Love Is (Vikki Watson song)

Infobox ESC entry
artist = Vikki Watson
song = flagicon|United Kingdom Love Is
country = United Kingdom
year = 1985
as = Vikki
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language = English
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composer = James Kaleth and Vikki Watson
lyricist = Kaleth and Watson
conductor = John Coleman
place = 4th
points = 100
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1985uk from Diggiloo Thrush]
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prev = Love Games
prev_link = Love Games (Belle and the Devotions song)
next = Runner in the Night
next_link = Runner in the Night

"Love Is", written and composed by James Kaleth and Vikki Watson, was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, performed by the latter composer, Vikki Watson, credited at Eurovision as Vikki.

Vikki won the right to perform at Gothenburg by winning the UK national final, "A Song for Europe", where she was the first singer to perform. At Gothenburg, the song was performed fourteenth on the night, after Norway's Bobbysocks with "La det swinge", and before Switzerland's Mariella Farre and Pino Gasparini with "Piano, Piano." At the end of judging that evening, "Love Is" took the fourth-place slot with 100 points. At the time, it was one of the few entries that managed to receive 100 points without receiving any 12 point allotments from any jury. It was also the UK's strongest showing since winning the 1981 Contest with "Making Your Mind Up."

The song was a contemporary ballad about a man and a woman who are both too afraid to plunge head-first with their emotions into a love affair; while both of them want to be loved by the other, both of them are letting their heads rule their hearts. In the chorus, Vikki sings that "love is" the product of a number of impulsive decisions, such as "taking a chance on two hearts beating as one." Vikki nominally used a single chair as a prop, first sitting in it while singing the song, then circling it and abandoning it entirely by the second half of the song.

Despite the high showing at Gothenburg, the song placed at #49 on the UK Singles Chart.