Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Making Our Mind Up
There's just over two months until Eurovision 2016 lights up Stockholm, but we're still to find out who'll be flying the flag for us on stage in the Globen Arena.
Presumably, an announcement from SBS and Blink TV is only days away - given that all entries must be announced by mid-March.
Already, several countries have chosen their representatives - Ireland's sending a former Westlifer, Russia's gone with one of their biggest stars, while Ukraine just selected a pointedly anti-Russian song about WWII atrocities. In Sweden, the Melodifestivalen extravaganza is reaching the semi-final stage and the UK is hosting their first public vote in years this weekend.
So, who's going to represent Australia?
Well, we know that it's going to be an established artist, directly chosen by SBS and Blink TV. Given the success they had with Guy Sebastian last year, and the existing relationship they have with his label Sony, it's probably not too much of a stretch to think they'll return to familiar stomping ground.
That's why I reckon we'll be sending Delta Goodrem to Sweden.
Despite the petitions for Shannon Noll to be given the nod, I just can't see the producers going past Delta - particularly since Jess Mauboy's already had her shot on the Eurovision stage with the interval show back in 2014.
Delta ticks a lot of boxes: she's already top of the betting to represent us, she's signed to Sony, she's got a new album in the works, she's no stranger to performing at big shows - plus she also has Eurovision connections, having penned Australia's inaugural Junior Eurovision entry last year (Bella Paige's My Girls, which finished a respectable 9th).
It makes sense that she'd also write her own entry for the senior contest, although a recent story in my local paper seems to suggest that producers have been scouting around songwriters trying to find a song, with one about maths in the running. (As an aside, that song sounds like absolute garbage - just the kind of thing that non-Eurovision fans think the contest is about, "tee hee, a silly song about maths!" - but we'd be laughed off the stage with such a novelty joke entry).
However, as we know I'm not always on the money with my Eurovision predictions. We'll just have to wait and see who the producers choose - whoever it is, they'll have a lot more work to do this year, having to compete in the Second Semi-Final on 12 May in order to secure a place in the Grand Final.
Fingers crossed they won't be singing about maths.
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