Celebrating Diversity with the ESC?
Everybody has a guilty pleasure and one of mine is the European Vision Song Contest. I phrase it like this because the kind of music played there is mostly not my cup of tea and it seems to me that some countries (Germany included) compete in, who sends the most embarrassing or most spectacular act. So, even if the music isn’t always the best in this contest, it is highly entertaining and I always watched it with friends or family. This year’s slogan of the contest was „Celebrate Diversity“ and therefore I was excited to listen to songs that reflect the languages and cultures of their respective countries. During the years the regulations of the contest were changed several times. Sometimes contestants had to sing in an official language of their country, in other times they could choose freely. Since 1999 there are no restrictions regarding the language, which led to most singers and bands just singing in English. Of the 26 countries in the 2017 finals, only six perfor...