It must be said: Germany’s entry, “Satellite” by Lena, was a very so-so song, and it wasn’t exactly an electric vocal performance. Strange that they received so many votes, although this sort of thing is said every year.

But what about the lyrics? A research and semantics laboratory had the fun idea of pasting all the Eurovision song lyrics together and running them through a semantics analyser, Intellexer. These sort of things are usually used to quickly analyse and summarise long texts, for the purpose of creating executive summaries. In the case of the Eurovision, the result is almost a corny version of haiku:

Let the sun shine, glide away my moon
Let the light of my love shine bright
I don’t believe any more your shallow heart.
Feeling the love ’till the day when I die.
For the cruel-cruel time when I’m first time in love

As many lyricists seem to write a compendium of worn-out clichés, it’s not surprising that an executive summary of Eurovision lyrics is itself a compendium of worn-out clichés.

If there are any lyrics that actually touched you, please let us know by dropping a message. Read more about Intellexer.

As I suspected they would, the Eurovision organisers have asked Georgia to either change the lyrics of their entry, “We Don’t Wanna Put In” or choose another song. Georgia has decided to do neither of the above, and actually withdraw from the contest entirely. Quoted in the Georgian Times, Nikoloz Rurua, Georgia’s Minister of Culture, said that that he was ‘absolutely sure that the Eurovision organisers were feeling unprecedented pressure from Moscow, especially as Russia can use serious financial levers for this purpose’. I wouldn’t be so sure.

The irony is that the Russian entry was co-composed by the Georgian songwriter Konstantin Meladze, which has caused a row in Russia.