Sam Ryder Eurovision 2022 interview: "As a fan, it's sick to see so much positivity around the UK entry this year"

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Sam Ryder is up in Space, Man. Well, actually not when we hop on Zoom to chat with him. He's just in a living room, not out of choice, but necessity to protect him before the very important job he has to do. "I came off a scooter in Madrid the day before yesterday," Sam tells us. "I'm very lucky I didn't hit my head.

I can walk, though, which is good since I need to leave for the airport in an hour!" That job? Representing the United Kingdom as our representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.

Sam was chosen as part of a quasi-experiment, in partnership with management firm TaP Music, who were responsible for finding and mentoring Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey and Dermot Kennedy.

Before that, he'd found success going hyper-viral on TikTok. Space Man, Sam's entry, is a scatter-shot pop banger, with an electrifying chorus that does seem at points like it's lifting up into the atmosphere.