Romania: Elena Cannot Dance So Adjusts Her Hair Instead 0

I'm Elena. I can wear red shoes with a pink dress.

I'm Elena. I can wear red shoes with a pink dress.

Romania’s Elena Gheorghe is emerging as one of Eurovision’s most endearing personalities. The half Macedonian pop star known for being the daughter of a priest has already made headlines for securing a private plane to take her to Moscow. Now, after careful analysis, Wiwi Bloggs can reveal that Elena does not know how to dance. [Note: Wiwi has been informed by a reader that Elena is actually half Aromanian, a minority group living in many Balkan countries, including Macedonia. Learn the distinction here.]

The video below, released by Eurovision TV, confirms it. Rather than properly grinding and getting down on it, Elena merely jumps in the air, or when she’s feeling adventurous bends her knees to the beat. When she’s feeling really adventurous she adjusts her hair while bending her knees to the beat. Of course, her dress is so short and distracting some people may never notice. . .

Reasons to love Elena in this video:

(1) She describes the basement she’s being interviewed in as “a nice atmosphere.” She seems to roll her eyes—is the priest’s daughter poking fun? Saucy lady!

(2) She says that her song is about how Balkan girls are full of life and bring “positivity to the exterior.” Does that mean they wear short, glittery cocktail dresses as your preview videos suggest?

(3) She’s going to the gym and eating healthy as preparation for the contest. Such devotion! But she needs to eat more because when she’s singing about her hips being ready to blow it looks like her collar bone might snap!

(4) Look at her eyes at the 2:36 mark when she says YouTube. So cute.

(5) She might have heard my comment in (3) above because at the 3:00 mark she tries to eat the microphone.