Re: Shqiperia ne Festivalin Europian
It starts off all Little Bo Peep and missing sheep, but then the absent minded shepherdess decides to camp it all up and march round Tirana’s premier supermarket in a disco Basque and thigh length boots. Pathetic.. - Ian (U.K.)
The re-worked English version helped to improve the song. It might not be an impressive Albanian ESC debut but a good one if Anjeza has no problems singing this more up tempo dance song. I just don t like the little screaming parts. A grand final qualification won't be easy but its possible with a great performance. One of the better ESC songs this year and maybe a dark horse. - Paul Hutter (U.K.)
‘I have to admit that I didn't like the Albanian version of the song, but now I like more the English edition. Anjeza seems to have a strong voice, but in the national final she did a mess in some parts of the song (she was shouting!). I don't know if the 13th place will bring any bad luck to the Albanian entry, but The image of you is a nice song, with good music and lyrics. - Atmantas (Greece)
Albania's choice to switch to English is a good move but the song should never have been considered for Eurovision. The original version was over 4 minuets long, the new 3 mutate version sounds rushed and raff. In future perhaps Albania will pick songs that meet Eurovision rules. - Nigel (U.K.)
Poor video, weak song, few friendly neighbors. A candidate for nul points" - Ian Carson (U.K.)
Is this Cyprus 99 all over again?- James Cohen
“The number of gypsies in Albania has grown rapidly since the Indian race called erroneously Gypsy for Egyptian (Albanians are famous for folk etymology i. e. Athena from E thena) flourished under the communist rule. They were given special rights for a mysterious reason. The enigma was finally solved when the communist dictator Enver Hoxha described in his autobiography [written by the ghost Nobel Price winner (for literature) Ismail Kadare] how his uncle brought him up as Enver's own father was focused on a spiritual quest of Islam. Enver Hoxha had even been ignored by his mother and had been fostered by a gypsy. That is why the would-be-tyrant had no respect for religious institutions and bunt down all Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches together with the entire Illyrian heritage inside of them. Being raised by a gypsy the bastard of Albania had no illusion of the glories past. Under the premises of atheism he destroyed what was left after 5 centuries of Turkish destruction. Not only the future dictator was breastfeed by a gypsy but he also had absorbed the gypsy custom of homosexuality which he discovered when he got expelled from his studies in France then during wanderings in Albanian highland with other young guerrilla males. Many of his boyfriends like Qemal Stafa, Vojo Kushi etc. got killed in mysterious circumstances. After the end of World war II the gypsy King murdered other boyfriends like Koci Xoce, Mehmet Shehu etc.
After the fall of communism it seemed that Albania was finally liberated from the gypsy scourge. Alas, a famous gypsy called Sude became the mastermind of what would be the greatest pyramid schemes in the world. Once again Albania would be humiliated and stirred into civil war by gypsies.
Apparently Albanian politicians didn't speak English since they failed to read the American government warning at
http://www.sec.gov/answers/pyramid.htm against fraudsters.
After introducing the ward kar 'penis' in Albanian language (
http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian) GYPSIES managed to penetrate Albanian politics and art to reach top echelons of Albanian elite and represent them in Eurovision. On behalf of the oldest Aryan race in Europe, gypsies got the seventh place in the European song contest. They abandoned their horses and gypsy rhythms to sing in English instead of singing in Albanian, the oldest Indo European idiom. There are countries like Slovakia where gypsies make 10% of their population, Serbia 6%, Czech Republic 4%. Yet only Albania, a country of 3,5 million where gypsies are almost extinct was generous enough to be represented by them in Eurovision.” – Altin Gjoka
Albanian language
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