#esc2015

Normally on my Eurovision blog, I don't really talk about the other songs released by competing artists unless they're a returning artist and their previous song holds relevance, or it's an artist I've heard of or am getting a first impression of. Tonight, I make an exception.

If you know (or don't), let me refresh some memories. My favorite Latvian entries were "Aijā" by Sudden Lights from last year and "Love Injected" by Aminata from 2015. Okay. Now. What if they did a song together? Because that's what happened.

- Polina Gagarina is showing her true colors by performing in support of the russian troops at the celebration of the Crimean Annexations. The whole "everybody hates me because I'm russian, but I just want peace in the world"/"I'm russian and I don't understand why can't we be friends with everyone" was a great farce during 2015 Eurovision that seems to be just as false as I believed it to be. We see this being reused by a lot of russians to throw some guilt off themselves.

-My brain finally decided to remind me why I have such a hard response to "but the russian people didn't want this". Basically, after the annexation of Crimea, the favorite phrase of every russia has been "крым наш" (Crimea is ours). So, if russia used the same tactics to slowly annex the entirety of ukraine they would have been ok with it.

-If I ever hear anything again about the "bio labs in Ukraine" I'm throwing hands. Recently some not really known politician in Moldova gave an interview to some russian channel and said something along the lines of "The USA secretary that visited Moldova, came here to bring biosamples from the Ukrainian labs to the Moldavian ones" If this doesn't confirm that it's some idiotic russian propaganda then I don't know what is.