I’ve just heard our Eurovision Song Contest entry for this year. We have all shaken our heads in disbelief that the BBC have chosen veteran singer Englebert Humperdink to sing this years entry, but much to my surprise, it’s not that bad!
Back in the dark ages, the Eurovision Song Contest was won by the country with the best song, what a nice idea. Of course that outdated notion has long since been replaced by the concept of countries, many of them newly created by the fall out of the Soviet Union, voting for their friends and neighbours. As we in the UK have few of either of those, we will never win again. The days of Sandie Shaw, Lulu, Bucks Fizz and Katrina and the Waves are long gone.
So we might as well do something different. There is not much point in putting up another completely unknown singer with a rather poor song, or sending yet another obsolete Boy Band to sing for us, if we are not going to win anyway, why not at least have some fun for a change. So Englebert isn’t that bad an idea actually. Now if we could just get Tom Jones to do backing vocals and Bruce Forsyth to dance, we might be on to something.
You can hear Englebert sing his entry here.
When Terry Wogan made his departure from this ‘shoddy excuse for a show’ I lost interest! His (post show) comments were the only thing to attract me to watch the show. Englebert is no dafter an entry than Jedward! I think these participant entries should be interpreted as our reflection on how we view this ‘politics’ show. CHEESY-NAFF-SHODDY
You certainly don’t need a psychic to determine who will vote for who. (^^^)
No you don’t! 🙂
I think Engleybonk Humpleydinkleymode is an inspired choice. We usually get walloped by the Eastern bloc Countries voting for each other. I hear that the Hump already has a huge following in those Countries, and (hopefully) his fans in those countries will compensate for the “nil points” we will inevitably get from France this year.
I agree Cliff! We could even come in the top half of the bottom third this time!
Well Englebert came second to last. ‘At least we beat Norway’ seems to be on the lips of many today. Luckily Helen and I were out for a meal with good friends and didn’t see it, but from watching a clip today, it’s clear that Englebert has ‘lost it’. He hasn’t been able to sing in tune for years actually. Not surprising we did so badly. Back to the drawing board.