The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song contest televised worldwide on an annual basis. Since its inception in 1956, Eurovision has had fifty-two participating countries, most of which are members of the European Broadcasting Union. Denmark has participated in the contest since the following year, 1957, and has won the event in 1963, 2000, and 2013. In this blog post, I will be evaluating their winning 2013 entry, as well as those of the years that bookend it, as well as judge Denmark’s attitude on diversity and what these performances suggest about the country itself. Denmark’s 2012 Eurovision entry, “Should’ve Known Better,” was performed by Soluna Samay, a Guatemalan singer who moved to Denmark at the age of ten (Soluna Samay, n.d.). The song itself is seemingly about losing faith in God, though the only real hint towards this in the inclusion of “inshallah,” Arabic for “if Allah wills it,” in the brid...