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She IS SANDY FROM GREASE!
Yes, she is, and we schoolboys used to nickname her "Olivia Neutron Bomb"! ❤😂
Yes, she was so lovely....was it only last year she died... 🤔
I laughed when you said "She looks like Sandy from Grease" 😂
1974 ❤ Olivia newton yasssss xoxox ❤
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882damn.
Why didn't I - a Kiwi girl who was madly infatuated with her - not think of that!?
Your "let's end world hunger" song is basically Eurovision in a nutshell anyway
"Come On Eileen" is not as similar as you think. Although the chorus "jumps about" to a similar degree, when compared next to each other, the intervals are different, so the tunes are clearly distinguishable from each other, not to mention the style and accompaniment. Still, I'm pretty impressed that you made that connection.
About extremely floofy hair in 1984: Hairspray is a part of it, but her entire hair has been "ratted" or "teased" or "back combed". You've probably heard of a "teasing comb", also known as a rattail. It's a technique used to create volume, but then you would carefully comb "non-ratted", smooth strand of hair over it. This was often used in the some 50's and 60's hairstyles. Here, her hair has just been ratted, placed in the desired shape and hairsprayed. How ratting is done: Each strand of hair is made up of tiny scales that face one way. When not messed with, your hair lies smooth. However, if you take a strand of hair and vigorously comb the hairs from the tip towards the scalp, the little scales get "roughed up" and hook on to each other, like a "rat's nest" if you will. Do it with several strands of hair and you can use hairspray to shape them. Here is a tutorial:
I was going to try to explain backcombing, but you did it much better than I would. I had many a back combed hairstyle, as did my mother in the 60s.
We’ve had some shocking entries over the years but whether we’re good or not we expect to come last, regardless.
When Sam Ryder kept climbing up the leaderboard nobody knew what to do with themselves 😂
Yes. Graham norton said. If you just tuning in this really happening uk are leading in eurovision
@@janeslater8004 😄 I didn't remember that...
What was more shocking was the French gave us 12 points 😮
Europe hates us.
Look s likes Sandy from grease !? 👌 thats because it was her !! Olivia Newto John to be precise yes she was English & moved to Australia & then America !!! Like the BeeGees !!! 🤪🤪⚡🏴🇬🇧
"She looks like Sandy from Grease". That's because she literally WAS Sandy from Grease! 🤣🤣🤣
And our 1991 entrant Samantha Janus (now Womack) is now a big actress in this country. Her biggest role was Veronica "Ronnie" Mitchell in EastEnders, which is one of our major soap operas in the UK. Also, if you've seen the first Kingsman film "The Secret Service" she was in that as Eggsy Unwin's mum Michelle. And she was also in the sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle at the very end!
Connor should check out the sitcom Game On starring Janus.
Don't listen to all the people saying its political - they're talking out of their buttholes. As you can see - we lost a massive advantage of everyone else not being able to sing in English and you got countries like Ukraine and Turkiye who sent classically trained musicians who took the competition seriously, knew how to write a tune, and pushed boundaries staging wise.
Last year - we sent a brilliant singer with an engaging personality with a song he co-wrote with a lady who also worked on Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud and we staged the song well and we came second. This year....well you can't win them all even Italy has had the odd off year.
Thank's for a great reaction. You really should react to the winners, runner ups and 3:rd places of Eurovision 🌞
Yes please!
9:24 'Come On Eileen' by Dexys Midnight Runners (1982) is the song you're thinking of
I am amazed at just how many times we have been placed second...! Cliff Richard's dancing style...even bearing in mind it's "of its time" 😄
Don't forget for most of our 2nd places the native language rule was in place so that did hand the UK and Ireland a bit of an advantage.
Oh Conor you do make me laugh. Don’t change. I was overseas from 1975 to 1984 so this was a kind of catch up for me and, I haven’t watched it since 1975 so a very big catch up. 😊
Some of the drop off in the UKs results is that we frankly stopped caring about it but also up until 1999 (except for 4 years in the early to mid 70s) all countries had to sing in their native language(s). As English is one of the most widely spoken languages it handed the UK and Ireland a bit of an advantage u til the rule was scrapped, now most entries are in English)
'Save Your Kisses For Me' has pretty much the same chord progression as 'If' by David Gates and '(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice' by Amen Corner - it's the same progression as the main theme from Khachaturian's 'Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia' (also used as the theme to 'The Onedin Line')
Ryder is what you get when you order Bryan Ferry off Wish.
