Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

One of the most legendary Motown tracks. The "No hit" Supremes scored their first #1, in August 1964. Their success was such that also the next four singles went to #1 and the trio became the most succesful girl group ever . Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard apparently weren't so keen on the song first but after string of non succesful singles they didn't really have a say and went on to record it. Mike Valvano stomped his feet at the studio floor and the rest is history, as they say.  Just like with My guy/My girl , also this song got a brotherly version when Four Tops released I can't help myself (Sugar pie honey bunch) , another #1 hit for Motown in 1965.  The melody line is almost identical.  The song has been covered by Eurovision song contest winners Bobbysocks , Sinitta , Spice Girls just to name a few and the song has been sampled and mixed into various versions from Little Mix , Pussycat Dolls , Ace of Base and Soft Cell  a...

Hmm... am I warming up to this? I do understand why so many like this one and expect great things from it but so far I haven't really liked it. But now the backing voices have been tuned down, Aminata looks like Diana Ross from a far in her dress and does similar hand movements she did back in the day, or is it Sinitta? The backdrop is very simple with a very few images that keep pulsating and switching in the beat of the music in red and white.... As staging this is near perfection. Will it be enough to make the final? Or a good placement there? This could go either way; or the televoters don't get it or they do get it big time.

There are always Eurovision wannabes in search of some self promotion in the low season and this summer 1980's discogirl Sinitta has thought it's as good a way to promote her apparent return to music scene since nearly 20 years shouting "I want to do it!"  We can mix it with her early career that does include a participation in the UK selection of 1984 with Imagination (4th), and her ex Simon Cowell who has declared he could fix it for the UK. And Sinitta was his very first hit artist! Could they join forces again and recreate the magic for the good cause? Sinitta made it big in mid 1980's with hits like So macho , Toy boy and Cross my broken heart . Now she's about to make a come back in London pride with a cover of her mother Miquel Brown's hit So many men, so little time . (Another well known singer Amii Stewart is her aunt) In the 1990's and 2000's she's been more known for her personal life and reality tv, affair with Simon Cowell ...