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Apr

I Know I Shouldn’t Like It, But I Do……”I Admit”

Written by The Voice. Posted in Guilty Pleasure

There is always one entry in any given year, that “guilty pleasure” that you know you shouldn’t like but for some unexplained reason, no matter how hard your good taste trys to stop you, you can’t help but secretly fall in love with a song and performance. One of those songs and performances for me was Romania’s entry in 2004…

Sanda Ladosi entered with “I Admit”, an uptempo Eastern infused number about her admitting to her lover (which I am guessing was NOT her stylist) that she loved him and hoped he wasn’t a dream.

Now there are so many things wrong with this performance, her look, her lack of rhythm, her outfit, as one commentator put it, the “less clothes, more hair” approach to fashion, but for some reason that I cannot explain with any sense of logic, I love this.

I love that fact that she looks like an extra from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, that she couldn’t decide on what to wear so wore her “sexy” nightie, I particulaly love the little shoulder dance she does on “I admit, I admit”, the dancer who decided to wear a see-through meshed vest ala Miranda’s gay work colleague in that Sex & the City episode. I love the by now obligatory feel up by her backing dancers, the Marcel Marceau hand movements and the throwing of gold dust for no apparent reason, maybe just to distract viewers from that hair for 2 seconds.

Anyways, when I got both the DVD and CD in the post after the Contest, it was this song and this performance that I ended up listening to and watching on repeat….

So there is my guilty pleasure, what’s yours?

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Has been a Eurofanatic since 1992 with a vague recollection of Linda Martin's win in Malmo. He has been hooked on it since and hopes that Niamh Kavanagh can reclaim Ireland's glory but would be happy with any winner as long as they don't beat Ireland's number of 7 wins.

Comments (1)

  • Invincible
    April 25, 2010 at 2:41 pm |

    Ooh nice choice! I had that on my iPod (before twas stolen). Romania really have had good entries over the years.

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