Star Spangled Eurovision

Join us as we break down this year's chaotic Eurovision and give our thoughts on where the contest goes from here. Also, it's our 100th episode!! Listen in for a little retrospective on eights seasons of our hottest takes! Thank you for everyone who tuned in this season – we hope to see you again … Continue reading Close Calls and Exercise Balls: The Eurovision 2025 Debrief →

Join us for our annual Eurovision preview, where we give our thoughts on and predictions for this year's song contest! Also, we reveal the results of our Star Spangled Jury! Thanks again to everyone who submitted their top 10's!

Join us for our final batch of reactions to this year's Eurovision entries! This week we give our hottest takes on the songs from Israel, Switzerland, Cyprus, Georgia, and France. How good is your French? Songs featured: Yuval Raphael – “New Day Will Rise” Zoë Më – “Voyage”  Theo Evan – “Shh” Mariam Shengelia – … Continue reading Intro to Eurovision French →

Join us for another week of hot takes on this year's Eurovision entries! On this episode, we dive into what the hell is happening with the harmony queens from the UK, the mustachioed twink from Czechia, the wholesome Finns repping Sweden, the Grammy nominee from San Marino, and the calming vibes from Portugal. Songs featured: … Continue reading What the Hell Just Happened in the Sauna? →

Join us for another week of hot takes on this year's Eurovision entries! This episode, we take on Denmark's staging disaster, the German club kids, another Croatian goth boy, and Austria's opera sensation! Songs featured: Sissal – Hallucination Abor & Tynna – Baller Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake JJ – Wasted Love Our Star Spangled … Continue reading Is it (Poison) Cake?? →

Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on the Icelandic europop pirates, dairy-loving Australians, the Netherlands' answer to Stromae, and Serbian Fabio competing in this year's Eurovision! Songs featured: VÆB – RÓA Go-Jo – Milkshake Man Claude – C'est La Vie Princ – Mila Reminder that the Star Spangled Jury is still … Continue reading La Vie En Róa →

Alt teens and Serj Tankian wannabees abound! Join us as we give our hot takes on this year's Eurovision entries from Lithuania, Italy, Armenia, and Azerbaijan and decide who's going to be whose Eurovision boyfriend! Songs featured: Katarsis – Tavo Akys Lucio Corsi – Volevo Essere Un Duro Parg – Survivor Mamagama – Run With … Continue reading Of Mice and Scary Men →

Grab your espresso macchiatos and join us this week as we give our hot takes on this year's kanty divas from Malta and Poland, Norwegian Timothee Chalamet, and Estonia's controversial entry! Songs featured: Miriana Conte – “Kant” Justyna Steczkowska – “Gaja” Kyle Alessandro – “Lighter” Tommy Cash – “Espresso Macchiato”

Join us this week as we give our hottest takes on some of Eurovision 2025's heavy-hitters, including a song about a dead dog (Ireland), (one of) this year's horniest songs (Finland), a perennial Eurovision powerhouse (Ukraine), and some enchanting wood nymphs we wish would take away from this hell we are living in (Latvia). Songs … Continue reading Concepts of a Staging →

Join the gang this week as they give their hottest takes on Eurovision 2025's messiest divas, hottest club tracks, most heartbreaking ballads, and thinly veiled allusions to genocide. Tracks featured: Klavdia – Asteromáta Klemen – How Much Time Do We Have Left Red Sebastian – Strobe Lights Melody – Esa Diva

Welcome to season 8 (!!!) of Star Spangled Eurovision! In our season premier, we give our hottest takes on the first three entries from the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest from Montenegro, Albania, and Luxembourg! Tune in and see which ones we liked, which ones we didn't, and which song confused Alix for some reason. Songs … Continue reading Les Podcasteurs Montent Les Hot Takes →

We're back from Malmö and have some thoughts about this year's Eurovision Song Contest! Listen in to hear our thoughts on Eurovision week and all the drama that went down in and outside the Malmö Arena. Whether you're a longtime fan or just discovering us, a big thank you to everyone who tuned in this … Continue reading Saved by Switzerland: The Eurovision 2024 Debrief →

Eurovision 2024 is just a few days away! Listen in to see our predictions on who qualifies for the grand final and who might be the one to take home the crown this year. We also reveal the results of our Star Spangled Jury!

Join us this week as we cover the last batch of songs from this year's Eurovision! We also decided to talk about Israel and their participation this year. Songs Featured: Iolanda – Grito Nutsa Buzaladze – Firefighter FAHREE feat. Ilkin Dovlatov – Özünlə Apar LADANIVA – Jako Eden Golan – Hurricane You still have a … Continue reading The Final Four and More →

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) →

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 … Continue reading Can you Jezebelieve This Sh*t? →

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) – … Continue reading Sexy Allies →

After years of waiting, America gets its own version of Eurovision! In this special bonus episode, the gang reviews the first heat of the American Song Contest. Take a listen and find out what American Eurovision fans think of our country's own take on the contest.

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“ … Continue reading Give That Wolf the Last Pizza Slice →

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 … Continue reading Anti-P*ssy Technology →

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 … Continue reading The Hot Mess Express (Chisinau – Bucharest) →

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 … Continue reading Intelligent Podcast Project →

We have a winner! Join Alix, Max, and Bart as they react to the Eurovision 2021 Grand Final and semifinals and share their thoughts on this year’s winner and what to expect next year. Thanks to everyone for tuning in this season! We’ll see you next year

Join Alix, Max, and Bart as they give their predictions for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest! Who will make it out of the semi-finals? Who will take home the crystal microphone? Who were our biggest surprises and biggest disappointments this season? And, most importantly, who won our Star Spangled Jury?! Listen in and find out! … Continue reading Eurovision 2021: A Star Spangled Preview →

As we head into rehersal week for this year’s Eurovision, join Alix, Max, and Bart as they give their takes on the last batch of entries from Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Malta (and a review of Israel’s revamp)! You also get a preview of our predictions for this year, but tune in next week for our … Continue reading Excuse Our French →

Join the gang for another round of songs as they tackle this year’s Eurovision entries from Poland, Latvia, Iceland, and Sweden! This week, Max worships at the altar of Samanta Tina, Alix and Bart question Poland’s choices, and all three wonder whether or not Iceland can fill its own big shoes from last year. Does … Continue reading The Queen of the Night is coming (for all of us) →

Join the gang for another round of songs as Alix, Max, and Bart give their spicy takes on this year’s Eurovision entries from Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and the UK. This week, Bart hears a hidden message in Greece’s entry, Max has thoughts on Bulgaria’s Billie Eilish schtick, Alix wonders just how far off-Broadway Vasil … Continue reading Your Song is Getting Old →