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4.5.04
13 - Belgium - 1 Life - Xandee

Crikey! It’s a woman! The first guaranteed sighting of a woman on lead vocals, and we’ve passed the halfway point already. There had to big a big, gay, ‘punching the air’ Eurodisco song, didn’t there? Thankfully Belgium come to the rescue, seeing as no one else bothered this year. They’ve provided us with a gay anthem that will finish about tenth and leave gay men moaning for the next decade about how she was robbed. (See Gina G, Paul Oskar etc.) I thought this was pretty formulaic stuff, but I must admit my opinion of it rose considerably when I saw the performance from the national final. (Luckily, that’s the video too.) They really give it some welly, to use a technical term, and the energy is infectious. If only one of the dancers wasn’t reminding me of 2 Unlimited.
Eurofact: Belgium had another song in their final this year, called ‘One Life’, hence the numeric title of this ‘1’ to differentiate.
Eurofact 2: Xandee has already recorded a Turkish version of this and sung it on a Turkish TV show. Expect massive points from Turkey.

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