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Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding, and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.

This week it's Eurovision. It's my favorite annual musical competition where European

and invited countries duke it out to decide which state has the best song. The music is truly fun.

It's danceable, pan-genre Europop with traditional folk instrumentation and a dash of kitsch.

So here's how it works. This may 10th through 14th, each country will perform in the semi-finals

and finals, and then country judges and viewers from each nation will vote for their favorite songs

to choose winner. Today, we'll listen to the top six countries' submissions that bookmakers

are betting will win. So Nate, you'll present three songs and I'll share three songs as well

as some of the most bizarre wild card picks, and at the end, we'll make our prediction about the winner.

Charlie, let me introduce to you Amanda Tenfjord, one of the many names that I will horrifically

mispronounce over the course of this episode. She is representing Greece with her song,

Die Together. I think we should spin it from the top.

First musical reference that comes to your mind listening to this chuck, I can't place it.

It sounds very familiar, like it sounds like this belongs on top 40 pop radio.

Oh, what the hell is going on?

Imaging heaps, hide and seek. This is a very common thing that I see where Eurovision songs

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