@Brynn Tyne Pipes Alright mate, lighten up.
@@chrisperyagh 😄
I just loved it how Olivia freaking Newton-John is "okay, but she's very beautiful" and " looks like Sandy in Grease" !!!
34:16 You’re visibly gutted that Lucie Jones got 15th in Eurovision? Wait until you watch the video where Simon Cowell voted her out of The X Factor over Jedward 😮
The accent you were hearing in the older songs is mostly a variation of the transatlantic accent. Originally it was an accent of the US upper classes and media which tried to sound sophisticated by incorporating elements of English upper class accents. A similar trend started to happen in the other direction as US pop culture grew where British artists incorporated elements of American accents to sound cooler. Nowadays the balance has tipped even further towards the American accent.
The 2013 entry by Bonnie Tyler who is Welsh and is a major star since the 1980s with some iconic hit songs.
Engelbert Humperdinck has been a major star in the UK and the US since 1967. I saw him as a guest star in the Lonnie Donegan Show in Blackpool in 1967 a couple of months after his first number 1 record.
There's a very good reason why Olivia Newton-John looks like Sandy from Grease :D
Lucie Jones was wonderful. She was perfect. I was at the rehearsals of that Eurovision and during her performance I always had goosebumps. She sang the whole song herself and without mistakes. But, unfortunately, the audience did not like some of the close-ups of her performance. This greatly worsened her results.
She's extremely talented and, whilst she's had a successful career in musical theatre, deserved much more as a recording artist. Cowell voting her off the X-Factor in favour of Jedward was one of the single most pathetic moments in talent-show history.
@@jjc5407 She's currently in Wicked in the West End, she released an album of musicals songs in lockdown- Defying Gravity indeed.
I also really like surie 2018.too. She was ambushed too half way through from a protestor who took her microphone off her the audience carried on singjng but then she picked it up and continued to finish song. Poor girl
It's shocking that someone was able to do that. I felt so sorry for her. Great song too.
The song you're trying to remember is, Dexys midnight runners with Come on Eileen
Never really been into Eurovision but Sam Ryder was pretty damn awesome. Only came second because of sympathy votes, which is fine due to the circumstances.❤
BUT IT IS NOT FINE AS THIS CHARADE IS A HUGE TAXPAYER FUNDED POLITICAL EGO TRIP ,SCRAP IT.
He was great but it wasn't his best song IMO. "Mountain" (which he sang as a guest this year) was better. "Whirlwind" is even better still, but it's too sensitive and subtle for Eurovision.
@Smear Campaign or if we had been invaded. NOT SINCE 1066 SUCKAZ!😂🤘🏻
@@justinneill5003 yeah, I’m not a Eurovision fan and by extension, not a Sam Ryder fan. Though I give him kudos for effort
@Smear Campaign *wasn’t invaded since 1066 until recently..😂
We used to do very well in Eurovision in the days before no one likes us !!
That IS Sandy from Grease. Olivia Newton John.
This year....2nd BOTTOM !!!
Yes...deservedly so, in my opinion 😄
Nothing to do with no one liking us, it is to do with the fact we keep sending rubbish. When we enter something which is actually good, like 2022 we still do well. A member of the Swedish delgation once said ' we don't hate Britain, we just don't understand why a country with the biggest music industry in Europe keeps sending such awful acts'.
32:30 Don't worry, it doesn't work. Ireland send this year song titled ''We are One'' and it didn't qualify.
Just pick a year and watch the whole show. Just try it. Since 2009 all bad songs are dropped in semi-finals and you have really enjoyable songs in final. Even last place songs are still decent songs and crazy/funny songs are really catchy.
you should react to winners of euro vision from 1957 - 2022, some songs there might shock you, songs you heard so many times but never realize they were from eurovision, i had that wow movement when i lookt at it.
Yes, many Brits do sound American when singing. Also, 1997 entry sung by Katrina, who was from Topeka, Kansas.
It took a while before i realized it was a video with only UK entries, i tought i was ECS runner ups at first.
