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Contests 2011 Captured by a sandstorm

Captured by a sandstorm

Mika Newton

You don’t need to be a Eurovision expert, or a fashionista to know when large shoulder pads are just wrong, and the ones in this rehearsal are plain wrong, wrong, wrong!.

The sand drawings is a good gimmick, but it distracts hideously from the song – which in itself grates and is just hideous. I still keep gravitating back to Mika Newton’s shoulder pads, though, in this performance and think “why on earth don’t they flap” – now that would be a good gimmick!!