Like previous years, ESC COVERS will again share a blog post from Morten Thomassen of OGAE NORWAY with his views on the positions reached by all 35 2026 entries. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

Then we moved on to the songs we saw in the final and our British friends got their “Eins, Zwei, Drei” vier, fünf, sixth last place in the competition since 2003 and I’m just mentioning it, before that time they had never done worse than 16th place.

The former powerhouse in ESC has now become a mini-putt in terms of results, one might say, and it is no wonder that many Britons are wondering whether there is any point in participating any longer and whether Look Mum No Computer should be their last artist in this competition.

I’m not too afraid of them withdrawing, remember that for a not too hefty sum for the BBC, they get 3 great TV shows to show their audience and there are many broadcasters who think the same way when the results fail.

Say what you want about the song, Sam Bartle, the person behind it all, brought a whole load of energy to the stage and really used quite a few means to attract attention, but it somehow didn’t work out for our British friends, even though he had help from both Danes and Norwegians on the composer side who have an ESC win on their CV.

Even though this song has a lot of 80s vibes and tries an old ESC trick, namely having a title in another language to honor it, only the jury in Ukraine, of all places, thought this deserved a single point.

They got nothing from German-speaking countries and that’s probably mostly because the performance is messy and relatively pointless and lacks the charm and mood that could have made such a contribution, because the song itself isn’t exactly crazy and the vocal effort is tolerable even though the singer is probably better at fixing computers and other electronics than singing.

I also think that our British friends are struggling to be taken seriously in this competition and it’s perhaps not so strange that all the time they’ve been world champions they’ve been belittling this competition.

Now Boy George has “threatened” to make a song that could be included next year and fortunately he wants another artist who is a good artist to sing, so maybe something good can come out of it, otherwise it is to be hoped that British artists who have better singing qualities than this year’s artist might be tempted to join, Sam Ryder for example is welcome to return.

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