Eurovision fans have shared their thoughts on the UK's entry for the 2025 contest, What The Hell Just Happened?, performed by British girl group Remember Monday.
The catchy pop track, which is about a fun night out with friends, was co-written by British duo Billen Ted (Tom Hollings and Sam Brennan), Eurovision songwriter Thomas Stengaard, and pianist Julie “Kill J” Aagaard.
Remember Monday, consisting of Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull, and Charlotte Steele, previously competed on The Voice UK in 2019 but was eliminated before reaching the final.
After the track’s debut on Scott Mills’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show on Friday, fans took to social media, praising the song and calling it “SO MEGA.”
One fan excitedly wrote on Instagram: “GIRLLLSSSSS THIS IS SO MEGA! Can’t wait to never stop hearing this song”.
“Fantastic! Love it already, and great voices too,” another penned while a third added: “I cannot WAIT to here the live vocals, and see the staging, for this.”
“We won't win, obviously, because we're the UK,” another claimed on X, formerly Twitter. “But we should, because this isn't just a great song, it's a great #Eurovision song: catchy, bombastic and camp as Christmas.
“First entry of ours in YEARS I've been able to remember anything about after the first listen. Fantastic.”
The country music group will be hopeful they get a better result at this year’s edition of the international competition in May in Basel, Switzerland, than the UK has had during the last two years.
Olly Alexander’s performance with disco-style Dizzy saw the UK come 18th in Sweden’s Malmo in 2024, and Mae Muller’s I Wrote A Song in 2023 landed in second-last place in Liverpool.
Remember Monday said of competing at this year’s Eurovision: “What The Hell Just Happened? is exactly how we’re feeling right now. It’s all very surreal; our friendship goes so far back, and we definitely never imagined that we’d be doing anything like this.
“When you’re a kid and people ask you what you want to be when you grow up, an absolute classic is ‘I wanna be a pop star’, so the fact that we’re getting the chance to live that dream as three best friends is just wild.
“We’re going to be the first girl band to represent the UK since 1999, which feels like such a crazy honour.
We won't win, obviously, because we're the UK. But we should, because this isn't just a great song, it's a great #Eurovision song: catchy, bombastic and camp as Christmas. First entry of ours in YEARS I've been able to remember anything about after the first listen. Fantastic. https://t.co/twNCE0xrPV
— Tomos Doran 🏴 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 (@portraitinflesh) March 7, 2025
“We’re going to bring loads of fun, energy and hopefully do something that you won’t have seen before on the Eurovision stage. We honestly can’t wait to experience this with all of the other incredible artists from around the world, and hopefully make everyone back at home feel proud.
“This is really the music World Cup and we’ll do our best to bring it home.”
The previous last girl band Precious made it to 12th in the Jerusalem 1999 edition of Eurovision with the song Say It Again. The group broke up a year later.
Remember Monday have been chosen by Sam Ryder’s manager David May, who headed up the BBC’s search for the next Eurovision contestant.
Ryder came second at Turin 2022 with the uplifting and energetic Space Man, which made him the first UK entrant to make it to the top five since Jade Ewen’s It’s My Time in 2009.
Remember Monday’s other songs include Laugh About It, Queen hit Fat Bottomed Girls, What The Bathroom Is For, and Famous, which have racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify.
They have toured the UK and US, including stopping at the C2C: Country to Country British music festival, The Long Road festival in Leicestershire, Highways Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, CMA Fest in Nashville, Tennessee, and they opened for Billy Joel’s 2023 BST Hyde Park show.
Last year, Nemo won Malmo’s grand final with their operatic pop song The Code.
The contest was mired in controversy, with pro-Palestinian protesters outside the arena amid the war in the Middle East, and a row over Israel’s inclusion. There were also accusations made by acts of threats towards artists.
Last year, organiser the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) appointed an independent expert to review the contest.
Along with a raft of new measures, it announced a code of conduct that will help “protect” the wellbeing of artists.
The grand final of Eurovision will take place in St Jakobshalle on May 17, with the semi-finals on May 13 and 15.
