The tabloids are reporting that Olly Alexander is 'in advanced talks' to represent the UK next year.

As much as I love Olly/Years and Years I’m not 100% sure about that. I don’t rate him as the strongest live singer

Confirmed on Strictly; Olly representing UK at Eurovision next year

Just confirmed out of nowhere on Strictly!!

 

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That sounds very promising!

Interesting reveal time/place but saves the rumour mill from going into overdrive.

 

Well he's a competent live performer with a lot of charisma, so it all rests on how good the song is!

Yasssss

That was unexpectedly early for the BBC to drop this

Really excited by this, I think he'll deliver! Seems like a lot of countries are going early this year??

 

One of the slides on his Instagram announcement is a photo of him with Danny L Harle (who produced Houdini for Dua and pretty much everything Caroline Polachek does) so consider me hyped if they're working together!

Ooh an early reveal. Hopefully the song is great!

Oh this is exciting! I find Olly/Years & Years hit and miss but when it hits I really get into it (Shine, Eyes Shut, King, If You’re Over Me) really intrigued!

what no random rumours for months?

 

That's a pretty good get, I swear he's been one of those 'well why can't they do it, they'd wipe the competition' names for a little while now. The early reveal does sound like they have a plan, or at least are caring to make sure we don't slip back into uselessness now the contest has had its profile boosted here. I'm encouraged.

Two minds... I'm glad we finally have a household name representing us. On the other hand, I really haven't been fussed by any of his solo stuff to date...

 

Will see how this goes!

I guess they decided to reveal SUPER EARLY, aftee the Mae disaster, and us all wanting Ellie and getting ... yuge flop instead.

 

No Rina? No ellie? He's gonna flop :(

Oh this is exciting! I find Olly/Years & Years hit and miss but when it hits I really get into it (Shine, Eyes Shut, King, If You’re Over Me)really intrigued!

 

I'm the same as you.

 

Hopefully it's a hit.

My jaw is still on the floor from that Strictly reveal, I thought his news was going to be a tour or something as I haven’t paid rumours much attention this year :lol: an exciting name for sure!

Danny L Harle is a GENIUS, this could potentially be great.

He can sing and is a charismatic performer. Already an improvement on 2023 before we’ve even heard the song. Give us a banger like Sweet Talker or Starstruck please Olly 🤞

What an incredible reveal. We always get stuff like this leaked so the fact it wasn't is pretty amazing!

 

Obviously delighted and I can't believe I'm already getting hyped up for Eurovision 2024 and we haven't even had Christmas yet :lol:

 

EDIT: Oh, the tabloids were reporting on it?! Good job I didn't pick up on that then! :lol:

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I’m a little disappointed… he’s not great vocally, live.

 

I guess it’ll have to be a great track, but I’m expecting it to be an overproduced, club track. He never lived up to the promise of his first 2 tracks.

 

Zzzz

Edited December 16, 20231 yr by Dante77