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Dave Boomkens

Dave Boomkens
Redacteur / Auteur

Favourite Song Contest songs:

France in Moscow 2009
Patricia Kaas – Et s'il fallait le faire
(Fred Blondin/Anse Lazio)
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Norway in Malmö 2013
Margaret Berger – I feed you my love
(Karin Park/Robin Lynch/Niklas Olovson)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina in Athens 2006
Hari Mata Hari – Lejla
(Željko Joksimović/Fahrudin Pecikoza/Dejan Ivanović)
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France in Lisbon 2018
Madame Monsieur – Mercy
(Emilie Satt/Jean-Karl Lucas)
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Hungary in Kyiv 2017
Joci Pápai – Origo
(Joci Pápai)
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Written by Dave

Iceland: what Hatari has to say about Gaza

Our love for the first semi-final

The Eurovision entry for Iceland paints a dystopia: a horrific, fictional society. A society full of dismal elements that can best be described by using a word such as ‘sinister’. The lyrics for Hatrið mun sigra (‘Hatred shall prevail’) reads as the musical reincarnation of the science fiction novel Brave new world (published in 1932)…. »

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  • Tel Aviv 2019
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PingPong’s Roy ‘Chicky’ Arad: I think if you win too much in life, you’ll become a bad person

He was responsible for perhaps the most talked-about Israeli Song Contest entry of all time: Sameyakh. A song with rather suggestive lyrics (‘I want to do it with him all day long’) and an act (flying the Syrian flag) that tormented many Israeli television viewers. Nineteen years later, he –… »

  • Interview
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My love for tomorrow: Italy

On May 22nd, 2017, thousands of teenage dreams were ripped apart when, after a concert of Ariana Grande in Manchester, an explosive went off. What should have been the evening of their life, ended for many of them in a nightmare. The name of the youngest victim was Saffie: a… »

  • Lissabon 2018
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My love for tonight: Hungary

Singer Örs from Hungary embodied his late father and tried to reproduce his father’s last thoughts. The thoughts of a father whose son is standing at the end of his deathbed. The result is Viszlát nyár, which translates as ‘Goodbye summer’. Progressive Hungarian metal in which the summer is a symbol… »

  • Lissabon 2018
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My love for tonight: Lithuania

Initially singer Ieva didn’t want to participate at all, but when she heard When we’re old for the first time, she was sold. She immediately thought of Valdas Adamkus, the man who had been president of Lithuania for about ten years. She thought of how Adamkus once was present at one of… »

  • Lissabon 2018
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Loreen: Ride

The best lines of the new album

‘I am an activist,’ Loreen said at the end of 2017 during one of her performances. It was ever so casual. The four words were pronounced by the Swedish-Moroccan singer in front of the guests of the Pontus Schulz foundation. This is a Swedish organisation dedicated to a more humane… »

  • Album Review
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