Give up the Euro-Shmeuro-Hoopla

Every year it's the same, Sweden is hyping up their contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest and all the (Swedish) experts are pretty sure we will most likely win. But since there are more Eastern block countries than western, the west don't stand a chance. Unless a gimmick band like horror-rockers Lordi from Finland participates, of course. But when Lordi won, the eastern block probably thought Finland was one of them since the act was on par.
Well, who cares, the music competing is maximized in banality to have most mass appeal for the buck, and hit the smallest common denominator. Who won 2008? Some Russian Enrique Iglesias-clone.