Posted by Patricia smith (U14924473) on Saturday, 7th March 2015
Just caught the 2015 Eurovision entry for the UK by Electro Velvet called Still In Love With You. This must be the worst entry in the history of UK disasters, how embarrassing will this be on the night, nul points methinks!
Come on OP, get with the spirit of Eurovision.
Liking this a lot Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. Thank you. You have made my Saturday night. :o)
It's very Doop...Robbie...Jungle Book...Ollie...Scissor Sisters...Sophie Ellis Bexter.
Good luck Electro Velvet. Bring Eurovision back home to Blighty.
I like the song but no one will vote for it, they hate us.
Come on OP, get with the spirit of Eurovision.
Liking this a lot Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. Thank you. You have made my Saturday night. :o)
It's very Doop...Robbie...Jungle Book...Ollie...Scissor Sisters...Sophie Ellis Bexter.
Good luck Electro Velvet. Bring Eurovision back home to Blighty.Ìý
Love the song and the singers. Great entry. Well done. Everyone will be tapping their feet and dancing - that's what wins Eurovision.
If we're not going to win (we aren't), we might as well enter something quite fun and quirky rather than taking it so seriously. I like it more than any other recent years.
Come on OP, get with the spirit of Eurovision.
Liking this a lot Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. Thank you. You have made my Saturday night. :o)
It's very Doop...Robbie...Jungle Book...Ollie...Scissor Sisters...Sophie Ellis Bexter.
Good luck Electro Velvet. Bring Eurovision back home to Blighty.Ìý
Love the song and the singers. Great entry. Well done. Everyone will be tapping their feet and dancing - that's what wins Eurovision.Ìý
Oh well that's two people who are going to watch it,could beat the General
Election Debate in the viewer rating chart.
I think it's very bad, doesn't meant it couldn't win though.
It's a fun number.
In that case why enter at all, save the money, which is considerable, and make a 'political protest'. I do believe if we had a really strong memorable entry instead of this fluff we could still win. We need to take it much more seriously and come up with the real deal or quit. I do wish them luck, but who will remember them after a few days, apologies if they are well known and I have missed it. Look at the bearded lady and the career she carved for herself all over Europe and still going strong. She has a great voice and it was a strong song. It's time we stopped saying how unfair it all is and come up with the goods or Au Revoir to the lot of them.
If you think 300,000 is considerable for three hours prime time TV on a Saturday night and six hours during the week...then you have serious misconceptions about the cost of TV broadcasting.
It doesn't matter what the UK entry is it will not win. Why enter at all? Because it's a popular show that attracts a large audience and to show it without a UK entry would be daft. It's a fun number it won't win, but who cares? I for one won't be watching.
do the aussies have a vote...if so...I reckon they'll vote for us...
so long as they haven't already seen banished...
I love Eurovision. Our Graham is hosting a special 50th Celebration of Eurovision at some point this year. Expect a parade of past winners / popular acts. Bring it on.
Absolutely. It is entering into the whole spirit of Eurovision.
The original concept was to unite Europe through song. Surely it is more important now than ever before to embrace it and it's original concept.
can just imagine all our past winners parading on zimmer frames...its been that long...
im sure its been longer than fifty...do you mean sixty...
It won't be just our past winners / popular tracks...it will feature past winners from across Europe. Come in Stockholm. :o)
Ooh Wolfie...is it sixty? I will check.
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Posted by fox-by-moonlight (U16026014) on Sunday, 8th March 2015
Oh that *is* a fun number . Very 1920s flapper and very toe tapping. We don't usually watch Eurovision - no matter what we enter it never wins as it's all so political now. But this has to be the best for some considerable time. I wish them all the best.
do the aussies have a vote...if so...I reckon they'll vote for us...Ìý
"Australia will be allowed to vote in both Semi-Finals, as well as the Grand Final. "
I reckon they'll vote for us...Ìý
I wouldn't take that for granted. In an Australian unofficial televote in 2011 UK came 9th out of 25.
yes...you could be right...
I guess Australia let any old riff raff in these days from all sorts of countries...
bit different from when it was only common criminals they use to let in...
It's a fun number.
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Its rubbish and a rip off of every swing song you ever heard of. Not original at all. Nil pointe.
Here's one I found , very similar.
Just watched this... have to admit to mixed feelings. Sure, no denying it's fun and lively, but it seems so BUSY... Are they throwing all of that into the mix. or will it be a slimmed down version I wonder?
The jury's out on this one for the time being.
"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
- Mary Todd Lincoln Ìý
I love this year's entry. It's very Caro Emerald. No problem with that. It's a fashionable genre at the moment.
My bad Wolfie, it is sixty years old and not fifty.
You are right...it is very Caro. Like it a lot. Listened to it loads since. I might need to get my Euro cd out...
