Daz Sampson - Teenage Life (UK 2006)

[u/Smilingtribute]

https://youtu.be/OYgE7O0OLyw?si=hrgs4oeS_R0HDEL3

19th - 25 points. Daz won the UK NF of this year ‘Making Your Mind Up’ with 121 points beating Anthony Costa who had 96 points ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing’. Kym Marsh who is a known actor in the UK was fourth ‘whisper to me’. The supporting performers that joined Daz Sampson for the performance were Ashlee, Emily Reed, Gabriella, Holly and Leeanne Simister. Emily Reed was the runner up to the infamous Gemini who got the UK the first nil points after a horrible performance in 2003. She was a replacement for a dancer called Jessica who was in the original dancers from the UK as she was sixteen & BBC decided to pull her from the show due to licensing rules as the other dancers were old enough. Daz still bought Jessica a ticket to Greece to experience Eurovision as shown in his documentary on his journey with Eurovision.

This was the one of the better entries in the UK’s dark era in the 2000’s.

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[u/Neither-Simple1119]

Never forget that he tried to go back to Eurovision in 2019 with a song about boots...

...for Belarus.

[u/Smilingtribute → u/Neither-Simple1119]

https://youtu.be/uvdjQkaQ1cs?si=UDGL8311jnizXckW

Aw I forgot about this!

[u/Fetish_anxiety → u/Smilingtribute]

This song has never stopped being in my head since Garg mentioned it and I'm seriously starting to think I might need psychiaitral help

[u/FBrandt → u/Smilingtribute]

May our paths never cross with this song again

[u/ninjamullet → u/Smilingtribute]

Strong David Brent vibes there somehow.

[u/skantchweasel → u/Neither-Simple1119]

Not just any boots, KINKY BOOTS!!! Absolute banger!!! Belarus 2019 was a great nf! Potato aka bulba!

[u/MarioFan-908 → u/Neither-Simple1119]

I reckon a ESC Gabe watcher

[u/justk4y → u/MarioFan-908]

ESC Gabe ruining Germany 2022 for me because it apparently has the same chord progression as this 😭🙏

[u/justk4y → u/Neither-Simple1119]

Not just boots…… they were KINKY BOOTS.

[u/eunrovision → u/Neither-Simple1119]

He also attempted to be internally selected for Belarus in 2021 too

[u/Domonoadamu → u/Neither-Simple1119]

2021 also

[u/Prestigious-Arm-1619]

we can measure any point in history as 'before daz sampson teenage life' and 'after daz sampson teenage life'. truly iconic

[u/Neorago]

His documentary is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. He was really really convinced he was doing something new and would win.

I loved this song but the documentary is hilarious with the levels of delusion

[u/Irrealaerri]

What. The. Hell. Just. Happened?

[u/Barzalicious → u/Irrealaerri]

No clue but I liked it

[u/cianomahony]

Why traumatise us like this on a Thursday?

[u/LeoLH1994]

The guy who gave us lots of weird rap covers whilst also being a DJ, and helped by the guy behind the legendary Congoscenti vs Intelligentsia

[u/notaflopbitch → u/LeoLH1994]

The UK should just send Spray to Eurovision tbh

[u/caesarsauceembolism]

Uses the Pachelbel Canon chord sequence, as does the old Soviet national anthem.

Meaning you can sing the words to Teenage Life anytime you hear it.

Or vice versa.

[u/aceofmufc]

Don't hate me but I like it hahahaha

[u/alfazenntowri → u/aceofmufc]

It's awesome. The rap part is meh at best, but the girls' chorus is just so nostalgic.

[u/aceofmufc → u/alfazenntowri]

Yeah the rapping sucks but the chorus just hits like 💎🔥

Super memorable and super catchy

[u/swfcb → u/alfazenntowri]

The chorus really has Toy Solider vibes.

[u/Neorago → u/aceofmufc]

I loved it too

[u/Gayandfluffy → u/aceofmufc]

13 year old me loved it. Although now later on I realize it's probably mostly because I had crushes on the dancers

[u/broccolibubblebath]

This was my guilty pleasure song and I'm still guilty about it.

[u/reichya]

I legit loved this song at the time, and it holds up surprisingly well. 😆

[u/nicheencyclopedia]

God dammit the song got stuck in my head from simply looking at this post 😂

Edit: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS WON A NATIONAL FINAL???

[u/TheFlyingHornet1881 → u/nicheencyclopedia]

Well wait until you realise UK 2007 was a national final winner too. Somehow the BBC decided national finals were a bit dubious after that.

[u/nicheencyclopedia → u/TheFlyingHornet1881]

I did actually know about that one. I remember one of the hosts announced the wrong winner… oops

[u/DeathByOrangeJulius]

Hate it all you want, but it is catchy and nostalgic as hell. Very 2006 coded lol

[u/past__nastification → u/DeathByOrangeJulius]

Yeah I kind of dig it

[u/Shronkster_ → u/DeathByOrangeJulius]

Was legit my favourite song growing up, had it on cd single at the time

It helps that he's from the same place as me so my family liked it for purely selfish reasons

[u/Dazzling_Cry6466]

Only word word is needed to describe this performance: CREEPY

[u/EuanBCFC]

Possibly the strangest ESC/Bhutan link… Daz was (supposedly) meant to manage a football team over there but couldn’t because of COVID!

