After a few weeks off, listening to this again it remains a BANGER. It may be a bit lost in fan polls right now with the usual zero point discourse, but I’m as buzzing as ever to see what he will do in Vienna!
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This is the least deluded I’ve felt going into Eurovision, let’s just say that! I always kid myself our song might pick up points but this has double zero written all over it so anything above is a bonus.
it also feels like the BBC don’t want it to get that much attention anyway, like they don’t have the balls to commit to withdrawing or speaking out against Israel, they just want to quietly compete with a lowkey song and then duck out until next year…I haven’t heard this on Radio 2 yet which seems late—What The Hell Just Happened felt inescapable.
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It’s an interesting take that this is something they’d want to fly under the radar?!
Whatever drama happened leading up to it being chosen, it’s not exactly quiet. Electro synths, shouty cockney vocals, I think it’s pretty high impact.
Yeah of course it could be another complete points disaster, but honestly whatever at this point. It’s going to be a lot of fun in the final. The party if we get any televote points will be worth it!
I love the studio version of Eins, Zwei, Drei but have to admit that live performance video last week got me worried. It just looked very amateurish and shambolic. I had hopes we could come about 15th-18th purely on the televote as I don’t see the juries going for this at all but am now fearing the dreaded nul points.
I admire the fact that we have sent something so different this year and as I say I love the studio version. It’s the first of our Eurovision songs this decade that I would listen to through choice!
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I was a bit mean about the song on the PopJustice forum when I first heard it, since then it has grown on me (not the best thing for a Eurovision song, of course) and I enjoy listening to it when it comes on, and he seems like a really nice guy, but I’d be very surprised if it doesn’t get the double 0 at the end of the night, he’ll be very lucky to get any televote points from anyone (possibly one or two from either Germany or Austria?!) and I can’t see any jury putting this in the top 10 either, which will be a shame as it’s a fun song
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I am.. really not concerned about points or placement this year. Ultimately this is going to be a disaster year with Israel clawing its way to a possible win and mess across social media, so I just feel like we need to just ride it out and get through it. It’s mildly boppy, fun and totally acceptable, and that’s all we need this year.
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I get that it’s brash enough that people might look up from their phones for five seconds to wonder what the racket is but I don’t think voters will engage with it at all.
I suppose my point is that I can’t see anyone picked it with the view that it was particularly good or would do well, it’s different enough that it won’t embarrass us because you can justify that with its divisiveness and his lack of singing/performing ability. I thinks its failure would be easy to brush off.
Null punkte.
Yeah I appreciate that. The aim this year is not to be competitive, which is fine.
I’m just missing the part where this is zero televote. Forget that one live performance; for many reasons that is not what we’ll get in Vienna.
Juries will likely tank it, but maybe not? Fun upbeat entries get plenty of jury votes if the staging and performance are decent. What happens when we roll out some epic production and camera work?
Honestly if I compare us with Greece say, why is Ferto considered televote top 3, and LMNC zero? Ferto is non-vocal bar one line, and incredibly annoying. Eins, Zwei, Drei is catchy, quirky, pacey, like is it so much worse?
I dunno, pointless to compare I know and I’m fully camped out in my delusion, but that’s the lane I’m choosing.
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Reviving this iconic quote from the ashes but I can’t remember who posted it.
Look Mum, No Points.
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Haha it appears again, sorry LMNC 
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I too have found this growing on me since it’s release - which many have already said is the kiss of death for Eurovision.
Would the jury totally ignore it? I mean the last time that happened to us was with Embers and it can be argued there was nothing for the juries to vote for as it was so inoffensive it got overlooked. The one thing you can say about Eins, Zwei, Drei is that it’s far from ‘safe’ and so you’d hope that some of the juries would appreciate and reward the artistry and individual talent involved. Plus aren’t there more jury members this year (7 up from 5) and two of them have to be young? You never know they could respond to it more than the ‘traditional’ jury members.
Who knows at this point, but any points from either set will be welcome, even if we come last, if he avoids the dreaded double 0 I think we should all call this a win in a dumpster fire of a year…
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Berlin Eurovision fans had their own preview party and vote - and the UK didn’t finish last!
22 points: 23rd out of 35.
Denmark won, if you’re interested.
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“The greatest dark horse in the competition…”
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRgHu6sS/
https://x.com/i/status/2049159157031325754
(Sorry haven’t worked out embedding on here yet)
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Still think we should have sent Fabulous. The sweary studio version’s a banger.
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Yet he doesn’t appear to have left for Vienna yet as he’s still pootling about in his workshop. His first rehearsal is Thursday so I am assuming he’s not got much staging or rehearsal to do? Or going to wing it?
Almost all the acts have been arriving the day before their first rehearsal. The stand in rehearsals were last week so the staging and camerawork will largely be worked out then.
I’m pretty sure he won’t walk in on Thursday and make up a routine, come on now.
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Hopefully. I guess I just am not feeling it with this year’s entry. Seems a nice bloke though!
On GMB he is asked if he can count higher than three in German. He responds with yes then struggles to get beyond “Eins”
UK ended up 20th on the OGAE fanclub poll. 22nd on Eurojury. 24th on the Scoreboard app. 20th in the streams. 20th in the Odds.
Think we’re cooked…let’s hope some glimmer comes out of the rehearsals.