Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of year again when the entirety of Europe (and a few other countries) come together to celebrate kitschy, bombastic songwriting through the Eurovision Song Contest! This year’s competition, held in Malmo, Sweden, features everything from rave-pop on behalf of the Netherlands, to folk-rapping hybrids courtesy of Ukraine – and Charlie and Nate are here to musicologically unpack the craziest tracks that have the potential to win it all. For more on the controversy surrounding this year’s contest, check out Charlie’s appearance on Vox’s podcast Today, Explained. Songs discussed: Joost – Europapa Angelina Mango – La noia alyona alyona, Jerry Heil – Teresa & Maria Nemo – The Code Baby Lasagna – Rim Tim Tagi Dim Windows95Man – No Rules! Kaleen – We Will Rave Olly Alexander – Dizzy Bambie Thug – Doomsday Blue Ladaniva – Jako Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	Sloane. Every year in the spring we get to talk about my favorite annual song
0:50.8	contest Eurovision! Eurovision is of course the European broadcast unions gathering of countries within Europe and slightly outside of Europe that each year has a Olympics-like
1:06.8	competition of musical force, each country submitting one artist or up to six singers to sing live on international television
1:15.4	to be voted on by peer countries the rest of the world and a group of judges and
1:21.6	by the evaluations of musical critics and musicologists like ourselves.
1:27.4	It is the closest thing that we have in our musical world to the Super Bowl or some other sporting event. It is genuinely
1:36.7	thrilling. As someone who doesn't watch sports, I love this event. And just like
1:40.9	sports, Eurovision may want to be an apolitical event, but of course it is not immune from larger geopolitical issues that are ongoing.
1:52.0	This is true in years past, and it's true in 2024.
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