Quatres points, peut-être?

So, on Friday night, on The Graham Norton Show, Blue unveiled their stab at this year's Eurovision Song Contest and performed I Can live.

As an immediate reaction, we'd like to point out that Lee's falsetto has absolutely no impact whatsoever when it's literally used from the very first line of the bloody song. Also, whilst we'd love to have full faith in Blue's ability to pull this off live, there's a real possibility of some Jemini-style hilarity on the night.

But let's brush past all of that and try and look at the song on its own merit. Well... it's fair to say that this isn't breaking any new ground. The backing track at the start appears to have been lifted from t.A.t.U's All The Things She Said. The dance routine appears to consist entirely of the band moving only the left side of their bodies, which might not be enough to set the Eurovision stage "on fire". And at no point in the whole thing does Lee feel the need to shut up. That by itself is probably the most irritating part.

And yet... the whole this isn't exactly terrible. Blue aren't exactly reshaping the contours of popular music, admittedly, but if this is the start of a renaissance for the band, then they could do worse than putting something out which is unmistakably a "Blue" song, which this is. Vocally, the whole thing really benefits from Simon's deeper tones to give it a bit of meat - paarticularly in the chorus. And the chorus is, as it goes, fairly catchy. 

But anyone expecting this to be the saviour of British Eurovision hopes is probably going to be disappointed. It's pleasant enough, and it's certainly better than some of the monstrosities we've put forward in previous years (c.f. Dubovie, J., That Sounds Good To Me - which we may have deemed an absolute shower of crap once or twice), but there doesn't seem to be an awful lot here which is going to compel viewers across Europe to pick up their phones and vote. Our prediction? It'll do OK, pick up some decent points (we actually think it'll do alright in the notoriously difficult-to-crack Eastern bloc, for instance) and ultimately stagger in respectively mid-table. I'm thinking somewhere around 10th, perhaps, if stars align on the night.

Provided Lee doesn't fuck it all up. Because let's face it, if he does, he's on every bloody line.