It’s Eurovision Song Contest season here in Sweden, and the tryouts are engaging everyone, old and young alike. Sweden takes a lot of pride in our participation in this event, but we are a long way from the days of glory when we won the entire thing with Abba (Waterloo, 1974), Carola (Fångad av en stormvind, 1991), and Charlotte Nilsson (Take me to your heaven, 1999).
Last year the Eurovision final was held in Germany, and the TV-show was led by two women and one man. They were doing a pretty decent job for the most part, until they did something that almost made me fall of my chair.
In one scene, the lady in red was holding her microphone upside down looking sheepishly into the camera. The man, the expert, the know-it-all of course came to her rescue, showing her how to really hold the microphone and uttered the words “well, you know women and technology don’t go well together” (!!!) The two women giggled a bit and nodded in embarrassment.
Seriously???!! The people (I’ll bet $100 on it being guys) who wrote that script should be fired on the spot and their bosses need to get their heads screwed on straight! It made me and my friends so furious that evening that it ruined the entire fun with the competition.
I truly hope that this years Eurovision Song Contest, being broadcast from Azerbadzjan won’t entail any such idiotic nonsense.
