24/02/12 AUSTRIA

The Austrian Final was held on February 24th at the ORF TV Studios in Vienna, hosted by Mirjam Weichselbraun, Robert Kratky & Andi Knoll. The winner was chose through two rounds of televoting. The first round would select the top 2 and then another round would select the winner from these two.

The final two were last years’ runners up, Trackshittaz and reality ex boy band contestant, now drag artist, Conchita Wurst. After a very close final round of voting, the winners, by a very small margin was Trackshittaz with “Woki mit deim popo” meaning “shake that ass”.

It must be said that last year’s runner up etry “Oida Taunz” is far superior to this song and  that way it is a little disappointing. The song is in a very strange dialect of German and does sound very strange to the untrained ear. The chorus is very brash and loud but it does get you involved, which is probably its only saving grace.

The band does its normal visual routine whilst they’re are backed by 3 ladies who send most of their time doing pole dancing. Close to the end they do part of their dance routine under ultra violet lights which shows of the highlighted bits of their catsuits/ The whole overall effect of this is that is all seems a little bit to rude. It just steps over the line a tad. Plus I am not quite sure how they are going to cart o and off three poles onto the stage in 45 seconds…

In addition to this the EBU will also probably have to make them change their name…

It’s an interesting song and certainly different to anything else we’ve heard this year. The juries won’t like it but will get the dirty old man vote.

SONG  -  Woki mit deim popo (Shake your ass)

ARTIST – Trackshittaz

COMPOSERS – Lukas Plöchl, Manuel Hoffelner

LANGUAGE – Central Bavarian/Mühlviertlerisch (dialect of German)