#kate ryan

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2006 - Number 23 - Kate Ryan - "Je t'adore"

More Belgium. They are having a lot of entries this year. This time it's the actual winner. Kate Ryan, another of the 2006 VRT girlbops and perhaps the one that punctured the girlbop balloon at Eurovision.

Kate (real name Katrien Verbeeck) has been having ever increasing success for the past four years. Singles and an album have hit the charts, not just in Belgium but across Europe. Her breakthrough was a debut cover of Disenchantée, but she followed that up with original compositions and even managed to get into the US Billboard dance chart with a cover of The Promise You Made by Cock Robin. Kate was a solid choice for Belgium. She could sing this material live, she looked good, she was relatively well-known.

Je t'adore is more of the same. It's Europop, filled with energy but at the same time harkening back to Eurovision past. Rather than ethno elements, it substitutes more Western pop and maybe that's where it went wrong. Somehow it doesn't feel hugely fresh. It fits the Eurovision template almost too perfectly.

It's not as if Belgium weren't really going for it here. It does manage to incorporate new staging elements including the illuminated microphone stands used as choreographic elements, that make it stand out from other fare. There's some rare pyro for 2006. Kate dances as she sings, hitting marks in way that most of the other entries don't have to. The routine is complex enough for it to be relatively hard to pull off perfectly.

Then there are the mistakes. Not only the camera cutting mishap, although I don't think there's ever been a Eurovision entry with a mistake originating from the mixing desk that has done well. The routine isn't quite polished enough and those microphone stands look like they're going to topple over in places, the lines they form aren't perfectly rectilinear.

After having won every stage of Eurosong '06 easily, Kate managed to finish only twelfth in the Eurovision semi-final and didn't get through to the Grand Final. It was only seven points off qualification, but that's not enough. It got points from lots of countries, but nothing higher than a seven. There were two many other different exciting things to vote for.

It was still a shock to many, the easy qualifier that failed, and a sign that if you wanted to do well with a girlbop now, it was going to have to be something extra. We'd seen it all before.

The good news is that this was only a minor blip in Kate's career. She went on to release something in the region of thirty singles, seven albums, had huge numbers of top ten songs in the Benelux countries and collaborated with Avicii among others.

One other mention for the song-writers here. Kate contributed alongside Lisa Greene, Niclas Kings and Niklas Bergwall. Lisa has written songs for many major names including Britney Spears, Girls Aloud and Kylie Minogue. Niclas Kings is someone who may come up again later in my 2006 list...

[obiwan]

#Barbie (2023)

[colleyuriko]

Kate Ryan was right, tout est chaos à côté. Tous mes idéaux des mots abîmés. Je cherche une âme, qui pourra m'aider. Je suis d'une génération désenchantée.

Gets truer every year

[kazs-inej]

the barbies, kens, allan and humans

[texaschainsawmascara]

gmf.designs on ig

[door-insurance]

LiS characters from different games hanging out

sean, max and chloe chillin at the diner- looking at each others work

Victoria and steph babysit daniel and chris, hijinks ensues

kate and alex having a jam session (idk what you call it)

rachel signs up to be ranger, ryan is there to mentor her and she accidentally starts a fire somehow

[filmbook21]

[aenslem]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995–2001) | Child's Play

[dalekofchaos]

Sad, but true

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: March 29, 2002

Lyrics:

Nager dans les eaux troubles

Des lendemains

Attendre ici la fin

Flotter dans l'air trop lourd

Du presque rien

À qui tendre la main?

Mais rien n'a de sens, et rien ne va

Si je dois tomber de haut

Que ma chute soit lente

Je n'ai trouvé de repos

Que dans l'indifférence

Pourtant, je voudrais retrouver l'innocence

Tout est chaos

À côté

Tous mes idéaux, des mots abîmés

Je cherche une âme, qui

Pourra m'aider

Je suis

D'une génération désenchantée

Désenchantée

Qui pourrait m'empêcher

De tout entendre?

Quand la raison s'effondre

À quel sein se vouer?

Qui peut prétendre

Nous bercer dans son ventre?

Plus rien n'a de sens, plus rien ne va

Si la mort est un mystère

La vie n'a rien de tendre

Si le ciel a un enfer

Le ciel peut bien m'attendre

Dis-moi

Dans ces vents contraires comment s'y prendre?

Tout est chaos

À côté

Tous mes idéaux, des mots abîmés

Je cherche une âme, qui

Pourra m'aider

Je suis

D'une génération désenchantée

Désenchantée

Songwriter:

Tout est chaos

À côté

Tous mes idéaux, des mots abîmés

Je cherche une âme, qui

Pourra m'aider

Je suis

D'une génération désenchantée

Désenchantée

Boutonnat,laurent Pierre Marie / Gautier,mylene Jeanne

SongFacts:

👉📖

Homepage:

Kate Ryan

[itberice]

Star Trek: Voyager I "The Killing Game Part 1"

[fallingwallsh]

Barbie leaves you this feeling of melancholy you can’t take out of your chest, and being there with all those girls dressed in pink was so wholesome that I wanted to cry

Greta gerwig really has magic in her mind and I love her so much

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER - S5E24 Relativity

[sofiaherzen]

MEG RYAN and HUGH JACKMAN in KATE & LEOPOLD (2001) dir. james mangold

[lesbian-love-letter]

Kate Mulgrew shot for Ryan's Hope (1976).