Thank you for sharing your great experience! As a long time watcher of the show I’ve seen and felt myself all the changes in the last decades, but even with the “chessy, glitz and less talent” on the show, actually the general musical/talent aspects of the music industry not only an EU singular issue, Eurovision remains the biggest musical competition in the world and maybe one of the few still active. The message, the connection the song-contest emits is more than some lame music and chessy lyrics, it’s about musical unity, learning something from multiple, different cultures, let’s get along together for a day through music, have some fun kind of tone. I liked the era of fancy, rich show, orchestra/conductor assembly, audience in suits/tuxedos and bow-ties, long evening gowns and still so-so music back then and I don’t miss anything of the new era too, I like the looseness, the multitude of sounds, you can find some good or bad music, what is new or even old in music; and as much lame it may sound, the letter “O” in the heart-shape from Eurovision-logo is still “beating” and I’m personally happy the show is still on for almost 60 years and gives some entertainment and positive thoughts, something for everyone I think who’s watching beyond of the general thinking of “that lame show”, we are surrounded of it(lame) everywhere in the music world.