Great news, I think that's a much better choice than nearly everything from the past decade.

 

Not going to go overboard with hyping it but it shouldn't be embarrassing either.

I think it’s pretty good! I’m hoping it will do well with the juries. I don’t see it lighting up the televotes but hopefully it won’t be bottom five on that metric. Obviously not a winner but I’m glad the BBC are showing some move in the right direction.

 

a music video with an actual budget what even is this

It’s ok on first listen. I can see it being a grower, so could get votes from people who listen to the songs ahead of time

I love the "I'll give you my last... Breath". They're endearing.

 

I like this. Can see it growing, but it's not bad! (Although I was one of like 10 people (in Europe x) to love our entry last year so...)

Watch the showrunners giving this the second slot in the final.

 

:(

 

But at least it is a good quality midtempo ballad, let's see how it does.

 

a music video with an actual budget what even is this

Is it though? A drone, two cameras, one actor and one location. I mean it's a good start and a change from the usual but I think Bigger Than Us was more expensive to make (even though the acting work there was ABYSMAL lmao)? All this landscape footage is tricking y'all oops.

 

This is okay on first listen. Safe and predictable. Sounds like a mid-table at best finish to me. What else is new

This isn't going to catch the viewers on first listen

Kind of liking this now after a few listens which isn’t any good for a Eurovision song it needs to catch you on first listen. Is it me or does it sound a lot like ‘Walk Me Home’ especially in the chorus?

It's pretty decent tbf, a solid 6/10 on first listen, think it'll be a grower however I still think about 20th is its absolute highest in the night. Still it's a step in the right direction ish

sounds like we've upgraded from x factor winner 2005 to x factor winner 2015 this year then

it's alright and at least a step in the right direction but I can't see past a low top 20 for it either

Pretty surprised by the positive response here, I think it's very bland with an over done sound that just going to get lost in the crowd

Pretty surprised by the positive response here, I think it's very bland with an over done sound that just going to get lost in the crowd

 

I don't think the responses are particularly THAT positive, more relief that we haven't sent an absolute embarrassment again.

 

It gets better on the 3rd / 4th listen but as someone pointed out, the viewers don't get that on the night. It'll do about as well as Lucy. At least that wouldn't be bottom.

 

Solid track and radio friendly - plus backed by a very strong label BMG who will at least get in the ground work for European promo, positives all round TBH.

i think he’s up against it to be honest. to the casual listener, it’s not completely dissimilar to bigger than us - i do think it’s a slightly better track but quite frankly it just looks like michael rice has grown a beard + come back for round 2. there’s no buzz to the performer or the song - they’re going to have to do something extraordinary with staging because i’m not entirely taken on the video + i don’t think i’ll watch it again - i don’t see the budget some others have?

 

i really can’t believe that execs at bbc + bmg have sat down, having looked at our entries for the last 10 years + chosen this to represent us in a bid to beat the odds. we’ve done the best when a solo female or group have represented us. the times we’ve come last, it’s mostly with a solo male track, including last year?! so how can they go into all of these meetings + come out with.. the same as last year? i don’t understand their thinking - if it was a winning formula then absolutely but it’s clearly not?

 

promo will be key so that europe can familiarise themselves with the song. i really hope they take to it but, from where i’m standing, it’s no different to bigger than us.

It finishes SO abruptly when there could definitely be another 20 seconds at least :lol:

 

I like it and I don’t think it sounds written for Eurovision which is a plus but it’s not something I’d go back to much. Better than 2018 and 2019, I’d say.

Pretty surprised by the positive response here, I think it's very bland with an over done sound that just going to get lost in the crowd

You're not hugely wrong but it's important to realise that it's a step in the right direction in terms of it sounding like a fairly current song (maybe a few years out, but it's better than sounding like an X Factor winner's Xmas number 1 from the 00s) that could be feasibly be a hit. I don't think it will do a massive amount more than say Storm or Bigger Than Us but I hope this is a good sign that over the next few years, the BBC will put a bit more effort in. I know it's not A-grade winning contender, but a decent video, a decent enough song that sounds like it might belong in the year its being entered in is a lot for us, our standards are that low and they weren't really going to go from practically last with a dated song to an absolute banger that contended for the win, it's hopefully going to start reversing the way BBC approaches the contest though and maybe we'll get there!

 

Then again, thinking about it, if this does just come like 20th idk if it'll be enough of a pay-off for them to bother putting in so much effort again when it doesn't do a whole lot better than Storm for example did.

I think there's a world of difference between this and last year. There's an energy to the song and performer that was categorically not in the bland heap we sent last year.

 

And I'm not looking at this in the prism of talent show winners, because there is also a chance that this song could be released by a pop singer divorced of that. People around the continent aren't thinking of talent shows either, this pretty much is what a lot of them have gone for recently. It was pretty instant for me and I have the confidence that they're not putting out someone with as many industry connections as James Newman to do him dirty on the staging.

 

Competently performed male midtempos tend to get at least midtable and I think it'd have easily gotten that in last year's field. This feels way different from any of the You Decide entries last decade.

It’s the same song we’ve been sending for the past few years just with a few more hints of individuality and a bit more money spent on the production. It’s just a small step in terms of progression rather than the giant leap we need in terms of getting out the bottom 5.

What I'm gathering from some of these responses is that we need another stage invader moment and for him to not make the silly decision that SuRie did, and go and perform it a second time :lol:

 

I like the song and feel willing to support it which is the most important thing for me. It's going to rely on the juries, maybe it could get a surprisingly decent result with them but they're very unpredictable, and IMO I think Spain and France have a much higher chance of finishing last so we shouldn't have to worry about that.