Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

My favourite ever eurovision song.

No fan of “Bambi Thug” but was willing to let her rip doing something completely different last year.

But she and her team did ruin Ireland’s chances of winning through her behaviour on and off stage last year.

Even on Friday it was like she was “off her face” on benzos or something.

I think Malta's defence is that "Kant" happens to be the Maltese word for "Sing", so it might be minefield for the EBU to say Malta can't use a word in their own language because it sounds like a rude word in English (though we all know exactly what Malta is doing.) There's a part in Iceland's 1987 entry where it sounds like she's singing "Anus in the air."

I think Kant is horrible, but Malta has a history of changing its song, so I wouldn't bet the house on it being performed in Basel. And tbf, if it does go, I don't blame Malta for trying something like this, they've had a few years in the doldrums.

Ukraine's entry is the worst they've sent in quite a few years, but if Ukraine knows how to do anything, it's how to stage a song and sell it to audiences, so it'll easily qualify.

I think I like Latvia's song, it's like a more accessible version of Poland's 2019 entry, and that only just missed out on qualification. Nice to also see Latvia sending a song in their own language, they've only done that once before (2004.)

Exactly, it's not celebrating Russia by any stretch of the imagination! If anything it draws attention to what a horrible thing they did to the poor dog.

To that other poster's point, Bambie was never likely to actually win so their 'behaviour' had nothing to do with the result. The majority of the public voting, and the jurors, wouldn't have known too much about the incidents in the build up anyway.

People need to realise singing a song praising anything Russia related is not going to go down well.

And especially coming from Ireland which has nothing to do with Laika. It’s all so pointless.

You're being ridiculous.

Remembering Laika and imagining a happier end for her is not celebrating Russia. I honestly can't figure out why you would think it is.

Any criticism I've seen online from fans around Europe is that the song is too basic, not their cup of tea, not Irish enough, etc. Absolutely nobody thinks it's a celebration of Russia or a dig at Ukraine.

Russia killed the dog

She's arguing with people in the comments too, not a good look.

Mumba has obviously decided that her poor performance among the voting public is down to what the panel said (the truth in fairness), and is taking her poor public voting out on them, when in reality, even if the panel had gushed over her, the public vote would have been largely unaffected. (we are sick of sending utter bland sh1te).

I guess she's also quite upset as this was her chance possibly at another comeback.. and it's gone now.

Anyway I wonder who Louis will put forward next year? hopefully they're good enough to warrant the maximum points the international jury will be awarding them..

Maybe that attitude is partly why we haven't heard about her in two decades…

LOL at Samantha!!!

I think the best package for Eurovision won on Friday.

Adgy's song didn't go anywhere.

Fire was too weak and Reylta came across quite arrogant in her VT.

Bobbi Arlo's performance wasn't strong enough and she looked like Netta's evil twin. I think the public didn't want another edgy, alternative queer artist straight after Bambie.

What was Samantha thinking with the Irish dancing? The song was too incoherent to do well.

NIYL's outfit and makup was atrocious. He should have kept the performance more earthy and grounded, he should have basically had Reylta's staging. He sang well but looked panicked which cost him jury points.

Emmy's performance was good and the most Eurovision ready. The staging in Basel needs to be ambitious and imaginative, like Doomsday Blue last year, for the song to do well. Emmy seems lovely so we won't have to deal with dramatics that Bambie was guilty of last year. Hopefully she has some contacts from her time in MGP to call on to help with her staging. I can see the staging being similar to 'Give that wolf a banana' & 'My AI'. I think she'll open SF2 which at least means if she qualifies, she won't open the final. Beyond that who knows…

As for the other entries selected over the weekend:

Finland - Great to see Erika get to Eurovision, I like the song but don't love it. I can see it doing reasonably well with the televote but not the juries.

Ukraine - probably their weakest entry since 2017. They'll qualify but not do much in the final. Any votes they get will mainly be diaspora.

Malta - A guilty pleasure. Malta are kind of like Ireland pre-Bambie, sending middle of the road pop that gets ignored. They needed to take a risk. I think it will qualify if the staging is beefed up and do quite well in the televote, juries on the other hand….

Latvia - A very strange choice. It reminds me of Blanca Paloma's entry for Spain in 2023 that did terribly in the televote. They only came 3rd in the NF televote which doesn't bode well for televote only semifinal. NQ

Interesting week ahead with San Remo starting tomorrow night. Does Italy have a contender?

Here Mumbas performance

Laura called her an icon, Skeehan said it was an honour, they all said it started too slow including Bambi. Arthur said 10 demos in one…

the panel don’t have a vote so you can’t blame her.

I just mentioned they had a panel there in those 4 instead of rooting out the 3 others from the canteen. Save money on the panel and pay the acts money for costumes or more rehearsals etc instead of jobs for RTÉ staff