Now we move on to another member of my personal flop 5 of 2018,
. I have to admit that the United Kingdom is the country at the ESC that angers me the most. Despite having one of the biggest and most diverse music industries in the world and being the homeland of many successful artists they always send boring and uncharismatic nobodys with dull album tracks nobody wants to hear, and sadly this was again the case in 2018.
That year they were represented by the young singer SuRie and her song "Storm". When I saw her performing the song for the first time it really reminded me of
2017, and this is not a compliment!! A singer that looked like a younger version of Annie Lennox but sadly had as much charisma as a slice of toast with an uninteresting voice singing an extremely flat and boring album track. I don´t know why but this is a kind of song I can imagine being played during a dancing evening in a retirement home, in the background while buying food in a supermarket or while ironing your trousers at home. In these scenarios it would be ok, but at the ESC it just felt sooo boring, uninteresting and completely fallen out of time.
Before the contest I saw this as a hot contestant for the last place, and I´m pretty sure that without the stage invasion and all these "sympathy calls" afterwards this would have happended, because to be honest this incident was really the only interesting thing about her performance, even if this sounds mean.
All in all this was another wasted year for the
, this was basically doomed from the very beginning. After the contest we had the usual complaints from the yellow press that they should retire because the "evil" Europeans hate them because of Brexit, politics in general and blah blah. No!! Please stop with this nonsense!!
You don´t do poorly because of politics, the viewers simply notice if a country doesn´t even try to win or at least do well!! And if the people in charge at the BBC don´t realise this you will not do any better in the future, this is something I can promise you!!!
Anyway, this piece of nothing gets a clear
from me, it was simply hopeless from the start!!
