Eurovision preliminary rounds

My recent music-related TV watching has spanned the culutral spectrum recently, but for the past four sunday evenings has settled on the Belgian preliminary rounds of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest. Scroll down and you can listen to the songs here.

To help you in your song selection, the seven finalists, with links to mp3s of their songs, are:

1. Roxane
2. Barbara Dex & Alides
3. Elsie Moraïs
4. Astrid
5. Xandee
6. Raf Van Brussel
7. Natalia

Last year was the Walloon entry (choice of candidate alternates yearly between Flanders and Wallonia) and Belgium placed a remarkable second. The year before that, the Flemish candidate only placed 13th.

What's most interesting (as there are only ever one or two good songs out of the 28 preliminary candidates) is the range of people taking part: from unknowns to BVs (Bekende Vlamingen=Famous Flems (funky name!)), from pub bands to boy bands to no-talent boob-job-enhanced reality-TV star wannabes attempting to prolong their shelf life to the kitchissimo Nicole & Hugo to Ali G-alike r'n'b-ers and so on.

Who would you choose?