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Thread #174082 Message #4222888
Posted By: Backwoodsman
20-May-25 - 02:55 AM
Thread Name: Eurovision 2025
Subject: RE: Eurovision 2025
The ‘Remember Monday’ girls work in musical theatre, and it showed (pun intended) in the construction and performance of ‘What The Hell Just Happened’ - lyrically and musically complicated and ‘busy’, all those changes of speed and rhythm, it would have been a great number in a West-End/Broadway show, and it grows on you after several hearings, but it was way, way too cluttered and confusing for a hear-it-once-only Eurovision audience.
The girls are lovely, they gave a highly-professional performance, and they can SING! Their harmonies were spot on every time (not something you can say about most Eurovision vocal groups). But, as I said to Mrs. B. when we first heard the song several weeks ago, “What the hell…?”.
Sam Ryder had it spot on in 2022 and, but for a small matter of Russia invading Ukraine, and with the resulting public sympathy-vote, he would have walked away with the win. It’s a shame the UK ESC team don’t seem to have learned from that. The following two years’ entries were absolutely appalling and neither were worth more than ‘nul points’. This year’s entry was much better, but still not ‘just right’.