Denmark will be sending Drag Queen DQ to Helsinki with the camptastic tune ‘Drama Queen’.  The song’s an upbeat pop track – one of only a handful of what you see is what you get songs this year – and includes everything you’d expect from a light hearted piece of fun bubblegum pop – a good drum beat, bright presentation, and a lively, energetic stage show.  The song is one you’ll love or hate, it’s certainly catchy and thoroughly enjoyable; although I can’t help thinking it’s slightly bland.  In comparison to this year’s Ukrainian entry (also a drag act) I think people will be able to appreciate this on the ground that it’s fun, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and still manages to respect the popular music event that Eurovision is.  This is one of my ‘undecideds’ this year, but I really hope they do well – I think qualification is on the cards, but all the stops do need to be pulled out.

If there was one performance I was particularly surprised to see fail to qualify, this was it.  Amidst a plethora of rock, leather and repetitiveness, along came Denmark, with an upbeat camp disco number using no less than three costume changes, bright pink feathers and impressive choreographer.  Out of all the songs we had seen at this stage of the night, this for me was by far the best.  DQ wasn’t the best singer in the competition, but he mainly managed to pull it off bar a few notes.  To pick out holes and problems in this performance pains me, because I sincerely enjoy it every time I watch it, nonetheless, I guess it’s my job to be fair and try to find some sort of explanation.  Firstly, as I’ve already mentioned, DQ wasn’t the best singer in the competition and did miss a few notes and secondly, the choreography with the two boys doing the robotics at the start wasn’t perfect either – but apart from that I can’t find anything wrong with this.  It was upbeat, catchy and fun, with a very memorable performance.  I can only assume that eastern Europe, particularly those former Yugoslav states, didn’t take to it and were too caught up with their block voting to pay any attention to something which was a little more deserving of a place in the Final (surprise, surprise, ahem!).  In 19^th place Denmark were very far out indeed, and my prediction was way off.  I guess this just didn’t strike a chord in Europe where it seems to matter nowadays!