I'm literally watching it on iPlayer right now waiting to fly home from honeymoon.
Haha no, husband was watching too!Alone [emoji38]ol:
I thought.Amazing what a social media star with a fanbase across Europe can do with Dua Lipa's management and producer, and a song created with an Ed Sheeran co-writer (Thinking Out Loud etc).
Think we might have cracked the formula here. [emoji106]
Haha no, husband was watching too!
Thank you.Congratulations Frutos, and may you both be happy for many years to come.
Another 12 points...and another...and another.
Give the Dome a quick clean now in readiness.
Amazing what a social media star with a fanbase across Europe can do with Dua Lipa's management and producer, and a song created with an Ed Sheeran co-writer (Thinking Out Loud etc).
Think we might have cracked the formula here.![]()
A sandal wearing white man with long hair, a beard and millions of followers? ... certainly a tried and tested formula.
Amazing what a social media star with a fanbase across Europe can do with Dua Lipa's management and producer, and a song created with an Ed Sheeran co-writer (Thinking Out Loud etc).
Think we might have cracked the formula here.![]()
However, us trying in Eurovision does feel a bit like Tuchel picking Premier League players to avoid U23 relegation. The UK has 4 of the top ten best selling music artists of all time and over 20 in the top hundred. The Australians sneak into the top twenty with a band that were over 50% Scottish emigres, and have another couple of acts lower down the list, also all born in the UK. Ireland has one in the mid twenties, and one just below the top hundred. However, half of its most successful act were born in England. Sweden has a one in the top thirty, Spain has one in the 60s and France one in the lower reaches of the top hundred. Every other country in the competition is nowhere.
Us picking our musical equivalent of Trevoh Chalobah seems a bit like bullying the little kids. If we want to do that, we should be more obvious and every year, just send a tribute act as a power move.
No doubt there is brilliant English music - lots of it - but rather than some musical superiority, the fact that English is the most spoken language in the world has some effect on these top lists. You think Elton John would have sold 300 million records if he was doing the exact same music but singing in Norwegian?
1.5 billion English speakers.
1.3 billion Chinese speakers.
Surely there should be almost as many great songs sung in Chinese?
1.5 billion English speakers.
1.3 billion Chinese speakers.
Surely there should be almost as many great songs sung in Chinese?
Do you know that there are not?
And there might be... sales does not equal good music. I refuse to accept that Justin Bieber is the 20th best musician to walk this earth.
but if we take Elton John as an example, when he started out half of the Chinese population were illiterate peasants mainly concerned about survival and historically they've not exactly been encouraged to interact with the rest of the world.
Either way, my point remains the same. If any of those on the top 10 list sang in a language spoken by less than 10 million people, they would not be on that list.
I'm struggling to name any.
Well, that's pretty conclusive then.