Rendering 15: Music

The article 'Eurovision Song Contest 2013, review' was published on the website of the Telegraph on May 18, 2013. It was written Neil McCormick.

The aim of the article is to describe an annual ceremony. Eurovision is the pop show from another dimension, a big production international extravaganza celebrating the unifying force music at its most trite. He also notes that 26 songs is a lot for anyone to get through in one sitting, a double albums worth of power ballads, techno folk and cheesy europop.

The author begins the article with the announcement of the winner of Eurovision. And Neil McCormick

comments it as Denmark's winning entry Emmelie de Forest brings a touch of folk flavour to a bog standard techno pop ditty. Also he dwells upon British participant Bonnie Tayler, who was only 19th.

Then Neil McCormick underlines that staging is often more significant than the song. He gives an example of the Ukranian ballad. The most memorable thing was the giant in a Viking suit who carried the singer on. 

Further the author speaks about some particular participants from France, the Netherlands, Italy. France opened proceedings with a dirty little left-field pop rock ballad, delivered by a scruffy blonde whose idea of choreography was to jerk about like a mime artist experiencing a nervous breakdown. The Netherlands were even more audaciously restrained, sending an actual singer-songwriter, who warbled a kind of wayward Sondheim-meets-Joni-Mitchell orchestral ballad about a bird who can’t fly with the casual flair of a beatnik poet in the backroom of a coffee house.

In conclusion, the author again told about British participant. Though Bonnie Tayler was very confident on stage, Neil consideres that next year it should a young talanted pop-singer. 

It was very interesting to read the foreign opinion toward international contest. So that I conclude that not only Russians sometimes couldn't understand the principal of choosing singers to this contest.