So Jade wins the contest to represent the UK in the Eurovision song contest. This is a terrible choice, since when has a black r&b singer won eurovison. Eurovision is about Euro-pop music. The twins would be a much better choice, they are a blueprint for typical euro-pop group.

Here's what I put on another site at 12.50 today.....

and Jade will win today and it will prove ALW was right to save her

good script

"I knew you'd make the right choice so I had to save her"


We are really supposed to believe the public didn't have her in the top 2 last week and this week had her top. We may be gullible but we're not that gullible.

Britain has won the eurovision outright, once in every decade since the sixties (Sandy Shaw 67, Brotherhood of man 76, Bucks Fizz 81, and Katrina and the waves 96). They have one more year, this year to carry on the pattern. Sadly I don't think they are going to do it, apart from the politcal voting, Jade just isn't the right type of artist.

I started listening to this on You Tube thinking - it is OK but nothing special.

Then the key change and the big Lloyd Webber ending and vocal fireworks - and I changed my mind.

This is a real crowd pleaser and JADE really has a tremendous powerful voice.

I have not watched the series and have no real love of Eurovision - but I do actually think this song could persuade some people to vote for the UK - it has the appeal of a DISNEY type track.

Number One in the charts dead cert I reckon as well. Dont like the lyrics much though.........

I hope it does well - we could do with some success.

Dear All;

Working on the basis of what constitutes a free download, or a gifted download, I shall be deducting the song "My Time" from my license fee this year as I do not like it.

AH

After BR's post and my e-m from Peter Whitehead (see the Tipsheet board - where this thread ought to be) I'm beginning to wonder whether we're wrong.

Mind you, Jade's "reprise" after she won was a truly dreadful experience.

The song she sung last night is not the song that she will sing at Eurovision. That hasn't been written yet, ALW will write the song in the next few weeks. That is another bone of contention, what success does Lloyd-Webber have in wrting pop singles?

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.

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.

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.

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......

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.