Eurovision 2012

This year we didn’t win Eurovision as usual. This festival is an annual competition held by European countries. It celebrated in May where the country of the last festival won. Each member of the countries submits a song to the festival and it is voted by the others one.

Every year Eurovision has a strange performance or a strange song that could be the result of wining the festival. Several years ago a group of Nordic dinosaurian men dressed with their guitars won with a heavy song. Or, another year a blond pretty girl won with a performance like a cabaret full of changes in her appearance in public such as a long black dress which became in a very short red dress in a few seconds. Spain participated with a freaky song submit by Chiquilicuatre was favourite to win but it didn’t work).

This year is not different as usual. A group of Russian grannies are the favourite to win. They were from a remote village in the Ural Mountains. They sang a typical Russian song dressed as a typical cultural way. The oldest of them is 76, which makes her the oldest Eurovision participant as ever. But, at the end, they didn’t win.

A group of Irish twins, John and Edward Grimes, were the most voted the Tuesday night’s semi-final so they passed to the big final on Saturday with the grannies and, of course, Spain. The 20-year-old twins dressed in silver and gold costumes with spiky hair. The performance ended with the brothers jumping into a fountain in the middle of the stage.

Finally was Sweden who won the festival with a song called Euphoria. Spain ended in a 10 positions carried by Pastora Soler.

Eurovision is always synonym as an event to celebrate kitsch entertainment. In my opinion, the festival is an old-fashioned event that agglutinated freaky people. It is such a long time that Spain doesn’t win this festival. In this kind of festival is mixed other things far from music and talent. It is full of political interests that make curious things in the votes. For example, Germany only gave us one point and Greece gave us ten points. This is why we have a strong relationship with Greece (Queen Sophia has her roots in Greece) and Germany is angry with us for not doing our financial homework. So, this kind of things shouldn’t have to pass.