Although many fans of the song “Cha-Cha-Cha” are still tearing at what little hair they have left, it is still the case that it was the song “Tattoo” that was the real winner of the 2023 Eurovision song contest.

The competition in ESC is not about winning the jury or those who sit in the hall cheering, or having the best vocals, toughest show on stage or giving us viewers the best experience.

No, the competition is about getting the most votes in total from the two jury groups, one of which is 5 people connected to the music industry in each country and the other is those who take the trouble to submit their vote via phone or app  many of them voting the full 20 votes they are allowed.

And this year it was the former winner Loreen who managed that feat and she is thus the rightful winner this year.

Yes, I know what it’s like when your own favorite doesn’t make it all the way even though you’ve won the part of the voting where the public decides and those who decided over us are in a number that if they had lived in the same place would have been called a small village .

I remember back to the first semi-final in 2011, Stella Mwangi got without a doubt the best reception among the audience in the hall in Düsseldorf, but it didn’t help much when at the end of the program she was not among the ten artists who were not called up.

One thing that happens when such “outrageous” things happen, as in this year’s vote, is that it can seem as if the short-term memory fails a little for many.

We are not going back any further than last year when there was a lot of sulking over the Ukrainian victory, it only came because of sympathy and not because they necessarily had the best tune.

How much fairer it would not have been if he, who led after the juries had had their say, British Sam Ryder had won instead.

So then the people were wrong, but if you believe that, weren’t the people quite wrong this year too?

Because who got the second most points from them, the Swedish Loreen, if her song was such an unworthy winner, I think fewer of those who did should have voted for her.

Well. it didn’t and since the jury’s were just so welcoming to this year’s Finnish contribution from Käärijä, it went as it had to go, Sweden is now the best ESC nation of all time together with Ireland.

And since Ireland only got wins with only one form of jury, I’ll probably weight Sweden ahead of Ireland at the top of that podium, but for the sake of peace, let’s get it be weighted equally, shall we?.

However, when there is so much criticism of the current jury system, the EBU should probably go within themselves and do something that makes the judges they give become a little more in tune with the audience on the songs where they sometimes strongly disagree.

With only 5 members in the jury, the fact that one of the jury members doesn’t like a song the other 4 like can cause that particular song to fall from first place with the jury to, let’s say, 4th place.

That means 5 points lost for that song and the ESC has been won with less points than that.

Perhaps it would have been an idea to have more jury members and that instead of ranking all the songs in a broadcast, they give them a grade between 1 and 5 and then they would rather have a reconciliation between the songs that might end up on the same score.

Many people do not know that the jury members have to rank all the songs in the final and I would think that for the songs that you have in terms of taste in the middle tier, it could be quite random whether that song comes in 10th place or 18th place and that could actually mean that a song lose points from that very jury if you are unlucky and are ranked number 18 instead of number 10.

Anyway, I think all this is forgotten quite quickly and people will start looking forward to next year at our neighbour to the east.

By the way, neither the jury nor the people should beat themselves so hard and claim that they know best, I’m just mentioning a certain song from Armenia in 2022 which came in 20th place and became last year’s biggest ESC hit song, shall we just let TikTok take over the voting since they performed best last year?