12
Apr
Hit of The Day: Hero
For today’s Hit of the Day, we are going back to 2008 when the Swedish winner of Eurovision in 1999, Charlotte Perelli, entered the contest for the second time, this time with Hero. It’s an amazing song and one I love to dance too!! of course it was Candelmansa’s post which reminded me of this song!
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Tags: 2008, Charlotte Perelli, Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden
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Spiller or Stephen as he is known, is a 20-odd year old Irish blogger, who has been blogging since 2005 and gets to do lots of cool things with blogs. Normally he goes Eurovision mad on his blog once a year, but since 2010 he has decided to join ESCIreland and make all his predictions here.
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Comments (7)
And it's also an object lesson for fans who devoured the song in audio in the months running up to the 2008 contest. Great song, but the performance visuals were shocking – that lighting effect that made her look monochrome simply scared the home audiences; and the audio could not compensate the Scooby Doo effect.
Agreed Ewan, this song definitely peaked too soon. I had it on constant repeat as soon as she performed it at Melodifestivalen.
Unfortunately for Charlotte, I think home audiences were turned off by her look. She did not look great during the contest and the fringeless hair style did her no favours. She's a great looking girl but she needs to lay off the botox. StylingOchConsulting may have an opinion on this…..
But totally agree with you, I dance to this track all the frickin time. Her follow up English Album is also quite good – with Bullet, Addicted, Not Alone and Show Me a Mountain being great tracks.
I do agree with the two of ye. One stage it was wtf? But on the CD (or in Ruby's) it was amazing! I just had to post it though! I was surprised it hadn't been.
Lesson to be learned for all for this year! Strong heavily produced songs are hard to reproduce live on stage – that's why every year always produces a shocker or 2 in the final shakeout!
you blasphemers…………..the girl was flawless………….scary looking………but flawless………….i blame the chubby cater waiters dancing for her that ruined her chances !!!!!!!!
"Like a star like a hero love will survive"
Charlotte's face circa 2008 is a warning to us all not to perform incessantly in front of the StormWindMachine. With great StormWind comes great responsibility. The Stormwind must be used sparingly.
Charlotte's 2008 styling och consulting left a lot to be desired. Wrong hairdo, wrong dress, wrong lighting and dear god what were the fat middle aged men doing on stage? Put 1/2 stone on Charlotte, give her a proper hairdo, turn down the botox/Stormwind Machine and have her grinding against five hot topless Swedish hunks and Ani Lorak's giant Mirrorbox and you might have had a winning performance.
I should sue her for the trauma her face caused me…