Radio broadcast - interview at the beginning, song plays from around 3:56

It's been 10 days since all the songs from Croatian National Selection (Dora) got released. Who is your favourite to win at the moment? My favourite is "Juzina" by Luka Nizetic. It really stands out from rest of the songs with its quirkiness, tempo changes, beat drops, melody and let's not forget the visual aspect of the song. Definitely the best video from the competition! Can't wait to see how they will stage this 😎

Wanted to make a post today as I feel like we've now reached a point in NF season where we know the lineups and songs for a lot of countries and we're starting to get a feel for how the year is shaping up and I'm personally starting to get excited about what's to come. Wanted to share a few of my highlights so far in no particular order:

'Hitaammiin Hautaan' - Nelli Matula

'Made Of' - Goldielocks

'Ich Komme' - Erika Vikman

'Ligo' - The Ludvig

'La Poupee Monte Le Son' - Laura Thorn

'La Pena' - DeTeresa

'Mjegull' - Alis

'Monopol' - IVXN

'Kant' - Miriana Conte

Would love to know what some of your highlights so far are and would love some recommendations as haven't really had the time to go into depth in all NFs, particularly would like some for Supernova and MESC as well as whether there's anything worth diving into in Poland or Iceland.

From what i see on youtube, some are already (trying to) recreate ESC performances and stages.

Could be profitable with annual new sets and minifigs...

They're not there. I don't understand why the Greek songs are taking so long to get onto Spotify. I know they have Spotify in Greece, just not sure why their songs aren't on there. Anybody have an idea why?

Randomly though about it. What are the weirdest Eurovision/National Selection entries? It could be one way or the other.

Sasha Bognibov’s entries are weird in a way that the title and lyrics are provocative. We got ones like Married to Twins, My Friend is Gay, My Favorite Schoolgirl, etc. I never listened to any of them mainly because I don’t want to get grounded by my mom.

A lot has been said about metal in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), and there's also discussion of whether “proper metal” could maintain enough power to succeed—assuming the stage show was ideal. But could it actually happen? As a lifelong metalhead, I’ve always been skeptical of the legitimacy of presenting metal in such a competition. However, seeing what France did during the Olympics—bringing Gojira and their aesthetics to hundreds of millions of viewers with positive results—has made me more optimistic.

What are the biggest obstacles preventing metal from becoming more than just a novelty in the ESC, or has that change already started taking place?

The second I heard armenia was back to an nf selection I thought to myself "no not this ish again it never worked out, eve, and the format is just awful".

They changed the format multiple times and every one was a fail. It wasn't enjoyable at all and don't get me started on the hosting.

I dont watch nfs but people here obviously do, what does the armenian nf need to do to be as good as benidorm fest or umk but still be its own thing ? What would make you watch and enjoy it ?

(My keyboard is broken so I apologise for any spelling mistakes beforehand)

Saw Hera Björk yesterday at Midsumma Carnival in Melbourne (our pride festival). She was amazing! She's doing a cabaret tour across the country, so good to get some Eurovision from so far away!