The evening’s most unexpected moment came when a man rushed onstage and grabbed the microphone from the British singer SuRie, shouting into it briefly before security dragged him off. Graham Norton, the BBC’s on-air commentator, announced that the man was in police custody. Last year, Russia dropped out because of a continuing tensions with the host country, Ukraine. The beatboxing, she said, came from being bullied: “I was fat, and I was teased, and I had to find my thing.” And the chicken noises represent how bullying is about fear: “Fear of something different. Fear of somebody taking your place.”

Source: New York Times May 13, 2018 00:37 UTC