Confused Europe watches in a stupour as Besa is chosen.

After a week’s worth of “festival” which could well pass as entertainment, RTSH unleashed a final night of confustion upon Europe with the culmination of the 62nd Festivali i Këngës.

As I understand it, and I am very willing to assert I am wrong here and stick with me, the following 22 songs have got through to the final of the festival

But Phil, You cry, you’ve just reproduced the list of songs.  Yes, but there were then two rounds of voting – the first, by jury only, gave us the winner of the festival (Mal Retkoceri) which, in the old days, would have gone to the Eurovision outright  and, as you can see below, that would have been a treat for eye and ear…

but instead of that, we had a further round of voting, for which all 31 songs were eligible. NOW You understand why the “Eurovision Only” is in the table at the top.

So after all of this, nonsense, the song that went to Eurovision is Zemrën n’dorë sung by Besa Kokëdhima.

She tripped over on the night when she first sang the song back on whatever night it was. I don’t know who was more surprised, Eurofans who have seen the millionth woman with big boobs and lips win the Albanian ticket, the jury who went for the muscle god with the nice arms and the shitty song, or the audience who booed and then cheered when the result was announced.

I’m surprised they didn’t do a Serbia and Montenegro 2007 and throw bottles at the presenters – I was waiting for it!