Junior Eurovision Ignored By Western Europe

Last night saw the 2008 "Junior Eurovision Song Contest". This site and most of the Eurovision fan community have never embraced the event as it always seemed

(a) too cute
(b) a cheap off-season cash-in
(c) rather too near the Minipops for comfort

However for the first few years it did garner a bit of interest due to the novelty factor. By 2008 it has unfortunately got completely embraced by the televoting disrepute that's making the whole Eurovision franchise stink like a dead kipper. So much so that just two Western European countries even bothered to enter, and you guessed, it was those two faithful puppies Belgium and the Netherlands, who would propably turn up at the opening of an envelope. And to no-ones surprise, except the Benelux self-delusion experts, they finished near the foot of the scoreboard.

The mass boycott of Junior Eurovision hopefully might have an impact on the European Broadcasting Union. We can but hope.

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Think That Renault Ad Sounds Familiar?

Well well, the hippest song of Belgrade 2008, "Divine" by Sebastien Tellier, has been given a well deserved new lease of life that may see it ascending the singles charts of Europe six months after the contest. The entry, like virtually all recent songs from the "big four" (France, Germany, Spain and the UK) ended near the foot of the scoreboard, either because Europe resents those countries direct entry into the final, or, more likely, because they haven't got huge swathes of economic migrants voting for the fatherland.

Anyway, France and Sebastien are having the last laugh as "Divine" is now being used in a pan-European ad campaign by French car giants Renault. And in many of those countries downloads are king regardless of any physical release, and many an ad tune has been vaulted into charts, so let's see what happens.



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