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Olly Alexander
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They’ve TaPped out :o

Any idea what the replacement will be?

 

It better not be us going back to the public choosing from a bunch of average/below average songs again…..

This is definitely not news I wanted :( Already makes me concerned about who/what we'll end up with as an entry next year.

 

Not totally surprising though if the rumour is true that we ended up with Mae more because "she was available" than anything else. I hope the BBC manage to get another label/management company on board who are passionate and able to look back at Sam's success more than Mae's result.

Not surprised at all. They had Ellie and Calvin and chose ... Mae Muller, the worst of the lot, as she can't sing live :rofl: Massively bad judgement. Of course the BBC would say no to them after the embarrassment of THAT entry and performqnce when rhe BBC WAS HOSTING, instead of ending the competition with MIRACLE, which was also so thematically ON POINT for a UK hosted competition, plus sayin Ukraine will get rhrough the war and it'll be like a miracle, after most thought Russia would win in days!

This is definitely not news I wanted :( Already makes me concerned about who/what we'll end up with as an entry next year.

 

Not totally surprising though if the rumour is true that we ended up with Mae more because "she was available" than anything else. I hope the BBC manage to get another label/management company on board who are passionate and able to look back at Sam's success more than Mae's result.

 

Wait, qhat?? :lol: Where'd you hear that rumour?!

That being said Mae Muller's song was a huge chart success so it's not a complete failure after all. TaP will be a hard act to follow and I hope the next label will share the same passion, if BBC decides to collab with one again.

oof

 

there is of course potential for another label to step in with a similar remit but until we hear anything like that everyone's going to be panic stations imagining the x factor finalists national final from hell

Ugh how annoying that it looks to be back to what it was. Feared this would happen though.

That being said Mae Muller's song was a huge chart success so it's not a complete failure after all. TaP will be a hard act to follow and I hope the next label will share the same passion, if BBC decides to collab with one again.

A huge chart success? It was outpeaked by two other Eurovision songs this year (one is still charting on ACR). It did OK, but considering radio support (and streaming friendly sound), I don't think we can call it a huge chart success... (only relative to our other recent Eurovision entries)

 

This is a disappointing call... Mae may have been a misfire (the performance and staging were most of the issue...), but that doesn't mean all should be lost 😔

I mean it had the highest peak since 2007 aside from Space Man and a top 10 with a chart run since release week, so quite safe to say a huge success no? I won't consider the song a big misfire. It's just the live that fell apart unforch :(

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I do love Mae and not to rehash all of this, but to see Rina actually did want to do it and it wasn’t just straight up trolling is a bit disappointing, can’t lie :(

I think it’s really important to recognise the positives and build on them as well as assess what wasn’t right.

 

It was a good current pop song - everyone in the arena was singing along and it was a hit in the Euroclub etc. You’d hear it out and about in shops even. Top 10 in the chart is great even if a couple of other countries’ songs did better.

 

It was not a good overall competition package, but let’s remember all the years when every aspect has been embarrassing; when not even the UK could really get behind its own song.

 

The other point is that even when you have the right approach you won’t do well every year. And also that being an auto qualifier is a double edged sword as it makes you much more likely to end up at the bottom of the final table.

 

There are elements that weren’t right that need to be addressed in future but we shouldn’t just think we’re back to square 1.

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I do love Mae and not to rehash all of this, but to see Rina actually did want to do it and it wasn’t just straight up trolling is a bit disappointing, can’t lie :(

Aw this is such a shame - I saw a clip of the podcast and it sounds like Rina agreed to it then never heard back, which makes me wonder if she genuinely thought she had the gig when she kept teasing it :( hope that hasn't put her off trying again because I'd love to see her there next year.

 

Slightly worrying that TAP are pulling out but hopefully the BBC have taken notes and and 'get' Eurovision a bit more now, regardless of success Mae was a big fan fave and definitely the sort of personality we need to change the way the UK thinks about this. Anything but a national final pls

That is devastating!

 

Hope that this year is not a shit show if were not with TAP anymore

She kept teasing it, as she was annoyed that she didn't get it. That's why she released her Eurovision 3 mins single edit the same week Mae was announced.

 

They had three choices - well, four with Birdy - Calvin and Ellie, Mae or Rina, and they went with Mae. Unbelievably bad judgement. Any of the other three would have done better, esp with thr last slot. Ellie woulda won, Rina woulda come top 3.

Shame she was rejected in this way :( I do fear for the UK now.

Although ... maybe it is for the best, as Rina wouldn't have won vs Loreen and that drunken nursery rhyme that nobody listened to after that one drunken night - check its abysmal streams. Maybe she can win this year instead... Gping UK - Sweden - UK isn't bad at all. Of course, overlooking an OBVIOUS WINNER in Calvin and Elvie is inexcusable as always.

From the interview of hers, it looks more like she and her team took too long to decide, and she's wound up grateful because she was so busy with John Wick.

 

So, I don't think it'd necessarily put her off for future. I just wonder if her star has grown a little since the start of the year, what with the Glastonbury stuff, so this year might have been the only feasible year or nothing.

Hopefully they will be CLAMOURING for her after Glastonbury and will ask again.

 

I still think it's worse that they chose Mae over Calvin and Ellie though at the last minute!!!