After the grand final, Ukraine again won the competition for the best song of Europe. It is their second win in the last six years. Great Britain won second place, while Sweden took third place.
After the votes of the jury, Serbia remained in 11th place, and Konstrakt's message was better understood by the audience than the national juries, after whose votes Serbia finished in fifth place.
Many are of the opinion that this year Serbia sent much more than a song and presented itself through a kind of artistic performance, never seen at this type of competition.
As in the semi-final, the audience gave Konstraka's performance a standing ovation. On the eve of the final, the performance was awarded the "Marcel Besançon" award for the best artistic performance at this year's competition in Turin.
It is an award named after one of the founders of Eurovision, and is awarded in two categories: best text and best composition. For the best composition, the prize was awarded to the representative of Sweden, Cornelia Jacobs, and for the text, the prize was awarded to an Italian duo.
Although it was expected, not all neighbors from the region awarded Serbia with 12 points. Croatia and Montenegro did that anyway.
Jovanka Bajčetić, a student of the Faculty of Political Sciences and a fan of this music competition, tells the "Vremena" portal that the seemingly simple performance of the Serbian representative attracted the attention of the whole of Europe.
"Like any brilliant idea, it's in the details." The song is simple and does not require excessive vocal abilities, but Konstruct skillfully makes up for it with a very intense look and again seemingly simple movements that keep the attention throughout the entire performance. All this "seemingly simple" is actually her way of presenting a complex topic to us so that we don't even feel its weight," says Bajčetić.
She assesses that different people understood Konstraka's message differently, but what they all have in common is that she touched them.
Commenting on the results of Eurovision, Bajčetić emphasizes that due to the political situation and the war in Ukraine, great attention was paid to the representatives of Ukraine, who even two weeks before the competition had an extremely low quota at the bookmakers. However, she notes that the reasons for Ukraine's good ranking should not be sought only in politics.
"Because of the war, more than 12 million people have left Ukraine, most of whom are scattered across Europe." That is over 10 million new numbers that can vote for Ukraine, because they are not in Ukraine. Of course, the reasons for Ukraine's victory should not be attributed only to the political situation, because the song is really good," she adds.
According to her, it is also interesting that since the covid break, the "Big Five" took the Eurovision task much more seriously. For Bajčetić, the biggest surprise is that Azerbaijan, Armenia and Greece, otherwise known for sending summer fast hits, sent peaceful ballads this year.
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