"...In addition to wearing a different set of clothes every day while staying in Finland, Sabrina promises to be available to the Eurovision Song Contest fans and the media as much time as possible..."

The Spin

Much more than an invitation...

She doesn’t remember the day she sang for the first time. But her parents remember that dolls were put aside and any object was used as a microphone. There was no audience, but in a child’s imagination that doesn’t matter.

She grew up singing. She sang in school and in family reunions. She participated in projects that made her travel the country and abroad, but always with the same attitude: that of those who want to make it right.

Just like in the past, it doesn’t matter if there’s a large or small audience. What matters is to sing and make others sing. She likes to feel the warmth of the audience. She likes the energy her presence gives the public and the vast array of emotions that make each show unique.

Humble yet confident, and knowing it is better to convince than to win, Sabrina embraces the challenge that is the Song Festival, a true hymn to love and joy. “Dança Comigo” (Dance with me) is much more than an invitation.

Since her victory in Portuguese national festival, Sabrina’s life changed a lot! Interviews, rehearsals, photo sessions and live performances in TV shows are now her daily routine. But also the trainings and the official matches of her football team in Setúbal, where she’s playing the last 10 years.

On the other hand, Sabrina is singing all the time with one of the Portuguese best music teachers and is doing dance classes with the choreographer Paulo Magalhães - who's also working on Helsinki stage. The fashion designer João Rôlo and the hair stylist Eduardo Beauté are working together on her new image, not only for the big night show, but also for the 10 days in Finland.

The Singer
 
Aah, to the seconds shelf we go, to gobble up that pre-closing bargain of shop soiled spam fritters in a can. I look forward with a masochistic fascination to the Portuguese entry. Embedded as it is in my mind as a gel-quiffed 1950's throwback, I think I should nominate the phrase "portuguese Eurovision songs" as an amusing reference to examples of archaic horror, say "Nosferatu" or "M". The Portuguese it seems are so hard up for cultural references these days they applied to have "Fado" (their one glorious aural heritage) to be assigned World Heritage status...a song getting world heritage status...madness. Anyway by all acounts the next Portuguese name for the footnote of ESC will be Sabrina, who looks a lovely young thing, with a heart of gold, and a larder of fish. Landing in Helsinki with two brassy blonde Aunts, Sabrina will annoy the natives with her precocious rapid fire speech and predicliction to warm up in broom cupboards with the boom operator.

The Past
  
Portugal are an enigma to me. I don't understand how they can churn out the same shite year after year, and not learn to either 1. try something new, or 2. quit. They've been in 36 contests, and been abject in all of them. Ok so they came 6th in 1996, but promptly followed that up with a no pointer a year later. '96 remains their best performance in what has been a litany of continuous embarrassment. Occasionally they do have a half decent singer (Anabela and Rita Guerra are the only two that spring to mind though), and I shouldn't complain because it's countries like Portugal that foul the footpath of serious Eurovision fans static caravans year after year. Long live Portugal.

The Song
 
This is going to win! Oh, wait hold on, it is going to win a competition based on the Portuguese entries of the last ten years, but in the actual Eurosong itself Thursday night is the beginning, middle, and end of Sabrina's adventure. She will offer you the moon, the stars, the sea, and the sky, and you'll still want to turn over to "Grease is the Word".

Overall

Running out of things to say about Portugal. Would it be worth it if I appealed to their ambassador to remove themselves from the contest forthwith? I may give it go, if only for a Ferrero Rocher and an update on how much they hate the English.

In a Nutshell
"Not a teenage witch, but she does have a black pussy...(christ)"
 

the philosopher says

dilemma A difficult choice between equally undesirable alternatives. In a disadvantageous rhetorical position, one is said to be impaled on the horns of a dilemma, but logicians employ Constructive Dilemma as a rule of inference. For example "Should we continue to slag off the seemingly paltry pool of talent available within Portugal and run the risk of sounding like a broken record, or do we give them the benefit of doubt, even when they are bound to continue to disappoint?" Recommended Reading: Howard Kahane and Nancy Cavender, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric (Wadsworth, 1997)

Danca comigo

Dança comigo (vem ser feliz)
Vem dançar comigo pelas ondas da aventura
Que eu prometo dar-te oceanos de ternura
Disse-me o vento que serás sempre o meu par
Até o céu conspira que és tu quem quero amar

Dança comigo, que eu dou-te o céu que há em mim
Dança comigo, que aos teus desejos direi sim
Dança comigo, que nos teus braços vou sonhar
Dança comigo, que eu dou-te a lua, o sol e o mar

Dança esta canção porque tem tudo de ti
Tem ritmo e alegria, que é o que tu me dás a mim
Há na melodia uma luz, uma razão
Há na harmonia uma força que é paixão

Dança comigo, que eu dou-te o céu que há em mim
Dança comigo, que aos teus desejos direi sim
Dança comigo, que nos teus braços vou sonhar
Dança comigo, que eu dou-te a lua, o sol e o mar

Dança comigo, que eu dou-te o céu que há em mim
Dança comigo, que aos teus desejos direi sim
Dança comigo, que nos teus braços vou sonhar
Dança comigo, que eu dou-te a lua, o sol e o mar

Dança comigo, que eu dou-te o céu que há em mim
Dança comigo, que aos teus desejos direi sim
Dança comigo, que nos teus braços vou sonhar
Dança comigo, que eu dou-te a lua, o sol e o mar

Dança comigo

Dance with me

Dance with me (come and be happy)
Come dance with me in the waves of adventure
I promise I will give you oceans of tenderness
The wind told me that you will always be my lover
Even the sky knows that you are the one I want to love

Dance with me, I give you the sky that is in me
Dance with me, to all your wishes I will say yes
Dance with me, in your arms I will dream
Dance with me, I give you the moon, the sun and the sea

Dance this song because it's all about you
It has rhythm and joy, that is what you give to me
In the melody there's a light, a reason
In the harmony there's a strenght that is passion

Dance with me, I give you the sky that is in me
Dance with me, to all your wishes I will say yes
Dance with me, in your arms I will dream
Dance with me, I give you the moon, the sun and the sea

Dance with me, I give you the sky that is in me
Dance with me, to all your wishes I will say yes
Dance with me, in your arms I will dream
Dance with me, I give you the moon, the sun and the sea

Dance with me, I give you the sky that is in me
Dance with me, to all your wishes I will say yes
Dance with me, in your arms I will dream
Dance with me, I give you the moon, the sun and the sea

Dance with me
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