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Eurovision Rehearsals

Stay in touch with everything happening in Rotterdam in the run up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. The OnEurope crew will be in the virtual press centre and telling you what’s going on.

San Marino: Calculated subversion from Achille Lauro

Most years, there's (at least) one song that divides fandom. And (at least) one song that divides fandom from the rest of the world....

San Marino – Let me paint the scene for you

OK, so let me storyboard this for you ... Our hero comes on stage with a faux leather boa and a diamonte Stetson, sings...

Malta.. Dear BBC….

Dear BBC Light Entertainment circa 1994 or so, have YOU had a hand in staging this song, because it bloody well looks like it! If...

Georgia: Britpop is back

I liked this song from the get-go, even if it is a tad repetitive, and a touch one-note. Today, though, the performance exposed all...

Georgia – underwhelmed

The preview video to this song is the visual equivalent of having a sniff of the barmaid’s apron, as it were, in that it...

Serbia: The standout moment of 2022

From the first time I saw Konstrakta perform 'In Corpore Sano', I was hooked. And yet, I keep telling myself it's going to belly...

Azerbaijan – His heart might not go on any longer than...

This has all the right elements for a good song – and yet in spite of that, seems to have something missing for me...

Serbia. OK, I was wrong, AGAIN

When I first reviewed this for the site's Countdown I gave this song 1 point because I didn't understand it. As with The Netherlands...

Israel: Nice performance, shame about the song

Eurovision is seen by some (in particular the UK popular press) as a bit of camp nonsense. It's an image organisers embrace on one...

Israel – If you are easily offended, look away now

If you’ve stayed and chosen to read this post then carry on. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. I despise this song. I don’t despise...