So first up was Maria McCool, the years token celtic entry. Since doing away with the irish language entry, there's always a celtic entry. Anyway, as I previously expected, they all were like, oh yes, Maria McCool is very irish but Dervish did so badly, we shouldn't do celtic again.
Like with Sandy Jones in 1972, it's getting the reason for the failure wrong. Dervish's performance was firstly dreadful, but secondly the song was cloyingly twee! Twee Celtic? No, celtic music is and should be dark and brooding. Ireland's a country of rain, and clouds, and mountains. Music is appropriately dark and brooding, not SUNSHINE, FLOWERS, SPRINGTIME. Urgh.
There was fire and stuff, that song was cool. Ok. Mairead Farrell, piss off! Late Late Show, call me!
On it went to Donna McCaul
They talked about her like she was being a Lady Gaga type. McCaul is only Gaga-like in the sense that Gaga is not very original and mostly ripping off better things. Gaga though, of course, does her ripping-off with such extravagance and pomposity that she seems original.
McCaul just seems like she's doing karaoke. Everything about her screams karaoke singer. She has a scrap of a voice and no stage presence. She looked like someone's mum embarassing herself. Her outfit make her look frumpy and boxy. God, why was she even brought back again? She was the flop from 2005!
So, yeah, by this point, I figured Jedward was their winner... sigh.
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