Ella Eyre - Newcomer?

monquixote

Does anyone else think this is a bit dodgy?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25577251

I mean I know that she was a guest vocalist, but she's had a number one single surely that should count her out of being a newcomer?

stickyfiddle

Fuck knows. Those BBC things are always a stitch-up. The ones they pick are the ones with the biggest marketing budgets, who are going to be huge no matter what the Beeb says, because precisely they have the biggest marketing budgets. 

Feh!

monquixote

It doesn't really demonstrate the incredible predictive powers of the judges to find new music when they pick someone that 90% of people have already heard.