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  • Not my style of music, but this should of been in the top 10 atleast. I think it's because the Eastern European countries vote for eachother.

  • I may be a very minute minority who didn't like this. It's far too dated... :S As our most of our bloomin' entries. Throughout the competition I've always felt the UK has been behind the times. SOmetimes if people are feeling nostalgiac they'll vote but clearly this year they weren't. It's SO 70s no wonder people didn't vote. :/

  • Best song ever in the Eurovision

    /Sweden

  • THE BEST

  • One of the best UK acts! And so what if most of the people on stage black? I'm not the one being rascist, but those who are can suck it! Estonia sent a black man in its act in 2001 and it won! So, stop racism!

  • La meilleure cette année-là et le meilleure "entry" que le Royaume-Uni ait envoyé à l'eurovision depuis qu'elle existe.

    What a show !! Andy is the greatest . Eurofans do not deserve such a performance.

    The voting was incredible. All was too good. Break it down, break it down...

    My twelve points (from Marseille) go to UK, definitely.

  • Great song i dont understand tis song last in final nooo i dont get it ... -.-

    its a GREAT SONG !!!

    Greetz from holland :)

  • I loved this.

  • La mejor cancion de 2008!!! En Eurovisión no se sabe apreciar el talento, sólo es un espectáculo de luces, los cantantes son penosos, me avergüenzo de España. Esta fué la que más me gustó

  • At the introduction of United Kingdom, Terry Wogan say that it's a bad thing that UK is one of the first to sing... Why?

  • @Aleksander0525 He was refering to the dreaded 2nd act. Nobody who has performed second has ever won and those acts usually do pretty badly. I think this was a great song. I don't put the result down to politics, I put it down to the fact that it appeared to early in the contest, against some fantastic competition. I am confident that if it had appeared much later, we could have been in the top 10.

    

  • I'm not being racist but the rest of Europe is. So sending 6 black people isn't the best way to do well in a European

  • I love this...best UK entry since Imaani, but not a winner! Should have been top ten.

  • This is a good song! And andy's vocal performance is pretty damn good! No idea how it finished bottom.

  • I get so pissed off that this song finished last. Should have been top 5

  • very late 60's early 70's style but it wasn't that bad how didn't we at least get into top 10?

  • LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

  • This certainly didn't deserve the last spot! I mean, yes it is a bad song... but still better than a lot of other songs in this contest.

  • LOL I remember this.....

  • OMG he came second on The X facotor!!

  • Wow, I am only pointing out something that I have read up. Either way I wouldn't brag about Gordon Brown who as the Chancellor of the Exchequer pretty much screwed up the country. Either way there has never been talk of England breaking away from Britain as we're proud . . . . . Unlike Scotland who's SNP got the majority as they did promise a vote to see if they wanted independence and the fact that you called me a "fanny" just goes to show you can't be civilised and just make your point !!!

  • I am sorry, but what the hell does Scottish independence have to do with andy abraham or eurovision? go find an appropriate video.

  • @ScottDanielJackson Check previous comments and you'll see why this subject was brought up !!!!

  • @TheCravenCottager OR. I could just watch Andy and not pay attention to morons on youtube.

  • @ScottDanielJackson Well if you just wanted to watch the video why comment in the first place ???? May I suggest you keep quiet in future and just enjoy the song?

  • Makes me laugh, the UK have always finished respectfully in the competition, however since the war which was opposed by 95% of the world took place against terrorism the UK have never come anywhere to winning !!! Now they changed the vote so it's half public and half Panel the Uk have picked up more points . . . coincidence? I THINK NOT !!!

  • @TheCravenCottagerIts Its idiotic, childish and hypocritical of Europe, it only shows how still immature, nationalistic and politically driven the continent still is. Its a bloody song contest not political football to be used in that way. Why should good artists like these be punished for the mistakes that Blair and Bush made over Iraq? No wonder they changed the entire voting system after this final debacle.

  • @Professor6871 Well said . . . . . even though this is how we feel . . . . . . try convincing Europe !!!!

  • @TheCravenCottager

    Actually this year, the UK would have come 5th based on the televote.

    The jury marked them 23rd (or something like that)

    So the jury actually marked the UK DOWN and we came 10th.

