Show #196

It’s our penultimate batch of 2023 hopefuls facing the Superfans this week, as our Panel once again tear into more of this years entries. Will they find their winner? Back to the Balkans for another superb triple play, with personal hygiene front and center! Plus we catch up on the weeks big stories in the Eurovision News…

This Weeks Highlights

Loreen

2023 Contest Contender

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known professionally as Loreen, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She won the 2012 contest with her entry 'Euphoria', which topped the charts in numerous European countries. She will represent Sweden in Eurovision for a second time in 2023 with 'Tattoo'.'

Mae Muller

2023 Contest Contender

Holly Mae Muller, known professionally as Mae Muller, is an English singer and songwriter. She will represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on homesoil in Liverpool, with the song 'I Wrote a Song', which became the first UK Eurovision entry in over a decade to debut on the UK Singles Chart's top 40.

Serbia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 14 times since making its debut in 2007. They previously participated as part of Yugoslavia (both the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1991 and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992) and as Serbia and Montenegro (2004–2006). Serbia won the contest on its debut as an independent country in 2007, with “Molitva” by Marija Šerifović. The country’s other top five results are third place in 2012 with “Nije ljubav stvar” by Željko Joksimović, and fifth place in 2022 with “In corpore sano” by Konstrakta. Serbia’s other top ten results are sixth place (2008) and tenth place (2015).

Ana Đurić, known professionally as Konstrakta, is a Serbian singer and songwriter.
She had risen to prominence as the lead vocalist of the indie pop band Zemlja gruva!, which was founded in 2007, before pursuing her solo career in 2019.

Konstrakta gained more significant recognition by representing Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy with “In corpore sano”, where she placed 5th out of 40 competing entries.
On the evening of the final, she won the Artistic Marcel Bezençon Award. She also received an award from the Polish media for the most creative entry.

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