Nah, it's got to be Lordi, Finland's Mutant Metalheads. Or last year's Dracula Dubstep from Romania.
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Help me, I have Americanism and need to be explained to what "Eurovision" is.
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It's an annual event where the people of European* nations put aside their differences to enter song and dance acts to a lavish competition, hosted by last year's winning country. Viewers across Europe phone in to vote for their favourite act. Those votes are counted, then systematically ignored by a panel of judges for each country who then distribute points to whatever country is most likely to invade them in the coming year. The country/act with the most points wins.
Fun Fact: This year, Poland won the popular vote. The result was outweighed by disapproving judges.
I wonder why.
To clarify, Conchita's a character portrayed by cis male comedian Thomas Neuwirth; not a trans woman.
Think Dame Edna, or Lily Savage.
*The EU, not geographical/"actual" Europe. Israel, basically.