  • @BouncealongInf

    Well I stand corrected then buddy !!! I can't see the UK winning anytime soon though lol

  • I hate this song, it is so boring. Michelle Gayle was a much better song - at least I could remember it.

  • @ComoEstas15 Without the juries, Germany and Norway still would have won. In fact, Lena's victory in the televotes was even bigger than that in the combined votes, and she won by just 2 points in the jury votes. Norway still would have won by a massive amount, but by a slightly smaller margin.

  • It's a shame we don't have a better block, we could win every year!

    The problem with our 2008 entry was that its not very catchy, its easy to forget and I didn't really know the song before the final.

  • @ferretmanboy

    the east-block politics...

    all the neighbour-countries vote on eache other, but england has no much neighbour-countries...

  • @mathiasvanacker I'm a Scot and I'm offended by the fact you said "England", because it doesn't compete in the eurovision song contest - THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND does. That means that the same song represents not only England, but also Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - just saying England is ignoring the 10 million people in the UK who are not English. You should be ashamed of you're rudness and ignorance.

  • @johnjohnnyist Iff the Scottish people have it their way they will break away from the UK just like ROI. And just like ROI will go bankrupt as they can't stand alone. FACT: ENGLAND, NOT THE UK are one of 5 main contributors to this competition. So before you start saying how insulted you are do your research and know your history !!!! Eitherway this is a great song !!!

  • @TheCravenCottager But we wouldn't want bag pipes or Donld where's your trousers every year if they break away from the UK.

  • @Professor6871 Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low . . . . . . AND BLOW SCOTLAND AWAY IF THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT. They'll regret sooner or later !!!

  • @TheCravenCottager what kind of boring country would england be on it's own anyway?

    FACT - the united kingdom is a sovereign state recently had a scottish prime minister.

    '' England has not been for more than 300 years and you voted in thatcher and voted in the tosspots who're the british government now (Scotland voted labour in all of the relevant elections). Still proud of england's contribution to the united kingdom?

    If you are you're a tory and will rot in hell as a result.

  • @johnjohnnyist England is the United Kingdom. Scottish and Wales cannot support themselves on their own so they just leach off of England.

  • @TheCravenCottager actually you dae ken whit yer on aboot. am scottish and british ye fanny. Plus i DON'T want independence, cos despite prejudiced wankers like you i'm proud to be british

    Also 90% of the uk's oil is in scottish waters. I think i know who the ignorant one is. sae shut yer pus!

  • @TheCravenCottager PS you're pointing out the fact that southern ireland is in a spot of bother. Small matter is, so are we! I wouldn't gloat if i were you

  • @TheCravenCottager The fact that Ireland is in economical trouble doesn't have anything to do with the country "not being able to stand alone" as you put it. The whole economic saga is in fact trans European... it spread from Greece, to Ireland and then to Portugal. Even two of the economic giants of Europe Italy and Spain are not immune. No country can be totally immune to economic collapse... including the USA... and the useless and pointless euro currency doesn't help matters either..

  • Their was nothing wrong with this it shouldve been 1st.

  • Unforgetable and amazing party in beautifull Belgrade,Serbia,...fantastic stage,scenography,all details,very tasty ,perfectly directed..... Andy was great...!

  • This song is AWSOME! How the fuck they won the 23rd place?

  • @ferretmanboy He finish in the last place :(( INJUSTICE!!!

  • @ferretmanboy Unbelievable! I think this is when Terry Wogon decided to leave show because it only got to 23rd place.

  • @ferretmanboy i always thought we may of got higher in the points.... its better than some of the people above on the list that year

  • @ferretmanboy im sorry to say we came 25th (last)

  • Honestly, this didn't deserve last place. We were robbed!

    His vocals are spot on and he gave a really nice performance. Then you have some anorexic russian goat who wins with such a bad performance. Ironic.

  • i liked that song.

  • OMG thats so bad....(; Sry.. But he can not sing.!.

  • @Jackie15151 are you crazy. yes he can sing. he may not be the best but he can sing. You probably don't like the genre but don't say that the guy can't sing because if he couldn't, the UK wouldn't have made him as their representative.

  • Why is UK still taking part ? It's obvious that since 2000 they don't care about this contest at all.

  • how on earth did we not win

  • Tbh, there are loads of people callling this song 'crony' and 'the lyrics mean nothing'.

    Let's be honest, none of the eurovision songs do! this deserved top 3, and it finished last.

    I hate to suggest a division, but there should be a 'West Eurovison' with no political votes!

  • @whooyeeh123

    You say that even after Germany and Norway (ie NOT Eastern Europe) won?

  • yeah i mean seriously the uk are awesome! at least they're not facing neighbor problems in eurovision like us! (malta -.-)

  • It's catchy but still too repetitive. Anyway, it was a nice song and performance. For those who say UK is hated in eurovision, next year they got 5º position (with a very old-fashion song well sung), so I guess they have the same oportunity than any other country.

  • this is the biggest load of sh*t in the history of eurovision!

  • I liked this. Better than spains whores and "comedian"

  • That's what i call a career killer!

  • Its Me With Andy ; ) Love this man he's so so cool 0)

  • This song should have been in the top 10 for two reasons

    1. He was runner up in the X Factor

    2. Terry Wogan said it was britians best entry

  • I watched the pre-selection show Eurovision: Your Decision that year. This song was the best of a bad bunch. Could you imagine if the British public had sent Michelle Gayle that year? We would have been nul points again. Sorry, but Russia deserved to win that year. And the UK deserved last place.

  • I am from the UK and this song wasn't the best song on the night. I know the songwriters from Absolute have got a good history of chart topping songs but this one is disappointing. Look at the chart position on the UK singles chart - it reached number 67 then dropped out of the charts a week later. Andy Abraham is a good singer but the song was rubbish. That is the only reason why it did not do well on the night

  • i just had a brainwave! it's not that europe didn't like the song, they are jealous cos it's so good, so they don't dare vote for it so that their song looks better than ours. Thanks to Ireland and San Marino, we got some points. He deserved a lot more. C'mon Europe. Dima Bilan? He was undoubtly the weakest.

  • Million Times better than Dima Bilan!

    At least he can sing! I'm not just saying this because I'm British but this deffo deserved a Top 10 placing!! Not last!!

  • Ok, with 2010's song/performance and this. ITS NOT A LAST PLACE SONG! I'm beginning to think europe hates the UK.

  • @personwithface1 Yeah. We saved them from Nazi's and this is what they give us.

  • it was undoubtly one of the most energetic and "fall-in-love-euro-style" song!

  • this is pretty groovy

  • This man deserves some credits.

  • This performance is so underrated. Andy's voice is brilliant and he oozes confidence. UK should have been in the top 5. Fuck politics, and fuck all the stupid countries that didn't vote for us and had shitty entries >:(

  • lmao @ this!!!!! seriously who wud vote 4 dis lolz.

    this looks soo wierd

  • This was the only good song that year and unfortunatley it came last in the final (I belive). It was this song which stood out from the crowd, it´s a shame that the folks of Europe didn´t vote for this song, those stupid asses.

  • What the fuck is this.

  • lol

  • he has a good voice and does a good performance, but the song is unfortunately very forgettable. still funny to hear the brits going on and on about how the whole europe hate them because they score so bad year after year. they dont realize that they send bad songs (nay, worse than the other bad songs) year after year, and have almost no neighboors to give them sympathy points. they look at their little girl through a fathers eyes, combine that with a swollen national ego and u get sad brits :)

  • @superbex1

    i am british and i totaly agree with you we send utter shit every year!

  • @wombat581 stfu, this performance was amazing, so was our entry in 2009. Most of the other countries enter this bullshit contest with wacky crap that fucking sucks

  • @superbex1 Ugh shutup bitch. We have our bad entries, but sometimes the UK put out amazing acts which don't do well because the rest of Europe are jealous of our superior wealth and power ;) fuck the lot of them

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  • I thought this was a really good. Worthy of being in the top ten. Just a shame that the rest of Europe hates us and that half the countries are still really racist.

  • @acrownofworms True. Shame some people think we are just moaning when we aren't. Our entries are sometimes bad, but often alot better than these other countries that our obviously jealous of the UK because we matter and they don't

  • very godd song

  • United Kingdom was better than Russia.

  • Beat sounds,colorful stage,this is the MOST beautiful entry on ESC 2008. It must get higher score. One of the best song at ESC 2008.

