Last night Italy hosted the prestigious, traditional Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, and winner was Ukraine, United Kingdom came second, Spain third and Sweden number four. It was a well performed competition which I partly watched. 25 countries competing in the final, this is Sweden's contribution:
@divegeester
Neither you, nor I are in the target audience so it's not my kind of music. Still there is so much ambition, talent, hard work and hopes - and money - involved in this event, I can't very well ignore it either. Ukraine was a favourite from the start. Perhaps we should leave our personal impressions aside, and just see it for what it is meant to be - a special occasion made possible by a lot of people accomplishing this together.
I haven't watched it or seen it or been aware of it since 1991 aside from a disconcerting acid flashback of the 1982 contest which I experienced in 2002. To be honest, on this occasion only, I haven't liked it since about 1978.
What's more, I didn't think Israel should have been allowed to compete, whenever that was, but I shrunk back from being strident about it when I was accused of anti-semitism and my university came under pressure to revoke my doctorate after my Swiss finishing school had revoked my A Levels