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ToraToraTora | 09:11 Sun 14th May 2023 | News
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65585413
I'd hoped after last year that Eurovision had reverted to being a song contest.
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No. It has reverted into a noisy trashy entertainment fest with weird costumes.
the government did their best to turn it into a Conservative Party Work Event

https://news.sky.com/story/eurovision-2023-rishi-sunak-disappointed-at-decision-to-ban-volodymyr-zelenskyy-from-making-address-12879088

However, there's a decent analysis here of why the British entry didn't do well - by bad luck it was too similar to other slightly better entries. "if your vibe is hyper-catchy, female-fronted pop, you were spoiled for choice". That can happen. Nobody seems to think it was a duff song or singer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65586989
Isn't it the song that fans sing at Liverpool's football matches too?
Somehow got posted on a different thread. No idea what happened there!
There is a bit of a clue:
"on the night, she brought out the big guns. Mae sang better than she'd done all week."
Except that the jury vote on the Friday night performance, not "on the night".
Eurovision is not a "song contest" though: that implies songs literally battling with each other. The song was ok, but not a patch on Spaceman. People vote for what they like, and plainly they didn't like "I Wrote a Song" enough.
The bookies had it bang on with the very much odds-on favs beating the clear 2nd favs with 40/1 outsider UK way, way down the list.

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