United Kingdom UNITED KINGDOM 2023 - Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[HarryUK]

I'd never heard of her until like 2 days ago.

I'm totally over all these apparent teases and hints tbh, it just makes me eyeroll. Its hard to tell what is legit and what is total bull at this point.

Everyone's just in denial that it's Jane McDonald tbh

 

[Leydan]

Everyone's just in denial that it's Jane McDonald tbh

The sooner shes announced the better. Then all these false rumours and click bait can end.

 

[HarryUK]

The sooner shes announced the better. Then all these false rumours and click bait can end.

I expect a polystyrene cruise ship on stage at least

 

[empo21]

I'm just going to google British artists, choose a name and toss them in the ring as well.

It's Boy George!

 

[HarryUK]

I'm just going to google British artists, choose a name and toss them in the ring as well.

It's Boy George!

He'd have a catfight with Gustaph backstage for his hat

 

[MopManMoss]

So it’s a woman with a catchy song that we have heard before?

 

[HarryUK]

So it’s a woman with a catchy song that we have heard before?

Leave Irish SuRie out of this

 

[MopManMoss]

Leave Irish SuRie out of this

If you watched Eurosong you’d know that Leila Jane is actually Ireland’s Sia

 

[HarryUK]

If you watched Eurosong you’d know that Leila Jane is actually Ireland’s Sia

I did suffer that mess sadly

 

[randajad]

I'd never heard of her until like 2 days ago.

I'm totally over all these apparent teases and hints tbh, it just makes me eyeroll. Its hard to tell what is legit and what is total bull at this point.

It was fun for a while, but now it’s just annoying

 

[HarryUK]

If the deadline was April and not March, TaP and the BBC would have probably received threatening letters

 

[Leydan]

It was fun for a while, but now it’s just annoying

Honestly yeah. Especially when all these totally mid songs keep getting thrown about. Like Mimis performance of Red Flags on TV last night was so totally lifeless and unimpressive. People are aguing its TaP strategy to build hype and tease, but you can only inflate a balloon so much before it explodes.

 

[timmy121]

Rina with Frankenstein

 

[ChiversLookDivine]

Just my 2 cents but announcing on the 7th wouldn’t be completely random as that’s when the first tickets go on sale and doing so mid-week would help prevent other selected acts from overshadowing the announcement. I‘m not sure I see much logic in dropping it on the 10th on the eve of Loreen’s confirmation but other than the fact Space Man dropped on that date last year, is there anything that would indicate it’s more likely to be then than the 12th or 13th, say?

It does sound like it might be an unreleased song from what can be drawn from Graham and Zoe’s chat on Radio 2 which assuming it is Rina, checks out for me based on the fact most of the stand out tracks from Hold The Girl seem to have been either performed once before or released as singles prior to the September deadline.

Sorry I should have made it clearer - if it's a new release it will be late Thursday or early Friday because Friday is the day of UK song releases. So the 7th would be completely random, not to mention there's no way it'll go out when the tickets go on sale on the same day.

As for Rina songs, people should keep an eye on 'Flavour of the Month', a demo that was exclusive to the Japanese release of the album. Shorter than 3 minutes, and as a demo it's got potential to be worked on further.

 

[ChiversLookDivine]

Didn't TaP say somewhere in their initial statement that they wanted to explore options of non-British born artists?? That would fit Rina - British citizen born in Japan...

Yes, several times now when people pointed this out in the thread, yeah.

The catch is that she's actually not British at all, as Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship. So she's Japanese and not British at all despite having lived here most of her life, and proudly talks about being British.

TaP basically told us it's her then.

 

[HarryUK]

You know I'm almost sad the conspiracy theories are gonna be over this week, it's been fun guys!

 

[StephenMuckle]

I have another reason to think it's Mae Muller. She recorded stuff for Radio 1 at Maida Vale studios, which was the exact same thing Sam Ryder did this time last year shortly before his announcement. And to top it off she has been friends with Ben Mawson for years. Wouldn't be surprised if she was the plan from the beginning.

 

[HarryUK]

I'm predicting a Wednesday announcement with a Friday drop

 

[ESC_Peggy]

I have another reason to think it's Mae Muller. She recorded stuff for Radio 1 at Maida Vale studios, which was the exact same thing Sam Ryder did this time last year shortly before his announcement. And to top it off she has been friends with Ben Mawson for years. Wouldn't be surprised if she was the plan from the beginning.

She recorded a session for Future Pop but she posted that TikTok a few weeks later and that’s already out unless she did something else too. It’s sad if true but the industry is corrupt.

 

[HarryUK]

TikTok - Make Your Day

He’s back again!