  • Without a doubt,... the best vocal at Belgrade ESC,... :-)

  • What a boring bland song,its no wonder it didn't win

  • i think that everyone in the europe want that the "rich" country look at alexander rybak he won coz he was from the RICH country NORWAY coz 2009 was not a good year for the rest country in for economic problems BUT Norway was a really GOOD year so won becuse they have no economic problems!!!!

  • i apreciate a lot this song

  • Amazing performance by Andy very good song too yet we finished where we did :|

  • Very, very good song!!!

  • terrible....go back to collectin bins andy cos ya shit!

  • @TheBjg1980 He was not terrible, that was a normal song, no crazy "Floor Show" or silly movements.

  • This is a much better song than that repetitive It's My Time, yet this came last and that came 5th?

  • was he on xfactor?

  • Apparently, people think ESC is an absolute farce because we haven't won in 13 years.

    What the fuck are they moaning about? Portugal have never won, France won in 77, and Germany have only won once. We are one of the luckiest, but not with shit like this.

  • @jonathonbartle you're right, it's not fixed...however the votes are not cast on the quality of the songs, it is instead cast on the popularity of the country in question. So basically it's a popularity contest...the UK will always fail in that sort of contest as we are not liked by pretty much the whole of Europe.

  • @mouseycou I couldn´t have said it better myself. (Btw, I don´t hate UK) I think Sweden, my country, would have a bigger chance of winning if we sang in swedish and didn´t try to imitate other countries.

  • @jonathonbartle germany won this year

  • @jonathonbartle About Portugal...shame on ESC for that cause let's be honest...we've send some of the best songs that show has ever seen..but we don't get the credit..instead ppl love monster looking like bands...or ppl dressing up in fur coats and stuff like that..no offense to the other countries though..

    and this last year..germany?! the true winners never win..and that's the worst..

  • @jonathonbartle This is the best song and performer we had in years and didn't deserve to come where he did in the contest.. Amazing voice, he sung with passion and pride and performed for his life.. Fab song Fab performance 12 points

  • @jonathonbartle This is the best song and performer we had in years and didn't deserve to come where he did in the contest.. Amazing voice, he sung with passion and pride and performed for his life.. Fab song Fab performance 12 points

  • @jonathonbartle exactly, were only second behind ireland on number of wins (they have won 7, weve won 5)

  • No wonder we came last...Its not a good song. Lets hope us Brits do well this year...Come on United Kingdom

  • guys this was the best song of this Eurovision. I love it! good luck this year to UK.

  • Why does everyone have to allways say "there's no point in the UK taking part" yes there is!!! Eurovision is awesome

  • La cnción estubo simpática, pero a este señor alguien debió darle unas bases de como estar en el escenario, que aprecía que le estaba dando un ataque epileptico.

  • @Farto126 No todo son ventiladores, coreografías hiperestudiadas y guiños a cámara de putón berbenero.

    Grande Andy.

  • but UK came four in 2009 :)

  • this is shit

    no wounder us brits never win urovison

  • this is dismal. i can entierly understand why nobody voted for us

  • lol

    Shame on this song! Didn't you find anything better? Chiki chiki ended up higher! Hahaha.

  • unfortunately ( you want to know why? VISCA CATALUNYA LLIURE¡¡¡)

  • Perdón? A ti te llueve eh...

  • no , ahora en serio , lo que he dicho antes lo pienso , pero me divertí mucho con el chiki chiki , ademas cuando el chiki chiki aun no era independentista

  • I love this song!

  • Eastern Europe is like 5000 years behind - their not going to understand UK music.

  • @jackd166 well... you might be wright, but I have to say, I come from Poland and I was votin on this song, its nearly 2 years after this and I still dont understand why this song was last

  • The problem is that no-one really likes the uk, (but normally countries close 2 each other support each other)......so france and other countries should give us 10's.........but they h8 us

  • Imagine the embarrassment if we sent michelle gayle! ........you make me wooho......yeah

  • In all honesty, the song is alright.

  • Russia won because of the Ex Soviet nations, but fuckin' hell take nothing away from Dima Bilan, it was a really good song, I personally think Israel should have won :)

  • he can sing (but nothing special or wow) and the performance wasnt interesting or anything which is why it did rubbish but should be about 20th even tho some of the other entries were crap lol im from england

  • I don't see how some songs did better than this? Seriosuly 2008 only had about 7 good songs and about 5 average songs and then a pile of sh*t...

