Eurovision is one of those bizarre aspects of modern - post-WWII that is - Europe (or, Eurasia) that I fail to understand
I understand European corruption (FIFA, the IOC), nationalism, televised singing contests
but Eurovision has some greater than the sum of its parts insanity that eludes a non-European, I think
it's always been a celebration of kitsch but I think that gets amplified in it's modern context. Social media amplification and hyperreality,competing nationalisms and so on.