If you’re not familiar, Eurovision it’s kind of like American Idol, if it were judged by the songs as much as the performers and comprised entries from dozens of nations.

• Ukraine’s official entry was “Tick Tock,” performed by Mariya Yaremchuk. It seems like a basic pop music performance…except for the guy dressed for work at the office forced to run in, dance in, and fall down in a man-sized hamster wheel.

• From Belarus: “Cheesecake” by Teo. A blues-influenced song performed by a boy band with references to cheesecake both literal and metaphorical. There are also lots of references to the movie Dirty Dancing for some reason.

• The Tomachevy Sisters are real sisters —they’re twins—from Russia. They are 17-year-old pop singers and have nothing to do with their homeland’s leaders raising the ire of the world by annexing the Crimea region of Ukraine…but the crowd still booed them every time their names were mentioned. It’s politically motivated—the duo were favorites to win before the competition began, having won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 when they were just nine years old.

• Hungary’s entry, “Running” by Andras Kallay-Saunders, was far less sunny and goofy than the rest of the Eurovision field. “Running” is an unflinching, unsettling song about a woman trying to escape a physically abusive boyfriend.

• The winner: Austria’s Tom Neuwirth. Neuwirth performed the sweeping ballad “Rise Like a Phoenix” in character as Conchita Wurst, a glamorous female singer. But he kept the beard.