Eurovision Song Context
A podcast where we bring in smart people. We talk about smart things, then veer into glitter, wind machines, and geopolitics. Experts. Insight. Eurovision chaos.
Displaying 3 items of Eurovision Song Context with the tag "identity".
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Episode 91: Borders Belonging & Becoming with Josh Rivers
September 29th, 2026 | 1 hr 18 mins
Race, Representation, art, austria, belonging, black europe, black identity, black queer culture, busy being black, conchita wurst, european identity, eurovision, eurovision history, eurovision song contest, identity, jeangu macrooy, josh rivers, joshua rivers, lgbtq, migration, milly scott, netherlands, poetry, queer europe, queer identity, right to opacity, wangechi mutu, édouard glissant
Bradley talks with Busy Being Black host Joshua Rivers about identity, belonging and who gets to be European. From Blackness and queerness to art, poetry and the “right to opacity,” they explore what happens when the labels that help define us also begin to constrain us. Eurovision performances from Milly Scott, Jeangu Macrooy and Conchita Wurst become jumping-off points for conversations about representation, migration and Europe’s changing sense of itself.
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Episode 75: [Bonus Content] (Part 2) Eurovision: When Life Drops a Plot Twist
November 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
Creativity, alienation, breast reconstruction, brotherhood of man, cancer journey, candid conversation, cesár sampson, comfort songs, cultural identity, dark humor, eurovision, eurovision analysis, eurovision podcast, eurovision songs, feeling displaced, identity, keiino, konstrakta, left-handedness, loïc nottet, marginalization, mastectomy, michael schulte, music and emotion, music critique, resilience, s10, salvador sobral, songwriting
In this episode we talk with Sheldon about his Journeys I–III essays, identity, alienation, and what it means to belong. We move into a conversation about cancer, resilience, and the books we’re both reading right now — Let Them and Open When. Then we build a Eurovision-powered playlist designed for life’s hardest emotional moments.
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Episode 76: [Bonus Content] (Part 1) Eurovision: When Life Drops a Plot Twist
November 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 26 mins
Creativity, alienation, breast reconstruction, brotherhood of man, cancer journey, candid conversation, cesár sampson, comfort songs, cultural identity, dark humor, eurovision, eurovision analysis, eurovision podcast, eurovision songs, feeling displaced, identity, keiino, konstrakta, left-handedness, loïc nottet, marginalization, mastectomy, michael schulte, music and emotion, music critique, resilience, s10, salvador sobral, songwriting
In this episode we talk with Sheldon about his Journeys I–III essays, identity, alienation, and what it means to belong. We move into a conversation about cancer, resilience, and the books we’re both reading right now — Let Them and Open When. Then we build a Eurovision-powered playlist designed for life’s hardest emotional moments.