Sunlight Into Wine

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Nicky Byrne – Sunlight

Eurovision watcher Fluffybiscuits writes:

Ireland has chosen its Eurovision entry and its Nicky Byrne. The song is great – its a catchy upbeat happy soft rock song. It fits in to the whole Eurovision genre of catchy songs. That is not where the problem lies, the problem lies with Nicky’s vocals. Personally I have always considered him the weakest singer in Westlife, Im hoping he does well live. It has the ability to do very well. I predict it qualifying from the semi final….

Fight!

*croak*

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48 thoughts on “Sunlight Into Wine”

      2. Fergus the magic postman

        When you say they all it sounds like there was more than one to choose from. Was this the case does anyone know? Genuine question.

  5. ollie

    Do people like Nicky Byrne hang around at the gates of RTE for work?
    Lottery show: Rubbish
    Radio Career: Rubbish
    Reality TV: Failure

  7. ahyeah

    “Personally I have always considered him the weakest singer in Westlife”

    #dearfukinggodsaveusfromthesefukingimbeciles

  8. lolly

    “shudder” indeed. also my 15 year old son has a haircut exactly like that, as do most of the lads in his class – it looks ridiculous on him given that he is nearly 40

  11. Jak

    Is there a MOR in MOR?

    What RTE (aka the people within RTE) don’t seem to realise is that it is all about the ‘staging’.

    Sweden’s entry last year had shag all to do with little cartoon men (aka lyrics-wise) but it was the staging that impressed.

    Even disliked Russia (with the boo-ing from the audience) came second (or third – I can’t remember) because it was a grand song, sang very well, but also staged well (and that includes camera choices during the performance – for example, the female singer’s dress flowed out onto the floor in a circle, underneath which the graphics of the stage lit it up).

    We don’t stage our songs well – simple as. And I can’t see that changing this year. If we make it through to the final, it will more than likely be because of a ‘westlife’ vote, which I presume RTE are counting on, but if they are counting on us actually winning or doing well in the final because of that, they are deluging themselves.

    Eurovision likes new. Eurovision for the last number of years does not like old – previous winners have attempted to win it by including Niamh Kavanagh (us) Dana International (Israel – and didn’t make it out of the semi finals), Charolotte Nelson/Perrilli (for Sweden – again not out of the semis) and Carola (for Sweden – who admittedly managed to finish in the top 10 in the finals) but there’s no in-built automatic ‘love’ for them – or votes.

    Nicky’s song – even now, at about 2.10 mins (when he starts into singing ‘Come Turn Me’ (thanks handy lyrical video) needs to change up its backing – rather than continue the similar beat in it. But that’s just my opinion!

    1. fluffybiscuits

      I’ll concede that a good show does make a massive difference but that is not necessarily true. Lena in 2010 and certainly Conchita won because of the song and Conchita was an internal selection. Backing singers from Ireland have tended to be poor (Can Linn, Niamh Kavanagh etc). You are correct in that a good show does make a difference but the song is important too. The Russian song last year was good if we take away the stage and theatrical performance.

      1. ahjayzis

        This song and last years sound like they were written by a computer algorithm set to ‘crap pop’ though. I love cheese, btu this is cheese that goes nowhere, no crescendo, no life-affirming STEPsiness. It’s europop by committee. And our staging last year sucked also. We’re not nailing either criteria.

        Lipstick by Jedward (god forgive me) was the closest I’ve seen us get, and that was a stomper in fairness to them, and the stagey gimmick was them being adorable (on first encounter) twins.

  12. Jak

    Conchita’s stage was amazing – it fit the stage perfectly. The long shot tracking in with the spotlight on her at the start – to the fire wings of the Phoenix perfectly shot so that Conchita was centre of them.

    Yes, the song is important, but the staging of it is equally as important – and can make or break an okay song. It can, however, bring a good song down – or even more so, raise a good song up.

    Nicky’s song is quite bland. And if it was to do any good in the competition, it would need amazing staging, and the RTE heads don’t seem to get that.

          1. ahjayzis

            Fluffy has a comments stalker who’s, like, obsessed with him.

            I had one a while back, I wonder if we’re sharing this one!

      2. Jak

        Q; Do you you reckon it should be stage?
        A: Well.

        I don’t have the plans for what the Eurovision stage will look like this year – what panels and graphics would be available, nor the camera plans – so I have no idea.

        I will accept, however, that both of Sweden’s two recent winners didn’t care about the stage in the host country, and brought their own staging to it. But that was after both songs won through the Meldofestival in which all the camera angles and cuts had been planned out from the start – and so every performance was exactly the same – I believe there is a comparison video for the 6 performances last year’s winner did to see how well he interacted each time with the projection.

  13. fluffybiscuits

    @ahjayzis Im flattered that my comments stalker sees fit to follow me. I never really fought of the blokes so my self esteem is on the up! If he gets bored I’ll send him back over!

      2. rotide

        Small town chip on shoulder type of thing, Think Ireland/England NZ/Australia type of quasi jealousy.

  16. J

    Go Fluffy. Out with the traditional campfest and in with authentic singing . #newpolitics#corruptmedia#2016 pinkwashing

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