Good News: Josh Dubovie's Final Version Of "That Sounds Good To Me" Sounds Good
Oh thank Christ Mike Stock re-jigged "That Sounds Good To Me," the 2010 UK Eurovision entry that Josh Dubovie will sing in Oslo next month at the song contest. When the 19-year-old warbled the tune (which was co-written/produced by Stock and Pete Waterman) last month on BBC's Your Country Needs You special, something was kind of missing—like anything remotely resembling a production from this decade (or the last), and Dubovie's ability to hit all the notes.But after taking into consideration the criticism (and there was a LOT), Stock reworked the jam, and the final mix premiered today on BBC Radio 2.
And here 'tis:
I can get behind that. Because if Mike Stock and Pete Waterman are going to go out on a cheesefest like Eurovision, at least they ought to go out firing on all OTT pop cylinders.
Labels: Eurovision, Josh Dubovie, Pete Waterman, Stock Aitken Waterman
posted by D'luv @ 9:54 PM
6 Comments:
At 2:24 AM,
Paul said…
I like it. I feel like it's a little peak into what One True Voice would have done next :) Plus Josh is probably quite a good bounce, though maybe a little vanilla :P
At 9:17 AM,
The Spider said…
It's still not exactly top quality Stock/Waterman stuff though, is it? And lyrically the thing has just been phoned in both by Pete and Josh. I mean, fair play, they've gone all out to try and do something to polist this one up but I can't help thinking that Jemini had more to offer than this :(
At 11:39 AM,
Dan said…
christ..... that is..... camp.
At 6:53 PM,
D'luv said…
Paul, you can have Josh. He's waaaay too vanilla...not to mention young, you dirty old man!
The Spider, oh, hell no it's not. When this whole Stock/Waterman Eurovision business first surfaced, I did a post where I hoped for the best -- i.e., another Sybil/"When I'm Good And Ready"!
Dan, yes. And listen to it 5 times and you'll inevitably start singing along (and also have the damn thing completely memorized). That's a good thing, maybe?
At 7:11 PM,
Jump! said…
This still doesn't sound good to me. The production is horribly dated and the song itself sounds like a Scooch reject- yuck. I wish Stock would stop pissing all over his legacy.
At 3:56 PM,
Anonymous said…
This is even worse than the other version. Dated 70s backing singers the punchiness in the wrong places and basically a horribly naff song headed for nil points
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