Join us for another week of hot takes on this year’s Eurovision entries! This episode, we take on Denmark’s staging disaster, the German club kids, another Croatian goth boy, and Austria’s opera sensation!

Songs featured:

• Sissal – Hallucination
• Abor & Tynna – Baller
• Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake
• JJ – Wasted Love

Our Star Spangled Jury is still open! Just send your top 10 (in order) to us by email at starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on BlueSky @starspangledpod.bsky.social by May 1st!

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Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on the Icelandic europop pirates, dairy-loving Australians, the Netherlands’ answer to Stromae, and Serbian Fabio competing in this year’s Eurovision!

Songs featured:

• VÆB – RÓA
• Go-Jo – Milkshake Man
• Claude – C’est La Vie
• Princ – Mila

Reminder that the Star Spangled Jury is still open! Just send us your top 10 in order by email to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on BlueSky @starspangledpod.bsky.social!

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Alt teens and Serj Tankian wannabees abound! Join us as we give our hot takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Lithuania, Italy, Armenia, and Azerbaijan and decide who’s going to be whose Eurovision boyfriend!

Songs featured:

• Katarsis – Tavo Akys
• Lucio Corsi – Volevo Essere Un Duro
• Parg – Survivor
• Mamagama – Run With You

We’re opening up our Star Spangled Jury for this year! All you need to do to participate is send your top 10 (in order) to us by email at starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on BlueSky @starspangledpod.bsky.social by May 1st! We’re looking forward to seeing your picks!

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Grab your espresso macchiatos and join us this week as we give our hot takes on this year’s kanty divas from Malta and Poland, Norwegian Timothee Chalamet, and Estonia’s controversial entry!

Songs featured:

• Miriana Conte – “Kant”
• Justyna Steczkowska – “Gaja”
• Kyle Alessandro – “Lighter”
• Tommy Cash – “Espresso Macchiato”

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Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on some of Eurovision 2025’s heavy-hitters, including a song about a dead dog (Ireland), (one of) this year’s horniest songs (Finland), a perennial Eurovision powerhouse (Ukraine), and some enchanting wood nymphs we wish would take away from this hell we are living in (Latvia).

Songs featured:

• EMMY – Laika Party
• Erika Vikman – Ich Komme
• Ziferblat – Bird of Pray
• Tautumeitas – Bur man laimi

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Join the gang this week as they give their hottest takes on Eurovision 2025’s messiest divas, hottest club tracks, most heartbreaking ballads, and thinly veiled allusions to genocide.

Tracks featured:

• Klavdia – Asteromáta
• Klemen – How Much Time Do We Have Left
• Red Sebastian – Strobe Lights
• Melody – Esa Diva

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Welcome to season 8 (!!!) of Star Spangled Eurovision! In our season premier, we give our hottest takes on the first three entries from the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest from Montenegro, Albania, and Luxembourg! Tune in and see which ones we liked, which ones we didn’t, and which song confused Alix for some reason.

Songs featured:

• Nina Žižić – “Dobrodošli”
• Shkodra Elektronike – “Zjerm”
• Laura Thorn – “La Poupée Monte Le Son”

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We’re back from Malmö and have some thoughts about this year’s Eurovision Song Contest! Listen in to hear our thoughts on Eurovision week and all the drama that went down in and outside the Malmö Arena.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or just discovering us, a big thank you to everyone who tuned in this season! See you all again next year!

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Eurovision 2024 is just a few days away! Listen in to see our predictions on who qualifies for the grand final and who might be the one to take home the crown this year. We also reveal the results of our Star Spangled Jury!

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Join us this week as we cover the last batch of songs from this year’s Eurovision! We also decided to talk about Israel and their participation this year.

Songs Featured:

• Iolanda – Grito
• Nutsa Buzaladze – Firefighter
• FAHREE feat. Ilkin Dovlatov – Özünlə Apar
• LADANIVA – Jako
• Eden Golan – Hurricane

You still have a few days to participate in our Star Spangled Jury! Send us your top 10 by May 1 by email at starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter/X @SSE_Pod! Stay tuned for our Eurovision preview episode next week!

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