me too!! something i never imagined saying or thinking.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Voice way better than the song. Clearly the UK does't want the expense of hosting the contest the year after the Olympics (although surely the infrastructure left over from the Games would make this easier?), but OTOH we have to at least look like we're making an effort. And for the second year we're fielding an act that people have heard of, and who isn't singing a joke of a song.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
I still don't understand Eurovision at all but it still makes me very, very happy
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59165000/jpg/_59165863_59165862.jpg
Jonathan Ross at the age of 87 / a melted Terry Wogan?
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
The UK flag makes him look like a Presidential candidate.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
That doesn't make much sense, but coming after 'a melted Terry Wogan' I thought I could get away with it.
And how nice of Engelbert to wear a black tie in anticipation of our song getting buried by the competition.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 08:59 (twelve years ago) link
Surprisingly good for an Engelbert song. Still don't think it would be a potential winner, but may appeal well to many older watchers.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
The UK flag makes him look like a Presidential candidate
You mean, the UK has a president? :)
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
The UK has been drawn first. Oh well!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
As a song, it's OK and no more; the key changes are over-obvious and were clearly put in to prove that EH still has a voice. It's stuck with me since I heard it, though. Nice rusty Kenny Rogers edges to his voice; another candidate for the Rick Rubin treatment? In the video he looks like Bryan Ferry's unfunny uncle but the closing blackout is haunting - he's not saying goodbye, of course, but it comes across that way.
Alas, since it's first on it'll probably be forgotten when it comes to voting. Not sure if it'll be that big a chart hit either but that's perhaps the fault of the charts rather than Mr Humperdinck.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
So San Marino's entry has been amended to "The Social Network Song". Still classic.
― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
BBC's trailers for the final are already going for the lulz. "Get behind the Hump", says Graham Norton.
― banal like a null (snoball), Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link