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10.4.02

The first VT showed Sandrine at home in her Corbusian tower block. It very clearly wanted to present her as 'working class girl made good'. She lives on a run-down estate! She bleaches her hair! She used to sing along to Celine Dion! (It wasn't made clear whether her physical likeness to the long-faced one is just a coincidence, or has been achieved by surgery.)
Sandrine's backing band, called Showbiz, joined her for a good version of Anastacia's 'All Out Of Love'. This was very interesting, as it revealed that Sandrine's English pronunciation is very good indeed. They also did a bit of 'Eternal Flame'.
We then had a pretty cool, breathy duet from Dani (Chrissie Hynde meets Magenta De Vine) and Etienne Daho (Mark Thomas after a diet). Clips were shown to warn Sandrine of 'how NOT to dance' on 25th May! Most of this was indeed very silly ESC dancing, and deserved to be ridiculed, but showing Russia 2000 was really going too far. There was nothing wrong with those 'big girls' blouses'! Those boys were just 'artistically expressing' the song, and I won't hear a word said otherwise! The fact that I had a snog and a fumble with one of these two during Stockholm 2000 has nothing to do with it!

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