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OK, that’s different. This time five years ago, Slovakia were explaining to me that the trees are our friends, and we should love the trees. Sadly, this year they couldn’t be bothered to spend 16 piffling Euros return on a train fare to be with us, so we part company with the Oslo parallels.
There’s plenty more we part company with, too. Apparently the same person whose vision gave us the astonishing Common Linnets performance last year… doesn’t like Trijntje very much. This whole staging is three minutes of wrong. Yes no? No yes? Yes, yes, yes and indeed very much NO.
Accidental last in a bottle. Might even be deliberate last. Dull song, looks… I can’t even explain the wrongness. My journalistic words have failed me.
This completely different song, on the other hand, was awesome, and it’s only 17 (SEVENTEEN) years ago. So well done indeed to 20th century Netherlands, the.
