Fair play to Bonnie Tyler’s management, they’ve landed her with one of the biggest musical stages in Europe, just as her new album is released in the UK and across the continent. My problem with today’a announcement of the UK’s singer to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 is more towards the BBC. There’s focusing on UK ratings as opposed to pushing for victory, but there needs to be a cultivation of Eurovision as a good place for artists… and that’s lacking.<\/p>\n
I just wonder what lesson the BBC learned from last year\u2019s adventure with \u2018The Hump\u2019 that has led them down a remarkably similar looking road?\u00a0In a year when Macedonia are sending an honest to goodness \u2018National Treasure\u2019, when Spain are sending a group who easily wear the label \u2018current\u2019 and \u2018successful\u2019, and many countries are aiming for the younger demographic with their singers\u2026 the BBC have went for another \u2018historical\u2019 name.<\/p>\n
Yes Bonnie Tyler is back out on tour, yes there\u2019s a new album, and yes she has a fan base in Europe\u2026 but haven\u2019t we heard these justifications before on a left field internal choice for the UK?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fair play to Bonnie Tyler’s management, they’ve landed her with one of the biggest musical stages in Europe, just as her new album is released in the UK and across the continent. My problem with today’a announcement of the UK’s singer to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 is more towards the BBC. There’s focusing on UK ratings as opposed to pushing for victory, but there needs to be a cultivation of Eurovision as a good place for artists… and that’s lacking. I just wonder what lesson the BBC learned from last year\u2019s adventure with \u2018The Hump\u2019 that has led<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[392,13],"tags":[5518,230,4270,287,398],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-5518","tag-bbc","tag-bonnie-tyler","tag-eurovision","tag-uk","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1VE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}