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8.5.03

10 Germany – Let’s Get Happy – Lou
It is actually illegal for Germany to enter a song in Eurovision which has not been written by Ralph Siegel, and it’s also compulsory for there to be rumours every year which have him mumbling that he’s never going to do it again. Will the country ever learn though? Last year they thought they had it sewn up with Corinna May’s Big Old Gay Anthem. And they finished 18th(?) So the last thing they’re going to do is send another Big Old Gay Anthem, right? Wrong. On the plus side, it’s thrillingly uplifting, and has just the cutest little video you ever did see, and includes the line ‘Let’s be gay’. On the downside, people will be muttering the phrase ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ when they see that Lou is not, in fact, a six inch high, two-dimensional cartoon, but a red-haired, wannabe disco diva, who admits to being 38. Those naughty Rusky girls have already been quoted as calling her 'a hag', which may cause a ruckus in the wings during rehearsals, because look who's on next...

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