@nosyupnorth
We're going to come dead last again, and not just for the politics. The singer they've picked may be talented but he's also utterly boring - eurovision is about fun and flashy, everyone remembers the wild outfits and dramatic specially effects, one beardy bland bloke just standing there singing a song like a busker is utterly forgettable. We make this 'mistake' every year because the people in charge are too uptight and worried about looking silly to get into the spirit of things.
What - ‘fun and flashy’ like the Netherlands winning entry in 2019, or Portugals winning entry in 2017, or Ukraine’s winning entry in 2016?
Or France’s entry last year which came second?
Or Switzerland’s which came third?
Or Italy’s entry this year which is one of the early favourites?
If people dropped this idea that songs only do well in Eurovision if they are ‘fun and flashy’ people might have a more realistic view about why the UK has done so poorly.
I think the UK will do pretty well - not win probably because there are better songs - because they have a song with a great, simple hook on the chorus, an artist who sounds like he has excellent live vocals, and a song that lends itself to great, simple but visually effective staging. It reminds me a lot of Netherlands in 2019 actually.