There has been a theory for years that anyone who sells the Eurovision to an American audience will change history.
After all, the competitive format, the hallucination, the drama, the grandiosity - every aspect of the European singing competition is "tailor-made" for Uncle Sam's market.
Yesterday, NBC aired the premiere episode of the reality show "American Song Contest", which for the first time turned the Eurovision Song Contest into a weekly program, in which representatives of 56 US states and territories compete. In about two months a winner will be chosen, The first episode was defined as a crash.
A 70-year-old European tradition does not copy in one night.
Besides, singers travel to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to win and from there conquer America, just like Abba and Celine Dion, because only success in the US means international success.
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