lavieenrose
Albania Superstar
Hard to talk about this without skirting Rule 6, but both personal biases like LD’s* and systemic ones which stop people of color from breaking through impact the music industry and Eurovision as they do just about every other space, and it’s great that in this Eurovision a sizable number of PoC are not only participating but making an impact for every single one of the reasons listed in this thread. There’s a great quote I once read on representation that “you can’t paint with the color grue,” and may this Eurovision be a part of making sure that as many PoC Eurovision fans as possible in the future don’t have to try.
*A note on this: I think the time to stop trying to separate the fascinating ridiculousness of LD’s taste from the aforementioned personal biases which lay beneath is right about now.
*A note on this: I think the time to stop trying to separate the fascinating ridiculousness of LD’s taste from the aforementioned personal biases which lay beneath is right about now.