You Had to Know This Was Coming
Oh yes, there’s a kid version too.
The selections don’t happen until a few weeks after the end of Eurovision so I don’t have a preview of this year’s Belgian entrant but I do have last year’s.
The boy that Flanders picked to go to last year’s competition is Oliver Symons. He sings, plays guitar and piano and writes his own songs. Plus he’s a real cutie. Check it out:
The lyrics are in Dutch, obviously, but Oliver also has a version in English right here if you want to know what he’s saying. The translation doesn’t totally do the lyrics justice but it’s pretty close. And if you don’t know, take my word for it, poeticizing something like song lyrics in a language not your own is one of the hardest things to do, in my opinion, as far as translation goes.
Anyway, I love this song. I mean, he’s 15 years old so it’s got it’s share of angsty teen running through it but it’s angsty teen with a gritty edge. It’s like Nickelback but 20 years younger…in Dutch.
Oliver didn’t win Junior Eurovision (although I bet he’d have had a good shot at winning the adult version) but from what I can tell he’s still writing songs and if he ever comes out with a CD I definitely plan on picking it up.
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That is a nice song. Very talented 15 year old!
I believe the junior eurosong contest is somewhere in the fall. I’ve never watched it so far. It seems to be as bad as the adult one, only now I feel refrained to truly start mocking and bashing the contestants.
I thought he was cute too!
he has a very nice sound and he is most definitely eye candy….he’ll be a huge hit if he gets here…