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Contests 2009 Changing faces for Russia

Changing faces for Russia

Anastasia Prikhodko at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow.

So it appears that Anastasia Prikhodko turns into her mother in the background shots … who’d have thunk it!! I liked this song the first time I heard it – then she tried to be a Sinead on stage (O’Connor rather than Mulvey) and that turned me off it, to be honest.

The staging intrigues me – It’s a bit ‘Matrix’ meets … well some very odd visuals indeed. It does look like someone has thought long and hard about it. Perhaps too long and hard. This will be a love it or hate it ‘marmite’ song. And that means, I struggle to see this doing much more than end mid-table. No matter how clever the background looks.