Guy Sebastian to sing “Tonight Again” for Australia at Eurovision
Guy Sebastian pens a catchy, up-tempo number as Australia's wild card entry for Eurovision.
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Guy Sebastian will perform “Tonight Again” as Australia’s first wild card entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The song begins with a slow, soulful introduction before an R&B beat bursts in with brass, uplifting lyrics and backing vocals.
“To have an Australian competing on the Eurovision stage has been an ambition of ours for the past four years. I’m delighted that Guy and his team have delivered such a powerful song for the occasion and I know that Tonight Again will perfectly showcase Guy’s vocal talent and have a real impact in the competition this year,” said SBS Managing Director Michael Ebeid.
“Tonight Again is a song we can all get behind, and Guy is the perfect artist to deliver a world class performance for Australia and SBS on the world’s biggest stage. Hearing that crescendo in the hall in Vienna is going to be an incredible moment that the whole of Australia and Europe can look forward to.”
Director of Blink TV, SBS’s Eurovision production partner and Head of Delegation for Australia Paul Clarke said, “when we joined the competition Guy was on tour, so I never expected him to have the time to write a song. But he has come up with a cracker, a 12th hour gem. It has a great soul feel that is so infectious.
“The title Tonight Again is a wonderful sentiment, about wishing to relive the excitement of a great night. Singing on the Eurovision stage will give it special meaning.
“Guy initially was thinking of a power ballad, but this new song is a celebration of the grand final night and our participation, and we couldn’t be more excited about it.”
Guy Sebastian said, “When it came time to decide on a song, I thought since I had a couple of days off in Australia I would try and write something new. But if I was to record a new song I wanted it to be home-grown and organic with my band in my studio.
“Truly, we jumped in the studio and let it happen because I wanted to write something fun! We all have moments you don’t want to end and you wish you could live those moments every day so I wanted to write a song about that feeling. I am sure that is how I am going to feel when I am in Vienna performing.
SBS World News (SBS ONE, 6:30pm) and The Feed (SBS 2, 7:30pm) will have a special report on the song tonight Monday 16th.
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14 Responses
zzzzzzzzzzz – it’s good for siesta!
Heard the song last night. More Vanilla!
Vanilla song, vanilla performance, vanilla artist … so Not Eurovision!
It’s an OK song – and it appears the Australian organisers are not taking our chances seriously.
Lets hope Guy does better than the woeful waffle jingle the UK have selected. Their ‘male’ singer definitely cannot sing. At least Guy can.
I like the song!
Good Eurovision song. Catchy, happy tune. Simple, repetitive lyrics. 8 points.
Dirge
As the song says…. He’ll be one tough act to follow. Great Song
ok – but not “eurovisiony” enough
What’s “eurovisiony”? Lordi’s ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’?
This is a great song, I’m glad he didn’t go for a power ballad. Hopefully they can camp the song up a bit with the live performance.
I was one of the people who questioned the choice of Guy to represent us at Eurovision even though I like Guy. Happy to be proven wrong though. This is a decent song and I think it will be a good performance song on the night. Great job to write it in such a quick time.
“Great job to write it in such a quick time.”
a) you don’t think there’s a chance this song has been kicking around for a while before now?
b) how long do you think it takes to write a song?
It was stated by SBS that he wrote it over the course of a week. That’s pretty quick in my opinion. Whether it was kicking around for longer than that, who knows! I think songs can take anything from months to a few hours to write sometimes.
Needs hot back-up dancers.