Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

... France should have saved Et alors by Shy'm for Eurovision. But that song is representing La France in OGAE Song contest instead, let's see how it will go....  Eurovision Bonsoir Paris fan site has run a lot of questions for French Eurovision fans (nearly 500 of them answered) over the summer and out of the results we can see that they'd prefer a Melodifestivalen type of selection show - or at least a televised national final. Not surprisingly they would also like to pick up the winner themselves - and if not, it should be picked up by an international jury and/or televote.  And when it comes down to the song itself, it should be a quality one, as well as the artist's vocal capacities should be up to it. There should be rhythm, charisma and stage presence and visual effects thrown in with a good measure. If the artists is well known or not isn't that important. Surprisingly more fans would like to order a song from a known Eurovision writer than ordering i...

Jean-Jacques Goldman is one of this blogger's favorite French artists and the man who did adult Céline Dion in French, so to speak. He hasn't released solo material since 2001 but his music lives on, most recently in France where a tribute album has been released and become the hit of the season, Génération Goldman featuring some big names of the music industry of younger generation, including M Pokora, Shy'm, Emmanuel Moire, Christophe Willem, Amaury Vassili, ZAZ and Baptiste Giabiconi, the world's highest paid male model and Karl Lagerfeld's muse turned into pop singer. It's like a Christmas came early present! Fantastic! What a nice trip back to past and my musical history of the 1980's and 1990's! The covers are nicely kept pretty close to the originals, just with a new voices and maybe slightly updated sounds. For me this is the music event of the year! Here below you can compare the versions and enjoy some great music if you don't his work ...

Rumour of the day is that France is sending Shy'm. But hey, wasn't the rumour they would have a national final this year? Anyways, whatever. It's always nice to check on new artists. Shy'm or Tamara Marthe released her debut album in 2006 and scored five hit singles from it: Femme du couleur , Victoire , T'es parti , Oublie-moi and Rêves d'enfants . Three more followed from the follow up, La prèmiere fois , Si tu savais and Step back . Last year she released her third album and two singles have been released of it: Je sais and Je suis moi (sounds a bit egoistic this third one, doesn't it?) Her sounds seems to become poppier with each album. Time will tell will she follow Patricia Kaas and Jessy Matador.... Interestingly there haven't been the usual rumours with namedropping this year (yet)....