Sometimes your taste of music is a real mystery to me.
I'm surprised I'm rooting for the generic vanilla radio song in this NF, too (but to be fair, this is Ireland's thread so it shouldn't be too surprising at all xD).
I like daring, bold and progressive entries very much but I just think that the two presented in this NF simply aren't it.
But to be fair, I don't really care about them anyway. I was able to listen to 3 songs in this NF without muting or skipping the end...
Next In Line is fun though and I believe that some fans are just fed up with Ire"lad[(s)" going for the radio pop song again.
If Ireland want to go fully power-bottom-metal-wannabe avant-garde, they have my blessing. Let's give it a try imo.