AIBU to be embarrassed about our Eurovision song entry?

[chocolatelife]

catchy it may be
but every year without fail, we, well we Fail.
I shant be able to watch when We come on

My favourite thing about Eurovision is that there are a lot of countries who enter that take it hugely seriously and make a massive effort, whereas for the UK it's a bit of a laugh and a source of fun rather than a serious musical competition. I quite like this year's entry, but I'm really surprised that Katrina and the Waves haven't been doing any of the promo gubbins this year given that they are the UK's most recent victors - I assumed we'd get to see them celebrating the 60th anniversary at least!

yanbu. awfulness.

I think one of the problems is we also forget there is an official judging panel.

They always vote very highly for songs that are well written, good melody etc so it's so surprise that for at least the past decade we haven't done so well. That side of judging is more obvious with entries like Blue because despite it not being a great performance it was actually a fairly solid song.

But I also agree Britain puts hardly any effort/money into it compared to many countries which is always detrimental and I find it so weird it's all done in house... I couldn't name/sing last years entry if you paid me!

Its quite catchy and alot better than previous entries. The girl has a fab voice considering she's living with a respiratory life threatening condition - I think its the best we've had for a long time!

Called it

YANBU at all, it was crap . But we always do badly, even if we had Elvis himself, we woukd still do rubbish.

If we wanted, we could win easily.

I thought our song was alright actually. I think the problem with the UK in Eurovision is that we have a massively successful music industry. No one successful as a UK artist is going to touch it with a bargepole, but in much of Europe, Eurovision is huge and they can put forward their most successful artist, because its the only chance they will get to be heard by an international audience.

YABU.

It was fabulous.

Russia could have entered 3 bling mice (rap version of a nursery classic, obviously) and would have scored highly. Everyone is terrified of them.

Exactly fancy. There is no need for any UK artist to do Eurovision, it has no credibility at all.

We put it only for the votes, which made weirdly compelling viewing.

The winning song at the end was really good, we thought.

Fancy is spot on. I watched the show in Sweden this evening and even the Swedish commentator said that UK is not taking this competition seriously as they got a top song writer to come up with the song, and then they get a couple of completely unexperienced singers to perform it.

The UK surpassed even its own standards of embarrassing shit this year.

For a couple of years we tried to use it as a forum to relaunch the careers of Englebert Humperdinck and Bonnie Tyler. I ended up feeling sorry for them.

I thought an integral part of being British was to understand the irony of our repeatedly entering? It's a tacky cheesefest, we don't actually want to win, and it would be slightly embarrassing if we did.....no?
Ps I thought our entry was ok until I saw it performed last night. Oh dear.

The UK was too derivative to ever be a good song. And with that performance, it was a bit crap, yes.

you win Eurovision with a dirge with a line in the chorus that everyone can remember.(Although I've already forgotten this year's). Something unusual or attractive about the performer also helps.

at least 'Connie Sausage' has a good voice. Pretty-boy from Sweden just had good teeth.

I liked the UK entry but it had no chance; catchy, fun, well performed and from Britain.

I liked the UK song, but I thought it was a bit similar to the German song that won a few years ago (the one with a very young singer and she mentioned her light blue knickers!) I also liked the Austrian song and that got nowhere. I think I approach the Eurovision in the wrong way - I like the songs that I think are the best songs, not the best Eurovision songs! The last time my favourite was the actual winner was the Azerbaijan duet about 4 or 5 years ago. I've still got that on my Ipod.

Having said that, I liked Sweden's song better than its two closest rivals and was not unhappy that it won.

I'm not in the least embarrassed, mainly because I absolutely don't care.

I know it's not really the point, but I thought the lyrics were a bit .

"I'm going on holiday next month, and my boyfriend keeps going on about how I shouldn't get in a fist fight, or drink too much, or look at other men, or get nasty diseases, or even go out in the rain, because he's in love with me. AIBU to think he's a bit controlling? And that he has trust issues? PS I had to remind him to take his medication while I'm not there."

I reckon we could still win, but only if we sent a proper song that we'd be prepared to buy ourselves. It's a bit like turning up at a party with a cheap bottle of plonk from the back of the winerack. People do notice.

I also liked the Austrian song and that got nowhere.

I liked Austria's song too - the way he just got up and wandered off when his piano caught fire was so nonchalant! Reminded me of 'Kiss from a Rose' a bit.

there hasn't been a decent entry from anywhere since Lordi.

UK entry was just an updated version of . Couldn't enter that though, it's American

I thought the Swedish one was kind of... mediocre. Didn't watch any of the others. Life is brief.