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“My Wildest Dreams came true. There’s no one.” In the exclusion of the emotion, the winner Johannes “JJ” Pietsch (24) takes a lot of account of the European Song Contest 2025 in Basel. A wild culture and spach mix from the European neo-circuit kitchen. The charming to strange moments dominated. In the camp of the musicians, no bite reflex against Israel as last year. This happened outside with water cannons in the city and the color attack against Yuval Raphael. Hallen security was able to intercept the litter duo beforehand. Back to normal? Rather post Malmö.
“Love has won”
At the Pre-Show round, the ESC competence center Thomas Hermanns referred to the continued strong queer presence in parkour. But the winner and countertenor JJ from Vienna, whose opera pop is a stylistic continuation of the 2024 track from Nemo, has not made it a political message. “Love has won. Let us spread love, people. Perce the hatred-love is the strongest strength,” he dictated the domestic “crown” newspaper. He wants to moderate the upcoming gala for the 70th anniversary of the ESC together with Conchita (formerly sausage). Preferably in Vienna: “My boyfriend lives right away at the town hall – I could just walk over there,” said his calm wish. At least nobody demanded a lead -heavy “solution” of the Middle East conflict due to the exclusion of the Israeli broadcaster in the context of the final evening. But the topic will remain.
For example, the umbrella organization EBU has certainly fallen from the organic heart when JJ in the “heartbeat finale” of the public rating of Yuval Raphael with her stadium ballad “New Day Will Rise” was able to nest from first one. ESC 26 in Tel Aviv, that would have brought the conditions to a boil. In Vienna or Salzburg this is rather not to be feared.
Zero points in the audience voting for pop nation
So let’s take a look at the musicological moments. And there the national shake of the head in Great Britain is even greater than elsewhere. “We have David Bowie. We have the Beatles. We have Adele! How could we not be better than all the songs that we English do with Apres-Ski,” says “I-Press” online platform. The slippery performance of the women’s trio Remember Monday had something of Bingo-Halle in 1986, matching the look in coordinated pastel dresses. The desired “brat” nature was flew far. “It should be disrespectful and winking, but came across. Glossy and smiling, like sex and soulless.” The international audience voting awarded zero points for pop nation. This consoles itself once again that the ESC on the island is not taken particularly seriously anyway. One prefers to concentrate on the real international music market; Beyond the television spectacle.
Not just diet ballers
Of course, the former TV titanium Stefan Raab cannot see that casually. Started to forget the German “Zero-Points” slippers of past years, he sent the siblings Abor & Tynna into the race. Their song “Baller”, performed with a shining magic cello and bouncy dance moves, now has the potential for a party cracker. But in the international ESC judgment, the track only remained mediocre (15th place). A shovel more venture and Wumms would not have harmed here. Not just a diet baller. Raab himself worked in the pre-round round with Barbara Schöneberger like the grantling ex-footballer Mario Basler. No longer his world. 15 years after “his” ESC victory with Lena and 25 years after “Wadde Hadde Dudde?” has used up his Midas touch in the pop business. Which is not bad in the fast -moving industry. Maybe he will see that in the coming days and weeks.
Rubber dance and sauna song
How things go with irony, for example, could be seen at Tommy Cash from Estonia and his rubber dance for “Espresso Macchiato”. Or at the fallen favorites Sweden favorites Kaj, who in their sauna song “Bara Badu Bastu” processed the rhythm structure of the Finnish sixties-fashion dance Letkiss, but ultimately only ended up in fourth place in the voting orbit.
It is reassuring that the ESC 2025 has initially returned to the slightly tipsy path of the styles and fashions.
