Euroflop
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1It is 1979 in Jerusalem. The 24th Eurovision Song Contest has just ended and the Belgian singer Micha Marah is furious. Her song “Hey Nana” was ranked eighteenth and finished last, tied with Austria. However Micha had warned the Belgian committee: she would have preferred to sing another song called “How it goes”, but might as well make the little Manneken pee in a violin.
2A controversy on the choice of the song to which is added a last place: all Belgium is in commotion. It will be necessary to increase the pressure the following year.
3A big contest is launched, national stars rush to apply for the honor of representing the kingdom. The dashing Bruno Brel, nephew of the great Jacques, and holder of a motocross champion title, was at the top of the list. In the end, the experts chose a trio of modern youngsters: Telex.
4Michel Moers, Dan Lacksman and Marc Moulin went to The Hague (Holland) in 1980 to deliver their song soberly entitled “Euro-vision”.
5At the end of their performance, there is a short pause before the audience starts to applaud politely and briefly. It’s a flop.
6It must be said that this is the first time we hear a song about the competition, but also the first time we see on a popular stage a band playing a synthetic ritornello with, notably, the huge Moog modular synthesizer instead of an orchestra.
7With this slightly mocking song, the three scoundrels have a secret goal: to finish last. Alas, following a handling error, the Portuguese jury gives them ten points, ten points! This error will make the trio from across the border of Belgium finish seventeenth out of nineteen. Here too it was a failure, our Belgian Kraftwerk, as they are called, even managed to do better than poor Micha the year before, who had to console herself that evening with a good pint of Jup’.
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“Euro-vision” by Gauthier Tassart and Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, 3’40, 2021.
“Euro-vision” is a song by the artists Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel and Gauthier Tassart, which takes part of the issue 10 of the French journal Transposition, Musique et sciences sociales entitled “Flops in music”, edited by Sarah Benhaïm and Lambert Dousson.
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Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel et Gauthier Tassart, « Euroflop », Transposition [En ligne], 10 | 2022, mis en ligne le 29 juin 2022, consulté le 28 septembre 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/transposition/7802 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/transposition.7802
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