YouTube Tuesday: Morrissey for Eurovision?
I was both taken aback and exciting to read that Steven Patrick Morrissey is in talks with the BBC to write and possibly perform the UK’s entry for Eurovision 2007. “I was horrified but not surprised to see the UK fail,” he said of Stockport’s Daz Sampson’s fifth-from-last position last year. “Why didn’t they ask me?”
This video is for his 2006 single You Have Killed Me, which featured ‘a pastiche of the kitsch Eurovision competitions of the 1970s’. Morrissey previously worked with the UK’s first Eurovision winner, Sandie Shaw, in the 1980s.
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Hi;
We can only dream of an entry of this quality! However I’ve got an awful feeling that our standing is so low in Europe that we would still finish third behind a Polish folk track and an Estonian chick in a miniskirt. . .
ps. Many, many thanks for the link.
By Edward on 01.10.07 5:46 pm
You were taken aback and exciting?
Sure, this is a good blog but “exciting” is stretching it a little, no?
Pedant of Preston.
By Tim on 01.10.07 7:52 pm
Thanks sub! The beauty of online publishing is that I can change it now and make you look stupid. I won’t do that though.
By Mancubist on 01.11.07 12:31 am
I wonder if the public vote is actually a barrier to quality as serious artists don’t want to be humilated.
(You don’t link to the video, which is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1XTa27WQo )
By Stephen Newton on 01.11.07 11:59 am
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