Video killed the radio star...

I have been listening to commercial radio more than I would like lately, and I have noticed something very important:

Pop music is becoming more and more like Eurovision Song Contest Music.

Take for example the lyrics to this new song I heard the other night (actually I heard it several times, it appears that the DJ may have accidental hit the repeat button, and couldn’t be arsed to do anything about it):

# From Paris to Berlin,
In every Disco I am in,
My heart is pumping for love,
Pumping for love. #

Discos? European Cities? Irregular Bodily Functions? Could this chorus be any more Eurovision-ish?

I think not… null points.

Yet this leaves me with only two conclusions:

1: Pop music is getting worse

Or

2: The Eurovision judges and contestants discovered how to make a time machine in the early sixties when a UFO (in reality a ‘Swiss Aeroplane’ – Think about it, time-perfect clocks, great chocolate, large monetary centre, neutral in all wars, look like German tourists, and an aversion to sunlight) crash landed in Brussels. In an effort to look cool, they travelled into the future so that they could create the best pop music possible; however the music was so advanced for its time that it appeared retro, outdated and corny to contemporary listeners.

My Friends, the correct answer can only be number two. Therefore the world is in crisis. It will not be long before Eurovision loses its innocence, and unleashes an army of red sequined time travelling keyboard-guitar carrying eastern European moustached men.

The ‘countdown’ to ‘top of the pops’ Armageddon has begun….