World Song Contest

2. Greece

5. United States of America

13. Spain

EliZe (artist name of Elise van der Horst, born July 22, 1982 in Utrecht) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Growing up in Bussum, EliZe shared her mother's passion for singing. As an eight year old she was selected to sing in a children's television show, "Kinderen voor Kinderen" ("Children for Children"), in which she performed for six years. After Kinderen voor Kinderen, she joined 'Non Stop', a teenage choir, and participated in two amateur productions of the musicals Chicago and Les Misérables. For the last couple of years, she has been active as a background singer in a song contest for children, and has completed a training college program for executive secretaries. In 2004, EliZe recorded an album in Denmark. The first single, "Shake", was released in 2004 in the Netherlands. It was a modest hit by peaking at number 32 on the Dutch Top 40. "Automatic (I'm Talking to You)", the second single, was released in 2005 in the Netherlands. The song became her signature song, peaking at number 7 there and becoming her best-selling single to date. It is also the first song that has ever charted outside the Netherlands, charting in Finland and Belgium amongst others in the top 20. Following the success of her singles, she released her long awaited debut album In Control on September 29, 2006. The album peaked at number 66 in the Dutch Mega Album Top 100. In May 2008, she released the first single of her forthcoming album, "Lovesick." Her second album More Than Meets the Eye was released on June 26, 2009 in the Netherlands.

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Lyrics

Every single boy I know
Is thinking that he’s in control
Nothing you can do to break his stride
Because he’s mister cool and this is his party
I’ve seen it happen a million times
You can play it forward or rewind
You will always do what she decides
Cause she’s got the keys to get you started

Automatic cause there’s nothing you can do
Automatic boys she’s taking over you
Automatic when you look into her eyes
Automatic boy she’s got you hypnotized

I’m talking to you, she'll make a slave out of you
But you can’t help it boy, so it’s okay
I’m talking to you, she'll make a slave out of you
But you can’t help it boy, so it’s okay

Boy, you really need me, let’s misbehave.
You’re the formation overdrive
She pushes every button that she finds
She really gots your motor running high
And you know she’s taking over your body
You wanna make your fingers move over her skin
You can really feel your temperature rising
She’s giving you a system overload
Soon you gonna need a circuit rewriting

Automatic cause there’s nothing you can do
Automatic boys she’s taking over you
Automatic when you look into her eyes
Automatic boy she’s got you hypnotized

I’m talking to you, she'll make a slave out of you
But you can’t help it boy, so it’s okay
I’m talking to you, she'll make a slave out of you
But you can’t help it boy, so it’s okay

She’s got you hypnotized
Nothing you can do
You know it’s automatic

Every single boy I know
Is thinking that he’s in control
Nothing you can do to break his stride
Because he’s mister cool and this is his party
I’ve seen it happen a million times
You can play it forward or rewind
You will always do what she decides
Cause she’s got the keys to get you started

Automatic cause there’s nothing you can do
Automatic boys she’s taking over you
Automatic when you look into her eyes
Automatic boy she’s got you hypnotized

I’m talking to you, she'll make a slave out of you
But you can’t help it boy, so it’s okay
I’m talking to you, she'll make a slave out of you
But you can’t help it boy, so it’s okay

Automatic cause there’s nothing you can do
Automatic boys she’s taking over you
Automatic when you look into her eyes
Automatic boy she’s got you hypnotized