I think this is really funny
Also I remember that Nightwish entered the contest for the Finnish finale, and were voted out in favour of some lame song a few years ago.
I keep on noticing that each year the votes that some countries give for others get more and more "strange", because this vote is by no means anything about taste, it´s about how good emigrants/expatriates/refugees could organize their fellows in order to vote their homecountry. And then they vote far more often than the born citizens of many countries, like for example Switzerland gave most votes to Bosnia-Herzegovina, because the immigrants from that country to Switzerland form a huge minority there. Same with all the intertwining of the Eastern-European countries, and some of them were always giving Russia many points, while others, depending on their history, didn´t give them, such as Poland gave its 12 points to Finland aswell.
It also seemed to be a matter of pride to get Albania to the front of the voting, and first of all through the semi-finale, that was a well organized trip.
Germany gave the most points to Turkey, which a) has been a big holiday destination for many people during the last 20 years, and b) has a huge emigrant community in Germany.
On the other hand, there were countries whose citizens living abroad couldn´t care less, because this whole contest is not of much interest to them, at least not enough to send 50 SMS per person, such as France, Germany or UK, and otherwise no-one would vote for them.
The whole way of voting changed through the internet, I think, also much more information about the contestants could be distributed beforehand. Years ago, everything about this was very oldfashioned, and people would actually call because they liked a song, or not.
PS: the only thing that bothers me a bit is that from now on, whenever I´d say I like metal music from Finland, people would assume it´s stuff like Lordi, which I actually don´t like at all
