Join us for our final batch of reactions to this year’s Eurovision entries! This week we give our hottest takes on the songs from Israel, Switzerland, Cyprus, Georgia, and France. How good is your French?

Songs featured:

• Yuval Raphael – “New Day Will Rise”
• Zoë Më – “Voyage” 
• Theo Evan – “Shh”
• Mariam Shengelia – “Freedom”
• Louane – “maman”

Thank you to everyone who sent in your top 10s for our Star Spangled Jury! We’ll reveal the results next week in our annual Eurovision preview episode!

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Join us for another week of hot takes on this year’s Eurovision entries! On this episode, we dive into what the hell is happening with the harmony queens from the UK, the mustachioed twink from Czechia, the wholesome Finns repping Sweden, the Grammy nominee from San Marino, and the calming vibes from Portugal.

Songs featured:

• Remember Monday – What the Hell Just Happened?
• ADONXS – Kiss Kiss Goodbye
• KAJ – Bara Bada Bastu
• Gabry Ponte – Tutta L’Italia
• NAPA – Deslocado

You’ve got a few more days to participate in our annual Star Spangled Jury! 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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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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