In this year of uncertainty and unpredictability one thing was a sure fire thing. Uk would get no points in the Eurovision! We must be paid good money to enter otherwise why bother ?
Ironic that the whole competition (almost) is in English these days, but nevertheless our European 'friends' feel the need to treat the UK as pariahs.
Apparently our song was pretty rubbish anyway but get the feeling we could have a really decent one and still not come close. Guess it’s all a bit of lighthearted entertainment for a night. And we will never win so won’t have to worry about paying to host the competition.
Welcome to the club, Stret . I've just read that "our" song has reached the 25th place of 26 . With only 3 pts overall But what to expect when there's a "dancing middle-finger" onstage Christ! looks like the UK is in the top3 with 5 wins overall, though. Germany has 2 wins (1982, 2010) in over 60 tries. The most wins has Ireland with 7: Die erfolgreichsten ESC-Länder
Surprised that got passed as being acceptable on a family show! Maybe we just both don't bother now trying to win so have silly entries in. The BBC help fund this I think - probably the least of their worries atm.
Politics and Brexit in particular don't help. We've basically stuck two fingers up to Europe and as a result we're seen as arrogant and anti European so it's no surprise that we don't benefit from the neighbour loyalty votes that some countries get. And even if we had a great song a lot of people would probably not vote for us. That said, I've seen the performance and we sent up a fat bloke in a leather jacket covered in zips where the only staging is a couple of giant trumpets compared to some of the imaginative staging from some of the other countries. Our song got what it deserved, it was shit.
Combination a pretty mediocre UK song and the overall much higher standard this year, like there were songs that finished outside of the top 10 that on a normal year would be strong winning contenders.
Probably more to do with the fact that most of our European 'friends' actually bother to learn our language whereas we just expect everyone to speak English irrelevant of where we are in the world. I feel this was summed up nicely by that buffoon Amanda Holden opening up with "good evening" in French and Dutch before proclaiming that she didn't know which was which! This just minutes after a 10 year old Greek boy had delivered their results in perfect English. And here you are thinking that we should have some grand status within Europe because the rest of Europe have actually taken the time to learn our language to the levels that a European show can be delivered almost entirely in English - amazing stuff! Not really any wonder that Europe think we are ignorant, arrogant, self centred wankers is it?
It's quite interesting that the bottom 3 nations are all part of the "big 5" who automatically qualify for the final by making larger payments to the broadcaster. It appears that these bigger payments also play a part in receiving the rights to other events, including the Olympics (I think), which makes me think these nations are literally using the Eurovision to keep them in a bigger circle and have no interest in actually putting forward worthwhile acts. Of course it could just be that they each put forward shit acts Surely the UK should be right up there then
First time I've missed Eurovision in a couple of decades, I fell asleep on the sofa and snoozed straight through it. The German song is hilarious but truly terrible, the UK song just terrible and the winning Italian one just noise. I'd rather like the tuning to be split evenly between the participating countries than continuing this nonsense. If feels a little like paying to be mugged in a back alley then tipping and thanking your mugger for the service
The standard of songs was very high, you could make a case for probably 6 of the top 8 could've been winners in a different year. The political aspect of voting doesn't help but putting that aside - if the song is good, is a foot-tapper and more importantly stands out, you're always in with a chance from the public vote. The UK entry was another poor one and we called it at the time that it would receive nothing. The performance was naff, it didn't stand out at all and the poor fella just couldn't sing, he kept going flat. I liked that when he got the big NIL he just stood up with a beer in hand looking like a prize lager lout and got the whole room cheering for him. Fair play to him, what else could he do but laugh? We were surprised the German entry only managed 3 points - it was a crap song but it had all the weirdness and fun staging that usually does well. I thought Malta were going to win it with their baby Lizzo but I thought Italy's entry was excellent and fully deserved it. First group to win since 06, when the hard rock monsters Lordi first shocked the world.
Give a crap? No, but it's a bit of harmless fun once a year. You get a few good songs, a few clunkers, a few bat-shit insane performances, poticial gamesmanship and a tense finale if one of your favourites is near the top. Get a takeaway in, a few beers perhaps and it's a good bit of Saturday night TV. What's not to like? I don't watch TV (except for Sport) so I don't have the burnout from the myriad of singing/talent/performance/dancing shows that seem to be on every week which some people seem to lap up but dismiss Eurovision as scoff.
Or it could be that English is the most widely spoken language on the planet, and the Europeans have only to learn it in order to have a common language that they all speak, not just in Europe but across the globe. Naturally you are welcome to learn the other 20+ languages in order to consider yourself superior to Amanda Holden. And here you are putting words in my mouth. As I said, the reason it's in English is because despite your jaundiced view of our language it's the common tongue in Europe, they used to insist every country sang in their own language but then they realised it wasn't working. Speak for yourself.
I watched the UK entry this morning and **** me... he could barely keep in tune, he was out of breath by the 2nd verse and he was dressed in a designer bin liner.