[u/CriticalAlpaca → u/EuanBCFC]

The Daz Sampson Lore just keeps getting richer. 

[u/justk4y → u/CriticalAlpaca]

He also played and managed for a team in Guam, and apparently managed some decent amateur/semi pro teams in England and Poland as well

Oh yeah, and he apparently actually played for Manchester City in his youth, before heading to decent level Stockport County’s youth, where he had to end his high-level football dreams due to an accident….. from what I could find

Also, the reason why he’s being abroad so much is likely because of his performance at ESC soooooo 😬 like Alex from Electro Velvet (who apparently is in this subreddit) said: Maybe they’re all hiding together on an island at Jemini’s shack?

[u/justk4y → u/EuanBCFC]

The Bhutanese broadcasting company: “The strangest ESC/Bhutan link….. SO FAR……”

[u/Adam-Miller-02]

No wonder they call Daz the “British Mozart”

[u/DerwentPencilMuseum]

One of my dad's favourite songs haha it makes him nostalgic for his school days

[u/jakeyboy723]

There's over a thousand songs you can throw back to. Why this one? So many songs were better in that National Final. Anthony Costa would have been tolerable and Kym Marsh would have been fine. None would have gotten much better but that's about the quality of that National Final.

[u/ZaraAqua]

Still got more televote points than the three most recent entries heheeeee

[u/notaflopbitch]

Atrocious but in the top half of UK entries of its decade.

[u/OhmMeGag → u/notaflopbitch]

Im honestly not even sure about that. Especially the start of the decade was still a good time for the UK, and while the result of 2008 was bad, its actually pretty decent

[u/Lisbian → u/notaflopbitch]

The lowest of bars.

[u/Brit-Crit]

The concept was solid and the chorus is actually pretty decent, but this song needed a serious rapper, not a guy who made his living doing school-disco rap covers of 70s/80s standards…

[u/PoetryAnnual74]

This and Bosnia & Herzegovina 2006 were the only songs from 2006 I had on my MP3 player in 2006.. 😅

[u/PieScout]

No lie this is like a pure vision of British culture, which is why I think many have such weird feelings about it (Plus there's women dressed as school girls??). It reminds me of my time in assembly in primary school being forced to sing silly songs about obeying rules and cleaning and being nice. Its just so niche and badly planned out.

[u/Balcke_]

I couldn't stop thinking if they choose the dancers's costumes from a shop as "Halloween naughty schoolgirl costume"

[u/RPark_International]

Always hated this, and I was 16 at the time! Really wished they’d turned it away.

I distinctly remember Jonathan Ross was a panellist at the NF, and he described it as so wrong it’s right (implying Daz looks like a nonce)

[u/Domonoadamu]

Daz is one of the biggest segways I had to Eurovision coming from a Dance Dance Revolution fanatic.

[u/Nightnightgun]

Matilda the Musical was written by Kelly/Minchin when????

[u/Hot_Guard7840]

Yes this is so particularly English in so many ways. And that's not a bad thing. Considering the heavy televote hitters in the same part of the draw, and how damn regional it is, it did alright.

[u/JJVM99]

One of the funniest eurovision entries so therefore one of the best guilty pleasure songs. So many things wrong that make it hilarious. One hilarious detail for me is that he was not aware of how creepy he looked dressed like someone who would sell drugs in a corner while also surrounding himself with dancers dressed like schoolgirls yet the song still includes a police siren which makes you think the police are on their way to arrest him. You would assume he would subconsciously notice due to that before the contest.

[u/mawnck]

I unironically love this song. Selah.

[u/toryn0]

i know its bad but its the good kind of bad you know? the one that turns around and becomes good (same for uk2003 tbh)

like the base concept (rap verses and a choir in the chorus) is great, the rap could be better and by a lot - but i like the chorus and 2006 isnt exactly a great year so its still in my top 8

[u/Admirable-Article374]

this is unironically one of my favourite esc songs of all time

[u/CFDyce]

I actually like a lot of our entries from around that time, (Touch My Fire, Even If, Hold On To Our Love) but this is just cringe and awful… sorry.

[u/justk4y]

Overhated asf, yes it’s cringe, yes Daz the teacher gives off weird vibes (even he admitted that some performance choices weren’t the smartest 😅), but dang it’s catchy, silly, a bit camp and it hits a wire of nostalgia I didn’t know I had…… ESC guilty pleasure anyone???

[u/vaffanchulo]

This song is my guilty pleasure ngl

[u/skyguy2002]

Saw "UK" next to "2006" and instantly recoiled

[u/Jean-Paul_van_Sartre]

His documentary from that year is one of the funniest things I've seen

https://youtu.be/Uko7Rfgu4Xw

[u/MikeMoritz_Writer]

This truly was one of the songs of all time.

[u/Ulu5578]

Subjectively this one of the worst Eurovision songs I know.

Objectively it is incredibly creepy, I understand (but disagree) when people say it’s catchy. But people saying they like it or that it’s a guilty pleasure? Not all thoughts need to be shared I’m sorry

[u/Electrical-Time6497]

Honestly really creeps me out every time I see it, really embarrassed that we sent this (the fact it was my birth year’s entry too…)

[u/torlopoff]

Dima Bilan should win that year. Not Lordi freaks...