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IRELAND 🇮🇪 Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Ireland's representative in the 2018 Eurovision in Lisbon, recently revealed that "Together", the song with which he achieved the country's best result since 2011, was rejected in the previous year's selection. According to the artist, the song by Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Mark Caplice and Laura Elizabeth Hughes was composed for Brendan Murphy, an artist chosen internally by RTÉ to represent the country in Kyiv. However, the candidacy was turned down by participation mentor Louis Walsh, who wanted a song by famous composers, opting for "Dying To Try", a song composed by Jörgen Elofsson and James Newman, the British representative in 2020.

AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 On November 28 Montaigne will headline Sydney’s first ‘Express Yourself – Queer Discovery’ event in collaboration with APRA AMCOS and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

USA 🇺🇸 Netflix’s ‘For Your Consideration’ website features 28 films that Netflix believes are worthy of nomination for awards. The list includes the EUROVISION MOVIE, Michelle Obama’s documentary film Becoming, Netflix’s new animation Over the Moon and historical legal drama The Trial of Chicago 7. In details the movie bids more into the music of the movie which made global success, Lion of Love’, ‘Volcano Man’, ‘Double Trouble’ and ‘Jaja Ding Dong’ and awaits a Best Original Song Oscar nomination. The film has already been nominated for two awards at the E! People’s Choice Awards, which will be held on 15th November.

ICELAND 🇮🇸 Daði Freyr and his band Gagnamagnið will represent the country in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, RÚV confirmed today.

SPAIN 🇪🇸 The country might be under huge pandemic crisis due to COVID-19 but still, CINESA announced that JUNIOR EUROVISION 2020 will be aired across its cinema screens. We have two questions: why should anyone risk a massive attendance event like this and who will watch this event when throughout Europe it barely gets 10 million (approx) viewers per year...

GREECE 🇬🇷 Since Eurovision is one of the topics that can bring Eleftheria Eleftheriou to the spotlight, the singer said to her social media fans during the live session that she would like to return to the contest. Why do we feel that this will never happen? But then again, who wouldn't to see another dreadful vocal performance like Aphrodisiac.

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