Oh, sure. I hope those less familiar with the contest don’t assume that that’s what it’s about. While the national submissions and the winners tend to sell pretty well, the ESC is still mostly its own world and only tenuously connected to real world pop music.
In some ways it is a lot like the Olympics. How many people genuinely give a shit about pole vaulting or track cycling? However that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the spectacle on its own terms, appreciating the history, the intenational shared experience, the human drama and the excellence even in something you consider pretty pointless in your more sober moments.
