I'd love for the BBC to get in contact with our 3 Junior Eurovision entrants, it'd be nice to see one of them make the step up to Eurovision! I remember Cory was on X Factor very briefly recently, but I've just been listening to some of Joni Fuller's material and I think it's fantastic!

 

 

Something like this would be very refreshing for us I think! :wub:

 

Joni is also in with BBC Introducing Lancashire so make it happen BBC :D

New rumour is The Voice's Tyler James after apparently a picture of him briefly appeared on the BBC Eurovision website before being quickly taken down. Not sure if this is the truth, but people are talking about it on Twitter and on other forums.

 

He'd be a great choice if by any small chance it is true.

If we're going down a contestant from The Voice route, I'd prefer Bo Bruce.

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As good as Bo would be, she remind me too much of Emmelie de Forest. We need someone with a massive voice that can belt a few notes (but are current as well)

I wouldn't complaint about Tyler James. Current-ish/hip sounding, some years of stage experience (I would assume)... but would need a belter of a song obviously.

Next rumour is the Wonder Villains, apparently one of them posted somewhere that Eurovision's their dream or something along those lines. It fits with the very vague other rumour that a band is on the BBC's shortlist. They would be fantastic, imagine an entry like this! :wub:

 

 

(Am I right in thinking that was a Bre BJSC entry?)

This would flop.

This would flop.

so would anything we send tbh.

 

but yeah can we not have some bland singer songwriter poundland ed sheeran type do it, I wouldn't get behind Tyler James if he's doing it

so would anything we send tbh.

just f***ing don't

just f***ing don't

:D

 

I smile as soon as I see those posts now because I know somebody's gonna take rage about it.

so would anything we send tbh.

 

so true.

Quite. I'm surprised at you, Dan and Ethan, I would have thought you more than most would understand why we keep doing less well (I say that rather than flop because in all honesty we have nothing to complain about when we're in the final and we have a past record that most countries could only dream of getting a tenth of), our recent entries don't seem like your sort of thing so that should mean it's possible they wouldn't be anyone else's, especially when other countries are sending entries that are far fresher and modern.

 

I've found it very hard to go back and listen to any of our recent entries after the contest. We could send something to do well but with recent entries we've always been some years behind the goalposts and they're changing all the time.

 

(that rage enough?)

what a flop tho

i forgot we weren't allowed to call the UK flops in the eurovision forum :mellow: can we really not bring up Jade Ewan every time someone makes a joke about the UK underperforming every year, that was over 5 years ago now.

i forgot we weren't allowed to call the UK flops in the eurovision forum :mellow: can we really not bring up Jade Ewan every time someone makes a joke about the UK underperforming every year, that was over 5 years ago now.

 

Eurovision is not a laughing matter Daniel. :hitler:

'UK are flops' =/= 'UK will flop no matter what they send'

Were 'That Sounds Good to Me', Englebert and Bonnie good entries?

'UK are flops' =/= 'UK will flop no matter what they send'

a jokey 'anything we send flops' statement =/= 'UK will flop no matter what they send'

 

i do think the UK could do well again if we send a good song by a current act. I know that basically defines Molly last year but we could do even better, there's so much UK talent but not many willing to eurovision, which is partly why we underperform as our best won't wanna do it.

Yeah, I agree with that. Molly was on the right track, but unfortunate circumstances conspired against her to give the look that very little had changed (as well as a fair bit of overhype) and I am admittedly worried that will set us back a bit into the same sort of struggles that France has now. But if we stay the course we can absolutely get a hit again.

 

Part of this, not you guys, in general, is just a larger problem that I have with Britain in international competitions, you know the trend, that anything less than near the very best and lots of us start to describe our results as a run of awful luck and cries we'll never do well again, when you compare that to the successes of other countries who for the most part tend to be quite happy with their one top 10 performance that one time 3 years ago it feels very arrogant or just complaining for the sake of complaining. And I don't particularly like complaining.