The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews

Eurovision's 2018 selection season is approaching the end, which means one thing: Sweden's Melfest! Well, two things: lots of internal selections coming through the pipeline. No matter how you count it, we're in the homestretch! Melfest Fest Summary Eurovision hodgepodge Azerbaijan - Aisel - "X MyHeart" (5:44) Portugal - Cláudia Pascoal - "O Jardim"  (10:42) Belgium - SENNEK - "A Matter of Ti...

It's another whirlwind trip around Europe as we hopscotch through another set of Eurovision selections. We have outlaws, humans, monsters, and wannabe heroes in the mix, but will it be opera that takes the top prize in Lisbon? Remember the Diaspora? Summary Listener question: Who famous? (1:40) Armenia -  Sevak Khanagyan - "Qami" (5:55) Romania - The Humans - "Goodbye" (12:30) Cyprus - Eleni...

The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest started filling up this past week as nine countries made their selections. There are elevated pianos, Moldovan wedding hijinks, and baffled rockers—it must be the height of selection season! Stupor Saturday Summary Catching up with Ben (1:56) Serbia (7:12) Germany (11:23) Moldova (15:14) Ukraine (21:31) Slovenia (26:05) Latvia (31:13) Hungary (3...

Three more songs have joined the 2018 Eurovision field—two from national selections and one from... just showing up? San Marino has a business proposition for you while Israel poses a challenge to the concept of live vocals. Plus, we get ready for the onslaught of Stupor Saturday. Get excited!<!--more--> Get Excited Summary Greece - Yianna Terzi - "Oneiro Mou" (1:36) Belarus - Alekseev - "Fo...

Lindsey Weber from the Who Weekly podcast stops by to chat about how the Olympics are the perfect world event to prep for Eurovision before getting into the songs selected for Malta, Switzerland, the UK, Denmark, and Italy. The Who? and the What? Now! Summary Olympics and Eurovision (1:06) Questions from Lindsey Weber (9:49) Malta: Christabelle Borg "Taboo" (19:04) Switzerland: ZiBBZ "Stones" (27:...

This week, Ben and Mike do a deep dive into the United Kingdom's Eurovision selection process and take a look at why the country has struggled for so long at the Contest. Plus, a roundup of headlines from the last week. Links Ryan O'Shaughnessy's US Tour — https://ryanosmusic.com/pages/show-dates Malta's entry: "Taboo" by Christabelle —  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyrC8jJ8eb8 Switzerland...

We have songs to talk about! France, Czechia, and Spain have selected and boy do we have opinions. Russia and Ukraine continue their Eurovision dramarama. Oh, and the semi-finals have been allocated. Messy, Messy Summary Semi-Final Allocation France selects "Mercy" by Madame Monsieur Czechia selects "Lie to Me" by Mikolas Josef Spain selects " Tu canción" by Alfred & Amaia Russia confirms Yuil...

This week is a mini-episode of the EuroWhat with minor updates about what's happening in Eurovision selection season. We'll be hopscotching from Armenia to France, Belarus to Serbia, and places in between. Armenia field complete ( Playlist ) Belarus shenanigans (with news from Eurovoix ) Denmark songs  France final set ( Finalist Playlist ) Hungary ( Heat 1 ) Lithuania  Romania ( Heat 1...

On this week's episode of the EuroWhat Podcast  we discuss what "Europe" is (note the air quotes), get acquainted with this year's hostesses, get caught up with some of the selection processes and look forward to others. What is “Europe”? Summary What is Europe? (1:36) Eurovision hosts (6:33) - Announcement from  Eurovision.tv Selection Updates (11:30) Lithuania Switzerland Czech Republi...

We're podcasting, y'all! Welcome to the EuroWhat? In our opening episode of  The EuroWhat? podcast, our Eurovision News and Entertainment Research Division Specialists introduce themselves to our listening audience before sharing their first impressions of Albania's entry. Then the crew hopscotches around Europe (and Australia) to chat about the seven artists already announced from internal s...