United Kingdom UNITED KINGDOM 2023 - Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[HarryUK]

I have a new theory about Mimi Webb. We’ve had several songs from her in 2023 with music videos, including; Red Flags, Roles Reversed and now Freezing. Maybe she was internally selected at the start of the year and she’s put these songs out to test the waters and see what what songs draw the most attention. Her album is out today and to release 3 singles so close together is highly irregular in any album cycle, unless it’s an experiment…

 

[Leydan]

That Mimi Webb - Freezing song is alright, but screams typical BBC. If its that i feel like people are going to be massively unimpressed and upset.

 

[Rocket man]

Is this a hint?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631630033059037187

And if I would pick a Mimi Webb song, I'd pick the power ballad "Roles Reversed", the others are meh for me.

 

[Kitakaze]

The only artist that hasn't revealed new music yet but has also talked about a new era is Rina Sawayama. She's just finished her tour for her Hold the Girl album, so I can definitely see her moving on from that and possibly focusing on her new material now.
I'm more inclined to see Rina Sawayama not using a song from her previous album or anything from that era if she's going to Eurovision, I'd prefer it to be fresh new music from her.

I’m quite convinced it’s her and am really holding out for a new song as well, though cringing at the thought of something being written with Eurovision in mind. I’m not sure there’s a Eurovision winner on Hold The Girl and whatever we send is going to have to live up to Space Man so it needs to be big and have that immediacy, though let’s be real she could pick anything from that back catalogue of hers and it‘d be top 10.

 

[theditz83]

Rumour is Mae Muller?

 

[Rocket man]

I’m quite convinced it’s her and am really holding out for a new song as well, though cringing at the thought of something being written with Eurovision in mind. I’m not sure there’s a Eurovision winner on Hold The Girl and whatever we send is going to have to live up to Space Man so it needs to be big and have that immediacy, though let’s be real she could pick anything from that back catalogue of hers and it‘d be top 10.

Definitely. Also just like Sam Ryder, I'm confident in her ability as a performer and vocalist, all Rina needs is a fantastic pop song, not a song that some people think works for Eurovision.

 

[theditz83]

If it is Rina, I reckon she'll fight for the same points as Noa Kirel.

 

[Leydan]

I think we're trying too hard to cling onto the hope its Rina. I really have no clue at this point, feels like its pointing to Mimi Webb perhaps, and i have no idea who Mae Muller even is???

Edit: all i do know is that I'm totally bored and completely over the radio silence from them and all this endless speculation

 

[Chrisiam]

Honestly, I have no idea who, well, all the names currently in contention really are. So from my point of view, I'll just be happy if we don't get a song that sounds like an X-Factor Winner's Single from the mid-2010s.

 

[ChiversLookDivine]

Again it's worth remembering that the reason Rina seems to be the most likely right now is not the overwhelming evidence she has in comparison to the other names - it's that there's nothing to suggest it isn't her either.

Almost every other name can be easily dismissed with a myriad of tour dates (Birdy, Mimi), not being available on Eurovision weekend (Freya, Ellie), performing her new songs before the Sept 2022 deadline (Freya), or just being too big for Eurovision (Ellie), or not worked with TaP (Freya, Mimi), or not backed by the BBC (Birdy), or releasing the music video on their own channel and not saving it for ESC YT (Birdy, Mimi).

Rina has a lot of backing, but furthermore she hasn't got anything preventing her from doing it. Rina has the most evidence for, and the least evidence against.

She's a massive fan of Eurovision. She's worked with TaP personnel. She's made 4 big BBC appearances in the album cycle. She still gets played on Radio 1 6 months after the album dropped. Her face is up in lights in the BBC's atrium. She delayed her album to September in mysterious circumstances. Sam told us all we should send someone diverse. TaP said we might send someone who's not British.

Notice how none of that evidence required the TikToks she made, which to some was enough to convince them. To many she's the only choice, just check the replies of any of her Instagram, YouTube, TikTok content, or indeed the replies to any TaP posts, or even the Official Chart Company asking who people who we want to see represent the UK at Eurovision.

To many she is the only choice, and that hasn't happened by accident, or a weird hivemind. We have been conditioned for many months by the BBC, by TaP, by her PR team, to expect her.

It is her. I am absolutely locked into the idea it's her, someone so incredibly intelligent, who represents modern multicultural Britain, on the cutting edge of music, a creative mind like Sam, an incredible artist and mind. She is the best of British without even having a British passport, and for someone so talented she's never truly had the platform she deserves. But most of all the logic is watertight and I just cannot see it being anyone else. And I trust the reason for that is TaP felt the same when they made their selection and have been working on her PR campaign since the album launched.

 

[Kitakaze]

Again it's worth remembering that the reason Rina seems to be the most likely right now is not the overwhelming evidence she has in comparison to the other names - it's that there's nothing to suggest it isn't her either.

