UNITED KINGDOM 2010 - Josh Dubovie - That Sounds Good to Me

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhMTMQCL3XU

Josh Dubovie visits the Vigeland Sculpture Park - interview

 

[EuroFan]

I love the song But it is only the 19th on http://apps.facebook.com/eurovote. Vote, do something!! xsos

 

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i'm not on facebook..

i watched the semi final and josh has nothing to fear

 

[evilperson]

Now that Greece is performing before UK, nobody will even remember Josh and his boxes...

 

[Raul_Spain]

I agree 100%. That sounds even worse after Greece UK a big zero awaits you! I can't wait

 

[ESCGirl]

I agree 100%. That sounds even worse after Greece UK a big zero awaits you! I can't wait

How childish. We know we are not going to win and we don't care.
I am very proud of both our song and our singer this year
Go Josh

 

[FallenAngelII]

His vocals are pretty weak even in the studio version and the music video is such a joke. I also laughed out loud at 10.50 PM last night when they showed it at the end of the first semi-final (I would've woken my stepdad up).

I agree 100%. That sounds even worse after Greece UK a big zero awaits you! I can't wait

How childish. We know we are not going to win and we don't care.
I am very proud of both our song and our singer this year
Go Josh

How... can you be proud of Josh? I mean, he's probably not a bad person, but come on. As a singer, he is pretty underwhelming. His national final appearance was a random dude with "street clothes" singing pretty badly with a bunch of stripper-looking and dressed girls as background dancers.

His entry had no class and vocal ability.

The only reason Josh won was because Alexis forgot the words and the other entrants were too ugly for the teeny boppers or something (because Josh did not have the second best vocals of the United Kingdom national final). Because he didn't have much charisma either. A representative, he's probably going to fail.

I can understand not hating him (I don't, I don't hate him as a person, in fact I don't really care about him as person), but being proud of him? Why? Because he's your representative? That's no reason to be proud of him at the ESC.

 

[94ayd]

Trust me, this won't be last.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

The juries will ensure we wont be last

We will defo be in double numbers, in the 60's imo. And I hope for a finish around 12th/13th
Compared to many songs this year United Kingdom is top class!

 

[PoppySnuggleGlass]

Pffft, too many people hating on the UK!

A lot of us know the song won't do well. So I have no idea why people come on this forum desperately want to see the UK fail. Do you really hate us that much? xslap

It probaby will fail, but I'll still support it anyway!

Haha, I found this the other day!
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EDT: if you don't vote for Josh, you may have to answer to these guy ^

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

^ I thought that we had managed to get rid of political prejudice against us last year but obviously not judging by some of the comments

 

[AlexG]

@Poppy:

That video is top notch

 

[AlexG]

@ MHIY:

I think the UK is one of the "targets" because of its musical pedigree.

It's like everyone wants to beat Brazil at football because they're who they are - take it as a compliment

 

[ESCGirl]

His vocals are pretty weak even in the studio version and the music video is such a joke. I also laughed out loud at 10.50 PM last night when they showed it at the end of the first semi-final (I would've woken my stepdad up).

I agree 100%. That sounds even worse after Greece UK a big zero awaits you! I can't wait

How childish. We know we are not going to win and we don't care.
I am very proud of both our song and our singer this year
Go Josh

How... can you be proud of Josh? I mean, he's probably not a bad person, but come on. As a singer, he is pretty underwhelming. His national final appearance was a random dude with "street clothes" singing pretty badly with a bunch of stripper-looking and dressed girls as background dancers.

His entry had no class and vocal ability.

The only reason Josh won was because Alexis forgot the words and the other entrants were too ugly for the teeny boppers or something (because Josh did not have the second best vocals of the United Kingdom national final). Because he didn't have much charisma either. A representative, he's probably going to fail.

I can understand not hating him (I don't, I don't hate him as a person, in fact I don't really care about him as person), but being proud of him? Why? Because he's your representative? That's no reason to be proud of him at the ESC.

You obviously didn't watch the national final if you think that Alexis forgot the words
I like Josh and I like the song. Is that a crime??? Are the Eurovision police going to come and arrest me?
Look, the reality is that we are probably going to come last but what's the point of being bitter about it? There's nothing we can do!

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

@ MHIY:

I think the UK is one of the "targets" because of its musical pedigree.

It's like everyone wants to beat Brazil at football because they're who they are - take it as a compliment

I sure will
So every1 is jealous of us!

 

[kotten]

@ MHIY:

I think the UK is one of the "targets" because of its musical pedigree.

It's like everyone wants to beat Brazil at football because they're who they are - take it as a compliment

Agreed! People expect something special from the UK.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Well tbh I am very disappointed with the song this year I thought after last year we had entered a new era of top 10 placings but a top songwriter wrote this for us. No effort at all was put into it, I could do better myself! The song this year sounds like an old Making Your Mind Up song

 

[PoppySnuggleGlass]

@ MHIY:

I think the UK is one of the "targets" because of its musical pedigree.

