Pick your fighter for the ultimate Sad Girl Showdown! Who will come out on top? Tune in this week as the gang give their hot takes on the Eurovision entries from Belgium, Greece, Sweden, and Iceland and find out which acts are doing their best to drive a wedge between the three of us.

Songs featured:

• Jérémie Makiese (Belgium) – “Miss You“
• Cornelia Jakobs (Sweden) – “Hold Me Closer“
• Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord (Greece) – “Die Together“
• Systur (Iceland) – “Með Hækkandi Sól“

You have one week left to send us your top 10 and be part of our Star Spangled Jury! Email your list (in order) to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter @SSE_Pod

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This week, join the gang as they give their takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Switzerland, Georgia, Cyprus, and the UK! Do boys really cry? Which song actually takes us up to space? Tune in to find out!

Songs featured:

• Marius Bear (Switzerland) – “Boys Do Cry“
• Circus Mircus (Georgia) – “Lock Me In“
• Andromache (Cyprus) – “Ela“
• Sam Ryder (UK) – “Space Man“

Don’t forget to send us your top 10 songs from this year’s Eurovision! Send us your list by May 10 by email at starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on twitter @SSE_Pod

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This week, the gang is relieved that they finally get some up-tempo songs! Join us as we give our hot takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Denmark, Romania, France, and Serbia.

Songs featured:

• Reddi (Denmark) – “The Show“
• WRS (Romania) – “Llámame“
• Alvan & Ahez – “Fulenn“
• Konstrakta (Serbia) – “In Corpore Sano“

Don’t forget to join our Star Spangled Jury! Send us your top 10 songs from this year (in order) by email to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on twitter @SSE_Pod. 

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This week, the gang take on the Eurovision entries from Finland, the Netherlands, Montenegro, and Germany! Which sad-ass song do we love/hate most this week? Tune in and find out!

Songs featured:

• The Rasmus (Finland) – “Jezebel“
• S10 (The Netherlands) – “De Diepte“
• Vladana (Montenegro) – “Breathe“
• Malik Harris (Germany) – “Rockstars“

It’s time once again for our Star Spangled Jury! Send us your top 10 songs from this year (in order) by email to starspangledeurovision@gmail.com or DM us on twitter @SSE_Pod

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This week the gang give their hottest takes on the acts from perennial podcast favorites Malta, San Marino, Ukraine, and (at least for Bart) Australia! Will they still make our top 10s this year? Tune in to find out!

Songs featured:

• Emma Muscat (Malta) – “I Am What I Am“
• Achille Lauro (San Marino) – “Stripper“
• Sheldon Riley (Australia) – “Not the Same“
• Kalush Orchestra (Ukraine) – “Stefania“

Click here for a list of organizations working in Ukraine to help victims of the Russian invasion.

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Join the gang this week as they give their hottest takes on the Eurovision 2022 entries from Norway, Croatia, Slovenia, and Poland! Which song is Bart shockingly obsessed with that Max vehemently dislikes, and which entry had Alix in hysterics? Tune in to find out!

Songs featured:

• Subwoolfer (Norway) – “Give That Wolf a Banana“
• Mia Dimšić (Croatia) – “Guilty Pleasure“
• LPS (Slovenia) – “Disko“
• Ochman (Poland) – “River“

Apologies again for the audio quality!

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Join the gang this week as they give their hot takes on the entries from Israel, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. You’ll never guess which song we like best!

Songs featured:

• Michael Ben David (Israel) – “I.M“
• Stefan (Estonia) – “Hope“
• Monika Liu (Lithuania) – “Sentimentai“
• Citi Zēni (Latvia) – “Eat Your Salad“

Note: Apologies for the horrible sound quality! We had to use a different mic to record this episode and the results were… not great. Also, this week and next week’s episode were recorded before it was announced that Russia was barred from competing in this year’s Eurovision, in case you were wondering why we don’t talk about it.

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This week, Alix, Max, and Bart give their takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Moldova, North Macedonia, Ireland, and Italy. Tune in to find out which country qualifies as this year’s Hot Mess Express (is it the one about the train?), and which country Alix is probably banned from now.

Songs featured:

• Zdob și Zdub & Advahov Brothers (Moldova) – “Trenulețul“
• Andrea (North Macedonia) – “Circles“
• Brooke (Ireland) – “That’s Rich“
• Mahmood, Blanco (Italy) – “Brividi“

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We’re back for (can you believe it??) Season 5! In the first episode of the 2022 Eurovision season, Alix, Max, and Bart give their takes on the first four songs selected to compete in this year in Turin from Bulgaria, Czechia, Albania, and Spain. Listen to hear our hot takes and find out which act made Alix the thirstiest!

Songs featured:

• Intelligent Music Project (Bulgaria) – “Intention”
• We Are Domi (Czechia) – “Lights Off”
• Ronela Hajati (Albania) – “Sekret”
• Chanel (Spain) – “SloMo”

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