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My Time (song)
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"It's My Time", is a song sung by Jade Ewen
and was the British
entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Moscow
, Russia
, in May 2009. The song was composed and written by Andrew Lloyd Webber
and Diane Warren
and became the UK's most successful Eurovision entry since 2002 by coming fifth, and a significant improvement on the previous and following year's entry's, 'Even If
' and 'That Sounds Good to Me
', which came last in the contest. Ewen has remained having the highest points for the UK since 1997.
. Webber and Warren wrote it in two hours. Webber told The Daily Mail: "The Americans wrote the Russian entry last year. There's no rule to say I can't use a lyricist from anywhere I want. I did approach a couple of British people and both were unavailable. One was a very famous name and Tim Rice didn't want to do it. He said he didn't have the turn of phrase for something like this. Then I thought of Warren. I was staggered when she agreed." Diane Warren also talked about writing the song in an interview for the BBC she said "I don't usually co-write much, I tend to write by myself, so that was quite scary - especially with some like Andrew Lloyd Webber who's a legend!"
The United Kingdom did well during the contest and finished in 5th place, with 173 points in contrast to the previous few years in which none of the UK's entries from 2003 onwards have made it into the top 15. It was the UK's highest placing since Jessica Garlick
in 2002
and the largest number of points received since 1997
, when it won with "Love Shine a Light".
gave the song a mixed review, saying:
Fraser McAlpine from the BBC's Chartblog rated the song three stars out of five, stating that the song was "the sort of thing we've all heard hundreds of times" yet praised Ewen's vocal abilities: "Still, Jade Ewen has a formidable set of pipes and copes admirably with the mad range the song requires, so you never know."
However, the song was also praised for bringing a comeback for the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest. Alastair Jamieson of the Daily Telegraph reported that Andrew Lloyd Webber
said that Britain can "hold its head high" after the performance that Jade Ewen
gave in Eurovision.
The official music video was launched on the BBC website on 31 March 2009. It also stars Andrew Lloyd Webber
in the background on the piano. It shows Ewen in a white feathered dress walking out of a limo with paparazzi talking pictures of her. This is accompanied with Jade standing under a spotlight with a microphone, whilst Lloyd Webber plays the piano. The video was directed by Pop Club.
and also made appearances and performed the single on Loose Women
, Saturday Kitchen
, BBC Breakfast
, National Lottery
and The One Show
. Webber accompanied Ewen on the piano for her performance at the Eurovision final on 16 May. "It's My Time" was promoted heavily in Russia with a free copy of the single being given away with the Russian version of OK! magazine
.
Jewel Case Promo:
Remix Promo:
singer Lin Yu Chun
also included his version in the debut album It's My Time in September 2010.
Jade Ewen
Jade Almarie Louise Ewen is an English singer, songwriter, actress and member of the Sugababes. Ewen began her singing career in a girl group named Trinity Stone signed to Sony BMG in 2005, but they disbanded in 2007 with no album released...
and was the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, in May 2009. The song was composed and written by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
and Diane Warren
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
and became the UK's most successful Eurovision entry since 2002 by coming fifth, and a significant improvement on the previous and following year's entry's, 'Even If
Even If
"Even If" sung by Andy Abraham, was the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, Belgrade, Serbia. It was released on 19 May 2008, stated by his official website....
' and 'That Sounds Good to Me
That Sounds Good to Me
"That Sounds Good to Me" is a song written and composed by Pete Waterman, Mike Stock and Steve Crosby that finished last when it represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 held in Oslo, Norway...
', which came last in the contest. Ewen has remained having the highest points for the UK since 1997.
Writing and inspiration
The song was written specifically for the Eurovision Song ContestEurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
. Webber and Warren wrote it in two hours. Webber told The Daily Mail: "The Americans wrote the Russian entry last year. There's no rule to say I can't use a lyricist from anywhere I want. I did approach a couple of British people and both were unavailable. One was a very famous name and Tim Rice didn't want to do it. He said he didn't have the turn of phrase for something like this. Then I thought of Warren. I was staggered when she agreed." Diane Warren also talked about writing the song in an interview for the BBC she said "I don't usually co-write much, I tend to write by myself, so that was quite scary - especially with some like Andrew Lloyd Webber who's a legend!"
The Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Selection
Ewen won the right to sing the song as a result of her winning the United Kingdom's Eurovision selection process Eurovision: Your Country Needs You on 31 January. Lloyd Webber also announced that he would accompany Ewen, by playing the piano on stage with her in Moscow. The official version of the song was first broadcast on Ken Bruce's BBC Radio 2 show on 23 March 2009.Contest
As the United Kingdom is a part of the "Big Four", the song was entered directly into the final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, held on 16 May 2009 in Moscow. The show received an average of 7.8 million viewers and peaked at 9.8 million during the voting, which is a 35.3% share of the UK TV audience.The United Kingdom did well during the contest and finished in 5th place, with 173 points in contrast to the previous few years in which none of the UK's entries from 2003 onwards have made it into the top 15. It was the UK's highest placing since Jessica Garlick
Jessica Garlick
Jessica Julie Anne Garlick is a Welsh pop singer.Garlick made her first steps into showbusiness when she was 16. At that age she won the Welsh final of the TV talent show Star For A Night. The same year she also featured in Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music...
in 2002
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002
The United Kingdom competed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, represented by Jessica Garlick with the song "Come Back".-A Song for Europe 2002:...
and the largest number of points received since 1997
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997
The United Kingdom's entry into the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest was Love Shine a Light by Katrina & the Waves. During this year the UK won the song contest which was being held in Dublin, Ireland, with an unprecedented 227 points. The UK sang at position 24...
, when it won with "Love Shine a Light".
Critical reception
Digital SpyDigital Spy
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gave the song a mixed review, saying:
Equally, if you're going to ask Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren to write a song for your X Factor-style talent contest, you're probably going to end up with something that sounds like an X Factor winner's song crossed with a show tune. "I've got the will, I've earned the right," croons Ewen before the bombast begins, "to show you it's my time tonight". Overblown, old-fashioned and shamelessly sentimental, this could be just what Eurovision ordered.
Fraser McAlpine from the BBC's Chartblog rated the song three stars out of five, stating that the song was "the sort of thing we've all heard hundreds of times" yet praised Ewen's vocal abilities: "Still, Jade Ewen has a formidable set of pipes and copes admirably with the mad range the song requires, so you never know."
However, the song was also praised for bringing a comeback for the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest. Alastair Jamieson of the Daily Telegraph reported that Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
said that Britain can "hold its head high" after the performance that Jade Ewen
Jade Ewen
Jade Almarie Louise Ewen is an English singer, songwriter, actress and member of the Sugababes. Ewen began her singing career in a girl group named Trinity Stone signed to Sony BMG in 2005, but they disbanded in 2007 with no album released...
gave in Eurovision.
Music video
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
in the background on the piano. It shows Ewen in a white feathered dress walking out of a limo with paparazzi talking pictures of her. This is accompanied with Jade standing under a spotlight with a microphone, whilst Lloyd Webber plays the piano. The video was directed by Pop Club.
Promotion
Ewen promoted the single all over Europe. This was the first time that a UK Eurovision entry has promoted a single across Europe before the event. Ewen also appeared, alongside Webber, on Friday Night with Jonathan RossFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band...
and also made appearances and performed the single on Loose Women
Loose Women
Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip...
, Saturday Kitchen
Saturday Kitchen
Saturday Kitchen Live is a 90 minute cookery programme, which is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday mornings. It is currently presented by James Martin; previous presenters have included Antony Worrall Thompson and Gregg Wallace. The programme is currently produced by Cactus TV...
, BBC Breakfast
BBC Breakfast
BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre in White City, West London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items...
, National Lottery
National Lottery (United Kingdom)
The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery is regulated by the National Lottery Commission, and was established by the then...
and The One Show
The One Show
The One Show is a topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD, hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker. Chris Evans joins Jones to present the programme on Friday...
. Webber accompanied Ewen on the piano for her performance at the Eurovision final on 16 May. "It's My Time" was promoted heavily in Russia with a free copy of the single being given away with the Russian version of OK! magazine
OK!
OK! is a British weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news. Originally launched as a monthly, its first issue was published in April 1993. In September 2004, OK! publishers Northern and Shell launched in Australia as a monthly title – the magazine went weekly in October 2006...
.
Track listing
UK CD Single:- It's My Time (Original) - 03:18
- It's My Time (Instrumental) - 03:18
Jewel Case Promo:
- It's My Time (Original) - 03:18
Remix Promo:
- It's My Time (Digital Dog Radio Edit) - 02:38
- It's My Time (Original) - 03:18
- It's My Time (Digital Dog Dub) - 05:36
- It's My Time (Digital Dog Club Mix) - 05:39
Charts
"It's My Time" was released in the UK as a download on 4 May 2009. On 18 May the single had its UK physical release. The song debuted on the UK singles chart at #103, climbed to #50 the following week, and reached a peak of #27 on its third week after physical release.| Chart (2009) | Peak Position |
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Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
23 March 2009 | Polydor | Radio single |
| 4 May 2009 | Digital single | ||
| 18 May 2009 | CD single CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s... |
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Covers
Taiwanese countertenorCountertenor
A countertenor is a male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano, or a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or far more rarely than normal, modal voice. A pre-pubescent male who has this ability is called a treble...
singer Lin Yu Chun
Lin Yu Chun
Lin Yu Chun ; born March 9, 1986 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese singer, who gained fame by appearing on a Taiwanese talent show, One Million Star , singing "I Will Always Love You" in the style of Whitney Houston's cover version...
also included his version in the debut album It's My Time in September 2010.