I agree. It doesn't do the UK musical reputation any good at all to send over these quasi innocents into the lions den (agree, over the top analogy), to see them sit on the sofas squirming but trying to look cheerful when the votes are being cast and counted and they get very few points. If its a spectator sport at least send acts over with the strongest possible means to do us and them proud. We have such a great heritage of fantastic music it can't be beyond the realms of possibility to come up with an excellent song. It's a cop out to say we won't win because no one votes for us, give them the right song and we might just do it! This wont come near. Perhaps it's the cost for the winner of putting the show on next year that is a factor...
It's a fun number.
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Its rubbish and a rip off of every swing song you ever heard of. Not original at all. Nil pointe.
Here's one I found , very similar.
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It's interesting that I listened to both our entry and your comparison, and the second stuck in my head. Had a better beat too.
It's a fun number.
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It's ok - but they are limited to the number of people allowed to appear on stage, so there will be either no backing band or no extra dancers - and it might fall a bit flat without them.....
Time the UK took its chance in the heats round - so if we get knocked out before the final competition, it hardly matters. But as long as we partially fund the thing we are guaranteed a place in the main show - even if our entry was Myself singing a page of the phone book to the tune of 3 Blind Mice.....
Why are they singing with American accents? It is the UK entry isn't it?
I suspect a lot of the visual presentation will come via the video walls.
Nearly fell off the chair reading that Bides!
even if our entry was Myself singing a page of the phone book to the tune of 3 Blind Mice.....Ìý
Strangely that could work... I recall that several seconds of mind bending cringement when Subo took to the stage..... and THEN!
Not suggesting you are in any way like Subo, (far more glamorous) It's simply the surprise of the unexpected?
Never mind, just me being actually very silly on a boring Sunday. I'll keep taking the tablets...
Actually just remembered Rowan Atkinson doing just that. Mounting the lectern dressed Vicarstyle, and then intoning.....Brilliant!
The Finland entry is a punk(ish) band made up of adults with Down Syndrome or learning difficulties
What is the opinion about this - Is it exploitation of progressive thinking
Kid Creole used to create a very infectious atmosphere in his stage performance by the clever use of his Coconuts. They had a Kraftwerkesque mechanical feel to their 'dance' movements which were at odds with the latin beat, whilst providing the backing voices.
I notice that electro velvet also have a pair of backing singers but they are very much in the background. I suggest, once you have to lose the musicians and other assorted people shown in the video, bring the backing singers up front but given them some good moves too.
I slightly worry that on the night, the guy singer's voice may be a bit weak. I don't worry about the girl singer's voice.
I like the song and the atmosphere it creates.
The song itself is not for me. Not sure how I feel about the singers taking part.
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Posted by tubby backgammon (U14589324) on Sunday, 8th March 2015
Kid Creole used to create a very infectious atmosphere in his stage performance by the clever use of his CoconutsÌý
Kid Creole used to create a very infectious atmosphere in his stage performance by the clever use of his CoconutsÌý Ìý Ditto!
Kid Creole used to create a very infectious atmosphere in his stage performance by the clever use of his CoconutsÌý Ìý Ditto! Ìý Made my day
I like it a lot! It's fun, good singers, nice backing, nice effects with the flourescent stuff. I can see it being on Strictly the next series.
It won't win cos it's us but it's good.
I loved it! It reminded me of Lindy Hop. I thought both singers were great and they did a good job. I hope on the night they can generate a similar feel.
mirandashell, it might just win, you never know
Why does anyone continue to watch this vile parade of kitsch. It's demeaning.
Oh! Here's Musky being his usual cheery happy self!
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Posted by CannotResistThisOne (U15930232) on Sunday, 8th March 2015
I absolutely adore it. Gloomy Europeans probably won't, but who can tell? And who cares?
Anyone remember the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band?
It's just a bit of fun muskadash.
Why does anyone continue to watch this vile parade of kitsch. It's demeaning.Ìý
Why do you believe everyone should follow what you think
I can't wait for the annual Johnnymol Eurovision party
Yes...and this does remind me of dog DooDah...
I see the guy is a Mick Jagger impersonator...how apt that the girl is called bianca...
The human body-mind is a unique instrument capable of apprehending the wondrous unfolding beauty and harmony of the architecture of the Universe, and people choose to focus this instrument on a bunch of sissies and bimbos poncing around to a synthesised galloping beat.
You don't have to watch it do you...
Is your human body-mind not capable of apprehending different levels of the architecture of the universe...
People can do both, Musky. They can understand the beauty and harmony of the Cosmos and they can understand and develop deep philosophical theories and build great feats of engineering and enjoy a few hours of singing and dancing and campness and fun. It's all part of being human, Musky.
Stop being such a snob.
If they didn't tell us what nation it was performing no-one would guess...it's all just this homogenous mass....they could stick the word 'Spain' up on the screen during the German one and no-one would be the wiser.
Not really, Musky. A lot of know the difference between the sounds of German and Spanish, even if we don't know the actual words.
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