You know I think so much about the televotes. There’s always so many numbers that you THINK would get more points, but then they don’t. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that people only vote for the ones they want to win.
Austria for example, had an incredibly catchy song this year and was well liked, but I also think a lot of us didn’t think of it as a ”winner” song. And thus, not as many voted for it. Thus, they ended up getting only 16 points, and many of us wondering how they could POSSIBLY get so low when they deserved more.
It can also be that, you know, voting costs money. It’s not a LOT of money, but it’s still money. So maybe some people just save their money by only voting for one entry, or not vote at all.
There can only be one winner of Eurovision, but you also want your faves to get good points. I myself voted for Finland, Norway, Austria and Croatia. Only two of them I knew had bigger odds at winning, but I wanted the other two to at least get as good as a placement as possible. I also usually don’t vote for so many of them, but I have not voted for several years and I always got bummed when songs I liked got so few votes. So this year I decided to just go with it and do what I could.
Then there’s also the fact that people with a completely different taste in music has as much power in voting as you do. So there’s people who did not like Austria’s song for example, there’s people who thought Finland’s song was too loud and annoying, there’s people disliking every song that you loved. (My mom for example, thought both Austria and Finland’s songs were very annoying and did not understand why anyone would like them. But she did like Denmark’s song…)
And there’s an age difference too. Remember, people who are 12 and people who are 45 have as much power in the voting as you do.
There’s a bunch of different reasons to why something can get a too high or too low televote score, and while the jury definitely is our main enemy, we can’t trust each other either all the time.
