Years And Years' Olly Alexander Releases Eurovision 2024 Entry Dizzy
Friday, 01 March 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Olly Alexander has released his new single, Dizzy.
Drawing influence from '80s pop, the clubby, synth-led dance track will represent the United Kingdom at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest on May 11.
Penned by the Years And Years frontman with producer Danny L Harle, it arrives with a video directed by Colin Solal Cardo. Alexander commented:
"I wrote the song last summer with Danny L Harle, we started off with the word Dizzy because it just popped into my head and I liked it. I was thinking about fun things that could make you dizzy and I remember saying, "dizzy from your kisses" so the song is about feeling such an intense swell of emotion for someone they totally turn your world upside down and inside out.
"Danny and I believe music should transport you somewhere magical and we wanted to describe this magical place in the song; a place of beautiful gardens, eternal flowers and time turning endlessly in an ecstatic loop. We took the feeling of Dizziness and put that into the production, so there’s a lot of undulating arpeggios, lilting harmonies and counter rhythms in the backing vocals. We were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80's like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys."
It's hoped the song will improve on the UK's disappointing performance in 2023, when Mae Muller came second to last with I Wrote A Song.
Years and Years have achieved five UK top 10 singles and two number one albums over the past decade, with the latest being 'Night Call' in 2022.
The 68th annual Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden, after singer Loreen won last year's trophy with the song Tattoo.
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