Kate
is a girl with her finger on the nub of youth. She knows that Belgium
is famed for it's dance music, and made sure that the video for "I
Love You" was shot in a desirable beachfront location. By all accounts
Kate is the most internationally renowned artist the Belgians have ever
sent to Eurosong, and so it is with great excitment that they send her
off to Athens with her tit-tape and spray-on tan. Indeed, one of her remixes
sold over a million copies, but I'm fairly sure the song never made it
as far as Portsmouth.
It's a difficult one to call this. Belgium have previous with this type
of song. As recent as 2004, soft-porn Xandee went to Istanbul buoyed by
early plaudits and short odds, only to bomb in a very big way. This isn't
much different when all said and done. There is similarly annoying male
backing dancers, awful backing singers, and a youthful female lead banging
out a euro-dance-lite effort with great gusto, so it really should also
crash and burn. But for all that, I think "Je T'Adore" is a
different beast. She's on 7th in the semi-final which shouldn't pose too
much of a problem, and once in the big-time I think anything could happen.
Don't rule it out, it might be "every little thing you'e waited for".
Also, watch out for an energetic Brotherhood of Man ankle twirl/genuflection
which when utilised in tandem with her rubber hip, would put a lesser
pop-moppet in hospital. |