Category: ESC 2025
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Semifinal 2 Predictions (Post-Rehearsal)
Possibly the least exciting semifinal of the two semis – depending on where your allegiance lies – but with a fairly high ceiling considering that two winner contenders are here and both seem to have delivered excellent staging packages. And yes, I’m predicting a couple of upsets because I love…
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Semifinal 1 Predictions (Pre-Rehearsal)
As per usual, these are my pre-rehearsal musings based on absolutely nothing (although last year I did pretty decently on these, so there’s that). The overall vibe, in a year that has fans rather divided in terms of overall strength/quality, is that this is the stronger of the two semis,…
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Winner Roundup! Poland (Justyna Steczkowska), Estonia (Tommy Cash), Norway (Kyle Alessandro), Lithuania (Katarsis), Italy (Lucio Corsi), Armenia (Parg), Iceland (Væb), Australia (Go-Jo), Serbia (Princ), Denmark (Sissal), Germany (Abor & Tynna), Croatia (Marko Bošnjak)
More songs! I promise I’m almost all caught up!!!!
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Our Second EVEN BIGGER Super Saturday! Luxembourg (Laura Thorn), Ireland (Emmy), Ukraine (Ziferblat), Finland (Erika Vikman), Latvia (Tautumeitas), and Malta (Miriana Conte) Reviews
The most national finals since 2011! We’re drowning in songs!!!!! Since I’ve reviewed most of these and I have approximately 4826648329 other national finals to get to, I’ll try to focus more on each entry’s execution and ESC prospects.
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Our First Super Saturday!!! Belgium (Red Sebastian), Spain (Melody), Greece (Klavdia), and Slovenia (Klemen) Reviews
I love it when there are literally 4 finals + a bunch of semis all happening at once and I need 15 TVs and 8 sets of eyes. ESC season keeps me supple and young. Here are this past weekend’s winners!
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UMK 2025 – All 7 Entries from the Finnish National Final Ranked by ESC Etc.
I’ve written extensively about what went down at UMK last year and I really do feel like I’ve said my peace – the voting system hasn’t changed, so I’m still a bit wary of what might happen once it’s time for people at home to pick up the phone and…
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Ethnikós Telikós 2025 – ESC Etc. Top 3 Songs from the Greek National Final
I don’t even remember the last time Greece held a national final to select their ESC entry. I have to be honest – while I was not particularly impressed with this selection of songs, I still found it to be an overall pleasant line-up, with several entries featuring traditional sounds…
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Dora 2025 – ESC Etc. Top 2 Songs from the Croatian National Final
I’ll be honest: I tried to go into this post-Baby Lasagna new edition of Dora keeping a level head, much like a did last year with UMK in Finland, hoping lightning would strike twice while keeping my expectations in check. I’ll open with the good first: I definitely appreciated the…
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MESC 2025 – ESC Etc. Top 3 Songs from the Maltese National Final
It’s all happening this week! 24 tracks for Dora dropped today, Finland has started releasing their tracks, the Greek line-up is getting revealed tomorrow, and Lithuania will soon follow. My backlog keeps expanding, but I did take the time to listen to all the MESC entries and I have to…
ESC Etc. 