Digital Wanderer

What do I have to say about Eurovision? You can call me a pervert, but I like it. I won’t snobbishly call the event a freak show. I’ll put it this way: it’s interesting to watch and analyze the interdependencies. How countries in different regions support their neighbors. How the performer’s appearance and freakishness often determine the outcome of the voting. (In fact, I’ve considered this the main factor for about 5 years now).
Dima Bilan’s result was completely inexplicable to me. But if you take into account my key hypothesis, which I’d somewhat forgotten this time, everything becomes more or less clear. Bilan twitching like an epileptic, playing a vocational-school kid who’s completely off his rocker from the story "A Boy and His Dog". A white grand piano, out of which emerges a mutated android covered in volcanic ash. And ballerinas in the background on top of all that. The result is pure surrealism, seasoned with sweet-sounding pop drivel—exactly what you need to achieve a high result at Eurovision.
However, the hellish (quite literally this time) Finns Lordi proved even more stunning in visual-freak terms, which is why they won. Personally, I also liked the girls from Ukraine, Moldova, and Norway, which proves that I’m not a robot after all. This time, the Lithuanians found a use for their national traits—cunning and resourcefulness—and their amusing, pushy counting rhyme didn’t even come across as vulgar.
In general, Zvuki got absolutely everything right this time, so I won’t continue pouring out streams of low-quality words. I’ll only say that the reaction of those in the Channel One studio (judging by Zvuki; they didn’t show it here) inspires a smirk and disgust toward the Russian showbiz establishment. It is almost impossible to imagine such squabbling on television in European countries. After statements like these, the remarks made by the so-called "Russian patritards" and "non-Russians" look completely different. Our Latvian commentator, for example, simply said sadly that Latvia’s Cosmos had been predicted either a high result or nothing at all.