Listen, we unapologetically love Eurovision ’round these parts and if you’re at all sniffy about the annual, glorious celebration of pop music in its purest form, sort yourself out, you nerd.
Anyway, enough of the negatives and onto a rather big positive!
The UK haven’t really go a hang of entering great pop songs into Eurovision in recent years, going for either too earnest or too novelty (we will never, ever forgive Daz Sampson for dressing women up as school girls and rapping in 2006). Last year, Sam Ryder performed incredibly well and was a force of personality with a song that wasn’t our cup of tea, but was so uncynically positive about the whole experience, that it was impossible to dislike him or his second place finish.
The invasion of Ukraine saw the show moved to Liverpool and, aptly, we’ve got something of a stomper of a pop song for 2023. It’s not Scouse House, but it’s every bit as fun as a Hen Party from Wallasey woo-wooing out of a taxi in L1.
The track is from Mae Muller, and it’s a meta belter about writing a song about a crappy ex. It’s nice and spiky and should do well in the room on the night. Polished, but not lacking in a bit of bite. If you’re 19 bottles of VK in, then singing along to someone who wants to make a scene outside the house of a lousy ex is just the ticket.
Oh, and there’s some flamenco to remind us of either Europop broadly, or ‘La Isla Bonita’, which is an excellent ingredient for a Eurovision song. We’re into it.
Anyway, we’ll leave you to listen to it for now, and then we’ll share a round-up of all our favourite Eurovision songs at a future date.
And yes, like most people, we missed out on tickets after being in Ticketmaster’s dreadful queuing system for the best part of 2 hours. Ah well, them’s the breaks.
The Pop Corporation 
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