"You Got Style" was the Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Eurovision Song Contest 2001

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 12 May 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the first time in 36 years that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers' win the previous year in Stockholm...

, performed in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Lithuanian

Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

 by SKAMP

SKAMP

-About SKAMP:SKAMP blends pop, rock, Hip Hop, and reggae genres into a unique alternative sound. Skamp rose to fame in Lithuania in May 1998, with a cover of George Gershwin's Summertime. The song was an instant success in Lithuania and they have gone on to release 6 studio albums. The members have...

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The song is an up-tempo track with hip-hop influences. The bulk of the lyrics are performed by Irish

Republic of Ireland

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-born Erica Quinn Jennings in English and sung from the perspective of a woman seeing an attractive man "sittin' over there lookin' so fine". She begins by singing that she would like to "spend some time" with him and that "You look so divine that you blow my mind/Think I'll make you mine, yeah". After the first chorus, she amends her view to think that "But once we meet I'll probably see you're no good to be true/Just another cute fool", but still wants to get to know him anyway.

Following the second verse is a rap in Lithuanian by Viktoras Diawara, who describes a similar situation from the perspective of a man ("You glance at me, my heart starts to beat/You paralyse my thoughts") and expresses his delight in having met the woman in question in a multilingual phrase including German

 and French

French language

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 words. For their Eurovision appearance, Skamp wore an unusual assortment of clothes. Erika was dressed in a skimpy white bodice, with a cream-coloured sleeve over one arm, and the other bare, and red trousers. Her male cohorts, Viktoras and Vilius, each wore just one colour- Viktoras wore white, and Vilius black. They were joined by three male backing singers in brightly-coloured afro wigs.

The song was performed eighth on the night, following Sweden

Sweden

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's Friends

Friends (group)

Friends were a Swedish dansband or pop group formed in 1999 and made up of Stefan Brunzell, Tony Haglund, Kristian Hermanson, Nina Inhammar, Kim Kärnfalk and Peter Strandberg. They were put together from auditions on the reality television show Friends på turne , made by Bert Karlsson for TV4...

 with "Listen To Your Heartbeat" and preceding Latvia

Latvia

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's Arnis Mednis with "Too Much". At the close of voting, it had received 35 points, placing 13th in a field of 23.

Ironically, as Contest historian John Kennedy O'Connor reports, the band had been under pressure to withdraw from the Contest in order to protect their credibility in their homeland. The result, however, was Lithuania's best finish until the 2006 Contest

, a result which would be achieved by LT United

LT United

LT United is a six-piece alternative-pop musical group created in 2006 for the sole purpose of representing Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006...

, another band featuring Diawara.

It was succeeded as Lithuanian representative

Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest

Lithuania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 11 times, debuting at the 1994 contest. After Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished last without a single point Lithuania withdrew from the contest, not returning until the 1999 contest, where Aistė Smilgevičiūtė sang "Strazdas", a song in the...

 at the 2002 Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

 by Aivaras with "Happy You

Happy You

"Happy You" was the Lithuanian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in English by Aivaras....

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