The EuroWhat? Podcast: Eurovision News & Reviews

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 (36:48) Links Sanja Ilić and Balkanika - “Nova Deca” - Serbia

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! Get Excited Summary Greece - Yianna Terzi - "Oneiro Mou" (1:36) Belarus - Alekseev - "Forever" (8:03) Montenegro - Vanja Radovanović - "Inje" (14:24) Artist selections: North

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" (27:41) United Kingdom: SuRie "Storms" (31:10) Denmark: Rasmussen "Higher Ground" (38:03) Italy: Ermal Meta

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's entry: "Stones" by ZiBBZ — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXOlPGnkZFY The United Kingdom's contestants:

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 Yuilia Samoylova North Macedonia is looking for songs Upcoming selection

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) Serbia What’s on TV this weekend? Spotify Playlist

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 Republic Belarus - Shenanigans reported by Wiwiblogs Norway Armenia What

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 selections. Who do we like? Who are we concerned about? Will there be jazz? Intro 0:00 Who are you