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**Chris** · 23-05-2021, 11:55

Plenty of non-EU countries failed to vote for us last night, most likely for the same reasons the EU member states didn't. It was a decent enough song but the performance was awful. James Newman very obviously didn't have the lung capacity or sufficient vocal control to perform live, with no autotune or re-takes. He really should have stuck to songwriting and let someone with a gift for live performance to do the delivery.

The scoreboard followed the same pattern as every year. There's a modest amount of bloc voting amongst certain countries, but there's little evidence of it affecting the top 10 where it is genuinely the songs that best connected with the voting audience and the industry panels that get all the points. If we put in a good song and a good performer and actually made it look like we gave a damn, we would do better. We last seriously tried that when Andrew Lloyd Webber produced one for Jade Ewen in 2009 (and appeared on stage with her, on piano) and we came 5th that year.

Given the pop music heritage this country has, I think to a great extent we're judged against that rather than against other acts on the night. They know we can do better.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,118	Re: Britain outside the EU Plenty of non-EU countries failed to vote for us last night, most likely for the same reasons the EU member states didn't. It was a decent enough song but the performance was awful. James Newman very obviously didn't have the lung capacity or sufficient vocal control to perform live, with no autotune or re-takes. He really should have stuck to songwriting and let someone with a gift for live performance to do the delivery. The scoreboard followed the same pattern as every year. There's a modest amount of bloc voting amongst certain countries, but there's little evidence of it affecting the top 10 where it is genuinely the songs that best connected with the voting audience and the industry panels that get all the points. If we put in a good song and a good performer and actually made it look like we gave a damn, we would do better. We last seriously tried that when Andrew Lloyd Webber produced one for Jade Ewen in 2009 (and appeared on stage with her, on piano) and we came 5th that year. Given the pop music heritage this country has, I think to a great extent we're judged against that rather than against other acts on the night. They know we can do better.