Wired for Sound?
Agamemnon
the third time, with Wired for Sound. NOT!
Oh well... Pity. He would have done well, um.... back in 1981, if Bucks Fizz
hadn't have won it with Making Your Mind Up.
This is what really happened.
They had 6 acts. They had to perform 6 Pete Waterman hits. Two of the acts
were groups made up out of rejects from previous auditions. They were all
out of harmony. Of the four that were left, one of them sang the first part
of his opening song out of tune, but he along with two other solo acts
managed to make it into the final. This demonstrates the quality of the
talent they had to chose from. Two were guys, the middle one was a girl.
Each act had to perform the song Pete Waterman and Mike Aitkin had written
for the contest, That Sounds Good To Me, which from the very beginning all
the way to the end sounded like a clone of Cliff Richard's Wired for Sound.
The girl forgot the lyrics half way through. When the final places were
announced, she came last. So that left Josh the guy who preformed last as
the obvious winner. He won. Ok, so he produced the best interpretation of
the song out of any of them so he deserved to win (and even the girl did a
better interpretation of the song than the guy who performed it first), but
I could have found a better bunch of singers from a local wedding band so
why couldn't the BBC?
What makes Pete Waterman think that he's going to win the Eurovision in 2010
with a clone of a Cliff Richard song sung by a clone of Cliff Richard?
Oh well, it's not as if it was any different from half the songs and
performers n the Greek national final. Any wedding band would have put on a
better show, and Opa is more or less based on Persamena Nai, Ksexasmena Oxi
from about a decade ago. But unlike the Pete Waterman offereing Opa is a
decent song in keeping with the present. Alkaios was always ahead of his
time. Who's the guy representing the UK again? Ah, it's that Welsh guy isn't
it. Um, no... He's the one representing Cyprus. Oh well.
I really do hope he sings in tune on the night and doesn't forget his lines.
The British guy, um, both of them.
I wonder who they're going to get to write next year's UK entry. Any other
famous song writers from the 1980's still around looking for work?
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DJ Aggie