To highlight the art of writing song lyrics, for the 8th time Eurostory hands out the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award – an award for the best song lyrics of this year’s Eurovision songs. Previous awards were won by Ukraine (2016), France (2017, 2018), Italy (2019, 2021, 2022) and Austria (2023). Today we announce the five nominees for 2024. As in previous years … »

Latvian indie rock band Sudden Lights brings a lullaby to the Eurovision Song Contest 2023: Aijā. A song to fall asleep to? Definitely not, and here’s why. A note beforehand: they started writing it after Russia invaded Ukraine. Drumbeat An electric drumbeat breaks the silence and starts the song. It sounds loud and slightly experimental. Singer Andrejs Reinis Zitmanis starts … »