What do I think of this?

It took a week before a spoof of this year's Dutch song was released including the Smurfs. And they suit the song perfectly. That tells you almost everything you need to know about "ik ben verliefd, sha la lie". With a backing track of a fairground wurltizer and a chorus of "Sha-la-lie,Sha-la-la" etc" that tells you everything else you need to know. As Sir Wogan attested The Dutch really are mad as a box of frogs. It's a sub-juvenile approach to song writing that I can't see getting any marks as the Cbeebies crowd will be tucked in by then.

As a prop, Sieneke has decided to go for a MDF board with a Central European clock type thing painted on it. Two distinctly wooden looking people then unsuccessfully pretend to be one of those real life cuckoo clock things in front of it. Cuckoo.

Biography

Sieneke, the Dutch participant in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on the 1st of April 1992. She grew up in a very close family, with her father, mother and younger brother.
As a child Sieneke was always singing and dancing. She was only eight when she started doing street dance, and a few years later she took up ballroom dancing. That's how, two years ago, she met the well-known Dutch singer Marianne Weber, who immediately recognised a great talent in Sieneke. She heard, saw, and felt that Sieneke had something really special: a spectacular voice and a charisma that is spontaneous and real. They carefully started to make plans, but Marianne urged Sieneke to be patient, for Marianne knew, like no other, that you have to wait for the right moment to bring something good.
That moment came when TROS broadcasting company approached Marianne to enter a talent of her choice in the Dutch National Song Contest.
At the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Sieneke will sing the song Ik Ben Verliefd (I'm in Love) (Sha-la-lie), by Pierre Kartner. Pierre Kartner has many European successes to his name as a song-writer. He has written songs for, amongst others, Nana Mouskouri, Peter Alexander, Joe Dassin, and Mireille Matthieu.