As predicted, Sweden won Eurovision 2023, and lots of other stuff happened too! Naturally, we have some thoughts. Tune in to find out what we thought of this year’s contest and our expectations for 2024!

Thanks for listening this season, and we’ll see you again next year!

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Happy Eurovision Week! Join the gang as they give their predictions on who’s going to get through the semis and who’s going to take home the glass microphone this year. Also, listen in to find out who won this year’s Star Spangled Jury!

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Join the crew this week as they take on the last 5 entries for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest! How much do we care if the lyrics are nonsense? How much does Alix stan Denmark this week? Tune in and find out!

Songs featured:

• Mimicat (Portugal) – “Ai Coração“
• Victor Vernicos (Greece) – “What They Say“
• Iru (Georgia) – “Echo“
• TuralTuranX (Azerbaijan) – “Tell Me More“
• Brunette (Armenia) – “Future Lover“

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Star Spangled Jury! We’ll present the results next week on our Eurovision 2023 Preview!

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Join the crew this week as they take on this year’s heavy-hitting Eurovision entries from Austria, Israel, the UK and Sweden, and tune in to hear Bart and Alix shame Max for being a bad gay.

Songs featured:

• Teya & Salena (Austria) – “Who The Hell Is Edgar?”
• Noa Kirel (Israel) – “Unicorn“
• Mae Muller (UK) – “I Wrote a Song“
• Loreen (Sweden) – “Tattoo“

You still have one week to join our Star Spangled Jury! Just send your top 10 (in order) to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter @SSE_Pod

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The title says it all – join Alix, Max, and Bart as they embrace their inner goths and give their takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Germany, Moldova, Iceland, Serbia, and Switzerland.

Songs featured:

• Lord of the Lost (Germany) – “Blood and Glitter“
• Pasha Parfeny (Moldova) – “Soarele şi Luna“
• Diljá (Iceland) – “Power“
• Luke Black (Serbia) – “Samo Mi Se Spava“
• Remo Forrer (Switzerland) – “Watergun“

Don’t forget to join our Star Spangled Jury! Just send your top 10 (in order) to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter @SSE_Pod

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Join the gang this week as they cover the entries from San Marino, Poland, the Netherlands, and Cyprus! Do we still stan S(t)an Marino? Who is Bart convinced was just sick at the national final and will kill it in Liverpool? Listen in to find out!

Songs featured:

• Piqued Jacks (San Marino) – “Like an Animal“
• Blanka (Poland) – “Solo“
• Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper (the Netherlands) – “Burning Daylight“
• Andrew Lambrou (Cyprus) – “Break A Broken Heart“

We’re also opening up our Star Spangled Jury again! Just send your top 10 (in order) to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter @SSE_Pod

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Join the gang this week as they take on this year’s Eurovision entries from Lithuania, France, Australia, and Finland. Really no surprises as to who loves what… or are there?

Songs featured:

• Monika Linkytė (Lithuania) – “Stay“
• La Zarra (France) – “Évidemment“
• Voyager (Australia) – “Promise“
• Käärijä (Finland) – “Cha Cha Cha“

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Join Alix, Max, and Bart as they tackle the chaos that is Romania, Croatia, and Malta before cleansing their brains with Alix’s perennial favorite, Italy! Whose turn is it to stan Malta this year? Listen in and find out!

Songs featured:

• Theodor Andrei (Romania) – “D.G.T (Off and On)“
• Let 3 (Croatia) – “Mama ŠČ!“
• The Busker (Malta) – “Dance (Our Own Party)“
• Marco Mengoni (Italy) – “Due Vite“

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In honor of Women’s History Month (and mostly as a happy coincidence), the gang give their takes on Czechia’s paean to Slavic sisterhood, as well as the entries from Estonia and Latvia (only one of which features a woman, sadly). Also, Alix hear’s Denmark’s entry for the first time and chaos ensues.

Songs featured:

• Vesna (Czechia) – “My Sister’s Crown”
• Alika (Estonia) – “Bridges”
• Sudden Lights (Latvia) – “Aijā”
• Reiley (Denmark) – “Breaking My Heart”

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Join Max, Alix, and Bart as they give their hot takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, and Spain! Whose boy band shtick do we like better? Is Norway as camp as usual? Was Chanel an anomaly or the start of a great run for Spain? Listen in and find out!

Songs featured:

• Wild Youth (Ireland) – “We Are One“
• Joker Out (Slovenia) – “Carpe Diem“
• Alessandra (Norway) – “Queen of Kings“
• Blanca Paloma (Spain) – “Eaea“

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