Klingons Win Eurovision Song Contest
Due to the abismal failure of Finland during previous Eurovision song contests, those clever Fins enlisted the help of the Klingons, who crashed the contest and brought the Eurovision song contest to Finland.
Seriously, this was one of the best Eurovisions in YEARS. I really enjoyed it. The quality of the music was better than usual, and the entertainment value of many of the acts was excellent. The only thing that really annoyed me was Maria Menounos and the continual screwups which seemed to worsen as then night progressed. I liked the new voting system, it made the show a lot shorter 
Everyone is on about the political nature of the voting. I think that is just insane. Former Soviet republics voted for Russia, not because they missed their former overlords, but because the song was in a language they understood, and more than likely it had been playing on the radio non-stop for the past few months. Same with the former Yugoslavian countries giving each other 12 points, it’s not political it’s just that the people in those countries were familiar with the music/artists and voted for them.
The reason why England, France, and Germany did so bad is because they sucked, not because they people didn’t like them. I did feel bad for the French, they sent an amature singer/hairdresser and she totally tanked. Wasn’t eurovision an amature contest at one point?
If this Eurovision song contest said anything, it’s that people are fed up with the boring “commercially viable” music that is being fed to them on TV/Radio/Commercials. If it was up to me I would have voted for Lithuania, but I’m not entirely displeased with the final outcome.
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“…because the song was in a language they understood…”
In English, you mean? Mind you, the pronounciation was so unclear, it might as well have been Russian.
But I’m nitpicking. I totally agree with you — people vote for cultures they feel close to, and that’s part of the game.
You’re right, it was (at least partially) in English. The fact that the artist was somewhat local to the general culture based area also had to do with it.
It also depends on the amount of foreigners living in the country. Like how Germany gave 12 points to Turkey.
I watched (parts of) the Eurovision and really enjoyed it! Mainly because of the English commentator who’s sense of humour I thought was absolutely brilliant!
However I’m not too happy with the outcome (nothing against the Finns - they well deserved it I suppose) as that might mean that next year half of the contestants will show up with a hard/heavy/whatever/rock song to match up to the last winner, just as there have been noticebly more songs with oriental influence, since Turkey won it 2 years ago. And I’m stuck on Eurovision being more of a pop-kind-of song contest (donno why …).
We shall live and see.
I’m from one of those former Soviet republics and I’d say its not about he artists being familiar. Its because during the Soviet era Russians migrated massive amounts of people from Siberia to our countries in order to kill our culture. When you have around a third of the population Russians its no wonder that Russia gets big points.
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