They try to find the Milky Way

I've talked about the Eurovision song contest before. It was way back when I first moved to this continent and found myself watching Finnish Gwar wannabes taking home the coveted title to a contest in which groups like Abba (read: mainstream hits) are supposed to win. I loved the weirdness aspect to it. Unfortunately moments like that are far and few between.

Last night was no different. I watched for the whole 3 or so hours. I dozed off at least twice. No worries; only missed a little bit of the Serbian cabaret jug band. Russia won. Cool, who cares. There was one main reason I watched this year. That was Sébastien Tellier from France. It didn't seem like he fit in because he was too cool and his song was too good. But this contest confuses me. Maybe he fit in just perfectly. He didn't come close to winning.

But when you take a drum beat and a synth and some vocals (kids, I have tried this haven't I?) and try to make a song there's a whole lot of places you can go wrong. This song is the opposite of wrong. It's so right and, simply, divine.

I give you Sébastien Tellier: