Once again we have a new ESC Insight newsletter for our readers. Each week the Newsletter reviews the latest Eurovision news and gives some comments and opinions as to what happens in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. We always make sure the full newsletter goes online after launch to find via the website.
This week we have tried to review each and every new Eurovision song picked just before the deadline at the Head of Delegation meeting, as we have also the headlines from around the web that we pick out as well. Robertson’s Reflection, our longer comment section from Newsletter Editor Ben Robertson, this week looks into more detail at the Melodifestivalen App with what he argues is the biggest problem in the current system of App voting.
I’m going to make a big statement and say that the atmosphere in Friends was the worst I have experienced in the three years here during the first few performances. What my picture demonstrates is what my biggest fear with this app was. The man next to me had Dinah Nah as his favourite, but rather than clapping along as you would expect he spent a good one minute hammering his smart phone to register votes.
This is not what people should need to do to pay nearly one thousand kronor (that’s nearly £100) for. That’s not the part of the Melodifestivalen culture of amazingness I have been writing about this week. That’s not the brilliance that was ‘Guld och Gröna Skogar’ where with App voting down the entire arena kicked off into a big dansband session with people filling up all the aisles to dance along to make one of my top five Eurovision moments of all time. That’s why Melodifestivalen is so fantastic and that needs to be more protected.
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