Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

One of the highlights of last night's Sanremo "covers night" was the performance of Volaire, performed by contestant Lucio Corsi (who is clearly inspired by David Bowie) and his guest Topo Gigio. Unlike the other 28 singers in the competition, who invited human guests, Topo Gigio is a puppet mouse. It was very charming and very endearing, and finished second on the night. So it turns out you can bring a puppet to a singing festival and not look ridiculous.

This just won in Lithuania and I love it, straight to the top of my ranking. Two years in a row they've picked excellent entries.

Very different to anything else that has been chosen so far, in a good way.

Norway have gone for a fairly generic pop song with Kyle Alessandro, but it was the best of a bad bunch.

The less said about Estonia the better.

Having committed to Sanremo for three nights this week, this was a very disappointing outcome. Balorda nostalgia is a generic ballad and Olly doesn't sing, he shouts. But rather bizarrely, while the point of Sanremo is to choose a song to win Sanremo and not a song to win Eurovision, it was the best option for Eurovision out of the final five.

My favourite song of the final five was L'albero della noci by Brunori Sas, but I couldn't see it perform well at Eurovision. Giorgia, who shockingly finished outside of the top five, has an amazing voice and would probably have walked the jury vote in Basel.

I don't think Olly's confirmed yet if he's going to Eurovision, but if he does, it would be the weakest Italian entry in quite a few years. However, a hunky Italian man singing a ballad will likely pull in a decent amount of televotes, and with the juries likely to shun the many novelty songs this year and go for something more serious, he should still finish in the top 10.

I think Olly has until 23 Feb to decide. There's no doubt Lucio was the breakout star of the week, but I don't see Eurovision suiting him at all.

If Olly doesn't go, it'll be the first time since 2016 that the Sanremo winner has turned down the opportunity to go to Eurovision.

Armenia have just selected Parg with Survivor. Its not great but it didnt have to beat much to take the win. I honestly think that was one of the worst National finals ever. And if you are thinking about watching it i would strongly reccomend that you dont,

It would be quite a hit to his ego if Måns doesn't win MF and win Eurovision. I can imagine the ESC juries swooning over him, but I can't see him doing very well in the televote. I think quite a lot of fans have Måns fatigue as well.

Worth mentioning that Loreen tried again in 2017, failed, then made another attempt in 2023…

EDIT: since I posted my original reply, I've looked at the Bluesky profiles of a few Eurofans I used to follow back when I used Twitter…general consensus seems to be that it sounds dated, but that juries will fall over themselves to vote for it.

Tommy’s dancing! 😮

Put me in mind of this…

And of course, she has to have a dig at EMMY because we didn't send the Louis Walsh act:

“I wouldn't rate our chances very highly now, being honest with you, and it sounds terrible, but I just wouldn't, because I know what the opinions are coming in from Europe already."

If Samantha had won, she'd be fawning over her saying she (wait for it) could "go all the way."

I suspect this never happened. She wanted to get her two cents in about EMMY and no one was interested…so she jazzed up the story a bit.

Ok the snippet has dropped. This aint winning Melfest let alone Eurovision.

Unless something really special drops next week i think Greczula wins in the final.

BBC1 will be showing this year's "Big Eurovision Party" concert on Friday 7th March.

Don't think we'll get a duet from the Irish performers :)

The Big Eurovision Party includes performances and interviews from Eurovision stars past and present including: Loreen, Nemo, Käärijä, Katrina (Katrina and the Waves), Johnny Logan, Marija Šerifović, Baby Lasagna, Bambie Thug, Edsilia Rombley, Guy Sebastian, Kristian Kostov, Alessandra and Marcus & Martinus to name but a few.

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/invite-to-the-big-eurovision-party

Listen to 18-23 seconds of Mans and then this. Its literally identical.

His staging is said to be amazing though