25-05-2021, 10:25
Dear old Snoots the moment you think there is no good music out there should be the signal that you are old enough for two Covid jabs, whatever age-group they're doing. It's time to contact Stannah and get the cocoa in.
Despite the current trend towards legislating against the performance of live music in a smaller venues where up-coming bands will learn their trade, only the Beeb could have found such an untalented performer with such an ordinary song to cruelly thrust into an international competition. Had he any serious hopes of a career they've been destroyed haven't they? Unless flat, fat and pointless become fashionable he's had his chips (as he clearly has far too many times already).
It's too late for us to adopt a comic approach. We've missed the punchline by about fifteen years. We worked out that almost all the songs were pretty crappy, so we deliberately tried to send our impression of crappy Euro songs .......... and it doesn't work. It's like Keir Starmer turning up in Hartlepool and having himself filmed eating fish and chips and drinking a pint (exactly his Islington lifestyle .... not). Being deliberately bad, playing down doesn't work. You just become bad at being bad. Our effort even looked sad.
The song was that bad. It had no catch line, was pretty tuneless and eminently eminently forgettable. It was the homework you did on the bus going to school. Go to any college or university music department and you'll find students capable of dashing off something better at the drop of a baton.
Despite the current trend towards legislating against the performance of live music in a smaller venues where up-coming bands will learn their trade, only the Beeb could have found such an untalented performer with such an ordinary song to cruelly thrust into an international competition. Had he any serious hopes of a career they've been destroyed haven't they? Unless flat, fat and pointless become fashionable he's had his chips (as he clearly has far too many times already).
It's too late for us to adopt a comic approach. We've missed the punchline by about fifteen years. We worked out that almost all the songs were pretty crappy, so we deliberately tried to send our impression of crappy Euro songs .......... and it doesn't work. It's like Keir Starmer turning up in Hartlepool and having himself filmed eating fish and chips and drinking a pint (exactly his Islington lifestyle .... not). Being deliberately bad, playing down doesn't work. You just become bad at being bad. Our effort even looked sad.
The song was that bad. It had no catch line, was pretty tuneless and eminently eminently forgettable. It was the homework you did on the bus going to school. Go to any college or university music department and you'll find students capable of dashing off something better at the drop of a baton.