I wouldn’t say that upholding European values by boycotting a giant PR event that is being abused to normalise genocide is exactly an achievement of “nothing notable”.
The main purpose of the ESC is to promote some generic mass produced, bland, and radio broadcast compatible Swedish pop music anyway, so potentially interesting participants from other, especially smaller countries, unfortunately get far too little notice.
What is bland, mass produced, or Swedish pop music about the Romanian or Serbian entry? Romania did make it to the 3rd place too and even Serbia was above the bottom third where you could find bland entries like the German one.
I wouldn’t say that upholding European values by boycotting a giant PR event that is being abused to normalise genocide is exactly an achievement of “nothing notable”.
The main purpose of the ESC is to promote some generic mass produced, bland, and radio broadcast compatible Swedish pop music anyway, so potentially interesting participants from other, especially smaller countries, unfortunately get far too little notice.
What is bland, mass produced, or Swedish pop music about the Romanian or Serbian entry? Romania did make it to the 3rd place too and even Serbia was above the bottom third where you could find bland entries like the German one.