I have voted as I had planned before the show and gave votes to Belgium, Italy and Norway (which I knew couldn't win) but I thought that Belgium wasn't going to win when I watched the performance and Italy had started to lose its appeal to me a few days ago and wasn't entirely convincing either. I wanted a more modern song to win but I have to say Portugal really looks like a very charming winner to me. When it became obvious that neither Belgium nor Italy could win, Portugal was the best choice left, I suppose.
It's really great to see Portugal win after all these decades. Salvador won both the jury vote and the televote with a huge margin, so he is the deserved winner of this year's contest. I'm happy there is no split result again and that the winner isn't controversial this year.
I really appreciate Salvador's statement about music at the end of the show. The slight problem here is that what he meant is the very music and presentation that Eurovision is all about and that most fans love. This includes the juries who voted for a singer with a projection show in 2015 and who preferred Australia over real Ukrainian emotion last year. So it's kind of ironic that this criticism is cheered by the fans now. Sure, I liked it when he said it because who could disagree that fast food music is bad. I have been critical of Swedish plastic too. The problem is that he meant much more than that. Eurovision is a showcase of exactly the things he doesn't like.
Most of the fans who supported him would probably not be too happy if Eurovision dropped the LED screens, the pyro effects or the traditional wind machines. Either lots of Eurovision fans are sick of these things and don't really care about them or they haven't thought this through. Some people who have rooted for Salvador have at the same time a habit of complaining about things like the stage being too small (no matter how huge it might be). This seems to be a rather peculiar juxtaposition of opinions. I wonder what the fans of Salvador would say if Portugal's stage next year were small without any special effects and LED screens. I think Salvador would appreciate it. I'm not so sure how dedicated his fans really are to his ideas.
Nevertheless, it was charming to see Portugal win and it was delightful to see Salvador perform together with this sister at the end. I'm looking forward to Eurovision in Portugal next year. It's really wonderful to go to a completely new region in 2018. Hopefully other countries with a bad record will be able to succeed in the near future as well. Portugal was obviously the country most overdue to win. I'm also happy we didn't get a winner in English or some plastic song a country bought in Sweden. Hopefully Salvador's victory will push the contest in a positive direction next year. If a song in Portuguese can win, so can a song in any other language. This should encourage others to send something more authentic in the future.
I’m really curious what Salvador's fans want next year. A small and simple stage on which singers just express their feelings without any fancy staging? A huge stage with lots of fancy tech but the winner should be someone who doesn’t make much use of it? I’m curious what we can expect next year. Probably the same as every year and Salvador was just one big exception.
Austria won in 2014, Portugal won in 2017. Who might be next? (probably Sweden again with plastic staging that will be loved by the fans
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Btw, have we ever had a winner that publicly said that he doesn’t like what Eurovision is right after winning? Criticizing Eurovision is the first thing he did after winning. I’m sure many artists that have participated don’t care much about the contest but I think so far nobody has admitted that openly, especially right after winning. Salvador basically trashed his competitors and the contest with his statement after winning.
I think it’s curious that the fans like him for that. For me the staging at Eurovision is an important part of every performance and I consider it when ranking the countries. I like that Eurovision has a stage with technical capabilities that most stages in the world don’t have. The elaborate staging typical of Eurovision is one of the key elements that set the performances at the contest apart from random concerts. If things were done the way Salvador prefers, we would have a contest more similar to what Eurovision was in the 1950s. It would sound like music from back then, just like his song, and look like it too. I don’t think that’s what most people really want and support. He offered something different this year, which the hipsters liked due to its retro charm, but most people surely wouldn’t want winners like him every year. Salvador just stood out this year by being super retro when nobody else was.
I hope we will get another modern winner like Euphoria next year. I’m not saying Salvador’s song is bad. It is indeed quite charming and in my own final top 10. I just wish we could have a winner that sounds current instead of evoking nostalgia.
Combining it with the jury's 10 brings Portugal 12 pts from Ukraine if you use the previous voting system. 
