Honesty, I'd go see it.

Still need your Eurovision fix? Take a listen to our 2025 Debrief and celebrate 100 episodes with us!

NEW EPISODE! 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 at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

Weirdly, I think the most appropriate parallel here are Super PACs here in the US. They're not doing anything illegal, per se, but allow unlimited amounts of money to be spent in favor of a political candidate, giving them a huge advantage over others. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/israeli-go...

Playing with a few numbers, and not only did Austria receive the lowest televote score (178) of any winner since we started splitting results, the difference between JJ's and Salvador Sobral's total scores (322) is more than Maneskin's entire televote (318) and almost as much as Jamala's (323).

Tell me that Sergio Jaen isn't the Eurovision Robert Eggers and that we aren't getting a Northman-themed staging next year.

Quick reminder that there's no new episode today! We'll have our annual debrief for you soon, but we need to digest these results and the fallout a bit first.

Thanks to everyone who came to our Grand Final watch party at the Queen Vic! It was such a great time!!

Initial reactions: Overall, a fantastic show. Everyone truly brought their A-game and the level of staging and creativity was truly through the roof.

Happy Grand Final Day!! If you're in the DMV come join us at The Queen Vic on H street!

Feeling vindicated about my prediction that bookies were underrating Iceland and Portugal and overrating Belgium. I did think Norway was going to be the other casualty but that may be an instance of friendly countries putting him over the top.

Happy Semi Final 1 day!! Need something to listen to on your way to a watch party? Why not take a listen to our predictions (and then let us know how wrong we were)?

NEW EPISODE!! 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! Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

HAPPY EUROVISION WEEK!

I joined #Radiostoyevsky again this year for their annual Eurovision preview! Listen at the link below (or possibly on a random local radio station!) www.mixcloud.com/radiostoyevs...

My favorite part of rehearsal week is the delusional takes. Keep 'em coming!

NEW EPISODE! Join us for our final batch of reactions to this year's Eurovision entries from Israel 🇮🇱, Switzerland 🇨🇭, Cyprus 🇨🇾, Georgia 🇬🇪, and France 🇫🇷. How good is your French? Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

Last day to participate in our Star Spangled Jury! All you have to do is DM us your top 10. Open to all!

One more day left to participate in our jury!

DC/DMV friends! Come join us for a Grand Final watch party at the Queen Vic! Come early for games and prizes :)

NEW EPISODE! This week we cover harmony queens 🇬🇧, mustachioed twinks 🇨🇿, wholesome Fennoswedes 🇸🇪, a Grammy nominee 🇸🇲, and the country with the best vibes 🇵🇹! Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

The best reactor on YouTube hearing Bara Bada Bastu for the first time is... perfect www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6W...

1 week left to participate!!

NEW EPISODE! Join us as we take on Denmark's staging disaster 🇩🇰, the German club kids 🇩🇪, another Croatian goth boy 🇭🇷, and Austria's opera sensation 🇦🇹! Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

New episode tomorrow! But in the meantime, why not catch up on what you missed?

NEW EPISODE! Join us for our hottest takes on the Icelandic europop pirates 🇮🇸, dairy-loving Australians 🇦🇺, the Dutch answer to Stromae 🇳🇱, and Serbian Fabio 🇷🇸 competing at Eurovision 2025! Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

NEW EPISODE! 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! Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

In case you, like me, are just not awake or functioning on Mondays and missed that we released a new episode!

NEW EPISODE!! Grab your espresso macchiatos and join us as we give our hot takes on this year’s kanty divas from Malta and Poland, Norwegian Timothee Chalamet, and Estonia’s controversial entry! Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

Randomly decided to go into Sw@da x Niczos's back catalog and this may be my favorite find of this ESC season ngl

This is the ideal female body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. #Kant #Eurovision #MESC25

My biggest worry is that Kant, much like Eat Your Salad, really relied on the one word to grab your attention, and even if everyone in the audience is screaming it, it's just not the same when muted. I'm a little worried about a Malta NQ now, unfortunately...

It's giving Polina Gagarina 2.0.

TIL Sissal is Faroese, so now we have both the Faroes and Madeira (two of my favorite places on earth) represented at ESC!

SWEDEN CHOSE FUN!

Why of all the years is this the one everyone seems to be going for that americana aesthetic? We're bad now, embrace your own cultures.

ICYMI: We talk about some of this year's heavy hitters on our latest episode!

NEW EPISODE! Join us for hot takes on some of this year's Eurovision heavy hitters, including songs about a dead dog 🇮🇪 and orgasms 🇫🇮, an ESC powerhouse 🇺🇦, and some enchanting fairies 🇱🇻. Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! starspangledeurovision.blubrry.net

Time for my weekly Monday workout challenge of trying to not laugh to @starspangledpod.bsky.social latest podcast whilst holding a heavy weight in the gym

I've heard all the songs and don't care to wait for the results, so signing off for today. Thanks for following along! #Chefsache

Ok honestly one of my biggest pet peeves is people comparing things to Evanescence that sound nothing like Evanescence #Chefsache

Ok Empress is kind of gorgeous, honestly. And the staging is striking. Germany could do a lot worse #Chefsache

The little wild dances bit was a nice touch, I guess? I'm just sad it went back to Euphoria and didn't turn into a medley #Chefsache

Lovers of Mars was quite cute. I'm not mad tbh #Chefsache

Good vocal, awful cover #Chefsache

I'm Still Here is at least very contemporary-sounding and well performed. I don't love it but it's surprisingly solid. #Chefsache

Covering Whitney is one way to surely set yourself up for failure #Chefsache

Are you telling me this isn't Leonora wearing a new wig? #chefsache

I can't believe we still have 3 songs to go, this feels like it's been on forever #Chefsache

Baller is a banger but what did that cello ever do to you?!?! #Chefsache