Jessica Mauboy just did us proud, man.
The 24-year-old singer/delightful human performed for a cool 180 million viewers at the Eurovision song contest in Copenhagen, Denmark. And girl did a spectacular job.
Here’s the ultimate Euro-diva moment captured from the performance. (Scroll down to see the moving-image, video-style version of this moment).
But with Eurovision being Eurovision, there was obviously some weird cultural appropriation to get through first.
Before Jess sauntered on stage, she was introduced by a merry band of dancing surfers, farmers, AFL players, tennis guys… And someone with a kangaroo head. Because AUSTRALIA:
Watch Jess knock it out of that Danish arena here:
Beautiful, no?
Once again The Sapphires actress proves that she may just be Australia’s shiniest talent ever. Nice one, J-Maub.
Here’s her awesome Euro-vision journey so far. Love you, JB:
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Yes, she killed it all right. She bludgeoned it to death. You could hear the nervousness in her voice throughout and at times she was off key and sometimes barely reached the high notes. Besides that, what was up with that one legged jig she was doing?
The song was appaling. Way too low for Jess. Boring and infantile words, just bad all wrong. Poor girl was off key most of the time. Whomever wrote that song has a lot to answer for! Stage performance was good though