Tim: Why this and why now? Well, basically I got a job the other day that I’ve been waiting a full five years for, so I want to listen to it.
Tom: Congratulations! But this is a terrible song.
Tim: What? Listen to it again, you might be confused.
Tim: But hahaha, I’d forgotten that Andrew Lloyd Webber was up on the stage with her being sung at.
Tom: Which knackers the staging, of course: the vast majority of the audience are going to wonder why they’ve got this piano off to the side.
Tim: And just what an underappreciated gem this was, with it being EASILY in the top three, and probably top two, of all of Britain’s entries since Katrina.
Tom: You’re wrong, absolutely wrong. It’s the most trite entry we’ve put in for years. “It’s my time” doesn’t even really make sense, particularly when it’s endlessly repeated with this simple melody, as if a six-year-old’s trying to compose a song.
Tim: What? It makes perfect sense “I’ve been down, down so long, but those days are gone now” – not exactly top notch rhyming, I’ll admit, but it’s a perfectly good narrative. It’s JADE’S TIME. Her TIME to SHINE. Besides, it’s EUROVISION. Complex metaphors and philosophical treatises are hardly going to down well with foreign audiences, are they?
Tom: Here, let me do an impression of this song: “IT’S MAH TAAAAM, IZZZ MAAA TAAAM”. It’s difficult to get across in text, but I was going for “bored toddler wanting a go on the swings”.
Tim: Well, just about any lyrics can be misinterpreted if you—oh, look, the song is just MARVELLOUS, if only for the simple reason that we can start belting it out if any bellends mention that Eurovision/politics wankery. (Although speaking of politics, this is a Wikipedia article I never expected to exist.)
Tom: No. No, no, no. I don’t care if it came fifth, I genuinely believe “That Sounds Good To Me” is a better track than this.
Tim: Oh, please, get off. Your main complaint here is with the lyrics, but you’d prefer “So if you bring the sunshine, I’ll bring the good times / Just add your laughter, it’s happy ever after”? THAT is trite, my friend.
Tom: Yes! It is! But it’s less trite than this! It’s not just three words repeated to a tune that you could get from a Fisher-Price Baby’s First Piano.
Don’t get me wrong, “Good To Me” is still terrible, but it’s not this terrible.
Tim: I am amazed, and to be honest somewhat delighted, that the song we have most disagreed about for a long, long time, is Britain’s Eurovision entry from six years ago. Look, this is a decent song, with inspirational lyrics and a good key change for emphasis, lots of close-up camera shots for her to connect with the audience.
Tom: It’s a dull song, with trite lyrics, and a camera that hardly focuses on her and which she sometimes faces away from. I’ll give you the key change, though.
Tim: Good.