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Thankfully, this is the last year of NDR‘s stint as the regional broadcaster in charge of ESC. From next year we go to MDR for a bit. Maybe Middle Germany will have a committee of people who weren’t alive during the war

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Queen Keisha has spoken and apparently the girls never got to see the final VT before it went out and didn’t approve it or have a sign off/veto of it She also forgot to mention her parents in her acceptance speech…

Yeah, Käärijä and Erika was always gonna be chancing it a bit but was worth a punt as it’s such a banger

The Lily Allen one is a major need for me

From what I understood, the pull rod was a key reason behind how the aero could work so effectively and why Red Bulls downwash concept was so effective in comparison to others (may also explain why Alpine struggled in 2023 because they swapped to Push Rod at the rear even tho they were one of the original downwash innovators in 22). It’s giving blown diffuser only working because of Renaults engine mapping vibes Very interesting to see what happens with those who have stuck to push rod

Bristol amphitheater on Aug 1st the latest

Catfights defo gets done dirty. The singles are two of the weakest tracks on the album. Overall I think it’s a lot more consistent than Change is but it’s defo a big step down compared to 1.0/2.0. I think there is a pretty major gulf in quality after Mutya left and you can feel her lack of impact in Taller. Interestingly, that doesn’t hold for The Lost Tapes, where Shiv seems to more effectively compensate for that For me the order currently runs: Three (Perfection) One Touch (The older this gets the more I love it. It’s timeless) The Lost Tapes (Oh god what could have been!! Full of great tracks) Angels with Dirty Faces (Also full of great tracks and I didn’t hate Shape at the O2 but I still hate it in the studio form. f*** sting) Taller in More Ways (Amelle) Taller in More Ways (Mutya - Amelle‘s Red Dress has better production but Mutya’s Gotta Be You and Follow Me Home are superior. However, Now You’re Gone is one of the best track the Sugababes have ever done and that alone is enough to elevate the rerelease) Catfights and Spotlights (Some incredible highlights in this album. Beware is an absolute gem) Change (The good bits mostly consist of things either they didn’t Write like AYN or were Taller rejects like NGDA. The bad bits are just so poor and dull and so unsugababes and that sadly is half the album. The hill I will die on is that Back Down and 3 Spoons are album/3.0 highlights) Sweet 7 - Keisha Album Sampler Version (terrible but at least competently produced) *Heat death of the universe* Sweet 7 - as it was released (Worst thing to have ever had the Sugababes name attached to it. It sounds prehistoric and in spite of being their second most recent album, it’s their oldest sounding of the 8. nothing about it is a Sugababes record with the one exception of Crash & Burn which is the only thing that has competent production. The rest suffers badly from Jades vocal just being smashed on top of it in a shed in 20 minutes with no care or respect for the end product - tho when the songcraft is this lazy I can understand. Jades whining on Wait For You actually makes my skin crawl, it’s the single worst recording of any line up.)

Jude didn’t insult him. The truth can’t be insulting

Not watching this year due to heading out for a mates birthday but I’m hoping that Windows95Man doesn’t win. That’s absolutely the wrong step for Finland to make I think. It’s a decent enough track but I don’t think the right thing to follow up ChaChaCha. Although anything will have an extremely tough task following up that

The Guinness world record for most successful female artist of the 21st century or whatever it was, was given to 3.0 and only 3.0 images were used at the time

I am really really REALLY over the constant negation of Siobhan’s contribution to the band. without her, Heidi and Amelle would be literal nobodies working in tesco. The bands entire reputation and access to producers throughout their career was built on the back of One Touch - which wouldn’t exist without Siobhan and her contributions. One Touch is the single most impactful and important part of their career. Love it or not but it’s still beloved and cited as an influence and inspiration over 20 years later by critics, other artists, industry professionals and more. That is the definition of impact, not sales.

The montage was always going to cause issues along parts of the fanbase. Very damned if they do damned if they don’t moment. I do understand why it was limited to the current line up, but even tho 1.0 is the longest reigning line-up I would have included 2.0 a little as well. (Don’t come for me Amelle/Jade Stan’s but the last two line ups had the impact of wet cardboard) IMO their „impact“ (because commercial success =/= impact) can be pulled down to 3 eras/moments and that is how I would have structured the montage: - Overload / One Touch - nothing sounded like it at the time. It was just so entirely unique and different. It inspired scores of artists - Freak Like Me & Round Round - both of these were groundbreaking and helped redefine British pop music (this is where I would have included 2.0 in the montage). There are multiple essays on just how much Freak and RR(in conjunction with Sound Of The Underground) literally irreversibly changed how pop music was made in the UK - Flatline / Reclaiming the Name / Sacred Three / Lost Tapes - Again critically acclaimed like the debut but a huge cultural impact on the first line up coming back, the fight for the name, taking ownership of their music and career - and the absolute rave reviews to their performances like shutting Avalon Field for the first time Would have had a Voxpop for each era from an industry professional talking about how it inspired and influenced them/the industry. Would have finished with a like scrapbook/flickerbook montage of videos/performances/photos etc from every one of the 8 album eras to the „multi platinum, 6 number ones blah blah“ bit and finished on a clip of them hugging on stage at the end of the glasto set Would be interested how y’all would have done the montage

Ask and you shall receive

As the hosts stole our entry, we’ve gone with a delicious slice of veto bait that will very probably either be vetoed or swapped out for something else

The performance was great! Shame they didn’t do When The Rain Comes but I get it was about their impact (in which case I’d have used Round Round instead of Push The Button as while PTB was the bigger hit, RR had a significant impact on British pop music in the 00‘s)

Silverstone staying until 2034

Looking like all of them are carbon fibre. At least we can use the pink on the Alpine to distinguish it from the Williams. And thank god Sauber has that rancid green - that won’t be tough to miss The sprint is such a shit concept. It’s too long with the current tyres. I’d be more in favour if they gave them a set of the like 2000‘s Michelins that were indestructible (everywhere that wasn’t Indy) and then we would actually see a sprint. But I think without a return to the 3rd car era we’re not gonna see drivers as willing to take risks on something that is basically meaningless

Thank f*** for that. Excited for Petra‘s hosting hatrick

Was so fun watching them perform!!! I’d never seen them perform before and it was such a childhood throwback, was living my best life. I some how still remember the lyrics to Upside Down

Would it be Eurovision season without a Ukrainian NF mess of some sort?

Number 2 in the physical chart, 4 in the vinyl chart and 16 in the sales chart!

Good on ya Lisa!!!!! And yassss for Elise snatching 3rd! My AC picks were bang on the money

Oh wow so Samir and Viktor was who I overestimated

Maybe not. Winning the phone vote!!!