In January, pop star Mae Muller wrote a song she thought would be perfect for Eurovision. A few days later one of her managers called asking for an urgent meeting over a cup of tea. “I was worried my career was over!” the 25-year-old north Londoner laughs. “Then he said ‘what do you think about doing Eurovision?’. He had a whole PowerPoint presentation with all the statistics, and I was like ‘hun, I’m all in’. The Eurovision gods must have been speaking to me because I already had the song.”
The song in question is Muller’s catchy, Dua Lipa-esque I Wrote a Song, a bolshy meta-hit about channelling anger at an ex into pop poetry. Muller’s gut instincts were right: it does indeed tick a lot of Eurovision boxes. “First and foremost it’s a bop, you can dance to it, it’s easy to sing along to,” lists Muller. “And no matter what language you speak, everyone can sing the ‘da da da da da’ bit,” she adds, referencing the song’s earworm post-chorus.
