real fact is all our entries for the past 4 years have been crap! Take a listen to some of the other entries this year, here.
I received my copy of Marianne Curley’s last book in the Trilogy, I can’t wait to get started reading it. I’ve drawn up a big chart on my whiteboard so that I can remember exactly what happened in the previous two books. My memory ain’t so good as I read them over a year ago and as to why I just don’t re-read them, I can’t wait to begin reading the third one! But once I have read it I will read them all again (even Old Magic) just so I fully understand this fantastic story. I can’t wait to see what this would be like as a movie. But sometimes book-to-movie translations are poor and with this being Australian I think if Hollywood ever wanted to turn it into a movie it would just be spoilt, even if they went to film it in New Zealand (like they did with LOTR). Speaking of poor translations, Dark Water is being remade by Hollywood, I’m not anticipating that one as the Japanese version is a classic. But I am about to watch the original version of Ju-On: The Grudge after watching (and loving) the American version. So unlike with Dark Water and The Ring (sequel comes out soon too) I can see if it matters watching the original before the remake!
Junior Eurovision: Well we didn’t win but Tom was a damn-sight better then Jemini. Let’s just hope things go as well as the junior show for UK’s entry in the 2004 Adult Eurovision Show next year. I’m going to go watch X-Men 2 now. C ya
I want to say congrats to Tom for winning as the 2003 UK entrant at the 1st Junior Eurovision Song Contest. He’s really good and we might even win! You may see my original entry down the page about the fiasco at this years adult Eurovision. I went back to school today. It’s manic, I had one lesson today I’ve got one tomorrow. And there both my favourite lesson. I found out I was the only one in my Film Studies class to get an A. I nearly blew everyone’s ears off when the radio station at school malfunctioned and my friends in Bo Selecta. Remember to watch What I Like About You on Nickelodeon everyday at 5:30pm and also try and watch the Gilmore Girls at 11am at the weekends because it’s different to the usual shows that are on Nick. It’s mature!
