#Gina G

[eurovision-revisited]

1996 Oslo - Number 6 - Gina G - "Ooh...Aah...Just A Little Bit"

Gina G is not number 1. The singer and song that perhaps best represent the change that is coming to Eurovision, and where the EBU were hoping to take it, fails to take the prize. Both in Eurovision and in my own ranking. Where did it all go wrong?

The UK's selection competition has been renamed The Great British Song Contest for this year and they also introduced a semi-final to winnow eight songs down to four. Whether that was necessary or not is a decision the producers can look back on and ponder. At least we got to see all eight on screen, as the semi-final was a special episode of Top of the Pops, with the final being the more traditional special.

It didn't really matter anyway because Gina G won easily. The single was released in the UK on the 6th April. It immediately went to number 6 and was in the top 10 for ten consecutive weeks, peaking at number 1 the week after the Eurovision final. It's the last UK entry to go to number 1 in the UK charts. It also was a hit in Gina G's native Australia and even got to number 12 on the US Billboard charts. Given the poor sales that recent Eurovision entries had been having, this is everything Eurovision organisers could possibly dream of.

Yet, even though it finished third in the audio-qualifier, it slipped to eighth. Whether that was because it was in the death slot, or because Gina's vocal were a little off in a couple of places, or because NRK decided that what this day-glo, multicoloured dance spectacular needed was a black-and-white filter, we'll never know. But of course it's still a Eurovision classic.

I don't really need to describe Ooh Aah...Just a Little Bit do I? It's high BPM EDM, synth-heavy, and is possibly the first song in Eurovision history to feature two actual computers on stage given the rule that all instruments involved in the production of the song needed to be present on stage. It's outstandingly contemporary and commercial, sticking out like a sore thumb among the rest of the Eurovision fare, perhaps because the only similar song failed to make it through the audio-qualifier for reasons. The UK has had a track record of trying to push Eurovision's boundaries for a few year up to this point and here they finally succeeded. As it's also from the UK it has the most sexual lyrics that were acceptable, but at least, in this case, the entendre is singular rather than double.

Gina herself was an Aussie DJ, who sang on dance tracks. On moving to the UK she was immediately swept up in the Eurovision swirl, and was on stage in Oslo within a year. After this, she had a succession of UK hit singles and an album. Then she was hit by the music industry bludgeon. Contract wrangles and disputes meant her second album was held back, and she effectively disappeared from the music scene. Way to treat your stars record labels. She did attempt a comeback in the mid 2000s, including another attempt to qualify as the UK Eurovision entry in 2005, but by then it was too late. At least she's always going to be a Eurovision icon thanks to this three minutes.

[escinsight]

The Joy Of Discovering Eurovision's National Finals

At this time of year, the Song Contest community is all in on the National Finals. Harriet Robinson explains how they fell in love with the rush of following each country’s selection of a song for Eurovision.

I’m really enjoying watching this Eurovision Song Contest season’s selections unfold, including the legendary deluge that was 2023’s Super Saturday, but how did I get into watching music contests on foreign TV channels? The first Song Contest that I remember was Oslo 1996. I was nine, living in England, and Gina G was a big deal. The Contest didn’t really become something I looked forward to…

[rubycubix-alt]

What's the UK's best Eurovision song and why is it this one?

[radiomax]

Thursday, April 6, 2023 9pm ET: Feature LP: Gina G - Fresh! (1997)

Fresh! is the debut album by Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter Gina G, released March 4, 1997. The album includes the single “Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit”, which was the United Kingdom’s entry in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest. Following the contest, the single reached number one in the UK and went on to become a worldwide hit. “Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit” (Motiv8 Radio Edit)…

[valentinesdayinaugust2]

G Reign @infamous-if

Reference by lironeini!

I couldn’t decide on whether I wanted to draw fem or masc G so I did both lol

They’re not even my fav ro but they’re def my fav to draw argggg

vv close ups & progress vv

The difference is minimal but that was kind of on purpose :3

I was struggling so bad with the colours holy shit

[lampyri]

O made her delete it

comms open 🌟

[alinator-the-illustrator]

give me something, something real

[gabugabs]

Juliet, Juliet You've struck the final blow

g reign /// @infamous-if

[whatifitwasgttho]

this audio is so dumb but it suits them

[actressposts]

Elizabeth Berkley (23) & Gina Gershon (33) in Showgirls (1995)

[infectioustomfoolery]

Whiteboard shit

[kutekitty-43]

so i found a set of images in a community i'm in and i decided to try and recreate them in gmod

also if anyone knows of a map where i can recreate this image with alyx and gordon please tell me

[oderu]

infamous romanceables... puts them all into a bottle and starts rattling really hard

misc doodles under the cut

top to bottom: griffin reign (yells), seven and mc beign cutie, rowan and mc, and seven

[this-should-do]

hi, main character portraiture dump, have fun <3

[valentinesdayinaugust2]

The music industry’s Wunderkind

I feel like they’d sleep with make up on lol

v progress pics and stuff v

To me Gina and Griffin would be very androgynous,,,, so much that their faces look alike (I love androgynous people)

All my friends (the three I have) said I captured making them look like someone who’d get voted sexiest person alive so I hope they’re right,,,