Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Michael Rice has just won the United Kingdom's ticket to Tel Aviv and Eurovision song contest 2019. Thee new format had only three songs each with two performances. The first round one performer for each song was eliminated by the jury, and then the three songs faced televoting and his Bigger than us emerged as a winner. And rightly so. The song worked both ways and either would have been the best winner but maybe I had a little soft spot for Michael though, Holly's version screams an undeserved 23rd place. Michael is 21 and won last year talent show All together now. He invested the prize money 50.000 pounds to set up an ice cream and waffle shop! Aww.... Sweet Lies - Kerrie-Anne Vs. Anisa 3-0 Freaks - Jordan Clarke Vs. MAID 2-1 Bigger than us - Holly Tandy Vs. Michael Rice 3-0 To be updated

United Kingdom hasn't really had succeess lately in the Eurovison song contest and therefor BBC has made yet another change to national final method. This year we have six artists but only three songs as each song will be performed in two different ways. Nothing new in this. The same thing was used back in the day in many countries with either different singers singing the same song, or the same song performed with a little band or a full orchestra, or anything in between with these various compinations.  The songs are written by mostly the usual suspects aka writers sending their songs to any given country already for years in various teams and maybe that's where the biggest problem is. Usually the most succesful songs are not effort of a manufactured writing camps and creative teams but written by one author alone - out of pure inspiration and creative boost. And one would expeect Brits had songwriters at home without need to borrow ones from Sweden, Denmark and elsewher...