The last Eurovision contest I might have seen happened sometime between 1967 and 1975, but it’s not quite clear to me. Since my parents only got a TV in 1967, it had to be at that time that I began to watch the show.
Before that I knew that the Italian singer Gigliola Cinquetti had won the 1964 Contest for Italy with her song "Non ho l'età". She was followed by France Gall in 1965 with "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" but after that my memory gets blurry and I might have watched the 1967, 1968 and maybe some other Contests before I moved to America in 1977, but I can’t really remember.
Did I even see ABBA’s Waterloo in 1974, I’m not quite sure. I simply thought I enjoyed watching the few shows I had a chance to see when I was young and into pop culture, but since then the Eurovision Song Contest moved out of my musical environment.
It was until last weekend when I watched a good portion of the 70th Contest in Vienna that I could appreciate what the 2026 version was bringing to the public through YouTube for the first time. I wasn’t thrilled with all the “engineered” and overproduced songs that failed to make me want to watch next year’s program.
I would say that Bulgarian singer Dara who won this year’s contest with her party anthem "Bangaranga", had the least bad performance of the show, but that doesn’t say much. She beat out Israel's Noam Bettan, which I thought was really bad and Australia's Delta Goodrem, who placed second and third, respectively.
Like many, I wondered why Australia was even part of Eurovision, but it’s allegedly because the down-under country loves that show and of the longstanding broadcast efforts of the Australian network SBS, which has aired the event since 1983. Now, you know everything about me and the Eurovision song competition!
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