COUNTRY: IRELAND
". . . If you want it, come and get it, even though you know the score, I will love you, I will hate you then I'll love you even more . . . "
I know, I know! And I'm sorry. But there's something about Donna and Joe that I find really endearing! It's the first upbeat Irish entry in years, and while not reason to justify it's high position (it did beat 236 other songs to be here) it's simply better than some man singing some slow, sad song that no-one really cares about. I really enjoyed the Irish dancing, something we don't see enough of at Eurovision - discounting Nelly Ciobanu's bizarre attempt (including red hair and green dress) in 2009. If anything it distracted the viewer away from the fact Donna and Joe were brother and sister singing a song called "Love?". Actually though, that didn't seem to matter. Neither of them (certainly during that performance!) were exactly oozing sex appeal, they hardly acknowledged each other's existence and it meant Donna could focus on the vocal and Joe could focus on, well, not messing things up. It all felt very high school talent show, where the entire thing was put together in an hour. But in the best way possible. If nothing else during Donna and Joe's Eurovision moment did I want to take my eyes off the screen - and I cannot say that about many Irish entries of the Noughties.
Best Bit: The moment when "The Lovely Gurls" are all over Joe like a rash. Cat that got the cream.
Fact: The word "Love?" is said on 49 occasions during the song. That's an average of once every 3.67 seconds.
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