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Things you should know before I get on with today's post...

~ The four minute version of the Madonna featuring the rest of the world track "Four Minutes" is actually quite marvelous indeed. As is Miles Away. Hurrah. Expect blogger to go into meltdown as people dissect every single second of it. Quite rightly so too...
~ Suzanne Shaw quite rightly won Dancing On Ice last night. Although Chris Fountain performed better during the series, he was strangely off his game yesterday and Suzanne was quite incandescent.
~ Run Fat Boy Run (the film starring Simon Pegg) is very lovely and bought a tear to my eye. Plus outstanding use of the Tom Baxter track "Better"
~ I finally got and listened to Ferras' album. Stunning. More later in the week...

OK ~ on with the singles selections. All from potential eurovision entrants in Sweden and other places. Which frankly is why England will never again win the bloody thing again because instead of using the cream of our talent, we use has been acts and half assed songs. Oh well.

Sergey Lazarev ~ Flyer: Everything about this track not only screams "amazing eurovision song" but also bloody batters you down with it's amazing aceness as a generally flabbergasting popsong. I like how the verses are slightly more muted at the start before a disco beat kicks in and a frenetic chorus blasts forth with its dance club vibe and Sergey's built for the world of pop vocals. Incredible...

Ola ~ Love In Stereo: I had Ola's album for the longest time without every paying much attention to it. Then in January when I needed some ace pop music to brighten up the post Christmas blues, Ola answered my SOS (see what I did there) and provided some quite serviceable music. This song is less club-y than Sergey but I totally dig the bagpipes sound in the middle and the drum driven chorus is a total winner...

Rongedal ~ Just A Minute: I wonder what what would happen if the Scissor Sisters had a brief but sordid affair with Mika and the baby was delivered by a midwife who used to be in Abba? Well gay twins would be born and produce a funky honky tonk piano driven song with "ooos" in the chorus and influences from all of the aforenamed acts. Possibly the best song to listen to if you want a big smile on your face. Plus an in your face cheesy key change puts it totally OTT> PS - that's a good thing...

Therese Anderson ~ When You Need Me: I haven't really had any reason to bother with Therese or Pay-TV, but when poppostergirl mentioned that this song was written by my beloved Evan (who, actually, is making the music that Erasure should currently be making) I had to check it out, and rather bonza it is too. Dramatic erasure-esque pop fills the verses before gears switch vocally and an operatic driven chorus leads the song to exaltation. It shouldn't work at all but actually it does and brilliantly so. Seeing as I love Evan, I shall chalk that up to his brilliance, but acknowledge the brill vocals too.

And of course, yesterday I wrote about the aceness of BWO's song and I couldn't possibly top Poppostergirls raves on Charlotte Perelli's Hero (what the hell is schlager anyway?!), but they add to this crazy little concoction of sounds that all wanted to enter Eurovision. Good luck Andy Abrahams. You are SO going to need it...