Music Monday: Tattooed Camp Nano?

I know it's July. I understand that Camp Nano started two days ago. I am aware that I'm editing this month and I'm already behind. But I'm still living in May, for a variety of reasons--one of which is Eurovision. When there's a lot of awful in your everyday, Eurovision is a blast of happy, over-saturated, European musical goodness. This was the winner this year, Loreen from Sweden, and she won the year that hubs and I watched the finals on my tiny tablet screen in a HOT hotel in Maisons-Laffitte just outside of Paris on our belated honeymoon. (That sentence was almost as long as the days felt in that hotel that did not believe summer had started and wouldn't turn on the AC.)

So you enjoy Loreen in the comfort of your air conditioned whereveryouare, and I will go back to my virtual tent at Camp to get back to writing...at least until the bell rings for teatime and then singing on the virtual porch, that is. 

Eurovision 2013: Loreen - Euphoria - Opening Act (1st Semi-Final)

(Here's Loreen with all those Swedish Deaf and Hearing kids, as well as one of the most beautiful opening sequences I've seen for a Eurovision broadcast - it really shows how this contest brings all of Europe together, and I am here for that.)

Music Monday: One more from Eurovision...

Right, so, Eurovision. An epic part of my life, for just over a decade now. An insane amount of talent, bravery, creativity, and camp all shoved into one glitter-filled week and three amazing nights. After the pandemic canceled Eurovision 2020, all of Europe (and Australia, because why not I guess?) turned out this week for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam. The Grand Final was just last night and I'm still reeling - y'all, this is the highlight of my year in a lot of ways. Keep your Superbowl and your Award Season and just give me a bunch of European artists (and, as I mentioned before, Australia because...well, it's Eurovision) each with a song to sing and I am THERE. 

Today's Music Monday is not from this past weekend's contest because most of those haven't been uploaded to YouTube yet AND I was not pleased with the result so I'm still tending to that wound for a bit longer. This song is special because it was the winner in 2012, when Hubs and I watched it on my tablet in our HOT hotel room in France on our belated honeymoon, because when Sweden hosted the following year they had a chorus of Deaf kids signing along, and because...well, just watch it. Euphoria, by Loreen (who was in the Song Along from the Fire Saga movie and gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME I watch as she starts down that staircase). Enjoy.

Euphoria by Loreen
Why, why can't this moment last forevermore?Tonight, tonight eternity's an open doorNo, don't ever stop doing the things you doDon't go, in every breath I take I'm breathing you
EuphoriaForever, 'till the end of timeFrom now on, only you and IWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-upEuphoriaAn everlasting piece of artA beating love within my heartWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
We are here, we're all alone in our own UniverseWe are free, where everything's allowed and love comes firstForever and ever together, we sail into infinityWe're higher and higher and higher, we're reaching for divinity
EuphoriaForever, 'till the end of timeFrom now on, only you and IWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-upEuphoriaAn everlasting piece of artA beating love within my heartWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
Forever we sail into infinityWe're higher, we're reaching for divinity
Euphoria, euphoriaWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-upEuphoriaAn everlasting piece of artA beating love within my heartWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-upEuphoria, euphoriaWe're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up