First congratulations for Germany, well deserved, but lets face a few home truths from the English perspective.
Eurovision is 90% total crap, always has been, always will be a musical compromise as historically we have different tastes, so to finishing last in a list of crap counts as success ( where was Italy this year).
Germany came up with an Ami Winehouse sounding"copy", coincidence, no; it was good luck though.
Ami Winehouse is well known throughout Europe and nobody disputes the similarity.
It was a good song too, that matters a lot, catchy, modern and sung in English.
Much of the thanks for the U.K's position lies in the U.K. music industries 101%commercially driven approach to labels, copyrights etc.
Somewhere in the distant past the Olympics was for "armatures", Eurovision never has been for amateurs, but it has been for relatively unknowns, newish performers, occasionally, but we never enter our big guns, why is this?
Afraid of the competition, prevented by law, restricted by history?
English snobbery and superiority is alive and recognized throughout Eurovision.
Our big performers, our best song writers, our best producers,and we have dozens to choose from, dozens who dominate the European charts all year round never enter Eurovision!
Why is this?
If the Germans win singing in English, surely this is a message for the U.K.s giant Industry to take a second glance at this competition, after al it's just fun, but winning is allowed.
So we have two choices, stay out, or up our game.
Special congratulations to Romania and Belerus.
Here's one of Spain's that did'nt even make it onto Spain's final list, let alone represent Spain,, get the idea folks.