Eurovision 2023: Mae Muller announced as UK act for song contest

Mae Muller volition correspond the United Kingdom astatine this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The 25-year-old volition execute her way I Wrote A Song astatine the contention successful May, hoping to travel the occurrence of Sam Ryder past year.

"To vie successful specified a monolithic euphony contention is simply brilliant," she said, describing her engagement arsenic "a dream".

The UK is 1 of the past competing countries to uncover its opus for 2023.

Following the aforesaid enactment process arsenic past year, the BBC has been moving with a absorption institution to prime the act.

Muller has antecedently supported Little Mix connected circuit arsenic good arsenic moving with artists similar Aitch and Sigala.

"I'm a immense instrumentality of truthful galore of the artists that person recovered occurrence astatine Eurovision, from ABBA to Måneskin," Muller said.

"Sam Ryder was truthful astonishing past twelvemonth and proved the UK tin beryllium backmost connected the left-hand broadside of the person board."

After years of dismal results, Sam Ryder turned things astir for the UK astatine the 2022 competition, placing 2nd to Ukraine.

Tap management, which has worked with Dua Lipa and Ellie Goulding, selected the TikTok prima and his opus Space Man, and hopes for continued occurrence with Muller this year.

"She has the astir wonderfully lukewarm and amusive personality," Tap absorption said. "We person ever been fans of Mae for her voice, songs and prima charisma, and erstwhile we heard I Wrote A Song, we were truly taken by its impactful connection - 'songs arsenic a signifier of therapy' (a large connection for the biggest opus contention successful the world!)"

Spiky break-up songs are Mae Muller's trademark, and I Wrote A Song is nary exception.

Over a polished nine beat, she gleefully takes down a cheating ex, listing each the things she wants to bash to him - marque a country extracurricular his house, clang his car, mostly marque his beingness a misery.

Instead, she goes meta, moving retired her choler by penning a opus astir penning a opus astir him. "And that's what we telephone growth, ladies and gentlemen," she said successful a video introducing the song.

Described by 1 workfellow arsenic "a Bulgarian nightclub banger" and by my 13-year-old arsenic "too bully for Eurovision", it's surely the astir contemporary, credible opus we've sent to the contention successful a agelong time.

Mae's sassy North London charisma conveys the extent of her contempt, and the singalong chorus is instantly memorable.

The flourishes of flamenco guitar are much Mi Chico Latino than La Isla Bonita. But still, they're an astute acknowledgment of Europe's power connected a British euphony manufacture that excessively often sees itself arsenic superior.

As for the song's chances, I'm successful 2 minds. My archetypal absorption to the opus was similar a feline tasting wasabi: Get this fearfulness amusement distant from me.

It took a mates of listens to afloat clasp Mae's campy insouciance but successful Liverpool, she lone gets 1 accidental to impressment the Eurovision voters.

The state volition beryllium holding its enactment to spot what they decide.

Most of the 37 competing countries person confirmed the opus and enactment they'll beryllium sending to Liverpool, with a deadline acceptable for 13 March for the fistful near to accidental publically their plans.

There are typically 2 ways a Eurovision introduction is chosen: an interior enactment - an enactment chosen behind-the scenes - oregon a nationalist enactment - a TV amusement with the victor getting to alert their country's emblem successful Liverpool.

Normally, the state who wins hosts it the pursuing twelvemonth but organisers ruled it was excessively unsafe successful Ukraine, pursuing Russia's invasion, truthful the BBC was asked to big it instead.

All the build-up, insights and investigation is explored each week connected a caller BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.