It really isn’t as political as people think, Israel situation not withstanding) As someone who is forced to watch the thing every year and listen to all the songs for months beforehand (when the other half is in charge of the music) we just keep sending shit acts.
It comes down to: good song, performed well by someone who actually puts effort into promoting it across Europe.
Sam Ryder simply had a brilliant song and he’s an incredible performer and he spent months and months appearing on TV and radio in places like Moldova and Poland and Belgium.
All our other acts either have a song that would never do well (look mum no computer), they perform it badly and they don’t put the work in.
Mostly the issue we have is any legitimate artist in the UK views it (somewhat rightly) as a terrible thing for their credibility so they don’t want to do it. You’re then left with unknowns, has beens and niche artists and the only hope is you somehow strike lightning in a bottle which is incredibly rare.
It really isn’t as political as people think, Israel situation not withstanding) As someone who is forced to watch the thing every year and listen to all the songs for months beforehand (when the other half is in charge of the music) we just keep sending shit acts.
It comes down to: good song, performed well by someone who actually puts effort into promoting it across Europe.
Sam Ryder simply had a brilliant song and he’s an incredible performer and he spent months and months appearing on TV and radio in places like Moldova and Poland and Belgium.
All our other acts either have a song that would never do well (look mum no computer), they perform it badly and they don’t put the work in.
Mostly the issue we have is any legitimate artist in the UK views it (somewhat rightly) as a terrible thing for their credibility so they don’t want to do it. You’re then left with unknowns, has beens and niche artists and the only hope is you somehow strike lightning in a bottle which is incredibly rare.