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That sounds good to me
Posted by Uncle Monty on 27 April 2010 - 10:02am.
...or rather it doesn't. This, apparently, is our Eurovision entry this year:
How long did you last? I think I made it to about half way. It's truly dreadful isn't it? Now I know Eurovision isn't exactly the place you expect to find cutting-edge new music, but frankly I'd expect Mark E Smith singing about bus stations to have more chance of raising us above nul points than this dreary nonsense.
Then again, what do I know? It'll probably sweep the board and Europe will be renamed Dubovieland.
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I made it to 1:01
and only then because I'm trying really, really hard in my old(er) age not to be a music snob anymore.
But that, I'm afraid, is just ear-aching nonsense. It reminds me of my old music teacher, back in the 80s. He was a great teacher, really inspirational, had you wanting to sing in his choir and perform in the shows (oh yes, for one sweet moment, I WAS Calamity Jane). But he had a truly illogical addiction to the electric piano. He was a good pianist, but he always played that plincky-ploncky tinkly crappy thing instead of a real piano - never could understand it.
Maybe it was an 80s thing.
This IS horrible, as you'd expect
but even if we submitted "Yesterday" we'd still come 22nd anyway. I think we should just say "f**k it" one year and let Autechre do it.
(spoiler alert) I hung on to the end just in case they were any unexpected Bogshed-style left turns, but none were forthcoming.
20 seconds only
"Final destination, the sound of celebration."
Not around here it isn't.
1:20
I love Eurovision, but this is like a b side of a particularly mediocre entry. The UK isn't really trying any more, is it?
I've never understood Eurovision
...never understood why a nation which has always stood head and shoulders above any other European nation for producing rock and pop music, should always provide this sort of tripe year after year for a programme which is trashier than the trashiest episode of Eurotrash.
It makes me want to rip my ears off.
Stock and Waterman
write trite trash shocker!
Came on here to say
"Gosh, that doesn't half sound like "classic" Stock Aitken & Waterman". That'll be why, then.
Actually not half as bad as I was expecting from the comments here, but then I grew up on SAW so maybe I'm inured to it.
1:43
And it had to go. As with Susie, I was trying so hard not to be a music snob. "No, it's nice and catchy, you can tap your toe, listen to the nice lyrics....AAAAAGGGHHHH"
The poor naif scuppered into performing this execrable bilge can see his future career going down the khazi with this song.
Unless, of course, it's a dead-cert clunker to make sure we don't win so we won't have to shell out for the hosting of next year's contest..
Conspiracy? I think not..
Was there a vote this year?
I've never voted before, but I can't help feeling the alternatives must have been dire. Wasn't a pregnant Jordan in pink lycra again was it?