The hats were exactly the sort of thing I hope to see on Eurovision! The crazy background animations helped too. But the unicycle fairy just topped the whole madness off!
For those who aren’t European residents - Eurovision is an annual musical contest with the entrants coming from lots of European (and surrounding) countries and the winner decided by vote.
It tends to be utterly, utterly mad as not all of the countries take it seriously and even those that do sometimes have unusual interpretations of “serious”. It’s a bit of a cult thing.
Me too! And note this: elsewhere onm the Eurovision site there is a feature on the Moldova entrants, including six photos of the group backstage. Of the six backstage photos, four are of the Unicycle Fairy, it seems they know what we like. Her name is Tatiana Iliescu.
But they forgot to include the unicycle in her photos…
My first impression of the song was not much, but because I kept wanting to see the Fairy again I watched it a few times, and the song grew on me.
I typed Zdob si Zdub into my last.fm search engine and last.fm started playing lots of Moldovan, Romanian, Ukrainian etc pop music for me. Wow, what a goldmine of new music for me! Saving my life when I get stuck on the road in a company truck with no cd player, and crappy commercial radio stations.