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Our regular column, Robertson’s Reflection, is all about this increase in countries returning to Eurovision 2016, but with a catch. More countries than ever before are stopping their National Final process, and Ben Robertson thinks he knows why.
While we might celebrate these countries returning they are on tactical missions to make that Grand Final. Looking at those songs this year that scraped home just over the 50 point barrier to make Saturday night we have ‘Adio’, ‘Hour Of The Wolf’ and ‘In The Name Of Love’. All musically very different but all providing a safe and inoffensive entertainment that showed off a vocal and all internally selected. I fear the fear of missing qualification by rousing jury members will sterilise Eurovision Song Contests of the future. Yes the flavours of ethnicity will still run true but they will be tried and tested formulas, artists, songwriters, even more so than we come to expect today. The chance of opening doors to new brave attempts is being slammed shut across the continent.
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