So, potentially we could have had a national final featuring Katie Melua, The Pipettes, Patrick Wolf, Hurts, Bill Bailey and Justin Lee Collins, and the BBC decided to go for Pete Waterman... :(

God, if only :(

If there were a national final though, I couldn't see many famous people agreeing to do it. Morissey went to the BBC to do this year, but didn't want to have to go through a vote, and I imagine Katie Melua would have said the same.

You guys seriously need to get into the tv broadcasting business and take over from BBC.....

Perhaps the BBC just don't want to host the Eurovision Song Contest and will therefore throw a spanner into the works every year by sending 9 dreadful entries in a decade...and one good one most probably when they can afford to host the event. :kink:

 

So we had Jade last year. The next great UK Eurovision entry should therefore be in 2018. :D

Joy :S No seriously, I expect them to buck their ideas up next year, seeing that a big 4, western country can win the contest - so if we get an experienced performer, and a good song, why can't we do it too?

I don't think it even matters who enters tbh, we and other countries have done well with unknowns many times before. We just have a $h!t attitude towards it as a country in general and we enter songs that reflect that. I think next year the main focus should just be on getting an amazing song written by successful songwriters rather than a song sung by a successful singer.

I think Lena will open a few more doors, especially if she has huge success in Europe! Even though Jade did great last year it was more her voice and image than the song, which was a big hit anywhere including the UK. We need to stop getting people like ALW and PW writing songs they are past it, get Xenomenia to do it! Mini Viva could have done with the promo for 'One Touch' for example!

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Xenomania are starting to sound past it now though, I mean all their latest stuff has flopped terribly! :lol: . And a song by them would produce a similar result to Iceland this year tbh.

 

The BBC should take next year seriously, as everybody is putting the blame on them (and Pete Waterman) rather than "politics" for this result. They will have to do something about it next year to avoid uproar.

Surely the BBC will take this seriously next year? Alexander and Lena have now proved that Eurovision has once again become a stepping stone to greater things, and are they honestly saying that they can't find one decent act in the UK who wouldn't want exposure to 120 million+ people?

 

I'm weeping reading the articles in some of the newspapers today with the same old crap 'nobody likes us, last place again' etc...without mentioning that we sent a horrendous entry to the contest which was delievered with cringeworthy presentation and an off key vocal. Get somebody professional to do it, give them a contemporary song and voila. I don't see how it's so hard to manage this.

 

I want a proper national final again next year, with 4 or 5 decent, professional, acts - they don't have to be huge - Pipettes, Katie Melua anywhere in between would be fine, as long as they've proven themselves as good live singers with a back catalogue of decent singles to prove it. I swear if they go back to internally selecting a songwriter and they mess up like this again, I'm emigrating. Contemporary, is the key word BBC need to remember for 2011, I might e-mail them every day from now until next March to remind them of this word :kink:

In fact, I'm sending the BBC a complaint now...

I swear if they go back to internally selecting a songwriter and they mess up like this again, I'm emigrating.

Let's join our forces then :cheer: Norway, Sweden or Denmark? :o

Mass Eurovision exodus to Scandinavia! :cheer:

My complaint :P

 

I haven't complained before but I'm sick to death of the UK being made to look like fools in the Eurovision Song Contest by the BBC. Since 2000, almost every year but apart from maybe one or two, we have sent outdated, poor quality, unlikeable songs to the contest and it's embarrassing knowing that the rest of Europe are watching the show thinking that these songs reflect our music scene.

 

Josh Dubovie's 'That Sounds Good To Me' wouldn't have sounded fresh in 1995, let alone 2010! He seems like a very charming and likeable person and I wish he'd been given a better song rather than something that seems like it would be better for red coats to sing at Butlins. We have a rich, long standing music industry, second only to that of the United States, yet we constantly come in last place in the contest. Not because of politics, but because there is simply no effort put into finding us a decent entry for the Eurovision. The one time effort was put in in recent times was in 2009, when we managed to come 5th! So why the sudden step back in time again this year, why was the momentum not kept up.

