I posted this on ILM and I wonder if I actually believe it. I'd certainly like to.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"One of the things I really like about Eurovision is that it's a pop space which regularly and brutally REJECTS retro and revivalism via the ballot box: the regular ABBA-clones now can only scrape 12th or 13th and the French entries in their early-60s timewarm end up in the bottom four. Eurovision's commitment to the modernist project is impeccable!"

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

X-Factor does not really do it. At least cynical me thinks of the Michelle McManus and Leonie victories as political more than anything else (restoring the balance). there's no room for actual musical novelty in the X-Factor whereas there clearly is in Eurovision - a real point in it's favour.