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KAJ performing Bara Bada Bastu for Sweden at the First Semi-Final in St. Jakobshalle
What We're Watching

At Eurovision 2025: Glitter, geopolitics, and a sauna diss track

Europe’s glitter-soaked, pyrotechnic-powered, music competition fever dream – otherwise known as the Eurovision Song Contest – takes place Saturday in Basel, Switzerland at 9pm CEST (3pm ET). It’s part talent show, part geopolitical popularity contest, and fully unhinged fun.

Games

Political mini crossword: Quincy's crossword

In honor of the late, great, Quincy Jones, we made a crossword in his honor.

​President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, dressed in the national costume, dances as part of The Day Of Chechen Language celebrations in Grozny April 25, 2010. The Day Of The Chechen Language holiday was established by Kadyrov in 2007 to promote the national language.
Hard Numbers

Hard Numbers: Chechnya bans beats, Poland’s right stays strong,  Biden cancels student debt (again),  Argentina battles dengue, “Hardest Geezer” runs Africa

​Noa Kirel from Israel performs during the grand final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, Britain, May 13, 2023.
What We're Watching

Could Israel be disqualified from Eurovision 2024?

Secretary of State Antony Blinken plays guitar at the State Department, September 27, 2023.
US & Canada

What we’re listening to: US tries out Hoochie Coochie diplomacy

To be honest, if you told us that the US secretary of state, a 61-year-old white guy, was gonna grab a Stratocaster and belt out some Delta Blues in public, we’d have braced for a much more awkward outcome than this.

Hip-hop artists with geopolitical beats

Hip-hop artists with geopolitical beats

In our ongoing celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, GZERO is highlighting artists from around the world who show the geopolitical impact of the genre.

What Eurovision means to Ukrainians at war
GZERO Reports

What Eurovision means to Ukrainians at war

Where else will you find banana-inspired wolves, dubstep rapping astronauts, or earworms about vampires? It’s Eurovision, of course: the 70-year-old song contest that pits nations against each other in an annual spectacle of camp, kitsch, and catchy melodies. But for Ukrainians – who have won the contest three times in the past 20 years – the contest is about something much more. On GZERO Reports, we visit a secret Eurovision watch party outside of Kyiv, a drag party in New York City, and look at how Eurovision is more political than you – or those wolves, astronauts, and vampires – could imagine.

A world in need of music therapy: Renée Fleming at Davos
GZERO World Clips

A world in need of music therapy: Renée Fleming at Davos

You never know who you're going to meet wandering around in Davos, including opera legend Renée Fleming, who was honored this week by the Forum. The four-time Grammy-winning Soprano, who has performed on six continents, was presented in Davos with the prestigious Crystal Award—not for her singing, but for the voice she's lending to help people understand how music impacts the human brain. Fleming spoke to GZERO’s Tony Maciulis on the ground at the World Economic Forum about her passion project, Music and the Mind.

British pianist's velvety tones soothe Thailand's hungry monkeys
Asia

British pianist's velvety tones soothe Thailand's hungry monkeys

K-pop band BTS delivers 'message of hope' at 75th UN General Assembly
Asia

K-pop band BTS delivers 'message of hope' at 75th UN General Assembly