Sissal (Hallucination, Denmark 2025) - 3:59, Shkodra Electronike (Zjerm, Albania 2025) - 22:19, Pixie Aventura (Hulu's Drag Me To Dinner) - 43:00

 

 

 

 

This is our first episode featuring interviews with Eurovision 2025 contestants! We've talked about Eurovision's dual identity as a place for both global pop and culturally specific numbers, and in this episode we talk to two acts who embody either side of that identity: Sissal, representing Denmark with an instant Scandipop classic, Hallucination, and Albania's Shkodra Elektronike, whose song Zjerm is infused with the traditional sounds drawn from the history of music from Shkoder.

 

 

 

 

We then sit down with EuroVerse favorite Pixie Aventura who brings her Eurovision expertise to a discussion of her favorites of this year, as well as to a game covering some of this year's non-English language entries called "It's All Greek (And Lithuanian and French and Icelandic and Montenegrin and Latvian) To Me!" Eurovision 2025 features the most non-English songs since the language rule was dropped. For more information on the language rule, check-out Season 1, Episode 4.

 

 

 

 

SONGS:

 

 

 

Sissal

 

 

Dino Jelusic, Ti Si Moja Prva Ljubav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RT8eDwbt_CQ

 

 

The Olsen Brothers, Fly on The Wings of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF8fkHK0AWs

 

 

 

Sissal, Here Me Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZILZGDMyTI

 

 

 

Sissal, Far From Sober: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAEyRIvmdaw

 

 

 

 

Shkodra Electronike

 

 

 

Turtulleshë, Shkodra Elektronike - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHVz0GkB0HQ

 

 

 

"Turkish Kaval played by Nadishana" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkWYNJAZqY

 

 

 

Saz, An Introduction, Filip Holm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZ0DBsa0v0

 

 

 

Sufi Music: Zikr, Celebrate Humanity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKyCXVuQ9Es

 

 

 

Cifteli popullore, Ciftelia TV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS6aIJ5WPpk

 

 

 

Pixie Aventura:

 

 

Esa Diva, Melody (Spain, 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvVxhbCW9rw

 

 

 

*Gorilla Song, Melody - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90avMgG5NAM

 

 

 

GAJA, Justyna Steczkowska (Poland 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXHHDjiclxA

 

 

 

The Tower, Luna (Poland 2024) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhvDkF9XZx0

 

 

 

C'est La Vie, Claude (The Netherlands 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEHwr5k9pd0

 

 

 

Volevo Essere Un Duro, Lucio Corsi (Italy 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAf9-5Oevw

 

 

Espresso Macchiato, Tommy Cash (Eurovision 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK6CUNXip7Q

 

 

 

Bur Man Laimi, Tautumeitas (Latvia 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_t79mQkm4

 

 

 

"It's All Greek (And Lithuanian and French and Icelandic and Montenegrin and Latvian) To Me!"

 

 

 

Asteromáta, Klavdia (Greece 2025)  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxzeTezgey4

 

 

 

Voyage, Zoe Me (Switzerland 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGX54zRExR8

 

 

 

RÓA, VÆB (Iceland 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZE1WzOwtQQ

 

 

 

Dobrodošli, Nina Žižić (Montenegro 2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs0yq39aFA