A Song For Europe 2003 (ASFE UK Final for Eurovision) FULL
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Broadcast on 02/03/2002 Where 4 songs were competing to represent the United Kingdom in Riga for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.
Jemini "Cry Baby"
Simon Chapman "Now and Forever"
Mimi "Ever Since That Night"
Emily Reed "Help Me"
I worked at a call centre in Croydon from 2003 onwards. Emily Reed was next to me at my induction - we had to say something interesting about ourselves to the person next to us to share with the group - mine was really boring - about running the marathon or something - Emily said she’d come second in the Song for Europe competition. She was really nice and I remember thinking it must have been a real comedown to work in a call centre after that. This is the first time I’ve seen this and I see she was robbed, particularly given the ultimate result in the competition! Thank you for posting and Emily, I hope you are doing well!
Congratulations Jemini, you've won your place to represent the UK at Eurovision.....to be the first ever UK entry to score nul points!!!
This is the only contest I wish they'd never uploaded.
jemini deserve much more then nul points atlist place 22-18
We have had nul points since
Well, to be fair - without the language rule the UK would already have scored a zero much earlier ...
A record entry of over 1000 songs but the public are only allowed to choose from four. How "Cry Baby" got onto this shortlist must be the greatest miracle in the history of popular music. Imagine how angry the writers of the other 900 odd songs must have been feeling. When the UK used to be competitive there used to be anything from 8 to 12 finalists. Having finished third in 2002 maybe the BBC were scared of winning again and wanted to avoid the expense of having to stage it again.
Emily Reed was clearly the best. A great voice. I am sure the song would have done well in Riga.
This is what you get for holding your national final at 4:35 on a Sunday afternoon between that week's enthralling installment of _Songs of Praise_ and an especially dull episode of _Last of the Summer Wine._
The population of the UK in 2003 was 59.5 million. Amount of televotes received? 100,000, according to Wogan. Not exactly representative of the great public, if you ask me. But maybe that's why it took like five seconds to tally up the votes? I mean, didn't Wogan first say that the lines are now closed, and then moved on straight to collecting the votes? 🙄 But, anyway, that was almost twenty years ago ... whatcha gonna do about it now? 😉😎🍺
Emily Hill should have won. The only one that could actually sing.
Apparently, Emily Reed won the pre-selection on votes cast by 2,500 televotes. If you look at the voting, her top marks came off two large regions the South and the Midlands. She'd have been a good bet for a Top 15 in Riga easily - beautiful song and with a bit of time and rehearsals she'd have nailed it. We eliminated two decent songs in the radio semi final - "First Night" by SK which was a slag song but an R+B ballad and "Do Anything For Your Love" by Fenix which was a radio tune a la Estonia 2002.
Everyone, this is a matter of national importance. We must perfect time travel so that we can go back to this final and stop Jemini from ever taking part.
Absolutely ridiculous Emily Reed (Help Me) didn’t go through that year and it probably would have retained some credibility for us going forward instead of the disappointment we experienced.
Let's face it, it was the introduction of the regional jury that screwed it all up. Emily Reed got more votes overall, but lost out when votes were divided regionally... wonder where we've seen that before....!!!!!!
The irony is that Now and Forever probably would have got some points from various countries (perhaps Ireland and Sweden) if it had been entered.
“All the way to Latvia!!!”
Theory - The BBC couldn't afford to host the contest so they fixed the voting to make dead sure we would not win
They've been doing that almost every year since.
Everyone talking about Jemini, and all I'm thinking is that the Midland announcers went on to host bake off
I always thought they performed so well in the national selection but their performance in Riga was terrible. Liked their outfits better in this version too.
Yeah.... I've a feeling that all four entries were playback. 😉😄
@@danielvanr.8681 they weren’t
This was as out of tune as that one. Cold hard fact: they couldn't sing. Simple as that
It took me so long to realise why Emily Reid looked familiar..... shes the girl on the kfc mini fillet burger advert singing at the train station!!!!!! I’m sure of it
The Emily's song was the best of this final.
I actually LOVE this song..that's all from a greek girl...
