Eurovision 2015 – How Sweden Won, Everyone was Against Russia and Germany Got 0 Points for the First Time Since 1965

It’s the day after the Eurovision Song Contest and even though I’m a huge ESC fan – this year was so boring I can barely believe it.

The last years it was all full of glitter, weird clothes, crazy singers, Russian grandmas, vampires, drunk Greeks and monsters. Added to this was a commentator with evil comments for the other countries (who was blown up once – Happy Hunger Games!) and cool programmes between the performances and the results (remember the Glow-flash mob in 2010?).

This year it was 65% ballads, 15% politics, 10% cringe-worthy hosts, 5% boring and 5% good songs. No special outfits, a boring commentator, no vampires – well one or two countries looked like they were about to summon Satan but not as funny as in the last few years. And no glitter.

Compared to all those ballads the Swedish act was great – catchy song, good looking singer, cool effects. So it was not really surprising that Måns Zelmerlöw won. After the Semi-Final some people were complaining about Sweden’s effects because ‘not all countries have the money for those effects.’ Well other countries pay for real dancers. And all countries had some kind of effects – it’s not the Swedes fault that the other countries weren’t creative enough to think of something like that.

When they announced the points I noticed that even though I had been complaining about the political influence before – every time Russia got points I was upset. Because how could they, it’s Russia?! Freaking hypocrite. I know she would have deserved to win because after all the song was okay and she’s NOT Putin. But still… I didn’t want Russia to win.

And now to Germany. Everyone I know had been complaining about how boring the German song was. Because no one could even remember what it sounded like. So for me it definitely wasn’t a surprise when we got 0 points. I was even freaking out every time a country didn’t give Germany points (which was always). For me it was kinda funny.

Of course afterwards everyone was complaining about how unfair the others were for not giving us points… but seriously – if you want to get points send someone special, not the sh*t we sent in the last few years. Because we had some cool people who wanted to go to Eurovision, but the jury always decides for the most ‘normal’ ones, and that’s why the special people didn’t stand a chance to win the German preliminary special.

Let’s hope next year’s ESC will be better.