Almost every other name can be easily dismissed with a myriad of tour dates (Birdy, Mimi), not being available on Eurovision weekend (Freya, Ellie), performing her new songs before the Sept 2022 deadline (Freya), or just being too big for Eurovision (Ellie), or not worked with TaP (Freya, Mimi), or not backed by the BBC (Birdy), or releasing the music video on their own channel and not saving it for ESC YT (Birdy, Mimi).

Rina has a lot of backing, but furthermore she hasn't got anything preventing her from doing it. Rina has the most evidence for, and the least evidence against.

She's a massive fan of Eurovision. She's worked with TaP personnel. She's made 4 big BBC appearances in the album cycle. She still gets played on Radio 1 6 months after the album dropped. Her face is up in lights in the BBC's atrium. She delayed her album to September in mysterious circumstances. Sam told us all we should send someone diverse. TaP said we might send someone who's not British.

Notice how none of that evidence required the TikToks she made, which to some was enough to convince them. To many she's the only choice, just check the replies of any of her Instagram, YouTube, TikTok content, or indeed the replies to any TaP posts, or even the Official Chart Company asking who people who we want to see represent the UK at Eurovision.

To many she is the only choice, and that hasn't happened by accident, or a weird hivemind. We have been conditioned for many months by the BBC, by TaP, by her PR team, to expect her.

It is her. I am absolutely locked into the idea it's her, someone so incredibly intelligent, who represents modern multicultural Britain, on the cutting edge of music, a creative mind like Sam, an incredible artist and mind. She is the best of British without even having a British passport, and for someone so talented she's never truly had the platform she deserves. But most of all the logic is watertight and I just cannot see it being anyone else. And I trust the reason for that is TaP felt the same when they made their selection and have been working on her PR campaign since the album launched.

Couldn’t agree more, in my mind now the mystery is more to do with the song and I suspect that’s what’s likely prolonged the whole announcement delay. I know she only finished her tour this week and that she has ongoing film and fashion commitments so maybe it’s overreaching to expect a new song but I’m pretty confident she’ll still make the right choice.

 

[rasmuslights]

Yeah, it looks really likely it's her. Like just the fact that she has so many tik-toks (indirectly) referencing eurovision. why would she do those if she wasn't the representative? she's not a small artist who needs any attention they can get.

I'd be kinda surprised if it's not her even though I personally prefer Birdy's style of music but Rina would still be amazing and basically one of the best British entries in the last decade.

 

[HarryUK]

The music video screams BBC Eurovision as well...

 

[Cestrian18]

The music video screams BBC Eurovision as well...

I think it does too, but if it was, it would've been announced today I think, there's nothing left to reveal. This was just to get ears on the album imo.

 

[StephenMuckle]

London Eurovision Party tweeted recently "Did someone say Mother?". Last year they hinted about Sam Ryder being the UK artist and they seem to be doing it again. It might be a coincidence but Ben Mawson of Tap has recently been posting a lot on social media about Lana Del Rey with extensive reference to the word mother. Just saying. As for Mimi Webb, I love her but I hope it isn't her, otherwise her Belfast gif will be cancelled, and I got a ticket with a VIP access to meet her . It would make up for not being able to go to see Madison Beer last year.

 

[ChiversLookDivine]

The music video screams BBC Eurovision as well...

It's literally on Mimi Webb's YT channel, if it was the Eurovision entry the M/V would have been held back, people have already said that a few times now.

London Eurovision Party tweeted recently "Did someone say Mother?". Last year they hinted about Sam Ryder being the UK artist and they seem to be doing it again. It might be a coincidence but Ben Mawson of Tap has recently been posting a lot on social media about Lana Del Rey with extensive reference to the word mother. Just saying

No.

If mother refers to anything other than La Zarra (the announcement made a few minutes later) then it'll be about Rina who makes about a million references to "mother", her fans all call her "mother", and the last two Eurovision hinting TikToks were about banning and unbanning the word mother.

It won't be a reference to famously American singer Lana Del Rey.

 

[rasmuslights]

London Eurovision Party tweeted recently "Did someone say Mother?". Last year they hinted about Sam Ryder being the UK artist and they seem to be doing it again. It might be a coincidence but Ben Mawson of Tap has recently been posting a lot on social media about Lana Del Rey with extensive reference to the word mother. Just saying

Lana is not british tho and wayyyyyy to big.

Rina, however, posted a tiktok with something about this "mother" thing.

 

[Leydan]

The mother tweet was a reference to La Zarra tbh.

 

[theditz83]

Jeez, the BBC needs to throw us some scraps right now, cos this is out of hand. Rina is Queen Troll rn if she isn't our representative, and fair play to her for keeping it going this long

 

[empo21]

While Lana is mother, I think her going to Eurovision would be very bad for me, because I will get a heart attack and miss the whole thing.

Would be really funny though if she competed with a song named Grandfather Please Stand on the Shoulders of My Father While He's Deep-Sea Fishing