Unlike the rest of the internet, we quite like the Eurovision entry

Over the weekend, the winning performance of the UK's Eurovision entry has racked up 1,110 comments on YouTube. We've only read the first 60, plus a couple of pages of Twitter comments, and they're almost entirely "zOMG worst song evaaa??!?!?!"

This might come as a shock, but for once the anonymous commenters of the internet might be overreacting a bit. Consider the following:

- The beginning sounds like 'Better the Devil You Know'
- The middle sounds a bit like Kids In America
- The end sounds like the theme tune to Shooting Stars
- The lyrics of the chorus are like Blame It On The Boogie

Not bad reference points to cram into three minutes.

However:

- Josh does look like a city worker who's just taken off his tie to do a bit of karaoke
- There's no key change

To summarise:

Is it as good as Bad Romance? No.
Is it a solid Stock/Waterman effort (although apparently written entirely by Mike Stock) which is memorable within one listen, isn't going to alienate anyone and is basically a solid Eurovision entry? Yes.
Will it win? No.

So there you go.