Dora 2006: On Their Marks

HTV has released 40-second clips of the 32 Dora entrants. Approximately 31 of them blend quite seamlessly into each other, including Magazin's Oprosti mala, which these 25 girls might be advised to rehearse.

The exception is Severina's Moja štikla, which isn't, as the Gazette feared last week, anything to do with the Black Eyed Peas, or indeed with their humps. Instead, it seems the Wild Dances invocations are quite justified.

The Gazette remains sceptical about Severina's chances of steering her štikla through Dora's half-telephone half-jury voting system, but at least if she follows the lead of her songwriter Boris Novković and performs in Croatian at Eurovision itself, 95% of the audience won't even know it has anything to do with her high heels.