Is it not the ultimate irony for us to give over 40 minutes of our time to an episode dedicated to songs we allegedly don't have time for? We keep challenging the status quo.

In all honesty, right as the Eurovision rehearsal week kicks off, we decided it was the best of occasions to cleanse our palates, brains, and bad vibes in order to put our best foot forward and get rid of all judgement. In this episode we go over some of the Eurovision tunes that we cannot seem to enjoy, and we try to discover if they’re just plain bad and Europe agreed, or if perhaps we’re simply not the audience.

To top it all off, the test of all tests - put your ESC knowledge on the line, because this time you’ll get to play a Double Common Linnet. Can you imagine five songs in the history of the contest that have not one, but two things in common? If you can’t, don’t worry, we’ve done it for you, you just have to stay until the end of the episode to find out…

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It’s the final instalment of our Battle of the Songwriters saga and you know we had to do something special. How does one top something that’s already so close to perfection (citation needed)? Well, in this episode we talk about AND to the songwriter!

Andrej Babic has composed bops in and outside of the Balkans, across a variety of styles and genres, and has even performed at Eurovision as a backing vocalist on several occasions: you won’t get many opportunities to listen in on what a full 360 perspective of your favourite contest looks like.

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For our third instalment of The Battle of the Songwriters, there is someone we really cannot miss. Not only because in the last decade he has contributed 11 entries to the contest, two of which were actual winners, but because throughout Europe, he has composed a whopping 117 songs for national selections. You might not always like what Thomas G:son is putting out there, but we cannot deny he really is putting out a lot of it!

And in case you haven’t overdose on Swedish pop yet, we bring you yet another Scandinavian crafted bop thanks to Austrian icon Kaleen, who’s done Eurovision from basically every angle, and this year she’s here to also do the Laugh Laugh Please Please interview rounds. Not that she needs it, but I guess she knows we have a 100% qualifying rate so far…

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Welcome to part two of The Battle of the Songwriters, where we feature a more modern perspective in song creation for Eurovision. As years go by, the attention span of the audience shortens and the act needs to be captivating from the very first second. Let Laurell Barker pull her magic pen to grace us with some of the best entries of the 2020s.

We also talk to another 2024 alum who knows what it is to write for the Eurovision stage, Supernova winner Dons. Where does he come from, where does he go? Tune in to this episode if you really want to know.

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This week we debut a new format that will help you make sense of all of those seemingly random Eurovision songs that have become your favourites, or those that you don’t know why but can’t help to despise.

We’re bringing you The Battle of the Songwriters, a 4-part saga where we’ll deep-dive in the works of some of the most iconic ESC creators. And to kick it all off, what better option than one of the classics: Ralph Siegel, the legendary German author that has been penning songs for the contest for decades!

And to sweeten the deal even more, we got Sara Bonnici in the studio to tell us all about her hopes, her dreams, her inspiration, and not much about her plans for the Malmö stage, that will have to wait a little longer…

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Every year in Eurovision we get to hear around 35 to 40 competing songs, but that number gets reduced to 26 after the semis, because the average viewer won’t have the attention span and the TV machine won’t indulge in such a long show.

Imagine being one of the most hardcore fans that goes through hundreds and hundreds of entries submitted to national selections, falling in love with tunes that will never leave home turf, and collecting disappointments as the eventual line-up will rarely be aligned with their wishlist.

Let’s meet in the middle as we bring you eight of our favourites from the 2024 pre-season, coming from all the corners of European geography and providing a variety of sounds that didn’t get to span the whole continent.

Also, we will be answering the question on everyone’s lips in this week’s episode: what do you get when you put The Common Linnet, Just Get Out Of My Life, and Trenuletunes in a blender?

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It’s time to defy expectations. With this week’s episode you can probably wash dishes at a restaurant on a Friday evening, run a half marathon, or commute to work 3 days a week, because we’ve gone all in! Is it because there’s a lot of new information to cover? Not particularly, we just love the sound of our own voices.

There are the final four songs that we need to provide our insightful commentary on, of course, but we have also decided to give you the rundown of some of the several countries that are yet to take the glass microphone home and feature a few of their closest attempts, because why the hell not?

And because 60 minutes of random Eurovisionness is never quite enough, let’s add a new instalment of the international, critically acclaimed game show Trenuletunes! Be brave, press play, and you’ll find a way to squeeze in all this fabulosity.

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How do we get over the end of the national final season? When there’s no new artists to uncover, no nail-biting voting sequences to endure, no more favourites to root for… We put a brave face on, turn on the microphones, and spill what little remains of what once used to be a cup full of tea.

To get us over the major blues, we bring you our first interview of the season, which is as exciting as it is nerve wracking, because we have none other than the Lord of the Odds, Baby Lasagna! And to think that he was not even part of the main line up for Dora - someone is banging their head against the bad decisions wall!

Since we need to alleviate a bit of the tension, why don’t you also tune in to a new game, dumber than ever, but still as entertaining? There’s something so enjoyable about witnessing someone else's misery.

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