MY WORLD

EUROVISION 2015

Last night the 60th edition of the Eurovision festival, with the motto Building Bridges was held in Vienna, Austria. The festival started with several performances, one of them by Conchita Wurst, last year's winner. Then the important performances, the ones who aimed for the prize, started.

The night drew on with the performances of 25 European countries, an Asian one (Israel, like every year), and for the first time ever with Australia, as a special guest. Before the festival, the favourites this year were Sweden, Italy, Estonia, Australia and Russia. 

On the other hand, Spain that brought Edurne with the song Amanecer to the festival was expected to be in the top 10, or at least close to it. 

During the festival, Belgium became one of the favourites while Russia, mainly for political reasons, recieved several catcalls.

After all the artists had sung and all the performances had been reviewed twice, the voting started. Forty countries voted, and they gave 1 to 7 points to seven different countries and then they gave 8 points to one country, 10 to another and finally 12 to the one they considered the best performance.

In my opinion, it was like all the years. Every year there are two or three favourites, which recieve points from almost all the countries, but then the countries always vote for the countries next to them. So the votes always happen to be given for political or geographic reasons. 

The winner, with 365 points, was finally Sweden, just like three years ago, with the song Heroes by Mans Zelmerlöw. Russia with the song A Million Voices by Polina Gagarina finished in the second place, and after it there was Italy, with Grande amore by Il volo. 

The other ones who were favourites before the festival ended up all in the top 10: Australia in the 5th place, with Tonight Again by Guy Sebastian and Estonia, with the song Goodbye to Yesterday by Elina Born and Stig Rästa ended up in the 7th place. 

The ones that complete the top 10 were Belgium (4th place), Latvia (6th place), Norway, Israel and Serbia (8th, 9th and 10th place).

The four last ones were Austria, the host, and Germany, with 0 points; France with 4 points, doubling their last year results; and the United Kingdom, with 5 points. 

Spain ended up worst than expected, it entered in the top ten, but starting from the bottom. Edurne ended up in the 21st position, just the same position she performed. She didn't perform perfectly, without a mistake, but in my opinion she deserved better results, as the song was fine and she also danced. 

I liked some of the songs which ended up in the top 10, just like Australia or Belgium, and I liked the winner song, Heroes, although before the festival, several people said it was too similar to the song Lovers on the sun, by David Guetta. And it isn't the only thing for which they were accused of plagiarism. A lot of people said that the lights show of the background was copied from a lights show called The Alchemy of Light. 

And well, these are the main things about the Eurovision festival of 2015. Next year it will be held in Sweden and let's see who represents Spain and how he or she does it.

THE WINNER SONG: