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United Kingdom UNITED KINGDOM 2024 - Olly Alexander - Dizzy
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"One-hit wonder" as being successful in Eurovision for only one year and in any other year complaining over their failures.
Being proflic in the domestic market is one thing, translate that into the continent doesn't garentee that especially when you doesn't propley understand the Eurovision audience. UK could copy Malta and playing their game fishing for artificial anglo-pop hungry jury points.
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BBC Eurovision team outline punchy aims for Olly Alexander
The BBC Eurovision team are aiming to win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and secure a number one single in the process.
eurotrippodcast.com
The UK are going to Malmö “to win” with “an incredibly commercially successful single”
Bold words! I’m even more excited now
I’m pleasantly surprised that they’re wanting to ultimately host again after what would be 2 years… definitely not cheap!
The Semi Final allocation draw will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer for the 2nd year in a row, however it will not be shown live. It will be uploaded the next day to the service. This does also mean that the allocation draw will not feature on live TV in the UK this year, however it will be available to watch live on the official ESC YouTube channel.
Triple post from me
This appears to have gone under the radar
What it means is that the BBC want an outside company or individual to produce Eurovision - but keep the BBC stamp on it. It’s an interesting move, and wouldn’t happen until Eurovision 2026 at the very earliest. Perhaps it’s a cost saving move?
This appears to have gone under the radar
What it means is that the BBC want an outside company or individual to produce Eurovision - but keep the BBC stamp on it. It’s an interesting move, and wouldn’t happen until Eurovision 2026 at the very earliest. Perhaps it’s a cost saving move?
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Given the funding deficit the BBC has apparently been having as of late it most likely is a cost-cutting measure. How likely it is to happen most likely depends on future successes at the contest and securing funding for the company as a whole. If the UK does well this year and next it would be easier to justify keeping it in-house. Otherwise, it could get an outside production team involved. I hope that whoever does that are people who work in the music industry and not people who have worked in TV talent shows and the reality TV/Talent Show music industry.
Call it paranoia but there is still a part of me that is expecting Simon Cowell or some other gremlin from that world of music and entertainment to appear from the shadows to take creative control and what progress has been built up recently will be lost under a return of the beige years and artists who are "Fine" and selection shows that make for nice TV programs but couldn't find competitive talent even if it fell on top of them.
Call it paranoia but there is still a part of me that is expecting Simon Cowell or some other gremlin from that world of music and entertainment to appear from the shadows to take creative control and what progress has been built up recently will be lost under a return of the beige years and artists who are "Fine" and selection shows that make for nice TV programs but couldn't find competitive talent even if it fell on top of them.
They have to put stuff out to tender, chances are nothing will change tbh.
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This is kind of academic as Olly Alexander has already been picked but looking over this thread I agree with the sentiment that we should have an entry in Welsh for a change, after all everyone associates Wales and Welsh with musicality so why not pick the right language for the job!
And it would be funny if the British entry ended up being the only Eurovision song that wasn't in English!
(There was actually a Welsh Junior Eurovision entry in 2019, it came last-but-one but I'm guessing it just wasn't a good song?)
And it would be funny if the British entry ended up being the only Eurovision song that wasn't in English!
(There was actually a Welsh Junior Eurovision entry in 2019, it came last-but-one but I'm guessing it just wasn't a good song?)
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Or a song in Gaelic (Scotland)
Whilst BBC Radio 1 and 2 have heavy involvement in our entry it will always be in English
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I could see an entry being sent in a different language (or partly in a different language) than English. But I can only see that happening at the insistence of a big name they are desperate to keep on their side, or it is something that wins a future National Final. Providing we ever go back to them and said NFs are open to them. I could see them being. It then is just a question of said hypothetical act or song being good enough to get the public's attention.
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I think half and half would probably work quite well, e.g. chorus in English and verses in Welsh or vice versa, it's something that has worked well in the past for other countries.
Re. the 2019 Welsh entry I just discovered it's still online . . . wait isn't this the 1981 entry? . . . No, it really is the 2019 entry! Oh dear.
I don't think S4C actually know what Eurovision is — it's not a school parents evening guys!
Well despite that I still like the idea of a Welsh language entry but I don't think S4C should be in charge of it! First and foremost it has to be a good song, with some decent choreography. I feel sorry for the poor 2019 singer, she was set up to fail — how did it escape the dreaded nul points?
Re. the 2019 Welsh entry I just discovered it's still online . . . wait isn't this the 1981 entry? . . . No, it really is the 2019 entry! Oh dear.
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Erin Mai represented Wales at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Gliwice-Silesia with the song Calon yn Curo (Heart Beating). - Read more about Erin ...
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Well despite that I still like the idea of a Welsh language entry but I don't think S4C should be in charge of it! First and foremost it has to be a good song, with some decent choreography. I feel sorry for the poor 2019 singer, she was set up to fail — how did it escape the dreaded nul points?
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Where do we even start with this!
OKAY SO I think I have it - or at least some of it
7 - 7th May, start of ESC
11 - 11th May, Grand Final of ESC
29 - 29th February, possible release date?
1 - 1st March, first live performance?
I'm going to presume the song is called 'Dizzy' or the title is related to the sensation of feeling dizzy.
Lyrics include going 'round and round'...
7 - 7th May, start of ESC
11 - 11th May, Grand Final of ESC
29 - 29th February, possible release date?
1 - 1st March, first live performance?
I'm going to presume the song is called 'Dizzy' or the title is related to the sensation of feeling dizzy.
Lyrics include going 'round and round'...
Well well well!
