Whatever happened in the results, Ukraine is the winner, writes journalist Mari Pudas from Turin.
The Ukrainian Kalush Orchestra will perform tonight in the Eurovision final. EBU / SARAH LOUISE BENNETT
The last one will be taken out today to see who will win the Turin Eurovision Song Contest.
Or survive and survive, the winner is already Ukraine. For the Ukrainian Kalush Orchestra, victory means they are in Turin at all.
In Ukraine, which was the victim of a brutal war of aggression in Russia, men capable of war should not leave the country. The Kalush Orchestra got special permission to leave the country, and that’s just awesome. Eurovision is an event that unites the whole of Europe, and right now the unity of Europe is more important than it has been for years.
The members of the Kalush Orchestra are not pity-minded little poodles, but artists who value themselves and are a little inclined to diva. At least it seemed like it at the opening of visas, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Will the Kalush Orchestra win the Eurovision Song Contest? It seems now. Ukraine gets huge votes for its song and, of course, votes for sympathy. These voices of sympathy, which are obviously coming, seem to be very heartbreaking in Finnish visa circles. Tones of sympathy seem to be considered less good than votes cast on other grounds.
You can get such an idea at least by talking to visa fans and following online discussions.
Of course, everyone has the right to their views. But really, is it so horrible if a country at war would win visas? And if we want to show solidarity by voting in Ukraine? That’s when it’s a pretty easy way to show solidarity.
How many in the final games can vote on visas for “the right reasons”? After all, Eurovision is a song contest, a song contest. Do many of us have the ability to judge the purity of sound, keeping to the note, the versatility and skill of a composition? Quite rarely. If you really went according to these criteria, the stage show, the hair of Cornelia Jakobs in Sweden (they are gorgeous) or none of the external factors would matter at all.
In this case, the decision-making power should be handed over to the professional council, as in the Lappeenranta national singing competitions.
And the Kalush Orchestra’s song isn’t bad at all. Stefania is a great song that combines rap and folk. One 5-year-old I know Frans announced the song to be his visa favorite. 5 This may not be the case with world politics.
Let everyone vote for whatever reason they want. Although because of Cornelia’s hair or Lauri Ylönen’s bird melt.
Слава Україні!