• wearing all white
• pyrotechnics
• chick playing drums
• wind machine
• clothes get ripped off
• see-thru outfit with backlighting
• hot chick in short skirt playing violin
• anybody playing an instrument melodramatically
• "Oola belt"
• screaming like she/he's in a B horror movie
• more than 4 back up dancers
• phallic prop
• novelty old people or children
• people looking lovingly into each others eyes (all genders)

added 2015

• singing in language other than English
• Georgia does a goth-rock track
• Greece alternates between ballad and party track (odd years: ballad, even years: party track))
• vaguely Mediaeval look/sound

added 2018

• overuse of the Måns smile

added 2019

• song sounds eerily similar to one from last year