SOUNDTRACK: CHANÉE & N’EVERGREEN-“In a Moment Like This” (2010).
Denmark’s entry into Eurovision is Chanée & N’evergreen. This song is shockingly bland. It doesn’t have any of the weird quirks of Romania, and isn’t inspired in anyway that I can see. The song’s verses are way too disturbingly similar to “Every Breath You Take” which morphs into a chorus that sounds too disturbingly similar to Abba.
See it here.
[READ: July 17, 2010] “The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut”
I haven’t read any of Steig Larsson’s books, and I probably never will. And as such I’m sure this parody would be even funnier if I had. I don’t generally like Nora Ephron’s pieces, but I was kind of tickled by this one.
I assume that the characters are the ones in the book (and there must be some kind of history, right?). But unlike the crazy excitement of the novels, in this one, Kalle needs his umlaut fixed on his Apple computer. She demurs until he argues: (more…)
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