I’d never heard of Kate
Miller-Heidke until she became Australia’s representative in the 2019 Eurovision
Song Contest. How does Australia, which is in Oceania, come to compete in a
European music event? Good question. Not sure I can answer. But Israel, which
isn’t in Europe either, hosted this year’s edition, in Tel Aviv. Miller-Heidke
came ninth with Zero Gravity, but
Australia won the artistic award (apparently the singing, dreadful as it
usually is, isn’t enough, and visuals also count). Holland, which is in Europe, won the overall contest through
a singer with the distinctly Dutch name of Duncan Laurence, and will stage the
event next year. Go figure.
So why is all this on a typewriter
blog post? Well, in discovering our latest songbird Kate Miller-Heidke, I was
made aware of a 2007 minor hit of hers called Words, the video of which featured a repainted (in bright red)
Remington portable typewriter. I can’t recommend the song, but the video is worth
watching, if only for the typewriter.
1 comment:
The Eurovision song context is bonkers and gets more so every year.
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