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Some musicians love doing them, others don't, and increasingly it feels like artists are avoiding interviews, preferring to speak to their fans via social media, or not at all.

Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi), Slovenia (in 2025), and Spain. Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal. In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection finals has been criticized by local media. During the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Adams and Aderemi served as special guests on Studio Eurovision, Swedish host broadcaster SVT's Eurovision preview show.

Artificial intelligence has, over the last few years, become the dominant presence in the global conversation about the reach – and overreach – of technology and commerce into the private lives of citizens. Ai equally distrusts AI. In his opinion, it is already boxing us into a more homogenised global society. He referenced an incident (without specifying the precise details) where someone testing China’s Deepseek AI platform asked it to talk about Ai Weiwei.

News, info and reactions to the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Austria. Wiwibloggs is the most followed independent ESC blog and YouTube channel.

Our founder and editor William Lee Adams has been described by Dutch media as “the world’s most influential Eurovision viewer” and Will Ferrell even gave him a cameo in the 2020 Netflix hit, “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.” The blog is a staple of international media during Eurovision season and has been cited or featured in countries including Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Norway, The Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Podcast · Wiwibloggs · Eurovision news with attitude! Conversations inspired by the song contest — though not always limited to it. Catch up on all our Eurovision 2022 interviews, reviews and discussions. Coming to you from London, but riffing on the world of music and pop culture at large.

Such coverage is alleged to stem from a broader antipathy toward Azerbaijan's conservative Muslim society, contrasting with Eurovision's pro-LGBTQ+ ethos, resulting in calls from Wiwibloggs-affiliated fans to exclude Azerbaijan alongside nations like Russia, Belarus, and Israel over human rights issues.[60][62] Another incident highlighted is the 2019 Romanian national selection, where Wiwibloggs initially praised contestant Laura Bretan's ballad "Dear Father" but later revised its assessment to lower scores after Bretan publicly affirmed her opposition to same-sex marriage during interviews, purportedly favoring competitor Ester Peony's entry instead.

Eurovision news with attitude! Conversations inspired by the song contest — though not always limited to it. Catch up on all our Eurovision 2022 interviews, reviews and discussions. Coming to you from London, but riffing on the world of music and pop cultu...

Conversations inspired by the song contest — though not always limited to it. Catch up on all our Eurovision 2022 interviews, reviews and discussions. Coming to you from London, but riffing on the world of music and pop culture at large. From the team behind Wiwibloggs.com.