The fact that the studio version of the flawless "Runaway" by Sahlene (Estonia 2002) didn't exist on YouTube so I had to do the world a favor and upload it
The girl who represented the Netherlands in my school's Eurovision shamelessly ripped this song for her own entry "Friends", the good sis placed 7th
The only one who isn't embarrassing is Peter Poles (the Slovenian one, he's actually funny). The others made me feel such second-hand embarrassment.
The most awkward ones were probably Maria Orlova (Ukraine 2005) who got the votes wrong and had to start from the beginning TWICE, and Odetta Morofigurska (Poland 2011) who created a long ass suspence to give 12 points to Lithuania
Portugal withdraws and the contest is already better
no one forces them not to sing in english, most of their songs are really bad.
And the delusional Portuguese stans will stop for once. I mean, they were ALL convinced that Ha um mar que nos separa would've not only made it to the finals, but also that it might've won