Hi Connor, I lived through the 1970s and 1980s too. The hair spray that people used then was known as hair lacquer... and it smelt awful (a bit like the lacquer that is used on car bodywork nowadays). Once applied it just stayed there until brushed out. So you created the look you wanted (backcombing, fluffing) and then lacquered it in place. By the way, if you get a chance to watch the film (sorry movie) Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and some others :-) you'll see some great "big hair' and learn about the 1980s.
You mean the 1976 British winner sounds like Come on Eilieen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, that came in the beginning of the 80’s. I don’t think it’s that similar. But I think it reminds a lot of ”Yellow Ribbon”, an american song from a few years earlier.
And in 1974 it was ”Sandy” (australian Olivia Newton-John, who died last year) who sang. She lost to us swedes btw, who took our first 1st place with ABBA, generally considered the biggest Eurovision smash of all time (50 years next year, when the competetion again will be in Sweden, thanks to Loreens second win a week ago!
The UK has the highest Number of rummet ups; around 15 of them, including last year. But now you should react to Sweden’s Eurovision history, now that we since last week have tied Irelands record of most wins!
I love your input on things!
Your "wobbly hand" gesture to Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit - that was top 10 in about 20 countries, was nominated for a Grammy, is consistently voted one of the best dance tracks of the 90s, and its lower placing than expected from its real world performance led to an overhaul of the voting methods in Eurovision ;-)
Oh Conor ... your mother is the same age as me! I was a student in the 80s, and let me tell you, I was sooo experimental with my hair! At one time I had a huge puffy quiff (I'm female by the way) and I spent a good amount of time using this weird smelling green gel that set hard after a while. I'd back-comb to foof it up so it stuck up on end then use a comb to smooth it back before setting it in position with copious amounts of hair spray! The rest of my hair would be in a pony tail tied with a big bow. Can you imagine it? You did ask lol!
Samantha Janus became a sucessful actress. She is also the neice of the famous soccer player George Best!
Bonnie Tyler is best known as the singer of Jim Steinman songs and 'holding out for a hero' is my favourite'. I used to play this before junior soccer games. Funny thing was the teams who like it won, the teams who didn't lost!
Olivia Newton-John was Sandy from Grease!
9:30 the song you’re singing is ‘Come On Eileen’ by Dexys Midnight Runners, an early 80s British ska group (same scene as Madness and the Specials). It’s a different vibe…
Haha the 80's hair was crazy!! rollers backcombing and bucket loads of hairspray, a serious fire hazard for sure haha
"looks like sandy from grease" oh bless you, that's Olivia newton John and she was sandy lol.
The rif on "save all your kisses for me" is similar to "come on Eileen" you're not wrong.
Haha you don't wanna be creepy... Yet you leave it in the video instead of editing it out 😅🤦🏻♀️
Olivia Newton-John is an amazing singer. In the US she was the biggest selling female recording artist of the 1970's and the second biggest selling female recording artist of the 1980's. The song she sang in 1974 was not a great song and as one British critic said at the time, "the British entry would have been a total disaster had it not been for ONJ's performance". Before she was in the movie "Grease", she already had 3 Grammy Awards, numerous American Music Awards and was the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year in 1974. She was a huge country-pop crossover artist, really the first female to do this. I recommend checking out Wings of Pegasus vocal analysis on ONJ. Such a huge ICON. RIP Legend.😀
"come on darlene"!! youve americanised it again!! like when you said "harry EINFELD" 🤣🤣🤣
29:27 Blue actually had a lot of U.K. hit records in the 00’s. Their actually one of the cooler male pop groups the U.K. had during that decade.
Matt Monro ❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Italian job ,1969 …. Days like these … it’s beautiful.
Connor, the hair you asked about was backcombed, basically you hold the hair up and brush it down its length.
It is Sandy from Grease singing in 1974 - Olivia Newton John.
This is only the British songs involved in the Europ song contest
It''s called back combing, Take a stand of hair and push the comb from the tip to the roots many times, it is guaranteed to stick out at right angles to the head, then spray it !😂😂
Lucie Jones is a prime example of people just hating the UK unfortunately 😂
Connor Olivia Newton John, was Sandy in Greece. Although she was Australian she represented the UK in 1974 for us. Sadly she died of Breast Cancer recently
She was born in Cambridge.
