Emovision?

Today, in the interest of science, I got my emo little brother to listen to some of this year's Eurovision songs. If he liked a song on the first listen, then surely any other teenage kids with mostly bad taste might like it too. He listened to the songs that I thought he wouldn't instantly hate until he got bored and and his reactions were a bit surprising.

His favorite was Israel. He responded positively to it from the beginning, and by the end he was singing along with the chorus. He also thought Austria and France were "not that bad." He thought Malta's intro sounded familiar, and thought it was good too.

He thought Estonia, Iceland, Spain, Sweden, and Ukraine's songs were just okay. Shockingly, he didn't like Andorra's song much. He liked the chorus but disliked the verses.

He disliked Belarus, Bulgaria and Cyprus, and immediately asked for me to turn off Belgium and Finland. He also thought the United Kingdom's song was "stupid."

He had some odd comments for some songs. Of Switzerland, he said, "I would never have this on my iPod but it's okay." He also said he would have liked the Czech Republic's song if it was in German. Despite this, he didn't like the German song.

So there you have it. If he is correct then Israel, Austria, France, and Malta will do very well, and favorites Belarus, Bulgaria, Switzerland, and Sweden may not do as well as people who bet on them would have liked.