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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2025-05-19 11:27 am
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A couple of post-Eurovision thoughts

A few of the songs seemed better when I heard them again in the final. Some of that was that the actual performances were improved over the semi-finals but I suspect that most of it was that I simply liked them more on a second hearing. Unfortunately, while some were agreeable enough, there weren't any songs that I feel a strong need to hear ever again.

After the song contest, it seems that I always comment on the difference between the jury vote and the popular vote. Each year brings interesting discrepancies between the two. I wonder if the UK's song selection process should, at least in part, return to including some kind of popular vote element. The current internal selection approach has proved poor at finding songs that win popular approval.

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