Posted May 20, 201114 yr I think it could be a good idea if the winner of Sound of...represented the UK at Eurovision and then hold a selection show to choose the song ie. if it was this year then Jessie J would have gone to Dusseldorf, if the winners couldn't make it then second place and so forth. Europe would have some idea on who they are by May. Edited May 20, 201114 yr by zenon
May 20, 201114 yr Bloody daft idea. As if anybody who's in that poll would go within 10,000 miles of anything to do with Eurovision. Jessie J is doing very nicely thank you without it. Can't imagine Jamie Woon, The Vaccines or James Blake having anything to do with it either.
May 20, 201114 yr In theory it would be a fantastic idea. In practice I can't quite see record labels (especially after Blue's underperformance) letting them touch what they think is a poisoned chalice.
May 20, 201114 yr Plus would acts like that really have enough time to devote to promotion/rehearsals etc...think how busy and popular worldwide Jessie J is right now for example, she couldn't just drop everything for a month for Eurovision. The stigma of having a Eurovision flop hanging over hyped new artists just as their careers are taking off wouldn't exactly appeal to them I wouldn't have thought. Mika, Adele, Little Boots (poor floptastic cow :(), Ellie Goulding and Jessie J would have been a pretty great run of artists for us though! But yes, it would never ever happen and couldn't work.
May 20, 201114 yr Theoretically it's a good idea, in practice it would be a disaster and nobody would want to do it. They should try and stick to the plan of picking established acts who had careers in Europe who are flagging career wise, next stop Sugababes.
May 20, 201114 yr Eurovisoin would have to be proved to be a credible career enhancing thing to do for this to work, rather than the other way round.
May 20, 201114 yr That said, despite the really underwhelming final position for Blue, they're doing far better out of their comeback across Europe than they'd have hoped to do had they just thrown I Can out there...
May 20, 201114 yr That said, despite the really underwhelming final position for Blue, they're doing far better out of their comeback across Europe than they'd have hoped to do had they just thrown I Can out there... Definitely, not to mention that they'd have probably thrown out the 'original mix', which would have deservedly sank without trace for being so limp, lifeless and dated. Although I'd have liked to have heard an extended version with the middle 8 but with the Star Sign production.
May 20, 201114 yr That said, despite the really underwhelming final position for Blue, they're doing far better out of their comeback across Europe than they'd have hoped to do had they just thrown I Can out there... Also, from a success point of view (for the bigwigs), the position they achieved shouldn't really matter that much.....their success would be better based on the sales they made afterwards. Really it's the sales of the songs that speak way more than the actual results.
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