This year, Eurovision tried to tone things down. It did not work.

LISBON — When Portuguese jazz singer Salvador Sobral won last year's Eurovision Song Contest with a mellow, mellifluous ballad, he hoped it would steer the competition away from its usual reliance on over-the-top spectacle. "Music is not fireworks; music is feeling," he said in his acceptance speech. It has not quite worked out that way. This year's 63rd […]

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