What do I think of this?

Aah Horehronie. You know the type of place...twinned with Rutland. Horehronie is not a cautionary tale of Ronny the rent boy, nor is it a treatise on our shambolic tendency to cut down palm oil forests whilst wiping the gurning grin off orangutans faces just so you can eat a Kit Kat. Instead it is a mere paean to a countrified areas of the glorious Slovak nation where peasants plough the land and the state steals the turnips. Kristina and her gang will take to the stage looking like part of Timothy Dalton's crew in Flash Gordon, only with skirts and sticks. Sadly though we don't get to see Peter Duncan putting his hand in a slimy aperture. A very environmental message this one, with lots of green tendrils (lightbulbs) hanging down from the ceiling and swampy gas (dry ice) escaping up from the floor.
There is also a welcome return of the elastic tape measure which gets an appearance near the end for very little noticable effect.
The song is another simple pop ethno affair, slightly more palatable than many others but hardly mesmerising nor memorable. It will cruise into the final where it will fall short pretty quickly, as they have no big neighbourly opportunities.

Biography

Slovakia seems to have the winning combination this year - a great singer, Kristína Peláková, and unbelievably successful song writers, Martin Kavulic and Kamil Peteraj. Will it bring them the victory of the 55th Eurovision Song Contest?
Kristína Peláková started her singing carrier with the single I'm Yours in 2007. One year later she released a debut album, which went platinum in her country. Her song videos reached 5,000,000 hits on YouTube! In the summer of 2009 she started to work on her second album, from which the first single became number one that summer. At this moment her Eurovision Song Contest entry Horehronie is the number one radio hit in Slovakia. In the national rounds her winning was virtually uncontested as in the final round she received nearly 40 per cent of public votes.
Her song was written by Martin Kavulic, who's a famous composer in Slovakia. He specialises in pop and dance music, but he likes other genres too. Apart from producing he also plays guitar and piano. His co-operation with Kristina began a couple of years ago.
Kamil Peteraj published 18 poetry books and is one of the best-selling Slovak poet. During his career he also wrote TV scripts and the movie song lyrics. He is considered to be the greatest lyrics writer in Slovakia, having released around 40 albums and selling more than 3 millions copies.