Heard this song on the radio today and it brought me down memory lane....

Backdrop. It's early 2005, I'm 12 years old. I was already in my "rebellious teenager" phase so pop music and the Eurovision song contest seemed pretty lame to me by then. However, it was still all over the Estonian media and my parents were into it as well, so for better or for worse, I got exposed to the whole thing.

The Estonian preliminary round of the contest is on. My parents are watching it downstairs; I'm somewhere around, probably playing video games or something, and then I hear this song. And I see this girl... I'm enamored. Gobsmacked. Spellbound. Who is she and why do feel this way? I leave the living room and run upstairs to my room. And no, I didn't go there to do what you’re now probably thinking I went to do.

Nowadays, some people know me as the guy who does 120+ pushups every day. This was not always the case. However, this song and this girl (she was 16 at the time) propelled me to do some pushups and sit-ups right then and there, as I figured I'd have to be in top shape to ever get a girl like this. A shame I didn’t commit to 100+ a day and stick with it… otherwise, who knows!

In the end, the song got a close second place in the votes, and the (absolutely horrendous) song "Let's Get Loud" by the girl group Suntribe went on to represent Estonia in Kyiv that year. Unsurprisingly, it didn't do too well - 20th place out of 25 in the semi-final.

Fun fact: the singer of "Moonwalk" - Laura Põldvere - was also one of the members of Suntribe. So, while one could be moderately happy that she at least got to go to the contest, the fact that "Let's Get Loud" was a better song than "Moonwalk" in the eyes of the Estonian public, forever remains, to me, a sign of my compatriots’ utter lack of taste.