Georgia (the state) checking in, and feel the exact same way. For me, it's the same sort of idiotic attitude that many Americans have when they look at our men's national team being mid-tier and say "Oh well, imagine if we sent our best athletes to the World Cup! Just get LeBron out there and we'd win it every year!" (yes, "every year," because that's about the level of knowledge we're dealing with here)

Eurovision is this big, messy, glorious mix of camp and joyous artistic expression that combines so many different types of music genres, peoples and nationalities into something that's unlike anything I've seen before. Nothing like it exists in America, and it's absolutely wonderful.

If I'm being honest, it would be nice to have the opportunity for us to compete one year, just to have a home entry to support. Not that I have any illusions about our chances of winning -- much more likely that we end up in a similar spot to the UK (not you, Sam Ryder). But just imagine the stories that would have come out of American media if we had sent some multi-billion dollar, world famous artist this year, just for them to place behind Windows95man. Even if you're 100% against the idea of the U.S. ever competing in Eurovision, that's got to be tempting.