For me it happened with the Italian entry this year.
Marco Mengoni "L'essenziale"
"L'essenziale" and Mengoni were selected by a committee attached to the San Remo Song Festival, the song contest that inspired Eurovision.
What's different this year is "L'essenziale" is the winning song, picking up 36% of the votes in the final round. It's a rare event where the Italians will actually send the winning song at San Remo to Eurovision.
With that pedigree, I expect the song, a sly comment on the current economic crisis in Italy buried in a romantic ballad, to do pretty well. And since Mengoni is a seasoned performer, I suspect he's going to take command of the stage.
My problem is with Mengoni himself. I don't have much tolerance for metrosexual males, and Mengoni seems to be primped, preened and tailored within an inch of his life. It's a gut reaction and one that I will try to get over once I listen to the song without the visuals. But that's part of what Eurovision is; even if the song is the best song in this year's contest, I wouldn't vote for it, just off of his appearance.
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