{"id":343,"date":"2010-05-27T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-05-27T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:27:04","slug":"song-you-wont-see-in-the-eurovision-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Song you won’t see in the Eurovision final…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…because they got knocked out in the heats. \u00a0From Slovenia, here’s Ansambel Zinel & Kalamari with “Narodnozabavni Rock.” \u00a0It’s got something for everyone.<\/p>\n

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From Lithuania, InCulto’s “Eastern European Funk”. \u00a0(Seriously, how did this not qualify?)<\/p>\n

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From Estonia, the intriguingly New Romantic influenced “Siren” by Malcolm Lincoln. (They’re apparently named after a wrong answer given on the local version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” to the question “Which of these people was an American President?”) This is genuinely, real-world good.<\/p>\n

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And at the other end of the spectrum, from the “What were they thinking?” file, here’s the Netherlands, with “Ik Be Verliefd (Sha-La-Lie)” by Sieneke – a true throwback to Eurovision stereotype.<\/p>\n

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…because they got knocked out in the heats. \u00a0From Slovenia, here’s Ansambel Zinel & Kalamari with “Narodnozabavni Rock.” \u00a0It’s got something for everyone. From Lithuania, InCulto’s “Eastern European Funk”. \u00a0(Seriously, how did this not qualify?) From Estonia, the intriguingly New Romantic influenced “Siren” by Malcolm Lincoln. (They’re apparently named after a wrong answer given on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}