Daði og Gagnamagnið from Iceland perform during a rehearsal of the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands on May 13, 2021. Photo by Patrick van Emst/ANP/ AFP. And we’re back. Yesterday we covered the 13 songs knocked out of the “Eurovision” semifinals, and now we’re…

Athena Manoukian. Courtesy: Eurovision. First, let me address that this has been an extremely, profoundly, historically bad week in the United States. As of this writing, there are protests, both violent and nonviolent, in at least 25 cities across the country, because 20 years into the 21st century an…