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Post by Lukus on May 14, 2023 13:33:30 GMT
I don’t know why the UK doesn’t give a more open selection process another go. Every act we send is just some variation on the X-Factor template. Even Sam Ryder was just doing the same ‘big singing’ that shows like The Voice, Idol and X-Factor favour. If we’re not going to win lets at least be interesting. I honestly think if he wasn’t already a tik tok thing that that Sam Ryder song would have sunk like the rest. I dunno. His song was actually 'good'*. Plus he had the long hair and guitar and falsetto gimmicks that leave an impression. Our one this year was just a bit bland and formulaic. And the performance was very forgettable, especially as it was on last when everyone's lost interest already. *In Eurovision terms.
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 14, 2023 14:15:08 GMT
Sam Ryder's song was pretty good to be honest, just a pretty good pop song. His bit in the intermission this year was waaaay better the the actual UK entry too. It was pretty flat and lifeless compared to everything that had came before.
Anyway, big-singing wins generally.
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Post by skalpadda on May 14, 2023 14:49:09 GMT
Sweden does feel more like the sort of thing that would usually win but I think there’s legs to the Abba-spiracy when the support for Finland seemed so overwhelming. It was a bland but well put together pop song and she was definitely one of the most competent singers, so I don't think you have to reach for conspiracies to figure out why the juries liked it. If you look at how the songs have been doing in charts it's also been faring better than anything else in the competition. It came in comfortably second on audience votes, so it's not like the the audience and jury votes were that radically different. Finland had a quirky energetic song with a funny show and a refrain that people could jump up and down and sing "Cha! Cha!" to, so no great mystery why the audience went for it either. To be fair, most of the songs on eurovision nowadays are slight rip offs of other songs. This is true of all pop music (and most other genres as well). Everything is a remix and it's nigh-impossible to make something that uses a unique tonal language that anyone actually wants to listen to.
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Post by Syrette on May 14, 2023 15:07:33 GMT
Alright, Ed Sheeran.
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Post by X201 on May 14, 2023 15:19:53 GMT
Shock news! The Daily Telegraph said it was the BBC’s fault.
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Post by Whizzo on May 14, 2023 15:31:50 GMT
I thought the Torygraph was allergic to anything with Euro in it so I'm not sure why they're too bothered.
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Post by X201 on May 14, 2023 17:19:24 GMT
Any subject is fine if you can bash the BBC Same goes for Daily Mail and The Express
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Post by simple on May 14, 2023 17:53:29 GMT
He hides it under all those sweatshirts but its nice to know that the Icelandic guy who covered Atomic Kitten has a Crash Bandicoot tattoo
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Post by Vandelay on May 14, 2023 22:29:35 GMT
Any subject is fine if you can bash the BBC Same goes for Daily Mail and The Express I'm sure the Express would have, but there was a Royal participation to distract them. Apparently the Princess of Wales really stole the show (I didn't even take in it was her for those 2 seconds in that montage). UK's song was fine in a sort of one hit wonder sort of way. The kind of song that is big for a summer and then is completely forgotten about. The performance was absolutely dire though. You could barely make out anything she was singing. Weirdly, I thought the mixing on Sonya's bit in the Liverpool medley was really bad too. I wonder if the same team handled that as handled the UK entry. Also felt like this was really treated like the UK's Eurovision. Yes, Ukraine was featured in the little pre-song videos, but it also features somewhere in the UK each time. The majority of the hosts were from the UK/the British Isles and there was the aforementioned Liverpool medley. I think the fact it was taking place in the UK should have been pretty much invisible and it should have been much more Ukraine's party. Wonder if the tone put some off giving UK points.
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Post by simple on May 15, 2023 6:09:13 GMT
It would’ve been nice to see more Ukrainian content in Ukraine’s Eurovision Final. Even the Ukrainian one of the hosts was more sidelined in the final than she had been in the semi and both semis had Ukrainian themed interval acts, the final felt very much the “this is Liverpool and we invented pop music” show.
Guess the UK committee know we’ll never win it ourselves so grab the opportunity with both hands this time. Not that it was a bad show.
Australia have always said if they won they’d partner with a European country to host on their behalf. I wonder if the Dutch would push the cork hats and bbqs aside for maximum windmill and clog content.
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Post by technoish on May 15, 2023 18:05:11 GMT
Yeah, they could have made it more about the war in Ukraine without making it about the war in Ukraine. Just have more stuff on location in ruins or something.
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Post by simple on Feb 11, 2024 20:50:56 GMT
Finland going with another mad banger this year
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Post by X201 on Feb 11, 2024 21:19:42 GMT
😳
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Post by cubby on Feb 11, 2024 21:52:34 GMT
How much do you think they pushed Eurovision execs for him to be completely bottomless?
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Post by Red_Bool on Mar 1, 2024 19:57:45 GMT
Our entry this year has to be the Dutchestest thing ever:
I don't know how he got to be our entry, but I will definitely be watching this year 😁
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Post by RumMonkey on Mar 1, 2024 20:08:46 GMT
Norway was robbed last year.
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Post by simple on Mar 1, 2024 20:12:45 GMT
Thats a pair of tits, an old man’s bare arse and a dildo away from being Eurotrash ready
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Post by JuniorFE on May 7, 2024 11:04:00 GMT
Not sure we'll be watching too much of the semis with footy on both today and on Thursday, but might as well bump this for the lols since it's this week
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Post by Dug Briderider on May 7, 2024 11:27:29 GMT
1st semi tonight highlights for me will be.
Ireland Doomsday Blue - very goth, video was a witchy Amy Winehouse, but now seems to have developed to full Marilyn Manson. Croatia Rim Ting Tagga Dim - Cottagecore Headbanging contender Finland No Rules - the meme song
UK Dizzy - gets a full showing this semi, good idea as I'm usually to busy/drunk to pay close attention to anything in the final. Olly states he wants to go as gay as possible but from the rehearsal clip this maybe too much for me to enjoy as its staging is a proper grindy sweatbox of sausage.
I recon there are more potential winners in the Thursday semi though (iplayer treat on friday as I'm out.
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Post by X201 on May 7, 2024 19:05:51 GMT
Sweden trying to confuse us from the start by opening with the Cyprus 2018 entry.
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Post by simple on May 7, 2024 19:16:55 GMT
This feels very like Israel last year
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Post by X201 on May 7, 2024 19:21:06 GMT
Serbia weren’t lying when they said it doesn’t translate well into English
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Post by cubby on May 7, 2024 19:23:34 GMT
Serbia made me feel funny.
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Post by cubby on May 7, 2024 19:27:40 GMT
Oh fuck, Ireland are not fucking around AT ALL.
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Post by X201 on May 7, 2024 19:29:02 GMT
If that had better sound mixing it would have been brilliant. Sounded like a muddy mess to me
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Post by cubby on May 7, 2024 19:30:23 GMT
Sounded fine to me, that is going to do really well.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 7, 2024 19:30:58 GMT
The song itself is pretty wank until it finally committed at the end
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 7, 2024 19:35:30 GMT
Heh, they will fucking love this in Russia
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Post by X201 on May 7, 2024 19:37:53 GMT
Heh, they will fucking love this in Russia I was thinking the same. 😆
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Post by cubby on May 7, 2024 19:40:04 GMT
Ukraine love having a rap bit.
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