Uk entry sounded quite nice to me. But utterly forgettable. I couldn't remember it 5 mins after it finished. Zero effort at attire and staging. Very lazy, can't complain about coming last if you turn up with a defeatist attitude.
I agree with the PP regarding how nice it is to see to some culture. I think this is where the UK keeps falling flat. We have great, diverse culture here, but none of it is ever reflected at Eurovision. Sometimes Ireland make it to the finals and do something with a traditional Irish heritage twist. I remember 'I am the voice' that was really good!
Where's the Welsh, Scottish or Irish influence in any of our entries? And why do we keep trying to do vanilla sophisticated and getting other people to write our songs for us? This is the country that birthed Kate Bush, Ziggy Stardust, Super Furry Animals, The Who, Queen, Boy George, Adam Ant and Right Said Fred
(we could go on and on with this)
My point is we're eccentric! We wrote the book on eccentrism. We're fucking marvellous at it. So where the hell is our eccentrism when it comes to Eurovision, where being eccentric can go down very well?!
When it really comes down to it we just don't care enough to try and impress anyone at Eurovision. We can clearly do it when we want to. The Olympic Opening Ceremony was great. And of course there was the recent royal wedding of H&M. We put on pretty great shows there!
We need to start taking EV seriously as in making a serious effort, not just trying to be serious, which is the mistake we're making now.
And we need to start believing in ourselves and start reflecting that. I mean yes, due to politics we weren't likely to get any votes this year, but we still should have gone in there with a 'take that fuckers' attitude, and put on a memorable show.
I think our continued lacklustre performance truly reflects how little we think of pur place in Europe or something. I can't think of another reason for our current approach, because music is something we're pretty good at.