Eurovision Song Review: Ireland

[passionpop]

Country: Ireland

History...
Debut: 1965
Previous Appearances: 46
Wins: 7 (1970 – Dana 'All Kinds of Everything', 1980 – Johnny Logan 'What's another Year', 1987 – Johnny Logan 'Hold Me Now', 1992 – Linda Martin 'Why Me?', 1993 - Niamh Kavanagh 'In Your Eyes', 1994 - Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan 'Rock 'n' Roll Kids', 1996 - Eimear Quinn 'The Voice')

2013...
Artist: Ryan Dolan
Song: Only Love Survives

This song has promise, and that promise is to be used as a network promo somewhere around the world. Channel Ten in Australia probably already has dibs on it to promote some dancing contest show. Wait for it on equivalent networks internationally.

This is desperately trying to be a gay/dancefloor anthem. I can see the section from 34 seconds to 1.04 being used in various mixes by rather average DJs. It is sad that someone would go to the effort to assemble a 3 minute song that is purposely designed to used as five 30 second samples ever. I am not criticising the attention span of the average nightclub punter.... ok so I am but so what. Life is a novel, not a pamphlet, live it that way

This will qualify, and it deserves to, it is good enough to. Some years reindeer farts are good enough to qualify though so it doesn't say much.

They say making it to Eurovision is the Chance of a Lifetime...