If memory serves, what happened was that someone took a video of a Ukrainian military band playing some other song and dubbed a realistic-sounding version of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis over it. This proceeded to be everywhere on the internet, enough so that the band that put on the original performance caught wind of it, and decided to capitalize on its popularity by actually performing the song. This video is the latter version.
“It is a love song that Joel wrote for his then wife, Elizabeth Weber. Elizabeth had taken over management of Joel’s career, and was able to put his financial affairs in order after Joel had signed some bad deals and contracts. She was a tough and savvy negotiator who could “wound with her eyes” or “steal like a thief”, but would “never give in”. Because of her tough-as-nails negotiating style, many business adversaries thought she was “unfeminine,” but to Joel, she was always a woman.”
anyways, here’s a mashup of imagine dragons’ “warriors” and carrie underwood’s “before he cheats”, now put on your boots, get the sword and kill some demons
Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver except it’s playing from your neighbor’s radio that you can hear from your back porch, which you sit out on to relax in spite of the loud buzzing from the lightbulb and the hoards of moths that flock to it on summer evenings like this.
I can’t help but applaud you for the courage of even thinking of seriously comparing the oscars to eurovision but if you actually believe that the sum of all movies ever nominated and honoured at the oscars could compare to the drama, the extravaganza, the sheer overflowing theatrical peak of artistic glitter madness that one (1) act of eurovision alone brings to the stage, then neither science nor witchcraft can help you.
Moami 