Eurovision comedy contest...

Flashback: Tuesday night I stayed up watching the Eurovision song contest. I thought I was watching 'Idol For Beginners'. I also thought Belgium stood a good chance in winning. All right, admitted, the song was a bit childish, to say the least. But vocally they ruled and at least they were original. I really expected 'Dustin The Turkey' to go through too, but nope... I didn't like the Irish song, don't get me wrong. I just thought that in all the Eurosong craziness, people would vote for that.
The other act that stood out was the Britney Spearsian act. No, I don't mean she came on stage all drugged and drunk, she actually looked like LaSpears, danced a bit like her and the song was, well I don't know I didn't like it. Oh and well 'ding ding' she came all the way from the USA. Apparently she was a supporting act for Jessica Simpson, LL Cool J and Jennifer Love Hewitt in a former life. Details, details... I'm not sure if I think that's fair. I have nothing against people from outside Europe, far from (why would I?). But it IS a European song contest and with all due respect, it's not a world song contest. Agreed, she's been in Greece for four years already but, I'm not sure... It doesn't feel right. I mean if we wanted to we could hire Avril Lavigne, make her Belgian for a year and get her to win the Eurosong contest for us. It's all too complicated. (I am aware of the fact that Celine Dion participated once and I don't think that was right either.) I may be strict in this but in my opinion only European people should participate. Polish people for Poland, German dudes for Germany, French dudettes for France...
Where's the time that we would gather around the TV, laugh at a minority of contestants and really debate about who should win. Overall participants were good and the songs that won, would be forever famous: 'Puppet On A String', 'Waterloo', 'Save Your Kisses For Me', 'What's Another Year', 'Making Your Mind Up', 'Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi', 'Hold Me Now', 'Love Shine A Light' and well-known in Europe 'Wild Dances'. Nobody remembers the last couple of contestants and I'm sure everybody will have forgotten about this year's winner in a month or so.
I'm not sure what happened but after 'Hard-Rock Hallelujah' things started going wrong, terribly wrong. Either way I don't believe Belgium has a great chance to win anymore. It's all a game of politics, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Giving and receiving points has become so predictable, it's sad. Eurosong has lost it's fairness.
So this year's winner is Dima Bilan with 'Believe' for Russia. I think people made a good choice though. Apart from that song, not a lot of songs were very good (the Norwegian song was though and some others too) and to be truthful France for example was ridiculous and had no musical value whatsoever. Honestly not a lot of songs had, I mean if some songs were the best they had in a country, like Kreisiraadio for Estonia, I'm wondering what the worst was. I mean there has to be something better in those countries? I'm just hoping they will come to their senses and do something about this. Eurovision could be fun, it is fun now, but in a more ridiculous way. I think I've said all I needed too. Congratulations people of Russia, and may next year's contestants be a little more serious and voters will vote for the best song.

This ain't a contest, it's an arms race...
XO-reos
Monco