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It’s Eurovision this weekend! Here’s one of my favourite songs, the UK entry from 2015.
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Are you a Eurovision fan? 
For all forum members not from Europe: The Eurovision Song Contest is a big, well, song contest where each country sends a musician with a song to the contest. Moreinformation on Wikipedia. For us Germans it is a little bit boring because we’ll lose each year.
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I don’t follow it closely, but I like to watch the main show on Saturday if I can. Sometimes I listen to some of the songs in advance.
In 2015, I booked a trip to see my uni friend who was doing part of his Year Abroad in Vienna, and it happened to fall on Eurovision weekend! He’s a massive fan, so we went to watch it live on a screen in the special plaza they made. It was fun! 
That’s the case for us too.
By the way, I find it hilarious that Australia have been doing better than most of the European entries 
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Americans React to Weird Europeans? 
I’ll watch it when I get home!
Edit: they actually liked it! Yay!
Re-watching the full videos of Sweden and Moldova’s entries (#2 and #5), I remember how often vocal performance is lost to flashy dance moves. Eh, I love 'em anyway 
ESC has been, like, mostly unknown in Italy for a long time.
If you ask Italians what the most important song contest in Europe, most of them will answer the Festival di Sanremo. If I’m not mistaken, Sanremo now counts as qualification for the ESC, but I think it’s a fairly recent rule, and before the participants were just nominated.
The first time I heard on Italian TV about Eurovision was when Conchita Wurst won. You know, unconventional sexuality is always a big topic here in Italy. Before that, national news always ignored the results of ESC. Then the next year they talked about ESC again, with the obvious pitch “the contest won last year by Conchita Wurst”.
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The whole thing had gone pretty much into obscurity for almost 20 years in germany, too.
Then along came this guy:
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This new song is dope.
What even is this???
Stefan Raab is a famous comedian in Germany. He tried several times to win the ESC with nonsense songs. The text of the song in Milan’s video makes no sense. He was also responsible for this song (as the songwriter):
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That one’s super-cringey 
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Meh, so is all the weird pop stuff from the east. 
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This is the best Eurovision song with German in it 
EINS ZWEI DREI TANZEN!
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Oddly enough that reminds me of this:
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Now that’s an earworm! 
And who wrote that? Right, again a german.
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This has nothing to do with Eurovison:
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Actually it was a big hit in the 70s in Germany (said my parents…)
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