Oooooh, get you! :-)))

Following last year's effort of a guy sounding like Mr Bean singing about some dolly bird and "looking at her photo" (which was actually a picture of her drawn with a biro), Russia are BACK! Yay!!

This year, I think Russia won't be needing to threaten to cut off any gas lines to get votes though as they are sending something really rather splendid! Have a look and listen at this:



So obviously, Alex is pwetty. Very pwetty, so pwetty in fact that he's dropped the "w" and got into some petty bitchfests with this year's other pwettyboy that will be singing for Sweden. They're totally choreographed for publicity of course, but I can't help but love the fact that they'll be laying banana skins around for each other to trip the other up in Dusseldorf!

But, more than that, there's the music of course, and I love, Love, LOVE this!!! A catchy pop song that's written and/or produced by the Swedish chappy that writes all Lady Gaga's hits, and it's got a fair smattering of "oh-oh-oh"s that can be chanted alongside Alexey's pwetty voice.

He's made a bit of a fuss over gays hitting on him or something, although I'm sure he's realised by now that Dusseldorf will be a gay club for most of the first two weeks in May, and you know what they say about those who protest too much (hahaha, I wish!). But then he KISSES GIRLS!! EVEN WHEN HE SINGS!!! So he must be straight, ok? :-)

So, the scores on the doors for Russia:

Danpoints out of a hundred: 83
Is it getting out of the Semi Final?: One of the golden rules of Modern Eurovision is that Russia ALWAYS QUALIFY. They qualified to the final last year with a man who had bad facial hair and a dirty turquoise scarf, for chrissakes!!!
Would be better sung by: Eric Saaaaaaaade the Swedish guy, having crashed onto the stage after one too many Smirnoff Ices, and bitchslapped Alex with a cry of "Ha! Got you!!"
What Would Terry Wogan Say?: Something about Mother Russia cutting off gas (oops, just like me), and "keep an eye on the pretty girls in the front row of the audience!".