24:22 - Gemini doing their bit in bringing polytonality to Eurovision.
I've just seen Clodagh Rodgers, how could I forget Cloagh, also Olivia Newton John and Brotherhood of Man!
That's because she WAS Sandy in Grease! 🙂
I prefer the Eurovision oldies, for sure. It had a low point around 1990-2010. Now it’s pretty interesting again.
The number rule of eurovision is to make it as uncool as possible 😂
I aways thought Olivia Newton-John was Australian but she was actually born in England, to a Welsh father and German mother who arrived in the UK to escape the Nazis in 1933.
Granddaughter of Nobel-prizewinning quantum and atomic physicist Max Born.
...and on a completely different topic, Sweden has just equalled Ireland's record if I'm not mistaken. Both countries have now won the bally thing 7 times 🙂 Oh, thanks, much enjoyed this 'cos I missed a lot of this at the time.
I've only just stopped laughing at when you said Cliff Richard looked like Austin Powers 😂😂😂 even then he was quite famous in Britain, still is to us golden oldies 😜
Love City Groove lives rent free in my 38 year old brain complete with dance moves
My city hosted this years LIVERPOOL we got 2nd to last n Sweden won wif tattoo by loreen AMAZINGGG!!!! She has already won before but she’s so good
Could you do a reaction video to the Ireland Eurovision entries? 😁
I had no memory of how forgettable our entries have been in the past 25 years, 1997 was good though; the older stuff is much, much better!
When we Brits relax our voices/mouths to sing we sound American because that's what American is, relaxed English.
I’ve just realised how much influence Eurovision had on my childhood in the late 80s and 90s - I think I can sing all the lyrics to all of those songs 🙈🙈🙈
I don’t recognise any from the 21st century and they’re all rubbish until Sam Ryder.
When the UK started sending people who couldn't sing, it all went south.
We had a few song writers put their songs forward and the nation were supposed to pick the best.
Over the years, there are more and more countries as you can see in the bottom corner as well as points systems and politics changing. There are many things, like you and other commenters have said, to keep in mind while watching.
Lucie Jones brilliant performance and song so under marked in 2017. However this was just after the UK had voted to leave the EU in 2016. After some of the comments made by British politicians about Europe it a wonder she wasn't 26th
bonnie tyler use to stay at my grampas house. :) Her sister shops in asda local
1969 it says =1st because there was a four-wayntie between 4 countries
She was Sandie from grease, may she rest in peace
Most Brits sing with an American accent as they say the lyrics flow better. It's not always the case, especially in the 80s & 90s onwards when Britpop had bands from all over the country singing in their respective dialects. (Olivia Newton John was Sandy from Grease).
Oh, it was hairspray all right, like a whole can a day. Where do you think the hole in the ozone layer comes from? From the 1950s to the 1990s, we really used nearly a can a day for these hairstyles to stay in place. If I want my look to count before my comfort, I need about a full can of it to let it stick and stay in place. Using high strength glue as a conditioner would have had less ecological backlash back in those days. On top of that, you went to bed with a net around your head so that the shape and form weren't destroyed during your sleepy time and the next morning, just spray it on to stick those stuborn hairs back into place. Every three days you brushed it out, reset and reapply a ton of hairspray, and once a week, yes, only once a week, you washed your hair. Once a month you went to the hairdresser, unless you wanted a special look for a party
2013's contestant sang Total Eclipse of the Heart, I Need a Hero, etc.!
I'd love to see you reacting too the esc winner songs. There is a similar video like that.
Politics my friend 😂😂.
You're right about the UK/American accent in many songs, they mingle and definitely sway towards the more musical American accent.
Ahahah :) She looks Sandy for grease... I'm wonder why XD And by the way, Come on Eyleen by Dexys midnight runner is a totally differnt song.
you not creepy, you appricate beauty like any guy does, i like that you say it, most youtubers are to afraid to do it.
okay, okay, last comment I promise. Bonnie Tylor is Welsh, many Welsh people sing in a somewhat more pronounce accent than a lot of English people. But where do you think the American accent came from originally? I am Irish, and some Canadians catch me out! So in answer to your question, yes, some West Country (English) accents sound American to me, but some UK singers do sound what we call "transatlantic"!
