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Topic History of: Your country needs you - Jade wins
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mikemacca |
BR wrote:
This is a WAR between the UK and EUROPE about fairness in a song competition.
ALW and JADE I firmly believe are as good as anything we have put into the competition since KATRINA. Therefore anything less than Top 10 placing would be a national insult to the UK and will lead to angry scenes politically.
A lot might depend on where it is drawn in the running order.Last year's Norwegian entry was instantly forgettable, drawn last and finished 5th, granted the only double figure votes came from the other 4 scandinavian countries, but it still did remarkably better than expected.
This isn't just between UK and Europe. Belgium, Netherlands, France and Germany suffer too. Now we at least have a jury influence it should help to counter some of the stacks of diaspora which, for example, guarantees Armenia a 140 point head start on on those 5.
What will kill this contest is, if at the end we have Greece, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Serbia in the top 7 again, which without juries, could easily happen. |
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BR |
This song I believe will prove whether the voting against the UK has been purely political or that our songs have been garbage.
Our judgements on here are on the standard of the winning song - and the highest standard of ALW output.
Lets be honest - that is a very high standard to be judging the song by.
I think it is a potential winner. Certainly it should be picking up middle voting from most juries in Europe at the least.
Therefore if the UK continues to get NIL points for such a decent song - then we might as well boycott the competition next year.
I believe if that is the case then ALW will make a statement to that effect. He will have been paid by the BBC by then - and will not want to be undermined by politics.
This is a very dangerous game the BBC have embarked upon this year. It could set up something very political in Europe.
The ratings are going to be massive for this European to see whether the song gets a fair deal from the other countries and without Wogan it will even lack any kitsch value.
This is a WAR between the UK and EUROPE about fairness in a song competition.
ALW and JADE I firmly believe are as good as anything we have put into the competition since KATRINA. Therefore anything less than Top 10 placing would be a national insult to the UK and will lead to angry scenes politically.
I think it is safe to say the UK population is very anti EU at the moment. They seem to be taking jobs away from hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK in some of the poorest areas - especially up North. This is not fair - even if it is a EU law that foreigners take British jobs !!!!! Try explaining that to your children at Christmas this year when you are out of work in your own town replaced by workers from Italy or Slovakia...... |
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JK2006 |
Ah Robbie (I've been there) - the trick is to get the other countries in Europe playing it on radio so it's familiar by the time of the contest. |
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robbiex |
Apologies you are right, It's just that I heard on radio 1 that ALW would work with the winning artist on a song once the artist has been chosen. I think it's a mistake to pick a song so early, everyone will be sick of it by the time Eurovision comes around in May. |
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JK2006 |
I think you'll find you're wrong on this Robbie and I suspect confused media coverage has muddled you. It IS the song, written by Andrew and Diane Warren. |
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