Ever since I started following this show so much, a couple of years ago, I've always felt like it was politics > music, which is just upsetting in my opinion
The entire point of the show is to come together, enjoy music and forget boundaries. Yet, guess who Cyprus gave their twelve points, douze points to? Yeah, obviously Greece and vice versa. If Belgium makes it to the final, it's also always so painfully obvious that they'll get twelve points from Ireland without thinking about the actual music
Yesterday's contest proved once again that no one gives a kahoot about the music and it's all about the country instead. You can have my word that if Sweden was represented by North Macedonia's song (Proud) that they would have won. It's hilarious how the hosts always call the jury 'professional', there's 0 professionality.
Both the 'professional' juries as the people voting at home are blinded by boundaries, politics and countries and forget about music
Now, I'm incredibly happy that The Netherlands won. Ever since the song came out I knew it was going to win, just like I predicted last year's winner Israel. Last year, however, I didn't want Israel to win, though I knew it was going to because the meaning of the song was 'trendy' and in general the song was special.
Let me also bring up how tired I am of the contest turning into an LGBTQ+ contest. All of a sudden everyone is either gay, bisexual or whatever. I definitely don't have anything against the LGBTQ+ community as I'm part of it myself but bringing this up in a contest like this is totally irrelevant and it's all just to get those precious votes. Also, bringing up the past of an artist is irrelevant (Cyprus' artist Tamta was kidnapped at age 16 and forced to marry. She had a baby and later fled to Greece with her child. She started working as a cleaning lady and sang while doing this, her boss 'discovered' her and that's how it all came to be. Very interesting and all but it's totally irrelevant. We're here for the music.) (Italy's artist Mahmood hasn't seen his dad since he was 6 years old and in the song, he's speaking to his dad by using some Arabic words which he still remembers from his childhood. Once again, okay but no one gives a heck. We're here for the music.)
While I'm at it, I should also bring up how cringe the hosts are and how fake the 'magic tricks' were last night. The hosts are trying to perform spontaneous situations but it's so painfully obvious they studied it. None of them are fluent in English, but I'll give them that, that's not that much of an issue but last night's voting also proved they can't even count till five.
