So what changed their minds?

 

They probably realised it was Eurovision that they'd been asked to do a song for :P

 

Excited for the pending announcement! Twitter will be going all day tomorrow until something's announced methinks... although they said it would be announced early on so I'm hoping the news will have broke by the time I wake up!

*expects huge disappointment*

Pete Waterman is producing this years UK entry.

 

Legendary hit maker Pete Waterman will produce this year's UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

 

The multi award-winning music maestro has been responsible for producing and writing more than 200 hits in over 25 years, and worked with pop sensations from Kylie Minogue, Donna Summer, Geri Halliwell, Westlife and Bananarama to Steps, Rick Astley and Dead Or Alive.

 

The song will be performed at Eurovision 2010, which takes place in Oslo in May.

 

Details for the selection process for the act that will perform the song will be announced at a later date.

OMG... its going to be Rick Astley :o :rofl:

The Sun has it that he will write the song too: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...ision-song.html - true or false? Personally I'd love this :wub:

I think they are right.

 

Press release heading was "Pete Waterman to write UK entry for Eurovision" but it never mentioned it again. I guess "producing" meant everything :)

Oh well, fair enough. As long as it's more of a You'll Never Stop Me Loving You than a Shakespeare's (Superflous Brackets) Words we'll be fine :D

 

By the way, there was no substance to the Xenomania rumour, it's just something I read on Twitter, they were asked but couldn't do it because of time constraints.

Horrible horrible news.

Why? He wrote some of the greatest pop songs of the 80s and 90s. Sure he's maybe a bit out of date, but would you want Dizzee Rascal (even if we could get him?)

oh no :drama:

 

dated cheese and last place beckons

You know what? I bet he was the BBC's first choice and everything. OK maybe Gary Barlow would have said no but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even attempt to get him or indeed anybody contemporary.

 

John Barrowman's comments at the 2007 national final sum up the BBC's attitude to Eurovision. "Do we want a chart song, or a Eurovision song?" and as good as the BBC's intentions with this clearly are, they obviously cannot comprehend that it might be possible to have both. I would say that could have got any number of contemporary songwriters but decided against it purely by virtue of a song that has an ability to get playlisted by Radio one or reach the top ten, would fail at Eurovision.

 

Ugh and Ireland will have Justin Lee Collins this year so I can't even change my nationality for the next few months!!

I'll admit that he made some great pop songs in the 80's and bits of the 90's but how can I forgive him for One True Voice, who may only have released two singles, but they were arguably two of the worst pop singles of the noughties :puke:

 

if Sacred Trust and Shakespeare's Way With Words is what he thought was 'relevant' in 2002/2003, I dread to think what he feels 2010 audience's should be listening to

 

 

John Barrowman's comments at the 2007 national final sum up the BBC's attitude to Eurovision. "Do we want a chart song, or a Eurovision song?" and as good as the BBC's intentions with this clearly are, they obviously cannot comprehend that it might be possible to have both. I would say that could have got any number of contemporary songwriters but decided against it purely by virtue of a song that has an ability to get playlisted by Radio one or reach the top ten, would fail at Eurovision.

 

I agree, it's like they took one look at Precious' Say It Again in 1999, which was very fresh and chart worthy at the time (and was a decent sized hit), saw it 'flop' at Eurovision and though, that's it - only pure Eurovision material from now on - and look what happened to us :drama:

 

still...I'll try to remain positive and hope that Pete has been holed away listening to modern pop for the past 5 years since he's dropped out of the public eye quite considerably :lol:

I can't help but ask where the hell Pete Waterman was in the late 1980s during our first Eurovision dry patch.

I can't help but ask where the hell Pete Waterman was in the late 1980s during our first Eurovision dry patch.

 

at least it means that Gary Barlow should be pencilled in for writing our entry in 2032 :lol:

Oh sweet Jesus no. Please say he's been listening to nothing but Girls Aloud for the past seven years.

Oh sweet Jesus no. Please say he's been listening to nothing but Girls Aloud for the past seven years.

 

seems unlikely doesn't it :(

 

my only tiny glimmer of hope left is the memory of One For Sorrow :wub: but still, can you really imagine the Eastern countries going for his schlager-lite brand of music, if the real thing doesn't work for Sweden anymore, the watered down clones certainly won't work for us...

This is going to be an epic fail :(

 

Unless they get Steps to reform :wub:

I've been downloading MelFest stuff all afternoon....I just had the horrible realisation that our entry will be like something from MF 2003...