Multi platinum songwriter helped write UK Eurovision 2025 entry sung by Remember Monday

Wales Online

12-05-2025

Multi platinum songwriter helped write UK Eurovision 2025 entry sung by Remember Monday
This week Remember Monday will be performing on behalf of the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, but who wrote their song?
The band will be representing the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, May 17
It's finally Eurovision week, the moment that people across the continent, and even across the globe, have been looking forward to since last year's competition in Malmö, Sweden.
This year, the UK if being represented by Remember Monday, the first girl group to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1999. On Saturday, May 17 the trio of best friends who met in sixth form, will be performing their song What the Hell Just Happened? in the grand final of the contest to see who will be Eurovision 2025's victors.
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So, who wrote the song which could lead the UK to the winning spot?For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter .
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The song itself was written by the members of Remember Monday, Charlotte Steele, Holly-Anne Hull and Lauren Byrne as the track is said to reflect the group's real-life way of supporting each other in challenging situations.
They wrote the song alongside, artist and multi platinum songwriter Julie Aagaard, musician and songwriter Thomas Stengaard and producers, writers and DJs Sam Brennan and Tom Hollings, better known as Billen Ted.
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The duo of DJs Billen Ted, have performed at Ibiza Rocks, Reading and Leeds festival. They have also produced and co-written many gold and platinum records for the likes of Anne-Marie, Aitch, KSI, Tom Grennan, Rudimental,Tiesto, Rita Ora and Melanie C.
One of the other writers on the track, Thomas Stengaard has also previously written Eurovision entries for Cyprus in 2021 and 2023. Recently, on The Euro Trip podcast he discussed how the song got its name from their co-writer Julie.
He said: "When you're reading comments and like stuff from the Eurovision fans they're like 'Oh, what the hell just happened here?' You know, it's like a thing you would say, and [Julie] was like, 'that would be a good fun title.'
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"Me and Sam in room, we were like 'f**k yeah, that's good.'
"Then we just went to just try to do something like when you, when you pick that title, you can't make it a piano ballad you know, it would be like well, what the hell just happened well you wrote a piano ballad? Okay, yeah true, you know, maybe it's not a fitting title, it should need to be something where you're left like 'what the hell is this?' So that's what sort of spawned the idea of doing the song how we did it."
The song has had mixed reviews, but primarily positive in terms of critical response with people praising its energetic fusion of musical styles, lyrics, and strong vocal harmonies. Many people have also noted how there is clear inspiration from acts like Queen, Elton John and Billy Joel whilst also nodding to the campness of Eurovision.
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It is also clear that the band have a massive musical theatre influence on their music through their powerful harmonies. With all members having a a long standing history with theatre performances, including Holly-Anne who has previously performed in Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables, Lauren who has played Miss Honey in Matilda and Charlotte who has played Jane Banks in Mary Poppins.
What the Hell Just Happened? was the band's first single to enter the UK Singles Chart, and it debuted at number 95 upon release. It also peaked at number 38 on the UK Independent Singles chart.