A bit of politics, a bit of schmaltz, and a silly costume secured the prizeEurovision ground down a tiny notch last night back to relative sanity, which is only to say it was still as sweetly mad as a fish in a sporran. In Stockholm’s Globe arena, and in a remarkable break from recent tradition, some of the music wasn’t bad. None of it was actually good. But Sweden put on a terrific show, at one stage featuring the hosts, the remarkably funny Petra Mede and Mans Zelmerlow, doing such a horribly knowing song-and-dance about the whole thing that you …read more
Source: The Guardian