Sweden just won for the 7th time, matching Irelands long running win score of 7.
...yes, and I think they said that now Sweden is only the second country to have won the contest twice...the other being Ireland of course...so a shared accolade well-deserved 😊
@@nightowl5395 yep, Ireland's Johnny Logan and Sweden's Loreen are the only two contestants to have won twice.
@@lolsaXx oh, how i loved Johnny Logan and belted his songs with a hairbrush as a prop- mike in my room...
you can tell that some artists are british, for example, ed sheeran.
Eurovision is a unique, cheesy, camp as Christmas night. The voting is totally political. It should be enjoyed as a bit of frivolity in a dull world.
Something happened in 2000 that flipped Eurovision. A huge bias was created against the UK. I'd love to know what made the politics change so drastically.
We started sending shit songs, that's what happened. There is a clear decline in quality. It's such a Britt attitude to put in little effort, and then blame everyone else when we inevitable do badly. When we put the effort in we can do well. Jade Ewan, Sam Ryder.
@@simmonb80 I totally agree with you there !
@@simmonb80i dont agree. Everyone knew ukraine would win due to war sympathy vote. Only reason uk did bettee that year is due the amount of military aid uk gave uk. Ukraine gave uk 12 points. As political as ever..
@@janeslater8004 utter nonsense.
Correction: Yesterday, I rather sloppily wrote that it is standard nowadays for UK artists to sing with an American accent (apart from Sophie Ellis-Bextor etc), what I really meant was a trans-Atlantic accent, which utilises key American sounds, particularly the rhotic R sound. If you asked artists to speak their lyrics as they have sung them, they would not sound like truly British English.
She WAS Sandy from Grease - she's Olivia Newton-John! (Jane Hook, England).
Depending onthe music you gravitate towards can change the accent u sing in.
I am from Northern Ireland and sing in an English accent.
8:13 LOL 👍
She IS!
Not douchey at all. Spot on!
fun fact Josh Dubovie '2010' is a friend of mine and sung at my wedding!
He's a good singer it's just the song that sucks.
Did you notice the sixteen 2nd Places?
It is Sandy from grease!
Your face during ‘Teenage Life’ is hilarious 😂 that song was so bad it was almost good 😂
Nope - it's an abomination that needs to be nuked from orbit.
Believe me it goes on for days before some is picked to sing for England
I think there's a slight bias against UK/Germany/France/Spain/Italy, as they are fast-tracked to the final due to giving the most money, while everyone else has to go through semi-final rounds. But it's rare for those 5 to do well, UK and Germany are often near the bottom nowadays. As it got more political, the UK started taking the piss out of it, so it came off like we didn't care while other countries take it very seriously. So we had to start pretending to care again. lol
People exaggerate the impact of leaving the EU when there's like 40 countries voting and 27 EU members, if you're punishing non-EU countries there's like a dozen. I'm curious what gives way as the contest keeps getting bigger.
there would be no eurovision if those 5 did not fund it. Its an expensive production
you should react to Sweden in Eurovision too
The 80s hair is done with hairspray, like 'beehive' hairdos in the 60s and emo 00s hair was, it's all back-combing and hairspray.
There has been a lot of political voting since the late 90's - Greece gives their 12 points (highest) to Cyprus. The former Yugoslavian countries tend to give high votes to neighbour countries. Spain/Portugal tend do upvote each other etc. It's been a bit less so in the last 3 years or so but got so bad that even when the group Blue in 2011 you liked - they were a famous boy band who had chart hits & played big venue concerts - they were better than their placing in that year. Some years we were abysmal to be fair.
LOL's hair for both men and women was back combed and lacquered. Also bleached to the point of no return!
A lot of back combing went on in the 80s with all that hair spray 😂 . The bigger the hair the better back then 😀
Come on Eileen! I have a great pal called Eileen, I bought a T-shirt saying “I came on Eileen”. She loved and hated it!
The only reason we were so low in 1982 was because of the Falkland War! True!
Back-combing 😂
Litterally, Sandy from Grease...............................
Tos Europ of about 40 countries and maybe more from Scandinavians to russian to say turkey and all Europ including Europ Spanish, Italian, french, Germain, etc