Hi everyone, I haven’t posted on this blog in a little while! I just wanted to give you an update on how I plan to cover Eurovision 2026 on my blog.

I’ve decided after a lot of thinking that I will in fact watch Eurovision 2026. There are already quite a few great songs selected and I just won’t be able to resist watching them live, plus it’ll be a fun thing to do with online friends (and maybe some family members on the final if I can convince them). I cannot say I’m excited for the next Eurovision because of the elephant in the room, but I do still want to watch it live and try to enjoy it as much as I can. The one thing I’m not sure about is whether I will vote in this year’s contest, because as a rest of the world voter I’m pretty sure my money would go to directly to the EBU. I’ll see how I feel when the show happens.

My plan is to release four blog posts about Eurovision 2026. They’re as follows:

The first post will be a discussion on the German national final for the year. I won’t actually be watching the German selection live this year, because it’s on the same day as Finland’s selection which is a fest of bangers, not a fest of dull radio pop. But writing a blog post about the German selection has become a tradition for me so I intend to continue that. As with the 2024 selection, I’m really disappointed the song lineup is so bland and has so few songs in German, so I’m preemptively disappointed for whatever my country will send.

Now for the second post: I’ve been watching lots of national finals this season, but I won’t make any posts reviewing a full national final this year. Instead, in March I’ll write a post listing a few hidden gems from national finals that didn’t make it to Eurovision.

And finally, after I watch Eurovision 2026 live, you should expect a pair of posts reviewing the show after the week is over. Rest assured, it’ll include plenty of ranting about what incompetent fuckbags the EBU are. But it should also include some of my usual analysis of what makes a song great.