Despite the title, Muller in fact co-wrote “I Wrote a Song” in January 2023 with songwriters Karen Poole and Lewis Thompson, [J4MB: on the BBC today, it’s normal for the woman to get first billing] who all co-produced the track, with production from Alfred Parx (L Devine) and Lewis Thompson. It lyrically addresses channeling your anger and taking revenge on a cheating ex. The song runs for a total of 2 minutes and 45 seconds and explores themes of self-worth, heartbreak, and empowerment.Why did the song bomb? It’s a mystery, all right!!! Let’s do the old gender switcheroo, shall we? Let’s say the singer was a 25-year-old man, and the BBC piece included this about the song:
It lyrically addresses channeling your anger and taking revenge on a cheating ex. The song runs for a total of 2 minutes and 45 seconds and explores themes of self-worth, heartbreak, and empowerment.Hmm, I can see that going down a storm at the Eurovision. But of course the man and the song would never get to Eurovision. We note the lie implicit in the title, I Wrote a Song. It would more accurately be titled We Wrote a Song, given the credited co-writers Lewis Thompson (a person of the male persuasion) and Karen Poole. How much did Mae Muller contribute? My guess is not much, and as usual we’re seeing the conditioned pandering to female narcissism, something about which I’ll have more to say in due course, maybe at ICMI24 in Budapest.
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“In a contest where the top songs all featured sincere, straightforward messages about overcoming adversity and standing up for love, Mae’s post-modern, meta-textual lyrics failed to find an audience.” This made me laugh in the BBC’s long article why their great hope had bombed. In amongst all sorts of excuses for this girl power ditty was this probably perceptive observation. Possibly it shouldn’t surprise that the beeb couldn’t see that people may find “overcoming adversity and standing up for love” just a bit more attractive than trashing ex boyfriends. Particularly in the context that the “boyfriends” of the Ukraine are away from their girlfriends. Sam Ryder, who exudes enthusiasm demonstrated in his song Mountain just why “Maes” nasty mechanical number was so weak. After all the theme was music brings us together, not its an opportunity to be nasty.
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