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The UK’s Eurovision entry for the 2025 competitors has been unveiled as pop trio Bear in mind Monday, who will carry out their authentic tune “What the Hell Simply Occurred?”.
Initially referred to as Houston, Bear in mind Monday fashioned whereas members Holly-Anne Hull, Lauren Byrne and Charlotte Steele had been at sixth-form school in Farnham, Surrey, the place they’d carry out cowl songs.
Specialising in three-part harmonies, they first set out as a country-pop group, citing influences together with the Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt and Alison Krauss.
Nonetheless, “What the Hell Simply Occurred?”, which chronicles the aftermath of a messy night time out, leans extra into the pop sphere, with Eighties pop and rock influences and bombastic manufacturing redolent of 2024’s breakout star Chappell Roan.
It was written by the group with songwriting duo Billen Ted (Tom Hollings and Sam Brennan), Thomas Stengaard and Julie “Kill J” Aagaard.
Billen Ted have beforehand labored with acts together with Little Combine, Anne Marie and MNEK, whereas Stengaard is thought for writing Denmark’s 2023 Eurovision winner “Solely Teardrops”.
The group stated: “‘What The Hell Simply Occurred’ is precisely how we’re feeling proper now! It’s all very surreal; our friendship goes thus far again, and we positively by no means imagined that we’d be doing something like this.
“While you’re a child and folks ask you what you need to be while you develop up, an absolute basic is ‘I wanna be a pop star’, so the truth that we’re getting the prospect to stay that dream as three finest buddies is simply wild. We’re going to be the primary girlband to characterize the UK since 1999, which appears like such a loopy honour.
“We’re going to deliver a great deal of enjoyable, vitality and hopefully do one thing that you simply received’t have seen earlier than on the Eurovision stage….We actually can’t wait to expertise this with all the different unimaginable artists from around the globe, and hopefully make everybody again at house really feel proud! That is actually the music World Cup and we’ll do our greatest to deliver it house!”
Bear in mind Monday rose to public consideration in 2019, after they competed on The Voice UK, performing Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose” within the blind auditions, prompting all 4 judges – Jennifer Hudson, Tom Jones, Will.i.am and Olly Murs to show their chairs. They had been in the end voted off the present after the quarter-finals.
That very same 12 months, they received Finest Group on the British Nation Music Awards and noticed their debut single, “Drive”, hit No 1 on the iTunes Nation Chart.
Since then, they’ve toured commonly across the UK and constructed a big fanbase on social media, together with on TikTok, the place they’ve over half 1,000,000 followers.
In 2023, they selected to give up their jobs as a way to concentrate on the band full-time, marking the second one 12 months later with a press release to their followers.
“It’s formally been a complete 12 months since all of us give up our jobs to do the band full-time,” they stated. “We are able to’t thanks all sufficient for supporting us on the loopy journey we’ve been on thus far! We’ve all the time stated we might give ourselves a 12 months and see the way it goes.”
They continued: “We made a bucket listing that we needed to finish by immediately and we thought we’d share with you the place we’re at with it! (We’ve since added some loopy stuff for 2025).
“It’s secure to say we are actually having the perfect time of our lives and might’t think about doing something aside from the band!”
Final 12 months, they shared a canopy of themselves singing Eurovision 2023 runner-up Sam Ryder’s entry “Area Man”, tagging him with the caption: “Hey get us on Eurovision!”
In addition they impressed Brian Could with their cowl of Queen’s hit tune, “Fats Bottomed Women”, with the legendary guitarist sharing it together with his Instagram followers.
Forward of Eurovision, the BBC seems to have been laying the groundwork as Scott Mills, who lately took over the Radio 2 Breakfast Present, performed their tune “Well-known” in November. The presenter stated he “actually appreciated” the band, evaluating their harmonising to Nineties duo Wilson Phillips.
The band will likely be hoping to impress on the Eurovision closing, for which the UK routinely qualifies as one of many “Massive 5” nations – alongside France, Germany, Italy and Spain – in Basel, Switzerland on Saturday 17 Could.
Final 12 months noticed a disappointing consequence for singer Olly Alexander and his tune, “Dizzy”, which landed within the UK in 18th place out of 25 nations, receiving the dreaded nul factors within the public vote and simply 46 factors from the jury.
Alexander had been hoping to copy the success of Ryder, who turned an enormous favorite on the 2022 contest together with his authentic tune “Area Man”, ending in second place – the nation’s finest consequence since 1998 – after Ukraine champions Kalush Orchestra and their tune “Stefania”.
Nonetheless, it was solely a marginal enchancment on the UK’s 2023 consequence, which noticed singer Mae Muller crash out in second-to-last place with simply 24 factors.
