Last year's Eurovision Song Contest

[mtbc]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned how this year's Eurovision Song Contest followed the usual pattern of my concurring with the public televote rather than the verdict of the panels of industry professionals. Yesterday I reflected on how last year's contest was an exception to the pattern.

The United Kingdom's song scored unusually well last year yet I thought it one of our more mediocre entries. France's and Germany's scored the worst, yet I thought both to be quite decent songs. Perhaps neither song was positively a gem but nor did they seem superlatively bad^* against the other finalists.

^*superlatively bad tempts me to imagine words like sublative