United Kingdom – This year the BBC put the UK Song Selection into the hands of the public. Joe & Jake were the ones selected and they will be headed straight into the Grand Final with their song “You’re Not Alone”. Will the UK make the Top 10 with the public choice?
Song: “You’re Not Alone”
Music By: Matt Schwartz, Justin J Benson, S. Kanes
Lyrics By: Matt Schwartz, Justin J Benson, S. Kanes
About Joe & Jake:
Joe & Jake are Joe Woolford and Jake Shakeshaft. They both met on The Voice UK in 2015 after competing solo on the show. They became friends during and decided to join forces soon after and they are now signed to the Sony label.
Joe is a singer, song writer and rapper who made it to the live shows on the Voice as part of Team Rita Ora. Jake is a singer and also plays guitar. He joined Team Will.I.Am but only made it to the Knockout Rounds making him the least successful of the two on the show.
Joe & Jake beat five other acts in the UK Selection show Eurovision: You Decide including fan favourite Darline. They intend on using Selfies in the back ground for their performances and already have one with Hugh Grant, Graham Norton and Meryl Streep in it. The UK are not a favourite to win in May and the bookies have them 28th Favourite to win (even though they have gone up slightly)
Lyrics:
(Taken from Eurovision.tv)
Verse 1
(Joe): Heartbeat, when you’re not around its beating slow, and it’s something that I’ve never known..oh oh oh
(Jake): I’ll be, I’ll be the answer you’ve been waiting for,
(J&J): I’ll be the truth that you’ve been looking for..oh oh oh
Chorus
(Joe): You’re not alone, we’re in this together, all that you want is right here forever, and they dont need to know – they don’t need to know
(Jake): You’re not alone, we’re in this together, all that you want I’m right here forever, and they don’t need to
(J&J) know – and they don’t need to know
Verse2
(Joe): You’re free, free to let go cause I’ll be here for you, and when you fall I’ll be your parachute –
(J&J) oh oh oh
Pre / Chorus b
(J&J) I-i-i feel like I’m dancing in the sky, I come alive when I’m with you, I come alive when I’m with you
Chorus
(J&J) You’re not alone we’re in this together, all that you want, is right here forever and they don’t need to know – they don’t need to know.
Pre / Chorus b
(J&J) I-i-i feel like I’m dancing in the sky, I come alive when I’m with you, I come alive when I’m with you
Verse 3
(Jake) Don’t speak, your smile tells me all I need to know, your eyes show me where I want to go – oh
Chorus
(J&J) You’re not alone we’re in this together, all that you want, is right here forever and they don’t need to know – they don’t need to know.
Pre/ chorus b
(J&J) I-i-i feel like I’m dancing in the sky, I come alive when I’m with you, I come alive when I’m with you
Joe & Jake on Social Media:
Twitter: @joeandjakemusic
Instagram: @joeandjakemusic
| Previously and to Come | ||
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Iceland | Netherlands |
| Ireland | Greece | Slovenia |
| Czech Republic | Lithuania | Bulgaria |
| Latvia | United Kingdom | Norway |
| Australia | San Marino | Romania |
| Finland | Denmark | Armenia |
| Croatia | Switzerland | Israel |
| Cyprus | Azerbaijan | Hungary |
| Poland | FYI Macedonia | Russia |
| Malta | Spain | Belarus |
| Austria | Montenegro | Sweden |
| Germany | Moldova | Serbia |
| Estonia | Italy | Bosnia & Herzigovina |
| Ukraine | Albania | |
| France | Georgia | |
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Good luck UK … you’ll need it … and a lot of luck you’ll need.
If I was a betting man, I would put a fortune on the UK coming last out of the BIG5 and bottom 5 in May. :(
Your taste in MODERN music is questionable.
LOL
I bet you only like superintellectualistic @ssholesongs.
Indeed. Like BEL04 or CYP05. :)
Not a good day to talk about the UK entry after all that’s been going on today really…
Joe and Jake are likable young men with a genuine enthusiasm for music but they represent more of the same when it comes to the UK’s esc approach. The song is subpar and so are their performances.
Good luck !
P.S. Oh gosh Denmark and Switzerland, the 2 most undeservingly bashed entries this year coming one after the other in the spotlight articles :-\ ? I guess I ll need to be around to defend them :-D
I think the UK deserves my defending the most because they have a lot more to prove..
Not awful, just veeeery harmless and tame. Good luck!
Poor in every aspect…
Bottom 3 matterial in Grand Final for sure!
They’re both like “aww cute” without being actually nice looking… it’s very lame and harmless, and very a decade too late… except for juries, televote always ignores these harmless tunes and they might be dead last in televote except for Malta’s and ireland’s “friendly” votes (oops, we’re not supposed to tell Brits they too get unfair points from friends, like last year when they were outside of the bottom 3 thanks to those points)
I think we had good songs to choose from. We’re Joe & Jake the best? No but this song is okay. It’s certainly not bad is it.
They seem like nice lads as well. I hope Lynn can talk to them at the London party tomorrow
Off-topic: Here is, at last, a new set of songchecks: Macedonia, San Marino and Estonia. https://escsongreviews.com/2016/04/17/songcheck-2016-fyr-macedonia-san-marino-estonia/
As for the UK entry, it is very anonymous, and I can’t see it doing well. Perhaps it sounds a bit like a song that could have been written by Robbie Williams.
With Guy Chambers? Never. More like Gary Barlow to me 😀
One of the best efforts of the UK in recent years. Its modern and fresh. It totally represents the music of Britain and its modern charts. Also the lads are young and charming. I see that they come from the The Voice just like some of the other countries’ representatives. FYI, they are working with stage director Jay Russell who’s worked with Ella Eyre and Ellie Goulding. Wow BBC are definitely putting a lot effort this year!
Is this song a hit in the UK?
Not really. #71 on the iTunes chart at the moment
Which is exactly my point. How can you expect people from other countries to vote for a song which isn’t even liked in it’s own country.
Because the UK have it built in that the Eurovision song is crap. It’s always the case. It’s very rare our songs do well even when they’re good. Molly didn’t sell as well as this and people loved her song at the time
The composition could have been done by Gary Barlow to Take That’s big comeback album as a man band. With the superb soft rock production by John Shanks it could have ended up as fourth bonus track on Beautiful World. As it obviously isn’t it will end up in the bin called bottom 5.
It’s not all bad. Lads are cute.
One good song will stay in semi because of this :/
Good luck!
The Hurts next year please.
JJ do their best with a harmless song. Their live renditions have not been very reassuring though. Good luck.
P.S. – The UK should have gone with that lady in red whose name I can’t remember.
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