Never perform a pop song which has a natural sense of dissonance in a live setting. Page 1. Even a highly accomplished singer would have trouble to filter the urge to attempt to correct what registers as discordance to the ear, making the vocal even worse and more off key. Add to this two singers that are noticeably pitchy (and that's being kind) and there was only ever going to be one outcome, which is utter disaster. The mistakes on stage were simply the reflection of the mistakes that had led to Jemini 'performing' this monstrosity at the finals. It's so obvious that what was going to happen happened that I find it inconceivable that there wasn't at least one competent person involved in the process there to step in to not allow this train-wreck to go ahead. How did a corporation which is allowed to fleece the vast majority of UK households who own a TV still manage not to employ a single person with the knowledge which is basic and common to even the average pub singer?
No.3 was the best!
Agreed
Oh boy Cry baby is even worse when seeing it beating Emily Reed. Yes how on earth didn't she win. I think because UK does not have any interest in the contest anymore and certainly don't want to win.
She reminded me a bit of Stacey Solomon. It was the best song. The only use for Song Number 1 as far as I can see is that the dance helped me with a bowel movement.
Sunday 2nd March 2003
If ever there was a reason to keep our FPTP Westminster voting system its this. Whenever the UK public have been given a direct vote on anything, they screw up.
Jemini were much better here
To,be fair it wouldn't be hard to be better than they were on the night at Eurovision.
All the entries were pretty bad this year... no wonder Jemini won. Fault with bbc for obtaining a bad shortlist (and a panel of people representing regions that they aren't from? what is that even about... london-centric, much?)
I mean honestly any entry except Jemini would get at least 1 point in Eurovision
After 1998 only 2002+2009 in top ten
And now in 2022
Well, since 1999 the advantage of singing in English is gone - just have a look at the results of Ireland, Malta and the UK since then ...
I used to love english programs on tv
Such beautiful people
A lot of Americans are so cold
Just their smile brights your day
How the hell did Emily Reed not win this? She was clearly so much better than Jemini. Mind you, perhaps after the slow song the previous year we figured it would be good to have something more uptempo.
I am sick of ballads. Nobody knows how well she would have done and I liked Jemini and they can sing but had a horrible night. Harshly treated afterwards.
Jemini aren't quite as bad here as they were in Riga. Mind you, Joe & Jake last year were also much better in the NF (we were robbed last year).
Blame the uk for not voting Simon Chapman that should've won it
Not much of a choice with 4 songs? ;)
I now feel that we would have been better off sending Emily Reed over Jemini.
Jemini sort of had to happen.
I do think that she would have been more successful.
Been reading Tim Moore's excellent book "Nul Points" - about all songs which didn't score at Eurovision.
This was probably the best song and performance out of the 4 on the night, but it feels a bit dated for 2003 - more Kylie era, early 90s. I know they complained about the sound when they performed at the ESC, but neither is a great singer - even on this performance she can't hold a note.
Poor song number 2 got nothing here!
Excellent? I would rather say people shouldn't pay a single penny for this book ...
Welcome to the motherland of pop music! 😨
Ever since that night was robbed
Jesus they're all so dated and underwhelming... The BBC was/is so clueless about Eurovision
Old tax dodger was as out of tune here as she was in the final. "Monitors not working" my arse.
wow. this is the reason the U.K. public should never be given power haha
How the hell this ever won the vote that year is incredible! But I know why. UK arrogance. Oh it sounds stupid. Therefor it sounds Eurovision. We will vote for that. The reward for that is of course, years in the wilderness of Eurovision. Lol.
Get fucked, John.
The wilderness of Eurovision?
You're a poet, man ... 🌹 😁😸
Can we get rid of ballads as entries it’s boring and stale
Bubble gum pop never had good results at the ESC.
Ukraine - Verka Serduchka - Eurovision 2007 - came 2nd place
It wasn't bubble gum pop, but shit
Verka Serduchka was an amazing episode of trolling, cheating Russian Grannies then shamelessly copied it
Dancing Lasha Tumbai is an ESC classic!
1967 1968 1969 1974 1975 1976 1978 1979 all had very light pop winners, there is more than that but I don’t feel like naming them
This was not live they where crap
This was live, I was there but the votes were on the table before the phone lines were even closed, during the 3 rehearsals during the day, the same people won the “mock” vote. Very disheartening for the other 3 acts, I would have thought
Very mediocre songs and none of them really good singers
Jemini sang really well here.