In a weekly series from Morten Thomassen, we will look at strange things from one of the Eurovision song contests. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.
This is a blog entry and represents only writer Morten Thomassen’s own views.
From time to time you wonder what happens in our beloved competition and in this series I will comment on some episodes and events that absolutely deserve the title “Why”.
In this series I allow myself to care about things that are really trifles, one must be able to have some advantages.
Approximately, an ESC song is entered for the competition 2 months before the final takes place, so basically plenty of time to figure out how to behave on stage and not least what to wear.
Generally speaking, most people in ESC history have been fairly well coordinated when it comes to choosing clothing and that probably also applied to choristers and there is a chorister who was not quite what I am thinking of highlighting today.
On 9 May in the year of the Lord, people gathered in Brussels and as many as 22 nations were to fight for the victory, it was a new record in the number of participants and we remember very well that our own Kate Gulbrandsen opened the show and she is not only remembered for the song, it was a high-profile hairstyle that also received its share of attention.
Johnny Logan also received his absolute share of the attention, who won the ESC for the second time as an artist and thus also became historic.
Another tricky issue this year was the fact that Belgium has two TV Stations that alternate sending artists to the ESC finals and since it was the French-language TV channel that won the year before, they ended up hosting the finals and that not without a lot of fuss, because they were actually supposed to collaborate with the Flemish-language TV channel, but that collaboration broke down.
However, it was the latter TV channel’s turn to broadcast a song, which they also did, so for the only time as far as I know, the TV channel that organized and held the international final did not present its own artist.
However, the one I’m going to focus on is the Swiss artist Carol Rich and her song “Moitie Moitie”, or I’m actually going to focus on the chorister and what she was wearing.
Half of each means the song title and it had the last start number and was thus the first to have start number 22 in ESC history, without that helping much with the position, which was a modest 17th place.
Carol Rich, whose real name is Anne-Lyse Caille, posed in what I would call an American-inspired jeans outfit and the guys in the band followed suit with typical clothes for the 80s, right up to what was normal everyday clothes in the 80s.
However, the chorister completely falls through the cracks in terms of costume as the dress she is wearing probably fits better in the 1880s than in the 1980s and one can wonder if she read the memo about what to wear wrong.
It’s very possible that she might have thought that what the others were wearing was youthful and that she wanted to appear a bit more grown-up, but instead of going into her mother’s wardrobe, she ended up in her great-grandmother’s wardrobe.
Regardless of how funny this is and why this nameless chorister ended up with the dress she made, we’ll probably never get an answer to, the song is cool anyway.
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