    This song was total cheese and not so good, but his vocals were flawless and he deserved at least a 15th but in my opinion he deserved a 10th

  • I don't care what the haters say. I loved this song and thought it should've gotten through to the top 5. I think that him being black definitely played a part in it not going through.

  • Awesome song.I thought it at least deserved Top 5. Not my first (Spain) But HOW did Bosnia not come in last place instead of this? Goodness. U.K. was even WAY better than Germany.

  • GREAT SONG!

  • great song!!!!!! lol there is a a Australian flag at 3:13

  • haha thats a UNION JACK FLAG haha ;) DOH!

  • This is AWESOME, Come on people!! We were robbed! Should have been in the Top 10. This did crap due to political voting, that's why! And that's also why Russia won too.

  • Just because I prefered this to the Russian entry dosen't mean i'm an asshole, get lost.

  • There is HUGE energy in this performance!! Andy is vocally spot on. Best UK entry in last ten years. Much better than ballad this year!

  • i completly agree.. one of the best live vocal performances of the contest this year. Well done UK

  • actually interestingly, all of Russia's 12 points in 2008 came from Eastern Bloc countries.

    Interpret how you want...

  • Exactly, all of Russia's points came from former Soviet states. Therefore wins. If their entry represented the UK, it would prevail. This would do better if it represented Russia. Therefore, politics gained Russia's undeserved victory.

  • UK needs some more Commonwealth/former commonwealth realms in Europe rather than just Ireland, Malta and Cyprus!!

    I think Canada should be part of Europe :P

  • Agree, but also UK dosen't seem to take this seriously. Other countries send big artists and great songs. We send nobodys with bad songs. We had Andrew Lloyd Webber this year and look what happened! Nonetheless, this is good and deserved more points I think.

    Hehe, the more the merrier!

  • Also agree!

    I really liked this song, I do think Andy Abraham has such consistent singing. The song wasn't rubbish either.

  • Definately underrated. Not just saying that because I'm British x)

    Best that year was Ukraine.

  • haha, yea same!

    My favourite was probably Greece. I really did not rate Russia at all!

  • Neither do I. His 2006 entry was better

  • nice to see that estonia , latvia , and lithuania gived points to russia too , and they dont like it so much¡¡¡

  • @SaNBeanz I totally agree with you....

  • Funky song, shitty choriography.

  • There's no denying that Andy's a great singer, it's just unfortunate that this song was utter pants. It's just not memorable in the slightest and IMO it did deserve to come where it did.

  • He was a disgrace to us brits in 2008, Jade Ewen however, an honor to the UK yhuu did us proud girl, Andy, yhuu let us down =[

  • This is a bucket load of crap and anyone who says that its good. Is a sucking up to Andy cuz they come from the uk.

  • Im from the UK and I would never stick up for shiit like this!

  • I don't get why this came last, one of the best performances of the night!

  • This performance was awful. People complain about britain not getting any votes...but with acts like this no wonder. Take Jade for example, this year, she came 5th. =]

  • Dont u think the JURIES had something to do with that?

  • came 10th in televoting.. which is the best a big 4 country has done for years

  • Crap!

  • Wow was it eurovision 1972 ?

  • lol... XD

  • yeah but andry rules! he's such a lovely bloke, and he's come on such a long way =)

  • I'm not surprised it was last - CHEESY! I am from UK as well!

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  • Definately shouldn't have been last! Such a shame he did, he sang really well! Quite like this.

  • well at least it's different and unique last year... not bad but at little bit outdated...

  • I agree.

  • come on britain...what were you thinking?

  • Man, this song makes me smile even on the worst of days. ;D

  • wow reading the comments i see there are many which who either loved it or hated it... i didnt love it but it was way better than scooch and the guy the year before... shuld hav done better on the scoreboard!

  • i couldnt even remember 2008 eurovision uk and when i watched this it made me feel dissapointed coz it was crap lol jade was sooo good this year atleast we came 5th

  • it's was the best song!

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  • i couldn't remember our last one, so i looked it up.. i was disappointed really, and im all for the uk, because its my country.. But seriously, You CANNOT compare THIS with jade this year! i mean, we came 5th this year!! Go UK!!!

  • that was the best song in 2008