After The Voice (around 9:30pm),
On the BBC Red Button, also the BBC Eurovision site and Eurovision.tv
It’s time to find out which act and song, which will inevitably be slightly too worthy but some people will say “look it’s not completely rubbish” but nobody would actually buy, we’re sending to Austria in May!
Join Scott Mills on the red button or on various internet sites from about half nine.
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I’d be lying if I said, the morning after, the song hasn’t grown on me. But most people are only going to hear it once…
Quite a fun interview with Richard and Xander that I don’t remember being widely circulated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Becfwtcr4
Thanks. Never seen that before
So I heard our entry, and that was bad.
Then I heard our entry was actually supposed to be The Wonder Villains, a band I adore, and now I’m gutted.
Guess I’m backing Finland now.
in an unexpected move, Italy will bring the winners of the Sanremo contest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1f6o1HQBvg
Now you see the thing is, I quite like it. In fact it will probably be the first Eurovision single I have purchased since Gina G. Although I did get a few Now albums because the Eurovision single was on it.
It has a kind of, what the Scissor Sisters would have been like if they and Electro had been around in the 1920’s.
Then again I am a relentless optimist when it comes to Eurovision.
I’m not quite convinced the Scissor Sisters would have written those lyrics.
Amused to see how many times people will listen to the track to gauge just how much they dislike it.
45-1 to win the thing on Betfair if you BELIEVE.
Throwing a spanner in the works here, I actually really like it.
I’m not even remotely sorry. You put electro swing in anything and I’m there.
We’re sending an electro swing act and it’s NOT The Correspondents?! Travesty!
My personal favourite from the UK for this sort of thing is Skeewiff, but his music wouldn’t be allowed, because most of it isn’t actually his.
It pushes all the buttons for me; thumbs up.
It’s composed by David Mindel, who did (among many other things) the outstanding themes for Challenge Anneka and J*m’ll F*x *t, and you can sort of tell.
Song contest time, and that wasn’t memorable. At all. Of all the songs they could have chosen, they had to go for the blandest, safest, most middle-of-the-road, boring entry. That’s , the Welsh festival of song, two-and-a-half hours I’m not going to get back.
The BBC’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest is more instantly appealing. As soon as it had finished, I could remember something of it, and I couldn’t say that about the CiG winner. Thoughts as the song played: strong opening, sags in the middle, improves to the end.
This is an entry in a song contest. It does two very important things: teases the jury with a memorable show, and has earworm potential.
Could this be a serious attempt by the BBC to play the Eurovision Song Contest by the Eurovision Song Contest’s rules? It’s fraught with danger: the performers may not have vocal capacity to impress the jury, the staging may be messy and confuse the televoter.
Do I like the song? No. Do I appreciate the BBC taking risks, annoying the fandom, and moving out of their corporate comfort zone? Very much so.
But they haven’t just annoyed the fandom have they? They’ve basically annoyed *everybody*.
I mean look, if anyone wants to put their money where their mouth is, I’m more than happy to take it…
After a fair few listens, I’m liking, but not loving. I’m willing to forgive the awkward rhymes and the scatting if they worked on that bassline. It’s like there’s two basses, one upright, and one that’s basically the Yamaha DX7’s Saw Wave preset, and the electric bass just makes everything all muddy.
At least the announcement was slightly more professional than the Australian one last week, which made me think we were sending Peter Capaldi.