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Friday Fun Thread for May 12, 2023

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It's Eurovision Song Contest time, and words cannot describe how crazy Finland has been over this year's Eurovision and Finland's predicted chances to do well. This thread is just a short list of stuff revolving around the Finnish Eurovision entry that's been seen here.

We should use this as an excuse to take advantage of our new NATO membership to divide Sweden between Finland, Norway and Denmark.

But then we'd have more Swedes here.

Finland deserved to win. Sweden's song was good, but it's not sporting to send a previous winner back, especially one with an established music career.

Overall not a particularly memorable contest in my opinion. The staging was great (as always) but very few stand out songs.

I try to not watch Eurovision because I think it's boring and the music almost always mediocre and I don't care who wins, if anything I prefer Sweden not to win so that the final doesn't end up here.

That said, sending artists with established careers is very common and so is sending previous winners, they just don't tend to win.

That Loreen won with that stale euphoria interpretation says more about the general level of the competition this year than her imo.

They were robbed.

Also your link wouldn't play for me in the US.

This one does https://youtube.com/watch?v=rJHe-iZ5HSI