High School Musical to save UK at Eurovision?
Okay, call me crazy, but I’ve had a great idea… I think. It would mean sacrificing national pride to a mouse, but it would be worth it.
The announcement that Andrew Lloyd Webber will be composing the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 gave some hope to the UK fans of the competiton (and diplomatic relations across the continent) that we might nmot end up in last place in May next year. The catch is we’re still doing auditions for a ‘talented amateur’ to represent us in the biggest stadium performance this side of AC/DC at playing Wembley.
As I’ve said many times before, I reckon that’s a recipe for disaster. We (the UK) need people that can (a) perform live (b) look spectacular on stage and more importantly (c) will get a massive demographic across Europe voting for them. This is one reason metal rockers Lordi did so well in 2006 - the rockers didn’t care where they were from, they were just happy to have someone they recognised.
There’s also no reason that the UK needs to be represented by someone native to the UK - French-Canadian diva Celine Dion famously won the contest for Switzerland in 1988 - so the goal now is for the BBC to find some cross-demographic singers that everyone knows that gets an automatic vote from a strong demographic.
I think the only way we can win is to convince Disney to let Troy and Gabriella (Zac Efron and Vannesa Hudgens) from High School Miusical to sing a duet for the United Kingdom. Does anyone have their agent’s number so we can ask them
(Cross posted from Eurovision.tv)
October 28, 2008; Eurovision, Multimedia;
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I don’t think Troy and Gabriella are gonna cut it, remember that HSM has a tiny market niche, few over-20s (apart from parents) are really aware of it.
Much better with getting a real “name” band to represent the UK, not someone relatively unknown outside London’s theatre-land.
Oasis, Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden, they’d win Eurovision for us. The votes the UK need to win are those of Josef the plumber in Warsaw, not some G&T sipping twonk in Maidenhead.