Chikilicuatre, a Spanish joke with a European ring to it

The Spanish daily responds to the selection on Monday, March 10th, of Rodolfo Chikilicuatre as the country's representative in the 2008 Eurovision song contest. "[His song] ' Baila el Chiki Chiki' is a parody, a humoristic invention conceived to incarnate all that is idiotic about the music wrongly known as 'popular'. ... 'Chik Chiki' [has become] a con of European proportions. But on a musical level, Rodolfo Chikilicuatre's grotesque dance has nothing to envy among the agonizing chants that Spain has chosen over the past 20 years. Does the Eurovision deserve any better than these farcical antics? ... The Eurovision contest is the celebration of bad taste. Since we can't win it with saccharin songs, folklore and deafening voices, we are sending Chikilicuatre. That way everyone will know what we think of the Eurovision and we will be helping to blow-up a deplorable festival."

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