Monday, June 7, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
FOUR CONTESTANTS, THREE SISTERS, TWO SONGS, ONE (euro) VISION
Do you remember Sestre?
Sestre, the "three sisters"?
Sestre, the three man, dressed as women, singing group? That Slovenian sensation that won the Eurovision 2002 Song Contest and overnight brought homosexuality to the forefront of Slovenian conversation?
Well, now meet Lena, the one woman Eurovision 2010 winner, that has all of Germany talking.
From the US news and world reports, it might seem the Eurovision Song Contest is trivial.
But it's not over here.
Lena is the talk of the German expatriot community.
She is a 19 year old German, who, this past weekend, won the annual Eurovision Song contest singing the pop song "Satellite".
"Evvryvone is talking about zthees Lena. Do you know her? Have you heard of this contest? In Germany, we are not so, how do you say, uh, spontaneous, you know, so zthis is zvery, zvery, important. It is a big deal for us."
Well, I knew the contest, but not "zthees Lena". I was anxious to look her up.
LENA, 2010 Eurovision Winner
And here's what the local German papers are saying about her, and her victory:
"National identity has lost its ... threatening component, it can now be articulated in a more stressless manner," said Tilman Allert, a professor at the University of Frankfurt. "For a long time, the display of a national identity was accompanied by shame in Germany. Maybe other countries will now say: You don't have to fear Germany any longer."
Not that we in the U.S. had much "fear of Germany" before Lena.
But she is fun to watch for sure.
Scroll down, and take a look at Lena on YouTube.
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