Doin' The Omoralisk Schlagerfestival '15 (9)

What an intense nail biter. Early on Italy takes the lead followed by Sweden and Russia, but as the night went on Italy falled behind while Russia assured its dominance with Sweden tailing behind. No longer a competition for the best music it developed into a battle between the free world and Russia. Was the hardened leadership of Russia and its all more aggressive world politics hand them a second victory while tramping on the human rights that defines the modern world or was Sweden gonna break through and win again after just 3 years since last time while taking their Eurovision high score up to 6 challenging Ireland on their dominance as the supreme Eurovision winner? The game changer happened when the UK delivered the points as Sweden went up to the lead and Russia trailed behind and with each country from now on they called even further away until the end when there was a around 50 points gap between us and Måns Zelmerlöw was declared victorious. Russia sends us fighter jets, we send a 30 something singer that knocks them out of the competition. It feels like Rocky 4.

Although Drago is played by a Swede... and Rocky would be a better Italian representative... maybe not the best analogy, but they had great cheesy 80's music so it might work

Well, that is how I perceived it as a political scientist and a huge fantasy geek with the constant good vs evil theme. Russia wasn't bad and the song wouldn't have been a bad winner, but you can't always ignore the real world politics like Russia's aggressiveness over our air space or the invasion of Ukraine. I think most of Eurovision had a sigh if relief that Sweden took it home again. Again, politics shouldn't be involved, but we know it will be. Overall it seemed that several countries had performed better than the first time. Armenia's druids had pushed up their vocals a bit and it became instantly better, France that I did't give a damn about made a rather bombastic song live and that was rather surprising. Well, Denmark seems to have lost the semi-finals this year, but if all former wins is an indication they must shape up to win next year.