Eurovision 2019

[ska invita]

Well I just flicked through
BBC iPlayer - Eurovision Song Contest - 2019: 1. You Decide
and you know what, the tune that won it for the UK is quite good!

spoilered in case you want to watch the uk contest bit

Spoiler

The young guy who sings it isnt perfect but its kind of honest and unpretentious. Could do well.

Dodged a bullet because every other entry was pretty terrible

Dates for your diary
Eurovision Song Contest 2019 will begin on
Tuesday 14 May
and ends on
Saturday 18 May

UK entry

Spoiler

 

[greenfield]

I'm actually pretty impressed with that!

 

[rekil]

UK entry

I thought I detected the dead hand of gary barlow in there but it's been cobbled together by a dozen swedes from something else.

 

[ska invita]

One thing i would say about it is that it gets a bit tired quickly .... by the third listen its a bit boring...just too simplistic really

 

[Lord Camomile]

Alrighty, then.

 

[ska invita]

Interesting article (if you get over some of the journo style)
The ordinary boys: how Ed Sheeran-inspired troubadours swept the charts

In this moment of international pop utopianism, Britain, naturally, has gone the other way. Our current pop stock-in-trade is a school of male singer-songwriters with exceptional voices and wilfully unexceptional images that entrench an impression of authenticity. They are all white, despite their soulful vocals, which sing of safely secular salvation (they’ll provide it), epic loves (they’ve had and lost them) and struggle (broadly defined). These ordinary boys bolster their yearning with a sound that homogenises sturdy rock heft, EDM dynamism and delicate electronica, with occasional intimations of hip-hop. And hats.

I think applies to the british eurovision entry

 

[Indeliblelink]

Madonna to play at Eurovision
Madonna to perform at Eurovision in Israel with 'political' songs

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Madonna? How utterly bizarre.

I dunno. Things are getting weird with Eurovision and that is a weird statement in itself!
First we let the Aussies in....now fucking Madonna is performing.
Makes me feel like a grumpy old "things aint what they used to be" bastard

 

[ska invita]

Its increasingly normal for traditional big pop acts to want to play it - the audience is huge (looked it up 186 million last year)
Timberlake did it a couple of years back iirc

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Its increasingly normal for traditional big pop acts to want to play it - the audience is huge (looked it up 186 million last year)
Timberlake did it a couple of years back iirc

Did he now? must have been one of the few I've missed.
It just feels so wrong to me! Bloody Madonna. How fucking boring if nothing else.

 

[ska invita]

Did he now? must have been one of the few I've missed.
It just feels so wrong to me! Bloody Madonna. How fucking boring if nothing else.

she works really hard to keep reinvenintg herself to a new audience, always has done - i doubt most kids know who she is - hard to think of anyone with a longer pop career - maybe this move has the whiff of desperation about it?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

she works really hard to keep reinvenintg herself to a new audience, always has done - i doubt most kids know who she is - hard to think of anyone with a longer pop career - maybe this move has the whiff of desperation about it?

Dunno - it's just deeply boring that established popstars are going to start taking the thing over.

 

[ska invita]

i think they just sing a number or two during the long vote count bit

 

[Mrs Miggins]

i think they just sing a number or two during the long vote count bit

That's one of the best bits though! Seeing what the host nation covers the boring bit with

 

[Indeliblelink]

Aaaand we're off.

 

[peterkro]

Popbitch guide if anyones interested:

https://popbitch.com/Gr56ann17y/uploads/2019/05/Popbitch-Guide-To-Eurovision-2019.pdf

 

[Indeliblelink]

All pretty boring so far.

 

[The39thStep]

Just walked into a local Portuguese bar and it's on the TV . Slovenia at the mo, bland .

 

[isvicthere?]

You know you're old when you can remember established British stars doing Eurovision.

 

[The39thStep]

Czech's . Brave choice of sweaters .

 

[The39thStep]

You know you're old when you can remember established British stars doing Eurovision.

Sandy Shaw

 

[rekil]

I went through them all a couple of weeks ago and Poland is the only one I like. Worst year ever with people likely to get blownup/shotintheface a few miles away.

 

[ska invita]

#hun

 

[ska invita]

I went through them all a couple of weeks ago and Poland is the only one I like. Worst year ever with people likely to get blownup/shotintheface a few miles away.

Everything appauling so far... Seems fitting

 

[tommers]

Iceland

 

[ska invita]

Iceland did the euro-keychange lol

 

[rekil]

Portugal gets bonkers points.

 

[tommers]

I like his beard cover.

 

[The39thStep]

Portugal gets bonkers points.

The Portuguese in the bar just looked away when that came in. Embarrassing

 

[Indeliblelink]

Liking San Marino