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Well folks last again is it time to get out of it or is it just sour grapes on our part.
Russia used american producer Timberland, whose worked with Justin Timberlake and Madonna and we used someone who didn’t win an itv talent show.
Question if we’d had song like Duffy’s Mercy or a Mika song would it have made any difference.
I see two ways to go with Eurovision.
1. Somehow persuade someone famous world-wide to do it (I’m thinking Elton John or Robbie Williams) and if they don’t win, pack it in.
2. Treat it as we should do (and as some of our European neighbours have started to do) as a comedy event and pick an amusing act. I don’t mind finishing last all the time, what is really embarrassing is that we always look like we are trying to win by picking some earnest or worthy competitor. Meanwhile, the Germans, Spanish, Irish and others have stopped taking it seriously.
I thoroughly enjoyed last nights programme, and loved almost every song except for the English one..it was dated, bland and totally forgettable. All the other songs were either pure pantomime [Spain and the pirate song; which I loved] theatrical; catchy in a ‘you hear this song on holiday and buy it to take home because you love it so much, then get home and can’t stand it’ sort of way, or a really good ballad….with a sprinkle of goth rock [also great fun]. If the English song had been good and we’d had no votes we would’ve had grounds for complaint, but it was rubbish. However, the song that won sounded so like another well known song [don’t know which one, however] that I think there is a bit of plagiarism going on. Political voting or not, the best song usually tends to win anyway. Why we write and produce such good stuff in England but we can never get this right is beyond me. .
Not a good enough excuse and you have gone on to commit even worse by commenting seriously about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colin
Only way we can win is if we change our name to United Kingdomia.
You have to understand though that these small European countries need to host it so they can boost their local economies so buy having a gentlemens agreement they can all win and host it.
Next year we should send one of those kind of fat,ugly talentless singers who audition for X Factor and cry when Simon Cowell tells them the truth that they really do have no talent what so ever.
but we can’t complain about geographical bias when we enter a song that is so awful it doesn’t deserve any votes anyway…I am, however, concerned about the fact that my favourite was the pirate song….but then, the rest of my evening had been spent watching ‘In the Night Garden’…
In the Night Garden is frankly scary. Mind you, I prefer it to Yo Gabba Gabba and the advertisement for the Hitler Youth that is Lazytown. Max and Ruby is about the best in children’s entertainment.
All the Eurovision songs fall into three categories: awful, dull or funny (intentionally or otherwise). Trying to work out which is best is rather like trying to pick the winner of a banded race at Wolverhampton (an exercise I am all too familiar with). One of them might be a nose or a head better than the others but be honest – if you heard any of them on the radio – would you remember them?
In the Night Garden is frankly scary. Mind you, I prefer it to Yo Gabba Gabba and the advertisement for the Hitler Youth that is Lazytown. Max and Ruby is about the best in children’s entertainment.
My lad loves Little Bear as well as Max and Ruby.
Forgot the Eurovision was on.
Little Bear has grown on me. It’s a pleasant, well-produced piece of children’s television that doesn’t stray into sickly sentimentality. Of course, America has to balance out the good with the bad, hence the continued presence of Power Rangers on our screens. Oh and I quite enjoy the Backyardigans, but I think that’s Canadian.
Actually, could we enter cartoon characters in next year’s Eurovision?
Iggle Piggle, Makka Pakk and Upsy Daisy, with the Tittifers doing backing vocals…..
No, good point.
Wasn’t there talk of Morrissey entering it earlier this year or was it something I dreamt?
think it was last year that he offered to write a song for it. if anyone could write a really catchy tune that would suit Eurovision it would be Kaiser Chiefs.
did i read somewhere we are one of the top four contributors to this farce – do we pay for this and if so, where does that money come from, do our tv networks pay and if so what are our contibutions compared to the others ?
if we are paying for this it’s time to stop i think, money can be wasted better, also let the rest of europe pay for their own fitted up night out
thought the winning country had to pay for it…if that isn’t the case then we should pull out; I did enjoy watching it, but I wouldn’t have paid to watch it!
To the best of my knowledge the BBC are one of the 4 largest contributors to the European Broadcasting Union and therefore they do not have to qualify for the competition irrespective of how their entries fare in the competition the previous year.
Just checked Wikipedia and to quote them
“From 2000 onwards, four particular countries would always qualify for the Eurovision final, regardless of their positions on the scoreboard in previous Contests. They earned this special status by being the four biggest financial contributors to the EBU (without which the production of the Eurovision Song Contest would not be possible). These countries are Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Due to their “untouchable” status in the Contest, these countries became known as the “Big Four”.“
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