 

Germany are as far as I know, no better off politically than the UK and have done as badly as us in the contest over the last ten years, yet they stepped up their game and were rewarded with a win, because the song was contemporary, not outdated like the songs that are forced onto us every year, so blaming politics is foolish in this case. Our entries are completely irrelevant to the British music scene and therefore a very poor representation of the UK - surely the BBC should be aiming to promote the country in the best possible light on such an international stage. I think it speaks volumes that 'That Sounds Good To Me' couldn't even chart inside the UK top 75, it bears no relevance to modern life whatsoever, although I'm sure it would have been perfect for Eurovision 1989.

 

It's sad to tune in every year and see that once again, the department for handling the Eurovision Song Contest at the BBC have failed miserably in their mission to find a current sounding song to represent us at the contest, and as a British citizen, I feel ashamed every year when watching these woeful songs parading under the great name of the United Kingdom, who before the noughties arguably had the best record and most respect in the contest. I don't know what happened in the noughties but it really must not continue for another year, let alone another ten.

 

Last year's winner, Alexander Rybak, and this year's Lena, have topped or are in the process of topping the charts internationally after their win, and many of the other entries have been hits too. This proves that Eurovision has once again become relevant, a stepping stone for artists to launch a further career and targeted more and more towards a younger audience. Yet I constantly fail to see that our entries have any target audience whatsoever, they don't seem to appeal to anybody, and it's not hard to see why.

 

I feel quite strongly about this because I feel that it's shameful that over 100 million people tune into this show for what they think is a musical representation of the UK, and what they usually get is a substandard dated mess which most certainly bears no relevance to the songs currently topping the UK charts. In contrast Germany's winning entry had broken sales records and topped the charts for five weeks there before the contest. The German broadcaster seems to be able to connect with their audience, and the European audience as a whole, and it's little wonder that Eurovision is percevied as a joke in the UK, when the songs that represent us are almost without fail hilariously bad.

 

Thank you for your time, I hope this matter can be sorted for 2011 and that we will have an entry to be proud of!

well done delta!

 

I have just read some newspaper articles blaming political votes and how we have finished in the bottom 2 3 out of the last 4 years

 

AND WE ARE SHOCKED WHY?

 

"Flying The Flag (For You)" - Scooch

"Even If" - Andy Abraham (JUST AWFUL)

"It's My Time" - Jade Ewen

"That Sounds Good To Me" - Josh Dubovie

 

Note- jade is the only one who climbed higher, because she had the talent and the look, she was relevant BUT the song was still not good enough! It only charted at #27!!! Not since Gina G have we sent a global hit!

Good e-mail there, Rich - hopefully somebody involved will read it and maybe it'll influence them? Although, I get the feeling that the BBC know it's not political and they're just plain lazy/want people to dislike the contest :(.

If we send a song with a one word title, we'll be a shoe-in for victory: Molitva, Believe, Fairytale, Satellite. If we'd called our song 'Good', maybe we'd've done better :kink:.

At least Ken Bruce seems to be on our wavelength...

 

Yesterday BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce who presented his station's coverage said: 'Josh is a terrific guy and a great performer. But you cannot argue with the voting. In years gone by, you could have done, but not now.

'The trouble is that in this country we don't take the competition seriously. I can tell you that the people involved take it very seriously, but the general British public tend to treat it as a bit of a laugh.

'We need established artists to step up and get involved.'

 

This idiot from the Mirror has some points right, stating we had a $h!t song but then ends with just saying everybody "hates us". :manson: http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/shelleyvision/20...-wrong-con.html

What's he has said is all well and good, but when established artists turn up, the BBC says no. It's not just a case of the public not taking it seriously.

This article from the Daily Record is pretty accurate, though I am 100% against having separate entries in the United Kingdom. The televoting would be well easy to rig as well, and I wouldn't want four different sets of votes having a guaranteed top six of Greece, Turkey, Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland either!

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/music...86908-22298721/