Recommendations of the Editorial team
Rolling-Stone analysis: The tops and flops of the ESC 2025
You have never seen so many picturesque Swiss idyllas. Cows on the Alm, the watch workshop, the chocolate mixing. The artists of the ESC had received postcards in their mailbox. You were a guest with friends.
Basel: ESC mood in the football stadium
A football stadium was even opened in Basel because the hall was not enough for the audience, in which Hazel Brugger, Sandra Studer and Michelle Hunziker moderated the final. Celine Dion didn’t come, but Paola came. In 1956 the competition took place for the first time in Switzerland, a pan -European company. The next year it would have been even more ready if Switzerland had been the host.
Zoe Me fails to the audience-despite the jury hype
But the contribution “Voyage” by Zoe Me, highly praised by many national juries and therefore long in second place, did not get a single point in public vote. The jewelry and effective appearance had been filmed with only one camera.
The winner: JJ from Austria with “Wasted Love”
The Austrian JJ won with a very effective ballad, “Wasted Love”, with which he sailed close to the gay. JJ is a counter tenor, he sings at the opera in Vienna, so he has advantages. That he used. At most Israel, the funny Tommy Cash from Estonia and Italy with conventional songs and the stupid bars from Sweden came near. Abor & Tynna, the Viennese for Germany, took 15th place. Twelve points from the Czech Republic and Ukraine.
The voting system: overhauled and cumbersome?
The procedure for dot allocation is too complicated and lengthy. Nobody needs “national juries” who open an election club next to the audience.
The ESC is a audience festival. The Aficionados can better assess categories such as choreography, stage design and costumes than the juries. Everything is a matter of taste.
ARD change: Hope for fresh wind
If the Song Contest changes from the NDR to SWR within ARD, Alina Stiegler and Constantin Zöller should go along with “Alles Eurovision”. Her accompanying programs were even better than Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer. And they were very good in the semi -finals and in the final.
Michelle Hunziker asked all the candidates: “How do you feel?” “Amazing.”