Eurovision: Day After Day — Elnur & Samir
In Mutatione Fortitud, the blog of a political scientist from Azerbaijan, comments on his country’s first ever debut in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and says that the song, Day After Day, was “pretty successful.”
This year, at last, Azerbaijan made its debut in Eurovision, thus becoming last Caucasian country after Armenia (2006) and Georgia (2007) to join this famed song contest. Azerbaijan is represented by Elnur & Samir with a song by Govhar Hasan-zadeh and Zahra Badalbeyli. Elnur performs the role of an angel and Samir of a devil and the theme of their duet is the eternal struggle of Good and Evil. But at the end of the performance, through the persuasion of the angel (Elnur) the devil (Samir) undergoes a transformation and becomes an angel himself. This transformation is marked by Samir’s singing a piece of Mugham, traditional Azeri music and changing his clothes from black to white.
The Revolving Madventist Church of the Golden Worm of Mu agrees, and not least because Elnur & Samir enter into the true spirit of Eurovision.
This year, with so many countries wanting to participate in the freak circus, they’ve divided the show up into two semi-finals and the final - a move which I approve of wholeheartedly, as it gives me an excuse to get sloshed three times in a single week.
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hahaha oh wow. Azerbaijan has done even better than San Marino at catching the name of the game. Theirs is an outrageously epic stage performance, ecompassing the whole of the world from Heaven to Hell, with angels and demons forever locked in combat for human souls and fates… patently ridiculous, of course, but such blatant disregard of propriety brings the whole act safely from ridiculousness into the hyperdimensional realm of pure awesomeness, Epic Win, and spiral power. And it sounds kinda nifty, too.
- Published:
- 05.22.08 / 1pm by Onnik
- Category:
- Arts & Culture, Azerbaijan, Blogs, Entertainment, Europe, Eurovision Song Contest, Music, News Briefs, Opinion
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