Alaska's Winner: Introduction

For the past few years, usually on the weekend of the Eurovision Song Contest, I throw a party, invite some friends around, cook a mess of food, and otherwise have a great time watching Europe present the "best" songs that they can come up with.

It's a blast, but there's one thing that we don't understand in the Last Frontier.  Why do you choose the songs that you do?

Case in point:

In the last Eurovision Song Contest, the Azerbaijani entry won the kit and caboodle.

Ell and Nikki  "Running Scared"

In our voting, this song came in dead last.  She was flat, and the two of them had absolutely no chemistry on stage whatsoever.    The collective groan from the group in Anchorage when it won over the rest of the songs was audible.

Our choice was one that barely made it to the middle of the table, the Serbian entrant

 

Nina  "Caroban"

Nina, was cute, the staging was peppy, she stayed on key, it was in a language other than English, and the song is damn infectious.  In other words, everything that Ell and Nikki's song wasn't.

It's really rather frustrating.

So some of my friends and I have decided to go back through all the years of Eurovision and crown our own winner--Alaska's Choice.  Watch this blog in the next week or two for the first entrant, our choice for the winner of the very first Eurovision Song Contest, all the way back in 1956.