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Mind your language

The real contest at Eurovision: worst lyric

With almost everyone choosing to sing in terrible English, this year’s was a tough battle

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

Like a reluctantly remembered nightmare, last week’s Eurovision Song Contest already seems very distant. But, in the manner of the Sand people in Star Wars, the nations of Eurovision will no doubt soon be back, and in greater numbers. Disappointingly, with scarcely an alien tongue displayed apart from Montenegrin, the chosen language was poor English.

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