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8.5.03

22 Belgium – Sanomi – Urban Trad
We waited a long time for this to be revealed, but it was worth it. After ditching the lead singer because of accusations that she had been a far right supporter in the past, Urban Trad re-recorded the vocals with a new woman (who is very cute, in my humble opinion). This is the one in the made-up language, and the cynical side of me believes that the words were designed by a linguistics professor to make them sound nice. Whatever, they succeeded wonderfully. It’s a gorgeous, calming song, very reminiscent of Deep Forest (without pygmies). In the video, she’s even signing. Signing for words which don’t have any meaning anyway? What’s that all about? Will flop horribly, in the same way that Aava did for Finland, or win triumphantly, like the last Celtic mood track, Nocturne, did for Norway.

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