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Pudding 11:22 pm UTC 01/13/09 |
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re: ALW/Eurovision - Macahan 06:28 pm UTC 01/13/09 |
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> > I'm also unsure why Dian Warren has been chosen, as I
> > thought the rules were that the composer/lyricist had to
> > be from the the actual country (in this case the UK),
> > although the performer can be any nationality.
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> Not at all. Songwriters are all over the place. Last year
> the German entry was written by Danes. Russia often use
> american songwriters and I belive Kate Ryan's entry was
> Swedish.
Also not forgetting that UK won the Eurovision in 1997 with Katrina & The Waves and she's American, also Celine Dion won it in 1988 for Switzerland and she's Canadian. I think lyricists being from the country the song is representing is a moot point.
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