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My Last Breath
"My Last Breath" is a song by James Newman that would have represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam. It serves as the lead single from Newman's debut EP The Things We Do. The song was released as a digital download on 27 February 2020. The song was written by Newman, Ed Drewett, Adam Argyle and Iain James.
In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, Newman said he hoped his "simple, memorable and anthemic" song would help win votes at the Eurovision Song Contest. He felt his song would "connect" with the audience and said he has a "massive opportunity to get my song out to the world in such a big way". Newman is signed to BMG, who worked with the BBC to select and produce the UK's entry. After Newman was approached, he said he had a "little think" before saying yes but decided Eurovision was a "celebration of music". He said, "Since I was a little kid, I've always wanted to be an artist and performer myself. It just feels like the right time to start putting songs out."
The song was written in Scotland when Newman was staying near a loch with his friends Ed Drewett, Iain James and Adam Argyle. Newman said, "We were jumping in the loch every morning. This was January. It was freezing." The lyrics were inspired by a documentary about a diver in the North Sea who had to be saved after getting cut off from the rest of his crew, and the video features Dutch cold water swimmer Wim Hof. Newman also said, "It got us thinking about what you would do for other people." Iain James was one of the co-writers for Azerbaijan's 2011 winning entry, "Running Scared" which was performed by Ell & Nikki.
The song would have represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, after James Newman was internally selected by the British broadcaster BBC. As the United Kingdom is a member of the "Big Five", the song would have automatically advanced to the final, which would have been held on 16 May 2020 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. On 18 March 2020, The EBU announced they had cancelled the contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking about the plans for his Eurovision performance, Newman told British newspaper Metro:
It was going to be me in this tundra kind of thing on top of a big cube that was going to look like it had water projected into it.
And I was going to be stood on top of it with a 3D girl projected into it and we’re going to interact from the outside. I was going to come down from the cube and all the water was going to flood out so it looked onto the screens and it was going to be this crazy thing happening.
My Last Breath received mixed reviews from music critics. In his review for The Times, Will Hodgkinson considered that there "are no disastrous lapses into kitsch, but not much character either" in the "disappointingly tasteful" song, and judged that it is "simply too boring to win." Jochan Emblay of the Evening Standard dubbed it a "nailed-on nil points" and a "by-the-numbers slog of woah-oh balladry," although conceded that it had a "fairly catchy" hook and "would be fine" as an album track.
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My Last Breath
"My Last Breath" is a song by James Newman that would have represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam. It serves as the lead single from Newman's debut EP The Things We Do. The song was released as a digital download on 27 February 2020. The song was written by Newman, Ed Drewett, Adam Argyle and Iain James.
In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, Newman said he hoped his "simple, memorable and anthemic" song would help win votes at the Eurovision Song Contest. He felt his song would "connect" with the audience and said he has a "massive opportunity to get my song out to the world in such a big way". Newman is signed to BMG, who worked with the BBC to select and produce the UK's entry. After Newman was approached, he said he had a "little think" before saying yes but decided Eurovision was a "celebration of music". He said, "Since I was a little kid, I've always wanted to be an artist and performer myself. It just feels like the right time to start putting songs out."
The song was written in Scotland when Newman was staying near a loch with his friends Ed Drewett, Iain James and Adam Argyle. Newman said, "We were jumping in the loch every morning. This was January. It was freezing." The lyrics were inspired by a documentary about a diver in the North Sea who had to be saved after getting cut off from the rest of his crew, and the video features Dutch cold water swimmer Wim Hof. Newman also said, "It got us thinking about what you would do for other people." Iain James was one of the co-writers for Azerbaijan's 2011 winning entry, "Running Scared" which was performed by Ell & Nikki.
The song would have represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, after James Newman was internally selected by the British broadcaster BBC. As the United Kingdom is a member of the "Big Five", the song would have automatically advanced to the final, which would have been held on 16 May 2020 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. On 18 March 2020, The EBU announced they had cancelled the contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking about the plans for his Eurovision performance, Newman told British newspaper Metro:
It was going to be me in this tundra kind of thing on top of a big cube that was going to look like it had water projected into it.
And I was going to be stood on top of it with a 3D girl projected into it and we’re going to interact from the outside. I was going to come down from the cube and all the water was going to flood out so it looked onto the screens and it was going to be this crazy thing happening.
My Last Breath received mixed reviews from music critics. In his review for The Times, Will Hodgkinson considered that there "are no disastrous lapses into kitsch, but not much character either" in the "disappointingly tasteful" song, and judged that it is "simply too boring to win." Jochan Emblay of the Evening Standard dubbed it a "nailed-on nil points" and a "by-the-numbers slog of woah-oh balladry," although conceded that it had a "fairly catchy" hook and "would be fine" as an album track.