Eurovision 2022--The ESC Hangover Edition and Radio Free Järbo Awards

 It's all over now, and we have to wait another year, or so, for Eurovision to come around again.  With the Olympics, it's kind of a relief when it's all done.  Not so much with Eurovision--well except maybe for the endless process of the voting "parade of nations."   

Our Hangover Edition's Radio Free Järbo Awards

Best Looking Man

🇵🇱Poland

We were big fans of Ochman both in the looks and singing departments.  We were also taken by his very humble demeanour.  Not sure why Europe is so against anything that resembles an operatic voice, even when doing a pop song.  

Runner up:  Martin Österdahl, head of the ESC for the EBU, who can certify my votes any day of the week.  

Best Official Video

🇲🇩Moldova

These guys always seem to be having a lot of fun.  Wouldn't you just love to spend an afternoon in a bar with them?   If you haven't seen it, you really need to watch it.

Best Production Number

🇪🇸Spain

We did not like the song very much, but then again, she didn't really need it with all of that choreography.  Many commentators were saying how amazed they were that she could sing while doing those bends, twists, turns, and lifts.  I was amazed that she should do it all with that bejewelled thong up her crack.  

Best Dressed

🇱🇹Lithuania

I was, apparently, one of the few people who liked the song--a lot more live than her video.  And no one had a better dress, even if others were better coiffed.  Gunnar says, "She just needed Mo and Curly as her back up singers."

Worst Dressed

🇦🇱Albania

She is a beautiful woman, but this outfit just didn't work.  But then again, her male dancers were among the "Best Undressed." 

🇬🇧Runner up:  United Kingdom.  We all knew why Armenia was in her pyjamas, but why was the UK in in a grown up version of his son's?  

Best Song Not to Make It Out of the Semi-Finals

🇭🇷Croatia

While the song was too sweet to be much of a "guilty pleasure" itself, it certainly was better than the votes given to it during the semi-finals.  Really Europe.  

🇧🇬Runner up:  Bulgaria.

Most Ironic Lyrics

🇬🇷Greece

Amanda, as you will recall, is in the last days of training as a doctor in Norway, so we found it ironic she picked just that song.  I am not sure that I would want to go to doctor who was in Eurovision singing the song "Die Together."  (But then again, I live in Canada where we have no doctors, so I still might go to her, but that's a different kind of problem.)