Eurovision Malmö 4

[PossumintheHouse]

Alright, I'll do it...

Lol thank you Possum

Following on from the last thread I think Oasis/Blur would be a TERRIBLE idea. I’m not sure that Brits even wanna hear BritPop these days let alone the rest of Europe

Oasis don't even exist anymore, do they? Not even Noel himself wants to know!

@RedToothBrush I think you're wrong. They would have made it into the top three.

I wasn't going to start another thread... but since you have.

The cartoonist mentioned on the other thread DID do all the artists. Scroll down from the post. Its there.

Next year I think we should submit a song based on a traditional British football chant. Perhaps the Millwall classic: "No one likes us, we don't care" 😜

Or we could actually pick a good song and not go over board with the staging and instead focus on the song.

Novel idea.

I've just said on another thread that a back to basics style show would be a good idea.

Italy show the rest of the Big 5 how it's done. They checked out from 1998 and missed the entire noughties, but in the 14 years since they returned in 2011, all but two songs finished top 10, including a winner. France, UK and Spain have had at least one good result in the last 3 years after an eternity of doing appallingly. Curiously, those were the years they sent good songs with fantastic performances. Look at that!

Has anyone talked about the Swedish twin effort yet? It just didn't work, did it?

Our problem this year was a) song which was ok but not amazing b) staging a priority over everything else c) too much artistic control given to Olly Alexander who wanted gay gay gay without thought to the audience being broad and also family orientated which is dumb for the televote d) dance routine which affected Olly's vocals knowing technicality is on of the things the judges look for.

in the 154years since they returned in 2011

😁So the Eurovision is still going in 2165 - what else is happening?

My top choice for UK Eurovision Song That Never Was would be Justified & Ancient by the KLF. If only 😊

It's also interesting that Italy has done so well when their entries are overwhelmingly in Italian, debunking the idea that English is essential (I've seen this argument dying out in recent years though, to be fair. Your song has to capture people's imagination; whatever Michael Rice sang for the UK just didn't stick like Soldi or Zitti e Buoni. I'm an English person, English is my mother tongue, I don't speak Italian but I can sing Zitti e Buoni and the whole of Mahmood's album word for word, because they are catchy. I couldn't sing you a single note of Michael Rice or Joe and Jim or whatever those kids we sent in 2016 were called.

I can sing every word and riff of Spaceman (badly) because it's memorable!

Sometimes the final feels like 154 years 🥲 I love it but it's a slog!

if we had rod Stewart perform we might stand a good chance. great voice, great performer and globally popular.
not sure why we Dont use some of the well-established successful artists we have.

It was 2 hours ahead of UK time for me so I have only just watched it - alongside my eurovision super fan dd.

I had heard UK's entry on the radio and found it catchy and upbeat..

But that performance was embarrassing and sleazy. His vocals were bad too. Shame as the song isn't bad at all.

We really enjoyed Finland as it appealed to my 10 year olds sense of humour.

Lord no. Not Rod Stewart! No bygones who can't really sing anymore! Did we not learn from Englebert Humperdinck

Phil colins, rick Astley, robbie wiliams, rod stewart etc would all wipe the floor.

ringo star and Paul McCartney both still alive. Brian may and Roger Taylor too.

I didn't even watch it but I can get my house the UK didn't win it. 😂

I very much doubt they would agree to do it. The only reasons that I can see for entering are 1. to boost your fame or 2. because you passionately want your country to win and think the experience would be enjoyable.

Imagine the embarrassment if a British 'music legend' got nul points.

Paul McCartney is a living legend but cannot sing these days. Rick Astley is still doing his thing well though, he was brilliant at Glastonbury. Saying he'd "wipe the floor" with very competent, professional, modern acts just because he's a British golden oldie is nonsense though.

It's Eurovision, not a samey concert at Buckingham Palace. You have to be forward looking and forward thinking to thrive, not just "oh this slightly misogynist old dude sold loads of records in the 70s, let's send him and his leggy blonde dancers and wipe the floor with Italy's best selling contemporary singers". It ain't gonna work.

Dizzy.

You sing. "Lets get dizzy with the 'make up random words' mumble mumble ONCE AGAIN....

And thats about it.

Spain went down well in the arena cos you could sing along (they put some of the words on the screen which didn't come across on the TV).

Eurovision. Can be any language but you can sing it. Europapa? Yep lets do Dutch (ok its B-A-D but I can sing the chorus).

rod stewart is very patriotic, I think he'd jump at the chance if they invited him

Actually, if the UK nations had separate entries, I could see him turning up for Scotland.