Star Spangled Eurovision

Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Serbia, Australia, Greece, and Sweden! Songs Featured: Teya Dora – Ramonda Electric Fields – One Milkali (One Blood) Marina Satti – Zari Marcus & Martinus – Unforgettable You have until May 1 to participate in our Star Spangled Jury! … Continue reading Gen-Z Fever Dream →

Join us for another week of Eurovision hot takes as we tackle this year’s entries from Cyprus, the UK, Austria, and Iceland! Songs featured: Silia Kapsis – Liar Olly Alexander – Dizzy Kaleen – We Will Rave Hera Bjørk – Scared of Heights And remember to email us your Top 10 for our Star Spangled … Continue reading “This song is for hot people” →

Join us as we give our hottest takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from San Marino, Croatia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands! We’ve even got a special guest! Whose high school years will we relive this time? Songs featured: Megara – 11:11 Baby Lasagna – Rim Tim Tagi Dim Nemo – The Code Joost Klein – … Continue reading “An Anthem for the Erasmus Generation” →

Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, and Belgium! And we’re excited that Bart is actually here in person this week instead of watching Max and Alix get drunk together on Zoom. Songs featured Saba – “Sand” Luna – “The Tower” Silvester Belt … Continue reading “If there is any actual sand on stage, zero points” →

Join the crew this week as they give their hottest takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Italy, Germany, Moldova, and Estonia! Someone is shamed for their taste in music, but what else is new? Songs featured: Angelina Mango – La Noia Isaak – Always On The Run Natalia Barbu – In The Middle 5Miinust … Continue reading “Do things even need a melody?” →

Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Malta, Ukraine, Finland, and Latvia! Whose turn is it to stan Malta? Who’s giving us winner vibes this early in the season? Who unironically kinda loves Windows95Man? Listen in and find out! Songs featured: Sarah Bonnici – Loop alyona … Continue reading “I’m going to be so mad if I end up liking this” →

Join us as we tackle this year’s Eurovision entries from Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, and Spain. Come for the spooky bops and hot takes, stay for the insults we hurl at one another. Songs featured: Bambie Thug (Irelaind) – “Doomsday Blue” Tali (Luxembourg) – “Fighter” Gåte (Norway) – “Ulveham” Nebulossa (Spain) – “Zorra”

We’re back for our seventh season!! Join us as we give our hottest takes on the first four songs participating in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest hailing from France, Czechia, Albania, and Slovenia! Which country decided it was their turn to send something that wasn’t a song? Listen and find out! Songs featured: Slimane (France) … Continue reading Still Not a Song →

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!

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!

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 … Continue reading Echoes of Nonsense →

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 … Continue reading The Whole Spectrum of Weird →

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“ … Continue reading The Dark Girlies are EATING →

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 … Continue reading The Blocked List →

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“

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!“ … Continue reading Do You Wanna ŠČ? →

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 … Continue reading Sisters and Misters →

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 … Continue reading My Pronouns are She / Queen of the Kings →

Welcome to season SIX (!!!) of Star Spangled Eurovision! We’re starting off the season by giving our hot takes on the songs from Ukraine, Albania, and Belgium. Will Ukraine live up to its high Eurovision standards despite a war going on? Did Albania submit a real song this time? And what do we think of … Continue reading Is it a Song This Time? →

We’re back from Turin and we have lots of thoughts and fond memories of Eurovision 2022! Listen in and hear what we thought of this year’s contest, from our favorite moments to some things that didn’t go the way we thought they would. Big thank you to anyone who listened to our show this year! … Continue reading The Italian Job: A Eurovision 2022 Debrief →

We made it to Eurovision week! Who will qualify for the Grand Final, and who’s going to win the whole thing? More importantly, who won our Star Spangled Jury?!?! Join us as we make some probably incorrect predictions about this year’s contest! If you’re in Turin this week, see you there!

We’re finally at our last batch of songs for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest! Join the gang as they give their takes on the entries from Portugal, Azerbaijan, Austria,  and Armenia. Is Pia Maria real? We may or may not have the answer. Songs featured: Maro (Portugal) – “Saudade, Saudade” Nadir Rustamli (Azerbaijan) – “Fade … Continue reading A Bot Wrote This Episode →

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 … Continue reading Mortal Sad Girl Kombat →

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“ … Continue reading Space Men Do Cry →

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 … Continue reading Dancing with the Devil (in Turin) →