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}} "Children of the Universe" is a song by British singer Molly. It was chosen internally by the BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark. The song was co-written by Molly Smitten-Downes and Anders Hansson. Despite being one of the favourites to win the contest, it finished in 17th of 26 places with 40 points, however achieved the best placing for the UK since the 11th place of Blue in the . ==Background and release== Smitten-Downes was discovered for her work on BBC Introducing and was invited to compose a song especially for the 59th Eurovision Song Contest. The song has been described as a powerful, contemporary, anthemic and uplifting track specifically written with live performance in mind.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Molly )〕 Talking to the BBC she said, "I'm so excited for everyone to hear 'Children of The Universe'. I'm so happy with it. To represent the United Kingdom in such a huge competition, not only as a singer and performer but as a songwriter is an unbelievable honour. I hope I can do us proud".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Blogs - Eurovision - Introducing Molly! )〕 The song was inspired by Max Ehrmann's poem, Desiderata.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to Malta Molly Smitten Downes )〕 It received airplay from the UK national radio station BBC Radio 2 on their 'A' list during April and May 2014. The song was released on 28 April 2014 through East West Records, a division of Warner Music Group and was made available for digital download on iTunes from 15 April.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Children of the Universe - Single by Molly )〕 The digital release of the single will come packaged with an extended version and remix from Secaina Hudson. A remixed version by Scott Mills was uploaded via the BBC Eurovision website on 10 April. The music video for the song was released via Molly's YouTube channel on 23 April 2014 and has a run time of three minutes exactly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=United Kingdom: Children of the universe clip released )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Molly - Children of the Universe (Official Music Video) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Children of the Universe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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