Eurovision or Easternvision?

Tonight, in Belgrade, 25 nations will sing their hearts out for the coveted Eurovision song contest first prize. A mixture of ballad,rock and Europop, pepper this years competition but ultimately,it will be you, the listening public, that will decide their fate. The old jury system is gone, replaced by televoting which, favours certain 'blocs'. There is the eastern European bloc, whereby most of the eastern European countries vote for each other, mostly through political affiliation and neighbourliness, and partly through song type.The eastern countries don't tend to like the europop from western and northern Europe. The other bloc is the Scandinavian one, whereby the Norweigans vote for the Swedes and the Danes vote for the Icelandic entry etc etc. This year will be no different. It looks like another eastern European victory again, with Russia,Serbia and Ukraine, expected to battle it out for top prize. Sweden and Latvia have a decent chance, Latvia, through their novel pirate song mostly though.
It'll be a 3 hour cheese fest, so get out your popcorn and beer and laugh at it all.

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