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Zachary Thomas
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Vine Series: Life of an American Eurovision Fan (Series 4)
It’s hard being a Eurovision fan outside of Europe
Vine Series: Life of an American Eurovision Fan (Series 3)
The pain and trauma of being a Eurovision fan—outside of Europe.
Get the party started! Cascada premiers video for Blink
Put on your dancin’ shoes. Cascada is back.
Review: Amandine Bourgeois mellows out with Ma Gueule
Amandine Bourgeois’ Eurovision 2013 journey with “L’Enfer Et Moi” can pretty much be summed up as follows. France announces her: Who the heck is this? Song is revealed: Meh, not their…
Vine Series: Life of an American Eurovision Fan (Series 2)
Hey everyone, Zach here! A little while ago I posted a set of Vine videos about being a Eurovision fan from the United States, and since they went over pretty…
Vine Series: Life of an American Eurovision Fan
Hello all! As many of you know, I’m one of those rare American Eurovision fans. It’s a fun life, it’s a hard life, it’s an exciting life, it’s a lonely…
Eurovision Flashback: Janet Leon Should Have Won Melodifestivalen
On November 28 SVT announced the list of artists singing in the third and fourth semi-finals of Melodifestivalen 2014. Folks were thrilled to learn that veterans like Alcazar, Linda Bengtzing and…
Potential Artist Profile: Russia at Eurovision 2014
Today we’re deviating from our alphabetical order to talk about everyone’s favorite country to hate, Russia. Putting questionable politics aside, Russia at Eurovision is a relative success story. With a…
Potential Artist Profile: Azerbaijan 2014
Boasting probably the most enviable set of recent results in the contest, one cannot deny that Azerbaijan seems to get things right at Eurovision every year. However, they also prove…
Potential Artist Profile: Austria 2014
Austria, the name of the country alone is basically synonymous with famous classical music. Boasting names such as Mozart, Haydn, and Strauss, you would think that Austria would constantly school…
Potential Artist Profile: Armenia 2014
Today we will be looking at a few possible artists for a country that makes up half of the most popular, (as well as unnecessary and annoying) rivalry in the…
Potential Artist Profile: Albania 2014
Hello everyone! I’m Zach, and this is the first of my possible artist profiles. In these profiles, I will highlight an artist that I believe should represent their country at…
United Kingdom: Sandie Shaw Is Now A Nudist
Sandie Shaw sang her way to victory for the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, with her sweet little song “Puppet on a String”. It was the United…
Spain: Pastora Soler Releases “Te Despertaré”
Spain hasn’t had the best Eurovision record recently, mainly right-hand side of the board results, including a number of bottom five entries. Some blame the singers, some blame the delegation,…
Editorial: Who could represent the United States?
Being an avid Eurovision fan from the United States, I usually find myself pondering several hypothetical questions about a possible run at the contest. Now, I am perfectly aware that…
Editorial: Why Björk Could Win Eurovision for Iceland
Every year at Eurovision, at least one Scandinavian nation does really well—and from time to time one of them even wins the contest. But there is one Nordic country that…