It's like everyone wants to beat Brazil at football because they're who they are - take it as a compliment

I’d love to think it was because of that, but I can’t help but think something more political lies beneath those vocal desires to see the UK fail. I’ve read on other forums people referring to Brits as arrogant oppressing colonialists who play lapdog to the U.S. (not that Britain’s alliances with the U.S. aren’t a good thing!)

I like the think that the majority though, are enlightened enough to keep politics out of a song contest!

But maybe you're right, maybe people do expect more from the UK because of their musical history. I'd like to think so anyway.

Anyhow, enough of the negativity. I may not like the song, but I wish Josh the best of luck on the night!

 

[FallenAngelII]

^ I thought that we had managed to get rid of political prejudice against us last year but obviously not judging by some of the comments

I could care less if Josh is from the UK, Malta or even Sweden (seriously, I'm one of the greatest detractors of Sweden this year, my own home country, on these boards), the song is absolute hogwash. Stock and Waterman have regressed to the 80's and it's not even the good 80's but the bad 80's. It's like they took the worst of the 80's and deliberately tried to write something really, really cheesy.

Combine that with Josh's underwhelming singing ability and he'll be lucky to score any points, even with the juries voting since the song itself is pretty bad. I have the official CD. I've looped it. Even the studio version is terrible, even after Josh has been autotuned beyond recognition because it's just so soulless and tacky! Any jury with a smidgeon of good taste will shun it and the televoters will definitely shun it.

Around 12th-13th? 60-ish points? My tuchas. The UK will be lucky to make it out of the Bottom 5 (I predict France is certain to finish below the UK, so the UK probably won't be dead last) and get, at most 40 points and that's if a miracle occurs.

You people forget that even with juries in the contest, unless a song has the support of the televoters, a few jury points won't mean much since these are then combined with the televote for an average score. So, unless the juries give the UK 6-12 points (and trust me, no jury is going to do that, not even the Irish jury!) it won't really mean much because once combined, a few measly jury points plus zero televotes (because, really, that's as much as Josh can expect from the televoters of every single one of the 39 nations competing this year, he'll be lucky to score, like, 10-15 points from the televote) will combine to remain a few measly jury points. Meanwhile, the jury will agree with the televote a lot of the time, thus ending up with a scoreboard that sees the United Kingdom at the very bottom, if they are lucky.

I can think of 7 entries that made it from the first semi-final that will take precedence when it comes to voting (televotes, jury votes or a combination of both) alone. From the second semi-final, pretty much every single qualifier will have precedence over Josh. No. No Top 15 finish, no 60's point total.

Be happy if you're not Bottom 5! Send better songs next year.

My God you people have gotten lazy and just disrespectful. You people whined about politics and anti-UK sentiments for years just because you sent boring snorefests (Abraham what's-his-name with what's-it's-name), "WTF, mate?" entries (like that weird 40 year-old "rapper" with a bunch of fake school girls) and anonymous "What?" (Jemini's "Crybaby". If they hadn't completely failed vocally, they would've been quite forgettable, still) songs the viewers forget about the second they end, but at least back then your artists could sing (most of the time, Gemini, Scooch and rapper-dude excluded)!

Seriously, Abraham-who failed fantastically but at least he could carry a tune. And even then he failed because his song was pure horse manure! So this year you one-up yourselves by sending a horse manure of a song and a failed karaoke singer (he's so bad he's of the crop of karaoke singers people laugh at/with). I mean, come on! Send him on any Idol show and watch the domestic jury rip him to ss!

Josh Dubovie, you're probably a nice guy underneath all of that borderline sexism (seriously, your dancers don't need to be dressed like Hooters waitresses to distract people from the fact that you're off-tune 69% of the time), but honestly, you really shouldn't have entered the contest. The fact that you won is baffling, but if you had any sense of self, you would've realized your vocal abilities need a lot of work and just stayed home.

So, in short, these predictions of the United Kingdom's future score is baffling. What, you think the UK will now magically never get Bottom 5 again just because Jade and the Phantom got 5th last year? They got 5th last year because it was the Phantom, the song was OK and Jade could sing pretty well (though her voice was still a bit too frail for the number). This year you have none of that!

I predict a 22nd place finish with, oh, 25 points.

I’d love to think it was because of that, but I can’t help but think something more political lies beneath those vocal desires to see the UK fail. I’ve read on other forums people referring to Brits as arrogant oppressing colonialists who play lapdog to the U.S. (not that Britain’s alliances with the U.S. aren’t a good thing!

Oh, get off your cross.

Were any of those forums Eurovision Song Contest forums? The fact that there are some people who think that doesn't mean that the vast majority of Europeans think that. Or that they actually care that much about that hollaballoo when it comes time to vote at the Eurovision Song Contest. Especially not in Eastern Europe. You really think the people of, oh, Slovakia will care that Tony Blair was pro-Iraqi war when they decide who to vote for? Really?

The reason why your entries have failed in the past is because they were bad. Own up to it instead of hiding behind a vague curtain of "I've read on some forums that some people think the UK is the U.S.'s lapdogs!"

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Thanks for slating us!