mtbc | Eurovision Song Contest (Reply)

This time last year, with all the activity surrounding my move from Tennessee to Scotland, I missed the Eurovision Song Contest. This year, although we have just moved to Glasgow, we were in a better position to see it, with the help of a free 26" television that we picked up in a communal hallway back when we were viewing a different flat, a short walk away from here. Watching the contest meant staying up later than I prefer but I can make a rare exception for annual events.

Quoting my previous report on the contest: as usual, my preferences correlated rather more with the voting public's than the judges' verdicts. That pattern definitely continues. For example, I found Poland's entry pleasantly catchy, and thought both Finland's and Moldova's rather entertaining. I suppose that Croatia's entry comes in for a special mention, whatever it was.

The UK's entry performed as terribly as has become usual though, like Germany's, I thought it better than it scored. Whereas, the winner, Sweden, I thought was okay, and R. noted that the singer's voice is good, but it didn't blow me away as it did the judges.

Readers unfamiliar with the contest can note that the entries are all on YouTube, searching for Eurovision <year> <country> works well for me. R. found a playlist in descending order of votes so, the more one listens, the worse it gets.