ASFM Worldvision 2: TRENDY VIEWING GALA 2 - Tonight, 7:30

[Kate]

RAP! Not what I expected

 

[Kate]

Oh and some singing too.

 

[octophone]

If he walks backwards into the guy getting the open blade shave there is going to be a right mess.

 

[Kate]

Until BT gets here....

1. ISRAEL Gad Elbaz feat. Nissim - Hashem Melech 2.0

 

[octophone]

I like this more second time, I think.

 

[ButterTart]

Oh shit, I'm here!

 

[ButterTart]

Are we still on the Israeli kicky dance masterpiece?

 

[Kate]

CHOCLIT just started.

 

[octophone]

shocko la

 

[ButterTart]

2. UKRAINE Auresia - CHoCoLaTé

 

[Kate]

Wait this is UKRAINE?!

 

[ButterTart]

Reggae filmed in the Caribbean with a spoken word intro in French... that can only mean UKRAINE.

 

[octophone]

A chocolate-a-day keeps the doctor away? Is that medically proven?

 

[ButterTart]

Wait this is UKRAINE?!

People really went outside the box this year.

 

[Kate]

A chocolate-a-day keeps the doctor away? Is that medically proven?

I'm willing to try it.

 

[octophone]

People really went outside the box this year.

 

[ButterTart]

A chocolate-a-day keeps the doctor away? Is that medically proven?

I think so, just like sixty cigarettes a day keep the doctor away according to Doctor Benson and Doctor Hedges at the privately owned surgery I go to.

 

[octophone]

I think so, just like sixty cigarettes a day keep the doctor away according to Doctor Benson and Doctor Hedges at the privately owned surgery I go to.

The surgeon, Mr Kipling, reckons you're better off with a battenburg.

 

[ButterTart]

3. AZERBAIJAN Sevda Alekbarzadeh - Hisslərim Dumanda

 

[octophone]

Said it before, I'll say it again - Jane McDonald goes disco. In 1983.

 

[ButterTart]

Said it before, I'll say it again - Jane McDonald goes disco. In 1983.

The Jane McDonald comparison is frighteningly accurate.

 

[Kate]

Said it before, I'll say it again - Jane McDonald goes disco. In 1983.

Jane McDonald tries to be Roisin Murphy. Quite like it though.

 

[ButterTart]

4. INDIA Gaurav Tophakhane - Dastaan

 

[ButterTart]

Another one where the poster looked at the hugely famous music their country is known for and went 'lol no'.

 

[Kate]

India almost as unexpected as South Korea who was it threw a strop about getting given them last time? Alla?

 

[ButterTart]

India almost as unexpected as South Korea who was it threw a strop about getting given them last time? Alla?

Yes!

 

[ButterTart]

India's difficulty is the sheer amount of choice. Their scene is MASSIVE and you'd be hard pressed not to find a representative for every genre going among the diaspora.

 

[ButterTart]

5. THE PHILIPPINES Maymay Entrata - Amakabogera

 

[ButterTart]

Asia is very generously represented in this year's contest, and the posters have done well to find bangers in among such ballady music scenes.

 

[octophone]

This is indeed a banger. Marina would have killed to have pulled this off in 2012.

 

[Kate]

So many credits in this round.

Yeah that was bit generic for me anyway.

 

[ButterTart]

Oh, there are a lot of credits in tonight's videos, which I don't mind since it's enough of a bugger to find a song for a specific country, never mind taking into account whether the uploader has selfishly ignored ASFM etiquette.

 

[ButterTart]

6. HUNGARY Krisz Rudolf - Kimentünk a Divatból

 

[octophone]

I actually commented on this the other night - I had no idea credits on videos was now so normalised.

 

[ButterTart]

I really like this one, but then I'm a big fan of Hungarian music in general and I like his crispy singing voice.

 

[Kate]

This is quite a grower I think.

 

[ButterTart]

I actually commented on this the other night - I had no idea credits on videos was now so normalised.

Yeah, there's a lot of it about. A lot of dance songs will have a good 30 seconds of promo at the end of the song, for example.

 

[octophone]

I guess it;s a Youtube development - in the old days, no-one would have showed the credits on TV anyway. In a digital space, you can include it and people will actually see it. Even television credits are often snuck into a corner now.

 

[Kate]

Yeah this chorus is banging!

 

[ButterTart]

7. BURKINA FASO Hawa Boussim - Hme ye