United Kingdom 2023: Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song

[ButterTart]

It's Ellie Goulding




Already been read by Zoe Ball on Radio 2 apparently

I can't wait for Europe to succumb to that winning combination of nasal beeping and the organic sensuality of someone who's being instructed through an earpiece to 'be sexy. No, sexy by human standards'.

 

[Penelope]

Last year Zoe Ball played the 3 minute radio edit of Space Man in February and said we might be hearing "a lot more about Sam Ryder very soon" (much to @VoR's SCOFFS at the time that it was a theory ), so there could be something in this. On the other hand this is a level of explicit rumour mongering that's a bit too on the nose that it probably isn't her.

 

[Tisch]

Last year Zoe Ball played the 3 minute radio edit of Space Man in February and said we might be hearing "a lot more about Sam Ryder very soon" (much to @VoR's SCOFFS at the time that it was a theory ), so there could be something in this. On the other hand this is a level of explicit rumour mongering that's a bit too on the nose that it probably isn't her.

Yeah but didn't she also "reveal" it was Chelcee Grimes some months after that

I had no idea she'd played Space Man way back in February though! I wonder if it was actually decided at that point or it was just an option?

 

[bypass]

I remember in an interview with Sam last year he said the UKs Eurovision team approached him in January, so that would line up.

 

[GNL]

Not bland, boring Ellie. Keep it!

 

[Pingu]

Yeah but didn't she also "reveal" it was Chelcee Grimes some months after that

I had no idea she'd played Space Man way back in February though! I wonder if it was actually decided at that point or it was just an option?

The Zoe Ball remark was about 3 days before the entry reveal… everything was pretty much lined up and everyone briefed in by then.

We’ve a fair bit of road ahead of us yet I’d imagine.

 

[ButterTart]

I really, really hope it’s not her. To this day, the delivery of her one line in the 2014 Band Aid single feels like the punchline to a joke we weren’t let in on. It’s like George from Rainbow doing karaoke.

 

[Apoca]

SAWAYAMA PRAYER CIRCLE

 

[ButterTart]

SAWAYAMA PRAYER CIRCLE

Sawayama over Goulding any day of the week. One has the talent, musicianship, aesthetic and charisma to be a popstar, the other just sort of became one anyway.

 

[Penelope]

I'd prefer Rina, but after all the years of Engelbert Humperdinck, Electro Velvet, Michael Rice, Embers, and Wet Wet Wet rumours, I'm just taking a moment to appreciate that we're at a point where everyone is turning their nose up at Ellie Goulding

 

[Penelope]

(except for @ButterTart, who I'm sure would have declared that he'd rather have had Embers over Ellie Goulding )

 

[ButterTart]

(except for @ButterTart, who I'm sure would have declared that he'd rather have had Embers over Ellie Goulding )

No lie detected.

 

[ButterTart]

In fairness, Ellie Goulding is a ridiculously big name to be bandied about as our potential act, which is mint, it’s just that she doesn’t exactly exude the stage presence we should be aiming for this year.

I will, of course, shit a dozen bricks and declare her to be better than Christ if she actually turns out to be our act; such is my fervent nationalism during homosexual flotilla season.

 

[GNL]

I kind of liked a few of Ellie Goulding's songs before she decided to hand her career choices on to a focus group of people who find Radio 2 overstimulating.



I mean, that one fucks.

And the CHARISMA on display in the video

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

I used to adore Starry Eyed. Basic but cute.

 

[MegaDolly]

Outside is my favourite Ellie Goulding song and I can’t wait for her 3rd collab with Calvin Harris but please no not Eurovision.

I don’t understand why the UK needs an established act there is a lot more that a new artist, like Sam, can gain from it.

 

[Penelope]

I love how stark Ellie Goulding's career trajectory shift was the moment she did a sellout Leona Lewis demo

 

[GinAg (39)]

To be fair there's been a couple of recent winners with similar on stage magnetism to Ellie.

 

[lolly]

Under The Sheets is indeed amazing.

I first saw her supporting Little Boots at a University gig. The charisma on stage that night ripped a hole in the space/time continuum.

 

[Lucille]

This cannot happen.

 

[Alex]

I used to adore Starry Eyed. Basic but cute.

The first album was brilliant! Less said about album 3 and onwards the better

 

[rhythmbandit]

I really like her new single, fortunately not a Phil Collins cover.

 

[Madíson]

I don’t understand why the UK needs an established act there is a lot more that a new artist, like Sam, can gain from it.

Why should we care about how much a new artist can gain?

 

[Alex]

Why should we care about how much a new artist can gain?

I want Kimberleh to launch her career from it

 

[Tisch]

I posted Ellis Golden as a repeat of a joke, omg you guys haha imagine if it was her haha

 

[ButterTart]

Apparently, our act is a supergroup called The Moop Troop, made up of former posters VV Brown, Jonathan King and Daz Sampson. Euphoria was invited to join but said he didn't want to tarnish his reputation by associating with such monsters.

 

[Diddy]

Re: Ellie, I take it this is as legitimate as the Dua Lipa rumours last year?

 

[Star]

Have they announced the presenters yet?

 

[Penelope]

Have they announced the presenters yet?

Not yet

 

[Apoca]

Not yet

"Liverpool, are you ready to feel some ADRRRENALINA TONIGHT?"

 

[ButterTart]

Have they announced the presenters yet?

Hoping to recapture the magic of the 1989 Brit Awards, the BBC have revealed the hosting team will be Peter Crouch and Merly from The Traitors.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

"Liverpool, are you ready to feel some ADRRRENALINA TONIGHT?"

 

[Apoca]

Feat. GREEN ROOM HOST: The Kettering Twink!

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Not yet

It might have already been said (but I’m far too busy to spend hours scrolling) but I think RYLAN PLUS ONE (the plus one NOT being Scott Mills) would be the right choice

 

[Penelope]

I suspect AJ Odudu heavy lifting, Graham Norton top and tailing and running off to the commentary box in between, Rylan in the Green Room, beardy one from 2017 providing Ukrainian rep, and the Raven Queen staring IMPASSIVELY AND IMPERIOUSLY on the sidelines throughout

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Rylan and R. Queen would make for a spectacularly odd couple on main presentation duties. I want THAT!

I’d kind of forgotten that it’s basically going to be a Ukrainian presentation but held here. SO RUDE! I hope R. Queen doesn’t set her crows on me

 

[bypass]

Down to four apparently. To be taken with a heavy dose of salt(obviously)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/uks-fab-four-contenders-eurovision-29081776

 

[Pingu]

Down to four apparently. To be taken with a heavy dose of salt(obviously)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/uks-fab-four-contenders-eurovision-29081776

Well it quotes the guy in charge of the process so I'd say that's probably legit.

 

[bypass]

Well it quotes the guy in charge of the process so I'd say that's probably legit.

That's what I get for not reading properly after a 12 hour shift

 

[Penelope]

Down to four apparently. To be taken with a heavy dose of salt(obviously)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/uks-fab-four-contenders-eurovision-29081776

Huge glaring hint dropped there that Ellie Goulding is likely one of the ones under consideration. As it goes, I never knew she performed at Zelensky's wedding! (not that that's the hint per se)

Who else is on TaP's roster these days?