by Joe Bennett | May 22, 2021 | berklee, Eurovision, Forensic Musicology, music production, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
[update: the next day] So, the predictions were mostly reasonably close, although I missed Switzerland completely. Italy won (I predicted 4th), I got France right at 2nd place, and Iceland came 4th (predicted as 3rd). My predicted winner (Malta) actually came in at...
by Joe Bennett | May 22, 2021 | berklee, Eurovision, Popular Music, Songwriting
[looking for the live-blog and song commentary?] It’s Eurovision-eve! Yes, the live musicology blog is back after it, and the contest itself, has been absent for a year. We didn’t waste time though: Netflix asked us to analyse all 259 finalists 2010-2019...
by Joe Bennett | Jun 30, 2020 | Eurovision, Popular Music, Songwriting
Regular readers will know that I have been live-blogging the Eurovision Song Contest final since 2011. Every year I sit down in front of the TV, metronome and guitar in hand, and write live musical analysis of the songs in real time, then attempt to predict the winner...
by Joe Bennett | May 18, 2019 | Eurovision
[update – the day after] I correctly predicted the winner (Netherlands), but my second and third place predictions (Sweden and Australia) were a little further down the list: Sweden was 6th, Australia 9th. Not bad. Here’s an interactive infographic of the...
by Joe Bennett | May 12, 2018 | Eurovision, music production, Popular Music, Songwriting
Final results [voting results entered at ~11.30pm GMT / 6.30pm ET on May 12th 2018. My predictions shown in brackets] Israel ‘TOY’ (2) Cyprus ‘Fuego’ (1) Austria ‘Nobody But You’ (x) Germany ‘You Let Me Walk...
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