Ireland IRELAND 2016 - Nicky Byrne - Sunlight

[cripesdude]

Ireland is one of the most successful countries in ESC history, and I pay my respect to that. They gave us many great songs in the past.
I loved last year's "Playing with Numbers" and thought it was scandalous that Molly Sterling didn't make it to the final.

It almost hurts a little to realize that this year's entry is really bad in my opinion.
Just look at the singer and look at the video and you immediately know that Ireland wants to "surf on the Zelmerlow wave".
Stupid lyrics and rhythms that I already didn't like when they came from 90's boybands.

One thing remains a mystery to me: The Irish song is so extremely similar to the Russian entry (Russians also think that Zelmerlow works twice), even the singers resemble each other. Why does Russia get so many likes and Ireland so much crticism? If Russia is a possible ESC winner this year, then Ireland should be as well.
To me they both suck.

I don't draw much distinction between Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Lithuania this year... All generic boyband-ish/radio friendly/easy listening pop which is contemporary at best and "lift music" at worse (i.e not bad but not amazingly great either)... Yet the UK and Ireland seem to get all the harshest criticism (neither are the worst songs by any margin and would deserve top ten with a fantastic performance). I'm not sure if it's just that expectations are really high for Ireland and the UK given past triumphs and solid music industries, or that these two countries have simply become unpopular at Eurovision - or something else. But both Ireland and the UK were robbed last year - Playing By Numbers was a particularly fantastic overlooked song. Perhaps neither Ireland or the UK's entries are as strong this year - but certainly deserve the top half of the scoreboard

 

[hugh]

I can see Ireland coming last in the semi final with this, this is such a bad song, it literally has no good qualities at all. And what's worse is that Nicky Byrne has done zero promotion across Europe for Ireland's entry.

 

[Sammy]

I can see Ireland coming last in the semi final with this, this is such a bad song, it literally has no good qualities at all. And what's worse is that Nicky Byrne has done zero promotion across Europe for Ireland's entry.

That's what surprises me quite a lot actually!

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

It's refreshing to see a typical boyband male pop song that is not being overrated by the fans, for once. I hope it stays in the semi where it really belongs (and I hope the same happens to all the other similar songs such as Lithuania, Denmark, Poland, France etc.).

 

[Sammy]

It's refreshing to see a typical boyband male pop song that is not being overrated by the fans, for once. I hope it stays in the semi where it really belongs (and I hope the same happens to all the other similar songs such as Lithuania, Denmark, Poland, France etc.).

does typical boyband female popsongs also exist?
would you also despise typical girlband male popsongs?

 

[toinou03]

I can see Ireland coming last in the semi final with this, this is such a bad song, it literally has no good qualities at all. And what's worse is that Nicky Byrne has done zero promotion across Europe for Ireland's entry.

or maybe So many candidates for the last place

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

or maybe So many candidates for the last place

LMAO, isn't coming anywhere near last.

On the other hand, this year is trying really, really hard to come last.

 

[grazy2266]

I think Nicky needs to full his finger out and get around Europe pretty fast and do some promotion. I think he will be in trouble if he dont.

 

[Tsachi]

Nicky Byrne on Ireland : in the past 20 years, we’ve fallen off a cliff
Nicky acknowledged that Ireland’s Eurovision performance in recent years was far removed from their glory years in the 1990s, but he wanted to take Ireland into the grand final. “Recently, in the past 20 years, we’ve fallen off a cliff. All the other countries take it so seriously and we should do that. We should get to try and go back there.”

 

[Terence]

or maybe So many candidates for the last place

will finish last. could be second last - I don't know, it seems that this song is good and all but it's the typical middle-of-the-road radio-friendly song which doesn't quite scream 'vote for me'

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

I dont think he'll be last or second last but possibly bottom 10. I don't really have any doubts about him getting into the final though, of that I'm nearly sure.

 

[PeterLPZ]

It´s not that bad song, it grows on me during the last weeks, but it will be hard to get to the final at the end.

 

[EscGeek]

Everybody on this forum forgot about this song

 

[alca]

His rehearsals are painful to watch. He struggles so much to hit the notes in the chorus and it looks so off-putting

 

[Sammy]

This is my biggest disappointment this year. When he was chosen, I expected a really good song and a professional staging. We got neither of it.
I mean, the song is not the worst this year, but he doesn't make anything out of it. And where did he get this jacket?

 

[cripesdude]

I don't think the song is too bad - it's in my top 20 over-all... and Nicky obviously has a lot of experience performing. I'm just worried his vocals won't be strong enough on the night, and sadly for Ireland, this will be a non-qualifier.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I'm so disappointed. If he performs the song the way he has been in the rehearsals, I just can't see Nicky qualifying. It's a shame because it's a really catchy song that would otherwise deserve to qualify, but I feel like the staging & outfit has ruined his chances

 

[joancamo]

I think either this, Albania or Switzerland will end up last in the semi, the rehearsals of those 3 have been so boring to watch

 

[anto475]

He's so cringey omg. I watched his press conference and, when asked about the inspiration for the song, he said "It's like I felt like I was standing on top of a mountain in Ibiza, and I've never been to Ibiza" like Nickyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly pulled my face off in second-hand embarrassment for him. He's just performing this song, there's no energy there. In the off-chance that we win the contest, we'll see the exact same performance in the semi, in the final, and at his winning performance, dull dull dull, no life. What a waste of an entry.

 

[Eurovisionified]

I like the jacket.