Now I know you’re supposed to be kind to the infirm, but they also prefer it if you treat them like the normal human being that they are. Which is why I don’t mind dissing this little slab of Georgian averageness. Her blindness has, to my knowledge, no effect on her voice, which is shrill and nasal at best, while the song is pretty ploddy and pedestrianized – a bit like a tired policeman.
The show is also fraught with potential disasters, with all that fabric flipping about and her proximity to the edge of the stage. History has proved that the good folk of Eurovisionovia don’t go “Aww, let’s vote for the poor blind soul”, they just go, “That song’s not a lot of cop”. So judging the thing purely on tune and show alone, I fear this ‘un be doomed.