large sigh On paper, the Eurovision Contest could be a great place to celebrate music from all the countries we have. Sounds great, right? Everyone gets to show their best artist with an original song to represent their country. Musical Olympics. Great! Except that it's not, mostly because of two obvious problems with voting: 1) people vote for countries they like out of solidarity, not just based on music (the Belgians vote mostly for us, and we Dutch return the favor) or 2) the weirdest / novelty / whichever artist played right before the voting wins. Good music hasn't won in decades, and because of that, lots of good artists don't want their names attached to it. Also, most of the Eastern European countries are just terrible. And we only won once. And this year we have some kind of mediocre-country song representing us, which is not the best we have to offer, not by a long shot. On the other hand, Twitter is hilarious if you follow funny people while watching it. Great trashtalk.