When solidarity won over propaganda and will we ever have a ESC without politics

The dream of Eurovision Song Contest has been to unite Europe through singing. After the second world war people were rather fed up with going to war with each other and were looking for a way to work together. So, of course, a singing competition was formed. And why not? Estonia later showed us that a singing revolution could fix one's problems with independence.

If I ever moved to another country within Europe, I would probably keep quite strong ties to my native land. As the ESC is organized now I would have more than one vote to cast. So I guess I would vote once for a song I like and maybe through in one for my native country as well. I also understand that countries close to each other will vote for each other because the culture is similar and music taste is probably similar as well. Although, I do get a bit cynical when a country doesn't give any votes for a country that has a potentially winning song and it's obvious that those countries have a political feud. I'm looking at you Norway. What's up with no points for Sweden? I bet it's from the whole Sweden-Norway union.

Nah, I'm kidding. But in all seriousness, it has become a lot better. About 10 years ago it was much easier to guess the votes based on some history and some knowledge of current affairs. Then again it's more difficult now to know how the countries themselves voted, since all the peoples' votes are grouped together and we only see the jurys' votes during the show. Albeit one could discern some tendencies in their votes as well.

It is also sad that the artists are the ones that get the hate. They might get booed and a good song might not get to win just because it is song by an unpopular country.

Hopefully, most people don't care about the possible political backgrounds, but enjoy the songs and the shows and that for other people it leads to discussion.

It was a good song that won. Let's hope it can bring some peace and stability to the country, now that more eyes will be on them for next year.

I do agree with ESC in the aspect that the two political views that are OK are peace and pacifism. We have seen enough of wars and conflicts, wouldn't it be more fun if we just chilled.
Let's take a page out of Estonia's songbook.