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Olly Alexander: Dizzy review – it’s a sinful ripoff from the UK’s Eurovision entry
You could easily believe the prosaic Dizzy to be the work of AI: what if the Pet Shop Boys did Eurovision?
For years, although fans have suggested we follow the rest of Europe and put forward, you know, an actual pop star, that has never happened, for whatever reason – probably because the risk of losing is even higher and even more embarrassing for a known entity. The chorus echoes that of It’s a Sin, right down to the church bells, the glittering verses sound like the past decade in banging Stuart Price-era PSB and the monotone spoken-word middle eight is pure Tennant. That song is raucous, deeply queer and never passive – Pete Burns sounds as if he’s riding a bucking bronco and loving it – whereas Alexander’s delivery is a little workmanlike and supplicating, with none of the vaulting falsetto or darting come-ons that defined his best work.
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