UK Entry 2023

[scottdisick94]

Wouldn’t mind if it turns out to be this

This is excellent!

 

[jordxn]

Wouldn’t mind if it turns out to be this

oh this bops a bit!

 

[Hudvar]

Mimi would be great, and she can sing well live, but I think she's on tour when it's on?

 

[scottdisick94]

Mimi would be great, and she can sing well live, but I think she's on tour when it's on?

According to her website she has no shows between April 24th until June 9th. A solid chunk of time.

Also, the song is the top of New Music Friday UK and she’s the cover.

 

[salmonandmash]

I like the Mimi song, but it doesn't sound like a strong Eurovision option.

The Birdy one is gorgeous and could be one of the best UK moments ever. The staging possibilities are huge. It's the best of the rumoured songs for me, so far.

 

[Txetxu]

I'm on the Mimi front too since the song is quite strong already, although I'm pretty sure it will be Birdy fronting the UK this year.

 

[AcerBenII]

I find Mimi's song as tedious as almost everything else she's released. She could be a really good popstar if her songs were any good.

 

[Square]

That Mimi song is far too generic and faceless to make a splash at the contest. I wouldn’t be mad at it but it gives me 17th place a la Molly.

 

[DAS]

So the UK entry is likely to be one of the following:

Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein or with a new song
Mimi Webb - Freezing
Birdy - Raincatchers
Freya Ridings - Weekends
Grace Carter - Pick Your Tears Up
Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song

 

[AcerBenII]

So the UK entry is likely to be one of the following:

Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein or with a new song
Mimi Webb - Freezing
Birdy - Raincatchers
Freya Ridings - Weekends
Grace Carter - Pick Your Tears Up
Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song

I think Grace already said it isn't her.
I also think it's just as likely to be none of the above!

 

[doggie]

Was part of the strategy to let the song get some traction before it was announced as the Eurovision entry? (I could be getting mixed up with last year). None of those mentioned have picked up much apart from Freya Ridings and Rina, but they both seem to have been released too early...

 

[imaduck]

The bookies look fairly sure it's Birdy.

Which I would find very disappointing.

 

[doggie]

The bookies look fairly sure it's Birdy.

Which I would find very disappointing.

Same here - I don't dislike it, just find the chorus underwhelming. Still better than anything pre-TaP of course.

 

[Rocklobster]

From Saturday Kitchen this morning. One to add to the #RinaEurovisionFiles.

A coincidence, or...?

 

[jordxn]

From Saturday Kitchen this morning. One to add to the #RinaEurovisionFiles.

A coincidence, or...?

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N n that look is also from her Graham Norton appearance.

Realistically though it’ll just be a coincidence.

 

[happers]

The bookies look fairly sure it's Birdy.

Which I would find very disappointing.

I think if Raincatchers had a remix, which put more of a beat behind it and made it build rather than stay at the same level as it does now, it could be a decent entry.

But Rina - personality wise - would best do a Sam Ryder in terms of embracing the contest with respect/love.

Freya’s Weekends could do pretty well I think but doesn’t quite have that wow

 

[jordxn]

If we’re honest Rina’s best shot would have been keeping Catch Me In The Air - it’s hook central and offers a great opportunity to belt your face off.

I don’t hate the Birdy song but it definitely needs beefed up production and more variation, it stays on the exact same level throughout which isn’t going to translate well on the Eurovision stage if it does end up being our entry.

 

[happers]

I’m hoping, if it’s Rina, that it’s a song we’ve not heard yet

 

[ateensfan]

Both Mimi and Birday songs are good in their own right but I just don’t see them do well at ESC at all.

 

[BubblegumBoy]

I'm pretty sure the BBC were suggesting on social media that its a song that's already 'out there'.