I knew it. I have always thought it's just a matter of time (even if their time is slowly and sadly passing by) but Pet Shop Boys have been already asked not once but twice by BBC to write (and not perform?) the UK entry for the Eurovision! And judging Neil Tennant's words it's something they are still considering once the right song comes along. All this was revealed in an interview where the boys talked about their new album Elysium out this month and the new single Winner. Neil tells: "The song was written during and after the Take That tour
last year. Every night we would leave the stadium and Take That would
come on singing this song they had called “The Greatest Day”. Chris
said, "Why don’t we try writing a mid-tempo anthem?" We finished it off
in the autumn, but the truth of the matter is that, from my perspective,
I was thinking about the Eurovision Song Contest. The BBC have
twice asked us to write the Eurovision entry for Britain and we thought
if we had the right song we might give it to them. When we started
writing this it seemed to be like a Eurovision Song Contest song. The
references to competing, in my mind, at the time, were about entering
Eurovision and it coming from Kazakstan. We had 25 songs for Andrew Dawson (producer) in LA. It wasn’t our intention
originally to record “Winner”, we were going to give it away, but Andrew
said, "You really have to do this one." On the album I think it sits in
really well."
If BBC had sent Pet Shop Boys instead of Engelbert Humperdinck would they have done better than last place?
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