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... by Joe Bennett | May 11, 2018 | Eurovision, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
It’s Eurovision eve! [For any Americans who are unfamiliar with the ESC, here’s the background] Back in 2010 I live-tweeted some song commentary as the show was going out. Since 2011 I’ve been live-blogging the show, with real-time music analysis and...
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