To what extent is the Eurovision Song Contest, which the EBU desires to be taken seriously, permitted to poke fun at its own premise? Continue reading That joke isn’t funny anymore….or is it?

Barbara Dex wore a dress that was self-designed, for which her song, her presence, her memory, has been replaced in the collective fandom memory as a punchline to a joke she was not allowed to heckle. Continue reading Dex appeal

We may roll our eyes at their conservative tastes, yet Eurovision’s juries doubtlessly saved the Contest from being devoured from the inside. Continue reading Jury Duties