I feel really, really sorry for Josh. I really do. It's a shame as, other than that last note or two, the performance was vocally, very good. It was just such an awful and dated song!

Yeah it's a real shame he got bundled with that song, he has a really good voice and seemed to do the best he possibly could with what he was given. Plus he's quite likeable which will make it worse when he gets the blame!

Josh will just disappear into obscurity though, just like all the rest of our Eurovision hopefuls. Except Jade. You know the one actually DID WELL. Come on BBC, do the decent thing for 2011 ffs. :arrr:

Josh will just disappear into obscurity though, just like all the rest of our Eurovision hopefuls. Except Jade. You know the one actually DID WELL. Come on BBC, do the decent thing for 2011 ffs. :arrr:

 

Oh I'm sure there'll be an opening in Sugababes for him by christmas :lol:

When we came last in 2008, the BBC put in effort in 2009. We've come last again, so hopefully we have more effort for 2011. Germany turned about 20th in 2009 to a win. It can be done. First step - don't bother with the YCNY format unless you can get a decent, up-to-date songwriter. Now Germany has proved a big 4 country can win, hopefully the BBC do try. I'm wondering if they might approach the Sugababes :kink: Or I'm sure Jessica Garlick said she'd return, though the returning artists didn't do great this year.

 

I feel really, really sorry for Josh. I really do. It's a shame as, other than that last note or two, the performance was vocally, very good. It was just such an awful and dated song!

THIS.

 

I had to cover my ears for the ending :lol: It was unbearable. Why do they do that? I mean singing very good but completely mess up with the end. Ireland, Israel, UK... :(

When we came last in 2008, the BBC put in effort in 2009. We've come last again, so hopefully we have more effort for 2011. Germany turned about 20th in 2009 to a win. It can be done. First step - don't bother with the YCNY format unless you can get a decent, up-to-date songwriter. Now Germany has proved a big 4 country can win, hopefully the BBC do try. I'm wondering if they might approach the Sugababes :kink: Or I'm sure Jessica Garlick said she'd return, though the returning artists didn't do great this year.

 

I don't want Jessica or Sugababes, Jessica because she's unlikely to come back with a better song than Come Back (pun only half intended :o), and Sugababes are just a sub-standard cheap Americanised electro joke now.

 

I just think we need a fantastic, contemporary (and I can't stress that word more - none of our entries ever sound current) song, how hard can it really be to find? The BBC literally pick the worst songs possible for us, it can't now get any more awful.

Considering who won ESC this year ..... maybe we should send the real thing next year: Kate Nash. :kink:

 

Katie Melua for next year then? Honestly though, presumably if she's willing to enter then so must a few other well known and well liked artists. If we did away with asking Lloyd Webber and Waterman to write dated songs (My Time is a good song, yes, but it hardly sounds awfully modern 12 months afterwatds) and you know, actually stopped treating the competition like a joke, we might actually start getting somewhere?

Josh will just disappear into obscurity though, just like all the rest of our Eurovision hopefuls. Except Jade. You know the one actually DID WELL. Come on BBC, do the decent thing for 2011 ffs. :arrr:

 

Josh will be tipped to replace a member from JLS :heehee:

 

 

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Seriously I've lost all hope of UK ever winning again, when Germany can just create a nice pop song and win it.

 

Uk will have to send something big next year, maybe sending Cheryl Cole next year :ha: :ha: apparently she is big in Europe

Josh will be tipped to replace a member from JLS :heehee:

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Seriously I've lost all hope of UK ever winning again, when Germany can just create a nice pop song and win it.

 

Uk will have to send something big next year, maybe sending Cheryl Cole next year :ha: :ha: apparently she is big in Europe

 

It's had the opposite effect on me, seeing a member of the Big 4, from Western Europe, winning tells me that the UK still have a massive chance if we just send a good song! Germany have done absolutely nothing in ESC for the last 6 or 7 years and this was a massive step up in quality for them - we need the same next year, but contemporary. It's My Time was fantastic, but not at all modern.

 

r.e. Rich - I do hope 2011 isn't full of wannabe Lena's coming off as third rate Kate Nash/Lily Allen clones :drama: this year was bad enough with the balladfestivalen in response to Yohanna and Jade's results last year no doubt. The thing is, the ESC results are never the same 2 years in a row, whatever does well one year probably won't the following.

If Lena hadn't just won I would have said Leddra Chapman would be good to represent UK in 2011 being a young yet respectable artist slowly growing in profile but needing a proper push into the limelight to get her out there, whilst being somebody who could definitely craft a likeable contemporary pop song that would go down well in the east and west, but I guess being a 19 year old quirky female a la Lena, it might look a bit copycat now.

I think the UK can dfinitly win again if they can just come up with something fresh and relevant an di would say the same for Ireland. It took Germany 27 years to win since there last win so it shows it can be done, aprt from this year germany overall havnt done that great so it can happen. Hopefullt the Uk will learn from there mistakes this year as Jade did very well last year which shows it can still happen for the UK.

 

Ireland this year i felt put in a great song and i never expected the result we got so i dont know how Ireland will approach eurovision next year at all.

This year's UK debacle just gets worse ...... a certain very poppy group who have not been that successful in the UK but have had considerable success in Europe with their debut album have today posted a track that they had offered as an entry for the UK's entry in ESC 2010, but were knocked back.

 

 

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One of the weakest Pipettes songs I think I've heard tbh. Might have done better than Josh, but tbh I think that would've come bottom five still.

It's good, but I don't think it would've done much :( The hook's not really good enough. Lower-mid-table I reckon.

i think this would have still come low and no higher than than 20th

My ambition is to be a chef, but to be honest, I might set my sights on becoming the head of the Eurovision department at the BBC. These great acts would not be turned down under my control :angry:

Lily Allen needs to present us next year.

It's fairly weak for a Pipettes song but again, it shows that relatively well known artists are willing to enter for us. Katie and the Pipettes actually approached the BBC themselves, imagine if the BBC had thrown a bit of money and had approached artists themselves. We could have had one brilliant entry......