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Something incredible has happened. For the first time since the night Brooke Scullion triumphed in Eurosong 2022 with her mega-hit “That’s Rich” (and for only the second time since we managed to pull off a qualification in 2018), I am genuinely optimistic about Ireland’s chances. Usually tuning in to Eurosong’s song releases brought nothing but…

If you were to grab a time machine, find me a few weeks after last year’s contest and say that in 2023 Azerbaijan would send a song to Eurovision that not only did not have any Swedish/Dream Team writers but actively had four new Azeri writers, I would probably dismiss you as some sort of…

Welcome, esteemed reader. This time, we’re doing something a little different and discussing old editions of this fucking song contest, rather than the one that will be happening in less than four weeks time. Oh, the excitement is palpable. My bones are ready. For those of you who don’t overly care about Eurovision and just…

This isn’t quite going to be like most of my posts, rather a bit of an analysis on the performers who looked impressive, or less so, at the Spanish Preparty that happened over the weekend. WINNERS: Teya and Salena After last year’s Austrian entry raised numerous doubts amidst the preparties about how well it would…

It’s the most incredible time of the year – the closing stretch of the national final season. Having experienced the blissful highs and agonising lows (looking at you, TVP), we are now two national finals and four internal releases away from having all 37 songs for Eurovision 2023. This Saturday will see Sweden bring us…

It’s a rarity that I actually get a chance to write about my own home country, Ireland when it comes to this blog, so it’s a delight to be able to write about us here and talk about the songs in our national final this year, as we attempt to reach our second final since…

It all happens so quickly, doesn’t it? Welcome back, readers, to yet another Eurovision Season over here on the “Oisín Talking Shit About Eurovision Songs” blog. Much like last year, Eurovision 2023 has started quickly. We already have our first four artists, and the songs from two national finals – surprisingly, none of which are…

Well, after the final curtain was closed on Melodifestivalen I can finally make this post. National final season 2022 was… odd. This year simultaneously gave us some of the most diabolical things I have ever listened to with my good face-ears, and yet some absolute mega bangers. This post is going to be dedicated to…

I love national finals. They’re like little mini-Eurovisions, varying in quality, quantity and production value. And as a seasoned Eurovision fan, you can usually tell how deeply ingrained into this damned song contest someone is by whether they watch national finals (well, aside from their own country’s one). So, hating myself as much as I…

Finland, often the scrawny little sibling of the Nordic countries, have come into their own recently when it comes to Eurovision. They’ve gone from a country with four non-qualifications and a second-last place in five years to arguably the strongest national final that has been revealed this year. How did they manage to do this…