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8.5.03

04 – Turkey – Everyway (sic) That I Can – Sertab Erener
The title aptly sums up the determination of Turkey to win this bloomin’ contest after only once coming anywhere near, with 3rd place in 1997. If I wasn’t such a lazy arse, and had actually committed the list to paper/screen, you would have seen that Holly Valance’s ‘Kiss Kiss’ was my second favourite single of last year. That single was a cover of a pan-European smash by Turkish artist Tarkan, and this is very much in the same mould, making it utterly fabulous. Maybe Turkey’s time has come at last?
Turkey’s translators seem to have invented a new word for this song, as I can’t find ‘everyway’ in any dictionary. Still, you want made-up words? You wait ‘til we get to Belgium. Sertab is, as Wogan will no doubt say, “a handsome woman”, and rolls around in the video in a harem, or is it a lesbo-fest designed to outdo t.A.T.u?

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