The Eurovision Song Contest is no stranger to controversy.
Whether it’s claims that Franco rigged the 1968 show to boost Spain’s flagging tourism industry, or the Azerbaijani government being accused of forcibly evicting people from their homes to make way for beautifying its capital, Baku, ahead of 2012’s contest, barely a year goes by without at least a whiff of scandal.
Well, this year, the mud-slinging is already under way. Cascada, the electro act that instructed you to “Evacuate the Dancefloor” a few years back and this year’s entry for Germany, have been accused of ripping off last year’s winning song, “Euphoria”, by the Swedish singer Loreen.
A quick listen to both songs confirms that they are pretty similar: they’re both remarkably awful.
