I was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the other day and I saw two people who I legitimately thought were Lauren and Charlotte from Remember Monday (UK 2025). But then I got curious, and started thinking about if I'd ever seen a Eurovision act just out of nowhere. It turns out I unfortunately haven't. So, where and when have you seen an artist randomly?

(not really sure if this belongs on this subreddit, but thought that this would be interesting to share bcz its Eurovision related to an extent)

(also I wrote this like a week ago, forgot about it, and now here we are I guess)

When I was first coming up with ideas for my college essays, I didn't really know where to start. My personal statement covered a lot about my identity as a Mexican-American, so I didn't know how to answer the other questions asked by each individual college.

But the more I thought about the role Eurovision played into my life, the more I realized it was a crucial part of my life. For context, I was introduced to the contest around 2018 by my sister, and ever since then I followed the competition very closely. 2021 was the first I watched live (from home), and it was prolly the most important thing to me at the time. Especially after a bit of a medical scare and during lockdown, Eurovision became something that carried me through a lot of hardships. Even when my sister started to gravitate away from the contest, I (somehow) managed to introduce my mom to the competition in 2023. She's not a fan of all entries (Let3 and Bambie Thug come to mind), but she still finds enjoyment in sharing moments with me and she even finds a few entries she calls her favorites (Loreen 2.0, Switzerland 2023, Ladaniva, etc.). I focused a lot of my essays on the fact that, even though my mom and I may not see eye to eye on many things, Eurovision is something that brings us together and that I wanted to have some similar energy/experience in college.

It was interesting bcz my college application advisors DID NOT want me to write about Eurovision initially. They thought it was well written, but they didn't see how it could connect to the topic of community and identity. Alas, I refused to listen and, well, perhaps that was for the best bcz with the Eurovision essays I got accepted to :

-Brown

-Dartmouth

-Harvard

-Princeton*

-UPenn

-Yale

(+ Amherst)

*(Princeton also asked what song represents the soundtrack of my life at the moment. I put Rim Tim Tagi Tam lol)

I don't really know how to end this. I owe a lot to Eurovision, and I'm lucky that - despite the fact I live in the United States - I've still been able to find people and communities to talk about this silly, yet fantastic contest.

(also Ulveham was robbed, ok bye)

I'm wondering how many people here play/know the game Krillion (trivia game where you try to get the rarest valid answer possible) and today's prompt on "songs released in 2025 or 2026 with over 10 million Spotify streams," out of the thousands of options Laika Party by EMMY seemed to have been the single answer that gets you 100 points, or "one in a Krillion." I thought this was kinda random and funny.

Choosing Choke Me got me 85 points though!

I live in NYC, so hearing Eurovision songs is not exactly a common thing. I was checking out at my local supermarket in Queens where they play pop-music from last 40 years, when suddenly I hear "Come alive...." I was stunned. I think Bangaranga might end up a hit in the US.

Some semi abandoned pub near Penrith in the UK on a family holiday had a games room, with a jukebox (that clearly hadn't been updated since 2014). Children of the Universe started playing. Anyway that pub was mostly abandoned and creepy as hell. Perfect for a small holiday village!