Our Song For Eurovision 2025

Despite being otherwise pre-booked on Eurovision night and our general malaise for the contest following a couple of frustrating and predictable years, we can't not present and review this years UK offering, to wit Remember Monday and their song "What The Hell Just Happened", which we really hope isn't some sort of spooky, prophetic type omen for the evenings performance and voting, as in What The Hell Just Happened?????

So, we all sat down together and gave it a very robust listening to, but to be honest we're not too sure.  It's happy, upbeat and from the video fun, so that's good ......

...... but seems to be a mix of several different genres of music and had us looking at each other saying "..... that sounds a bit like ....." at certain junctures. We'd think we knew where the song was going musically and then wig wham bam, it went off  in a completely different direction to what we were expecting, as if a few songs of yore have been melded together? It's very different from entries of the past and in our opinion, very Little Mix/Katy Perry?

Is it catchy, does it linger in your mind long after you listened to it?  Is it something you might find yourself humming when the mood takes you?  There is no doubt that the focal point of the song is the title and chorus line "What the hell just happened" ....... which is repeated more than oft and did stick in our heads but when we thought the song was the coming to an end, it only went and started up again with much renewed vigour.

The young ladies can certainly belt out a tune, but will they be able to replicate the intensity and force of the harmonies in real life, on the Eurovision stage, in Basel, under the pressure of being watched by a worldwide audience?  

We can't put our combined finger on why we're not totally embracing it, perhaps it's trying a bit too hard by throwing absolutely everything at it, trying to pack a punch, but not quite hitting the mark?  The full velocity, as sung, even when on a medium volume makes you sit up, but doesn't allow you to really take it all in. It just wants to clobber your aural senses and assault your lugholes! It is possibly a one/two listen wonder and then you've had enough, which, to be honest, is probably perfect for Eurovision.  

To the lay, uninitiated listener it might come over as a caterwauling screech fest.  

Maybe it's a slow burner that grows on us in the coming months? 

However, if the UK is stuck in the middle of all the other songs on the night, it could get lost and instantly forgettable after the first impact. In the end it might all boil down to the staging, lighting and effects, it can't be cheesy with overacting or distracting dancers, but there again it's not an elegant or classy song, so where do you go?  WTHJH, at the moment evokes too many questions and ponderings, so much so our brains hurt!

Said song could collect enough votes to hopefully avoid the dreaded, now traditional and expected (of late) nul points position, but we feel/fear it's likely to  stay on the right hand side of the scoreboard, rather than rise triumphantly to victory up the left hand side when the panels start coming in to give their scores.

And if we're wrong?  Well, we're prepared to eat humble pie, especially if Darrell can find a really good recipe!