The Junior Eurovision Review

Hosted in: Madrid, Spain Won by: Georgia – To my mom by Andria Putkaradze While most of us expect for France to repeat what Poland did in 2019 and 2020 , the country, shockingly, decided against hosting. Actually it wasn’t shocking. This past decade, La France have dominated this field, except for one edition that is 2021 , but even then France was leading at some point. However, their broadcaster has argued it was a little too much, calling it “a French monopoly on Junior Eurovision” (which is what I named the 2020-23 saga after). And so, it is reasonable for runners-up Spain to host the 2024 contest, exactly 20 years, if you can believe it, since Maria Isabel won the contest with her song “Antes muerta que sencilla”. Don’t worry, Maria is alright. Also, in an equally shocking move, the United Kingdom have decided against participating this year. This is quite surprising given that they have respectable results in the last two years. Though one plausible reason on why the Beeb withd...

Hosted in: Nice, France Won by: France – Coeur by Zoe Clauzure UK entry: Back to Life by Stand Uniqu3 This is the fourth and final part of the “French monopoly” saga: With the return of Germany, this is the first, and so far only, time in the contest’s history that all members of the “Big Five” – the biggest financial contributors to the EBU – competed together. This is surprising given that they had regular appearances in the adult contest, receiving a bye to the grand final every year. Speaking of one of the members of the big five, after a successful plot revenge in 2022 , The contest returned to France for the second time in three years, this time in a city with a very nice name - Nice. Organizers responsible for selecting the French entry on home soil this year have decided to slow things down. Slightly. VEEEEEEEERY slightly. Their representative, Zoe Clauzure, who had started her career by singing covers of popular songs on YouTube, sang “Coeur”, an emotionally resonant tune wi...

  Hosted in: Yerevan, Armenia Won by: France – Oh Maman! by Lissandro UK entry: Lose My Head by Freya Skye This is the third part of the “French monopoly” saga: It’s fair to say that we’re sooooooo back this year. As part of the celebrations commemorating the 20 th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and NOT being monopolized by Eastern countries, the United Kingdom, yes, all of them, including Wales who have regretted participating on their own, have agreed to compete in the 2022 contest for the first time since 2005 . The BBC took over selection duties, mainly due to their collective hatred towards ITV, not just because they chose their representative for all the wrong reasons, but also… other reasons. They have done literally EVERYTHING to ensure their babe could get high places, including spamming their viewers to vote for them (finally, someone took advantage of the voting system- Oh wait, France, Spain and Georgia have done that last year!), so you can’t blame Au...