Ah, you crazy Dutch. You always send interesting songs and lately your choices for the adult Eurovision Song Contest have been duds. Do you remember the lite rock stylings of 3JS, the überschlager of Sieneke, or the geezer pop of Der Toppers?
Nope?
I didn't think you did For the past seven years, the Dutch entrant has wallowed in the bottom of the group in their semi-finals.
This year they went for an act that's desperately trying to be the person pictured below:
It does make you want to hear the song, doesn't it?
Joan Franka "You and Me"
With her straight black hair, her nose job and the Native American headdress, Franka's trying to channel Cher in the "Half-Breed" video. It doesn't work. It's not a melodramatic pop number like the Cher song, it's more like the folk number "Brand New Key" by Melanie.
Since it's more of a folk number the entire Native American princess thing is pretty insulting and takes away from what is already a weak song. Franka and her dancers look like they found their costume by looking online. They look cheap, like refugees from a small town production of the Thanksgiving story, and demonstrates the tone-deaf idealism for the American West that shows up in European culture, as exported to them by America.
Hopefully they'll rethink the Princess Othaki shtick. But I doubt it. And it means the Dutch are likely to be at the bottom of their semifinal yet again.
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