Eurovision Song Contest

Anyone else following this yearly (almost year-long) spectacle? Recent editions have been pretty awesome, though last year a bit of enthusiasm has been lost because of Israel participating, and them making it political. Hopefully they will stay low (in profile and results) this year. Anyway, there sure are some promising entries so far:

Estonia just trolls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40eFHAqBqs

Lithuanian emo-shoegaze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2f2aZ6Fy58

Ukrainian indie femboy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4Zp_FG0qg

Malta’s serving Kant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK1tt6L5k

Latvian iso-polyphony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_t79mQkm4

Finnish dominatrix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3QoTpnqyw

Australian total sleaze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_08I6mjHSLA

Yeah, that’s not even all of them, but it’s really set up for an exciting contest this year. Anyone else watching it?

I am. If this qualifies for Sweden, it would be sort of two entries for Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28__O2Ngc74

Oh, great. I’m really rooting for them…. are you on Bluesky? You should be, i can’t find you on there…

Bara bada bastu won for Sweden, awesome!

I’m not on Bluesky.. I don’t care much about social media.

Wow, now it looks it might not even happen at all in 2026, because of a bunch of countries quitting in protest against Israel being allowed to participate. The ultimate lulz would be if it gets cancelled completely because of that (not enough money with all the countries leaving, etc) or if Israel for some reason doesn’t participate anyway, so the Israel-lovers don’t get an ESC with them competing anyway…