Now that we are less than 2 months away from the start of 2009’s top 100 list, I thought it would be a good time to ease back into posting. Each week before the start of the big countdown, we’ll examine popular themes in Eurovision-related songs. This week, because everyone’s in such a good mood, we’ll explore songs about a nuclear holocaust.
Tensions from the Cold War occasionally appeared in songs competing at Eurovision. The first time this happened was in 1967 when Monaco competed with “Boum-Badaboum” (a fairly self-explanatory title). In this song, a girl begs not to be killed because there are many things she has yet to experience. Fair enough.
1967
Boum-Badaboum
Minouche Barelli
Monaco
One thing I’ve noticed as I compiled this list is that songs about nukes tend to be surprisingly upbeat.
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