{"id":112,"date":"2007-03-17T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/03\/17\/eurovision-torn\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:12:37","slug":"eurovision-torn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/03\/17\/eurovision-torn\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision: Torn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully this year there isn&#8217;t a song amongst the six UK candidates that I&#8217;d be embarrassed for us to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/eurovision\/2007\/mymu\/\/\">sending to Eurovision<\/a>, although the Hawkins &amp; Brown attempt was a little disappointing (too much of a mish-mash for my liking).\u00a0 So who did I vote for?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My vote had to go with Cyndi in the end.\u00a0 Yes, she&#8217;s French, but perhaps we&#8217;ll get some votes from countries who might otherwise vote for France (or from France itself).\u00a0 It&#8217;s beside the point really, which is that the combination of the excellent ballad with Cyndi&#8217;s very strong vocal was the best of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly Scooch was another one we both really liked, so Sue voted for them as well.\u00a0 That song&#8217;s still in my head, although I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ll be happy if that&#8217;s still the case when I try go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I hoped the Big Brovaz song would be better, although it seemed to go down well with the invited European straw-pollers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully this year there isn&#8217;t a song amongst the six UK candidates that I&#8217;d be embarrassed for us to be sending to Eurovision, although the Hawkins &amp; 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