That was brief, so… introducing the Czech Republic

Musically, the Czechs face a similar situation to the Austrians – lots of great classical composers, but these days, on the rare occasion that they turn up to Eurovision, they have serious trouble scoring double figures. Of course, I have every hope that that will change this year, but let’s talk about that in May. In the meantime, a couple of songs from the Czech top 10:

2 – Kryštof - Tak nějak málo tančím (I kind of dance a bit)

One of the most popular Czech bands, Kryštof have just completed an acoustic greatest hits tour, and as if that wasn’t enough to stop this from selling like mad, this song is also going to be the theme to an upcoming television series on Czech TV. In other words, they’re managing to target a good few audiences. It’s a really good little tune, too, with some great orchestration:

4 – Tereza Kerndlová – Anděl

Yes, I heard one or two or fifteen of you gasp at the fact that she still has a career. Thought of by all the Czechs I know as pretty but not much else, Tereza used to be in the Czech equivalent of the Sugababes, Black Milk, but went solo and now lives in the memories of Eurovision fans, singing an entire song out-of-tune in Belgrade, while people wondered who on earth had created the 3-minute edit, and wondered how the lyrics were written by Americans.

But fear not, Tereza has discovered that she can still keep going by jumping on the Duffy bandwagon. This would have been a much more appropriate Eurovision song (although I guess that she would still have sung it like that):

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