Meet Lena Meyer-Landrut, Germany's Eurovision 2010 Representative
This May, millions of TV sets across Europe will once again tune in to the annual Eurovision contest, in which single representatives from each country take the stage in an attempt to bring the Eurovision title home to their nation. The European slugfest won't be decided until May 29th, but Germany's representative, Lena Meyer-Landrut has already taken her country by storm, and has risen to the top of German music charts thanks to the success of her hit singles. Her best known track, 'Satellite,' has quickly become her trademark tune, and, not surprisingly, will be the song that she'll perform in Oslo this year. If you haven't heard of her yet, check out Lena's video after the jump. Because if her early success is any indicator, we may be hearing a lot from her in the near future.
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1. unbelievable - a very charming person, I love her.
Posted at 7:48AM on Apr 3rd 2010 by benny
2. A - for most people - very sympathic higher Bourgeoisie girl, not the very best singer, elected for being just very much really herself (nasty, no genius, but very intelligent and aware of) and so different than other politically correct people usually seen in German TV (idiotic because always the same pseudo-academia politics talks and casting shows making typical losers to winners). The best singers had no chance against her personality.
In Germany we usually tend to support losers these days because their life is oh so harder than our's and good middle class people were just REALLY tired of. Maybe somebody must live in Germany (and watch German TV with very strong public stations and private stations for the rest) to understand what I mean. I mean we have nearly no really poor people and people just are indeed a bit different. Lena is Christian by the way, but one of the few cool ones.
Posted at 7:09PM on Apr 6th 2010 by DresdenOne
3. This girl is fantastic. I've seen all her performances along her casting. She presented covers of Adele, Kate Nash, etc. I really like those artists a lot, and Lena's versions were always different compared to but at least as good as the original, often (to my taste) even better. Satellite is an ironic song fitting perfectly to Lena's performance, its brilliant.
Forget about this silly brainless comments of this idiot "DresdenOne". You can count him to that nasty kind of frustrated Germans who get a kick from trying to destroy good feelings of others. Meanwhile Satellite is approaching platinum status in the german charts, and two of her other songs are within the top five as well. This shows that many germans think different.
Warren
Posted at 5:05PM on Apr 7th 2010 by Warren
4. I avow myself the culprit. I thought that nasty had changed its meaning over the decades. If you were male you would have agreed she is jaunty and nasty as she wants to. There was no bad candidate among the last ten out of 4.500, regarding both singing and personal appeal, but still I think the other female finalist was an even more sublime singer and also very sympa. There is so much jealousy and protection toward her, but she has grown up. I have no doubt this unique thing can be transfered up to a certain extent. Lena's voice is good and her control over it is outstanding but there is no professional approach. Her talents are in orbit which is fine but strange. It might be easier to deal with for competitors and female fans.
Posted at 1:06AM on Apr 28th 2010 by DresdenOne