January 24, 20187 yr After first listen... 1. Legends 2. Astronaut 3. I Feel The Love 4. Crazy 5. Storms 6. You
January 24, 20187 yr They're all ok to good actually. Crazy and Legends are my favourites, I also like I Feel The Love. I'm not sure any would do any better than Lucie did at Eurovision though? They're all 8.5/10 tracks, not 'I MUST pick up my phone and vote for this over all others'. I don't really mind any of the other three either, a huge step up in quality on last year's selection. It's a shame nobody looked at Legends during the songwriting process though and said what the rest of us were thinking. It could have so easily been a 10/10 with a little outside advice and extra time and effort spent on it.
January 24, 20187 yr Asanda - really like this one, well produced. It has all the ingredients of a big hit. Kind of reminds me of "Wings" by Little Mix mixed with "Children Of The Universe" by Molly mixed with say, something Galantis, Sigala or John Gibbons would've put out recently. Raya - another well produced one, if Asanda doesn't win this is a decent alternative. SuRie - this just has the bland factor. Like, it could be a lot better, but it is just blah - it'd be received like Levina's "Perfect Life" I think. Goldstone - this is quite dire, I hope we don't opt for this... are some of you seriously calling this a bop? :lol: It's embarrassing! But each to their own... Liam Tamne - I'm torn between thinking this is alright and bland. Either way we have better in our selection. Jaz Ellington - blah, this would flop at Eurovision. It wouldn't even make the final!
January 24, 20187 yr Legends is great, definitely the stand out of the pack and for me, the only one that kind of feels “natural”, we know they’ve all come from these writing camps but her voice and delivery kinda sounds like she wrote it and it was always intended for her, the others all kind of feel a bit empty and soulless in that respect. I do agree it could do with a bit of more oomph as it goes on, but they made tweaks to Lucie so it’s not out of the equation they could do here - either way, it’s got much more potential than the others.
January 24, 20187 yr Legends could easily be Margaret's MF entry with a bit of a tweak! I agree it's the best but it does need that extra tweak and it could be the next level. It just needs the production to pop a bit more, maybe a drop, and it's set. I Feel The Love is enough of a bop, in a Stooshe or Parade leaked album sampler kind of way :lol: Probably my 2nd fave behind Legends but we shouldn't send it. It's the sort of thing that like Lithuania would have in their NF and everyone wold have it as their fave solely because the rest of the entries are utter shite. You can be FLUSHED tbh, "sends me to sleep like rum and whiskey" indeed. It's not even passable enough to be lie Ed Sheeran, it's more like a John Legend album track or sth :/ Astronaut is giving me Real Friends/Love Yourself vibe in the instrumental but the vocals seem like he can't be arsed. Could be much worse but it's really not the entry we need. It's really just basic album track filler that would be on any given male singer-songwriter album as track 9. Crazy feels a bit demo-ish but as with Legends it could easily be a MF entry if it was a bit beefier. With a revamp it could be ok as an entry in a 21st place kind of way though I guess. Storm is again just ok, her voice definitely doesn't fit it. She kind of sounds like a demo a songwriter would sing to pitch this to the actual singer :lol: Overall, you can really tell that they've come from these writing camps, they're mostly a bit formulaic and I'd agree with soulless actually bar Legends. The songs are, in essence, there but they're stifled under bland or basic production, Legends is our only option but it needs a bit more to it. 8.5/10 kind of bop :lol: 01 Legends =gap= 02 I Feel The Love 03 Crazy ==gap=== 04 Storm 05 Astronaut ====huge gap=== 06 You
January 24, 20187 yr It’s very much what I imagine Alesha Dixon would enter if she was a part of Eurovision. Take that as you will.
January 24, 20187 yr I love Legends, probably the one that sticks out from the rest. Than Su Rie followed by Goldstone 3 of them are rather crap
January 24, 20187 yr Ok, I am fully behind Legends. Asanda better bring us a dance breakdown for the chorus!
January 24, 20187 yr Legends is a BOP it’s sounds so current and different to the usual songs we would send to Eurovision. It has to win please !
January 24, 20187 yr Yeah, Legends does need something else to it, just needs tweaking a bit, mind you we all said the same thing last year with Lucie.
January 24, 20187 yr Yeah, Legends does need something else to it, just needs tweaking a bit, mind you we all said the same thing last year with Lucie. And that ended up in us getting a far better result than we deserved! Knowing from last year that the BBC are willing and able to fine tune the song that gets picked makes me cautiously optimistic if Legends were to get picked because it really is just a tweak rather than a complete redesign. But really the biggest take away for me is that the six songs aren’t all different flavours of the same thing rather than last year’s six ‘inspirational ballads and midtempos’ brief. There’s six songs in different styles that are all at a reasonable level of good. It feels like incremental progress but in the right direction at least.
January 24, 20187 yr Probably my 2nd fave behind Legends but we shouldn't send it. It's the sort of thing that like Lithuania would have in their NF and everyone wold have it as their fave solely because the rest of the entries are utter shite. Love this description :lol: SO true!
January 24, 20187 yr I got chills listening to Legends for the first time. SEND THIS. I could get proper patriotic for that in a way I haven't been able to for anything from this new format before. (and it's something that everyone else likes as well, how unusual :D this should be a good sign) Crazy sounds pretty good, would have been better than anything last year but next to Asanda it pales a bit. Storm has a lovely piano line and it goes pleasingly upbeat, I like it but it would get lost too easily. Goldstone's a bit underwhelming girlband, not bad but not too good, Jaz is a complete non-starter for my tastes (although if anything here is doing Eurovision winner-following, not the same type of ballad but the sort of song that similar 'real music bores' go for, it's this one so this could be unexpectedly dangerous), Astronaut is dull and a bit chart-chasing too. So Asanda needs to win but I wouldn't be too affronted to have Raya or SuRie representing us.
January 24, 20187 yr Same as above when 'Legends' started I got chills.... both Legends and Crazy sound good and with a bit of tweeking could be really impacting on the night with good staging ...for me 1 - Asanda 2 - RAYA 3 - GoldStone $ - SuRie 5 - Liam Tamne 6 - Jaz Ellington
January 24, 20187 yr Goldstone is my favourite of the bunch, very Little Mix. Definitely can see "Legends" do well if she goes all Fleur East in the chorus at the night.
January 24, 20187 yr Legends certainly is very instant, it needs a bit more beefing up in the production as others have said, but it's our best bet of moderate success out of this bunch. Storm is quite nice too, I Feel Love is charming, but feels a bit dated and cheesy and not the direction we should be going in. The other three would kill our hopes before they started, terrible. (I guess I'm alone with Crazy, but it feels like an unfinished demo?)
January 24, 20187 yr It’s very much what I imagine Alesha Dixon would enter if she was a part of Eurovision. Take that as you will. :D This was basically my thought.
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