Cheating in the Eurovision Song Contest: A Historical Analysis
Broadcaster RTVE has requested an audit of the televotes recorded for Spain at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. And so, a familiar cloud drifts...
Eurovision: Those we have lost 2025 Edition
With the grand final for 2025 just a few hours away, it's time for us to remember those who walked on the Eurovision Song...
AI-written songs are here – and Eurovision isn’t ready
From a fake “AI band” in Moldova’s 2025 selection to San Marino’s sanctioned AI entries, and global viral hits like Japan’s YAJU&U, artificial intelligence...
We need to talk about Eurovision staging fatigue
As the smoke machines hiss into action in Basel's St. Jakobshalle Arena, it's hard not to marvel at what the Eurovision Song Contest has...
Why Your Favourite Song Won’t Win Eurovision 2025 – Really, it...
So here we are again, happy as can be… then thirty-seven songs of variable quality come along and spoil our Spring. So we’ve given...
Twenty of ‘the best’ from Eurovision
Obviously, I'm a tone-deaf idiot with little appreciation of a tune, but this won't stop me compiling and sharing my TOP 20 of all-time...
The Eurovision Fan Bubble: Inclusive, Toxic, or Both?
It's less than a month until the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in Basel, Switzerland. Across platforms, fans dissect every note, critique every costume,...
Eurovision’s Dark Side: Behind the glitter
For millions of viewers worldwide, the Eurovision Song Contest represents a dazzling celebration of music, performance, and cultural unity. Yet behind the brilliant costumes...
Queerbaiting at Eurovision: Are We Being Played?
As Eurovision 2025 approaches, the glitter-strewn path to Basel reveals an increasingly complex relationship between what the popular press insists on calling Europe's campest...
The Eurovision price of entry: how much nations pay for their...
From Germany's half-million-euro investment to Montenegro's modest contribution, the bill for Europe's glitziest musical showdown reveals a contest of haves and have-nots
Eurovision, Europe's beloved...