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RobertKK wrote: »

https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/863740463244873728

:eek: What the F***

Mountainsandh

metrosity wrote: »

Thank god that song didn't get in. Among Ireland's worst and most embarrassing entries. No character, no substance, no identity - modern Ireland in a nutshell, not surprising from a bankrupt country, intent on making its population homeless, and getting them to pay for hard industrially fluoridated water unfit for human consumption.

He looked and sounded like a eunuch whose balls may never drop. Hope they do. Ireland used to be a country with real men and real women who could win this thing. We used to be a lot of things, alas. Last year was ok, and deserved to get in. I'll admit that.

Surely there still are some !
Just found out this evening about the young lady who sings that little ditty I knew without knowing where I knew it from.
Shared that with Mr M, whose business is music, incidentally (not this kind of music), and whose first remark was : "this is what we should be sending to Eurovision".

And that's not meant as an insult, for once. The song below is simple, effective, has a great message that would reach to all, of all nationalities, it has an anthem quality to it, and you could never be embarrassed to send an artist like her to Eurovision even in the event Europeans didn't get it.

She's been snatched by Warner I think, so probably gone as an option, but that's the kind of talent that should be searched and found here.

edit : the visuals and potential for stage visuals are brilliant too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8RCsxV5ITM

Shurimgreat

What makes a good Eurovision song is that it is catchy and memorable and uplifting.

This did not apply to the Ireland song which was instantly forgettable. Ditto the Portuguese one which wasn't great. I guess there was a back story to it or something.

Ireland takes the Eurovision too seriously. Treat it as its meant to be, a bit of light hearted entertainment. We might as well start sending entries that rip the p*ss out of it as this stage.

As long as RTE or someone like Louis Walsh are in charge of picking our entry, we aint going to win any time soon.

gmisk

I see the UK has there songs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vxlch

Legends.......absolutely cracking song definitely stands out for me!

DEFTLEFTHAND

It was more of a song contest than an entertainment spectacle when Ireland used to do well.

All our victories were decided by national juries comprised of people in the music industry. We never won a Eurovision on the Popular Vote so to speak. Once the dreaded televoting entered the fray in the late 90s our time was up.

valoren

Still peeved that Bulgaria didn't win last year. A brilliant Eurovision song. Was robbed I tells ya!

10000maniacs

The tele-voting requires you have huge ethnic minorities in multiple other countries for you to stand a chance.
The Irish have no foothold in the European mainland.
So unless they go back to juries we are screwed.
The crap entries don't help either. In 2017 our song was fine, but the singer couldn't sing for peanuts.
We need a singer who can belt out a tune. Not somebody who nervously whines a song into a microphone.

Squatter

I have never heard of this year's performer and she may well have a fantastic voice, but the publicity photos of her are absolutely ghastly. Any chance that RTE could persuade her to sing with a bag (Gucci would be acceptable) over her head?

Discodog

Squatter wrote: »

I have never heard of this year's performer and she may well have a fantastic voice, but the publicity photos of her are absolutely ghastly. Any chance that RTE could persuade her to sing with a bag (Gucci would be acceptable) over her head?

Very harsh but the song is dreadful.

whisky_galore

Forgettable, bland song, supermarket soundtrack stuff.
It's been a long time since I gave the tiniest shyte about the Eurovision.

Galwayguy35

They had some crustie on the radio earlier on bladdering on about Palestine and saying we should boycott it because it's in Israel.

She thinks most of the Irish people agree with her when in reality most of the Irish people don't give a sh1te about the eurovision.

RobertKK

Most people want Ireland to take part even if we don't get past the semifinals, its light entertainment, and inclusive, the Irish entry singing 'I'm a tranny too'.
Maybe Hamas have a problem with that...