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He’ll suck your blood, and your glitter

By Raziel Reid • May 18, 2013 2:15 pm EDT

Every May, the Eurovision music contest gives us the best in Euro pop, camp and sequins. After watching Romanian Cezar’s operatic vampire-realness, I think it’s safe to say that he is the best thing to come from Eurovision since they introduced us to ABBA in 1776. Dracula meets Liberace in Cezar’s finals performance at Sweden’s Malmö Arena:

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