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Italy narrowly pipped a handful of rivals to win a colorful and kitsch Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands on Saturday, scoring victory on the continent's biggest stage after an early test of the continent's emergence from the pandemic.
What we learned from the 2021 Eurovision grand final.
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Italy’s Maneskin won the Eurovision final on Saturday.Credit.Pool photo by Sander Koning
Eurovision 2021 was an audacious experiment in overcoming the coronavirus but it was about more than that. What else did it tell us?
Rock ’n’ Roll isn’t dead in Europe at least
Maneskin’s win with “Zitti E Buoni,” a song filled with off-color lines and lyrics about smoking, was not the only sign of a rock resurgence. Finland’s Blind Channel came in sixth with an angry nu-metal song called “Dark Side,” while The Black Mamba, representing Portugal, came in 12th with “Love Is On My Side,” a piece of classic 1970s rock music that wouldn’t have been out of place in Paul McCartney’s back catalog.
Countries across the world were greeted by an array of weird and wonderful acts last night as the 65th annual Eurovision Song Contest kicked off in the Netherlands.
The song contest, which was held at the Rotterdam Ahoy arena, saw 3,500 jubilant fans take to the alcohol-free venue to celebrate the return of the highly-anticipated contest after it was cancelled last year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The night culminated with the Italian band Maneskin being crowned the winners of the song contest - while Britain s James Newman finished bottom of the leaderboard with zero points.
Among the wonderfully weird entries was Germany s Jendrick Sigwart who was joined by a back-up dancer donning a strange middle finger outfit during his performance of the extremely upbeat song I Don t Feel Hate.