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To be annoyed at how bad our Eurovision song is?

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AngeloMysterioso · 06/05/2025 15:11

We have any number of really talented songwriters, singers and musicians in the UK. And yet the best we could come up with is a few minutes of what I could only describe as sonic chaos with three girls yelling
what
the
hell
just
HAPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENED
over and over again.

It’s not even that it’s boring, or not fun or quirky enough. It’s actually annoying, and I find myself getting more and more irritated every time I hear it which thanks to Radio 2 playing it every hour or so is distressingly often.

How have we gone from the fab Sam Ryder to Olly Alexander cavorting in a dirty toilet and now this crap??

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Needmorelego · 06/05/2025 15:20

We probably don't want the expense of hosting again so don't want the UK to win.
(It's why Ireland entered with My Lovely Horse sung by Fathers Ted and Dougal. They didn't want Ireland to win.....😁🐎)

MrsTerryPratchett · 06/05/2025 15:18

There are so many talented musicians in the UK. Ask any A&R person for 20 of them FFS. Someone could do this easily.

spiderlight · 06/05/2025 15:17

You're spot on. Sam Ryder set a very high bar. I hadn't watched Eurovision for years but he drew me back in. Last year's song was nowhere near as good. This year's is just an abomination and I don't think I can bear to watch yet another year of nil points.

ExtraOnions · 06/05/2025 15:14

It’s awful .. worst one since Schooch.

It doesn’t build to anything, and has no impact, or any sort of a hook.

I watch every year, and every year I support the UK, but I just can’t do it this year, it’s so bad.

If we get any points at all I will be stunned….and before people start banging on about “political voting”, unless it’s just the UK that is badly effected, we use that at as excuse for poor song choices.

Bring back Sam Ryder !

LlynTegid · 06/05/2025 15:13

We should have opted out of Eurovision years ago. Or at least monetised it by having it on a commercial channel.

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