Marcel Winatschek

Satellite

Lena Meyer-Landrut won Eurovision in 2010 with a song that didn’t try to be anything other than itself. Stefan Raab, her mentor on the competition show, had put her in position to win. When the votes came in, she’d done it—become something bigger than before. The ballad was straightforward, she sang it like she meant it, and that simplicity worked against all the usual Eurovision machinery.