Scott’s Eurovision speech had started trending
The UK finally had its 2022 Eurovision act.
Sam Ryder would perform Space Man.
Scott had already delivered an unexpectedly passionate speech on Greg James’s breakfast show about how Britain approached Eurovision.
He argued that other countries genuinely got behind their representatives, while the UK too often treated its own act as a punchline before the contest had even happened.
Chris replayed the speech over dramatic Titanic-style music.
Scott, hearing it back after several coffees had fuelled the original performance, was slightly horrified by how intense he sounded.
He still stood by the message.
Sam Ryder joined the show on announcement day
Sam came straight onto the programme after the announcement.
The raw transcript repeatedly calls him Shayne Ward, but the conversation is unmistakably with Sam Ryder and revolves entirely around *Space Man* and Eurovision.
Scott explained that the show had actually been playing Sam for some time and looked back at the voice notes he had recorded while *Space Man* was Tune of the Week.
Taken together, the clips now sounded as though the Eurovision reveal had been hiding in plain sight.
Sam said he had called his grandad to make sure he was listening, only to discover his grandad had forgotten.
Sam had to sing the comments
It did not take long for social media to react to the UK announcement.
Rather than simply read the comments, Scott and Chris made Sam sing them.
That meant questions about his enormous high notes and other observations had to be transformed into spontaneous melodies.
The result was a useful demonstration of why the UK had chosen a singer with an unusually flexible voice.
The show’s Golden Moment then went back to listener Sophie, whose body appeared to have an automatic emotional response to a particular high note from Zayn Malik in One Direction’s *You & I*.
The same week Zayn had unfollowed Scott, Radio 1 was therefore reminding everybody of the exact note which could make a fan cry on command.
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