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Our Eurovision entry really isn't up to much is it

  • April 22, 2010
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We'd forgotten all about this but someone on the Popjustice forum has
just posted a link to the studio verison of Josh Dubovie's 'That
Sounds Good To Me'.

[youtube]cqCxW4ekYAc[/youtube] This is the song the United Kingdom is sending to Eurovision.

It is the song that it is felt — by idiots, let's be honest — will best represent the UK on the world stage.

Nothing about this song is good. It has no redeeming features. If it were a second hand car it would be one with a massive shit on the driver's seat. It is like a nightmare that exists in the physical realm, the Freddie Krueger of Eurovision entries slashing multiple cuts across pop's jugular. It is Comic Sans, a fart in a crowded lift, a dish­washer with an unsat­is­fact­ory rinse cycle, a Conservative election win, an unex­pec­tedly hefty tax bill, homework on a Sunday night and next door's whining dog. It is all of that and more but it is not, and this is worth remem­ber­ing as 'Eurovision fever' grips (trans: doesn't grip) the country in the coming weeks, something that "sounds" "good" to "anyone".

It is, more than anything, a real shame.

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