🎤 Delta Goodrem To Represent Australia At Eurovision 2026

Em Gillespie joins Jonesy & Amanda to give us the lowdown on Delta Goodrem representing Australia, as well as the Eurovision boycott. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast now the
features editor of The Daily Os. That's a big deal.
Hello YouTube, big deals. I'm here to talk to you
about another big deal. Tell us Delta Gudrim. Have you
heard of her? She is going to be performing for
Australia at Eurovision at twenty twenty six officially, finally. There's

(00:25):
been a rumor about Delta being our entry for many
years now, and she's a perfect fit. I mean, a
no brainer, so exciting. She's a no brainer, I meaning
the idea of her being in it is a no brainer.
The idea of her being in it is a no brainer.
The forty one year old pop icon is going to
be performing her brand new single Eclipse on the world's
biggest music stage in Vienna this May, in front of

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an audience of more than one hundred and sixty million
viewers worldwide. We've got a little bit of the song
to play for you. It's got everything. It's got a
key change, a piano solo, a bit of ballad, a
bit of build up, a bit of electronic. Here is
what it sounds like. A Eurovision loves that. The staff.

(01:19):
It'll be a it'll be a shoe in. Hopefully it'll
be a shoe in. I think it is perfect. She's
actually been rumored, as I mentioned, for Eurovision for years.
She was asked about it last year on tour in London.
She said, if the right moment happens, I'll be there. Well,
she's manifested. It's happening, Delta said in a statement today,
I've always loved the creativity, individuality enjoy. Eurovision brings connecting

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and uniting people across the globe through music, the universal language.
She describes the song Eclipse as being all about alignment,
when things all come into the right place good, so
you can be a professional performer performing your own new
single at Eurovision. Well, the songong has to be written
for Eurovision essentially because there are certain rules like, for example,

(02:04):
length that can't exceed I think it's about three minutes,
fifteen or twenty seconds, so the songs have to fit
within that kind of remit. They also need to be
performed live, so there's a few different logistical things that
go into it. I would say that you know, SBS
and Eurovision have chosen Delta and then she's written this
song specifically for this moment, but Interestingly, it's going to

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be a pretty controversial competition this year, shaping up to
be one of the most controversial in the song's contests history.
In fact, because there's this boycott drama. Five countries Iceland, Ireland,
the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain have all opted out this
year in protest against Israel's inclusion. So that's the largest
boycott in the contest history since nineteen seventy. It's a

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big deal for Spain, especially to not be participating in Eurovision.
It's one of the big five countries, which means that
it makes the biggest financial contributions to the contest, to
the broad cast US. So that's a significant blow to
organizers in terms of cash flow. So have their governments
made these decisions so that Eurovision bodies within each country

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have grouped together with artists and lawmakers and governments to
say that they don't want to participate. I mean it
should be said that Eurovision always distances itself from politics.
It always it's not about politics, it's about music. There's
always a bit of controversy around Eurovision, but with Iceland
not being there, who's going to bring the kook? Going
to bring the heavy Metal Coup. We need some cooke.

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There is always cook at the Euroficial Song Contest. Don't
you worry about this? Well, good on you. Emma Gillespie
now features editor at The Daily Eyes. There's some sort
of chunk of change out of that. We are waiting. Okay,
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