The final will be held on May 17, the winner will determine the professional jury of participating countries and the audience’s vote.
In the Swiss Basel, Eurovision-2025 began. The first semifinal will be held on Tuesday, May 13, the second – on Thursday, May 15. Based on the results of viewers’ voters of the top -10, from each semifinal they will reach the final. As usual, it automatically qualifies the final “Big Five” -the established countries Ebu: Great Britain, Italy, Spain, France, Germany. This year, Switzerland, the successful country of the competition last year and the hostess of the present, also joined them. The final will be held on May 17. The winner will determine the professional jury of participating countries and the audience’s vote. At the same time, the jury will review the general training on Friday, and not the performance of the performers on Saturday.
This year, 37 countries participated in the competition. Montenegro returned to the Eurovision after a two -year break, and Moldova refused to participate for financial factors. Since 2022, Russia and Belarus have been forbidden to participate in the competition due to a full -fledged aggression in Ukraine.
Favorites
This year, the main favorite of bookmakers is the Kaj Group that represents Sweden. Kaj is a trio from Finland, who sings the Dialect of the Swedish Language of Voro. Let’s just drop their song – an enthusiastic composition dedicated to the sauna.
The main rival of Swedish Finnish Finns, according to bookmakers, is a JJ singer that represents Austria.
It is likely that, like the previous two years, the vote of a professional jury (who usually prefers a strong voice and a beautiful melody) and viewers (who want something more fun) will be radically different.
Fans still can’t forgive the second place of Finnish rapper Kärijä in 2023 (he defeated Loreen from Sweden with Tattoo Pop Ballad) and Baby Lasagna Croats in 2024 (they lost to Swiss Nemo with code songs).
Bookmakers’ assessments are far from always predicting the final results of Eurovision, but for the past five years they have only mistaken once: in 2024, the favorite of the bookmaster is Croatia, and Switzerland is the only third likely success.
In addition to bookmaker forecasts, with the forecasting of a possible winner, you can also pay attention to the results of user surveys published on the Eurovisionworld.com website. For 10 years, they only made a mistake: in 2016 and 2024.
Like the morning of May 13, fans of this site with a small margin prefer Austria’s Sweden.
Scandals
Maltese singer Mirian Conte won in January a national choice with a song called Kant (singing from Maltese). The song has caused a vague reaction due to the fact that Kant is the English word cunt (Vulva, but in British and American English it is used as a curse).
At first, EBU approved the lyrics. Eurovision’s policies, however, do not allow the use of curses in songs, and the number of participants should be suitable for viewing competition with the whole family. As a result, the name of the song has changed.
Another scandal was the Italian reaction to Tommy Kash’s composition.
In his number for the song Espresso Macchiato, made in a mix of broken Italian and less damaged English, in the national selection of Estonian Tommy Cache appeared in the image of an Italian Mafioso stereotype to the guards.
In response, Italy’s organization for the protection of consumer codacon’s rights has sent a protest to EBU. The Italy’s Senator of the League Party Marco Centinayo posted on his Instagram an excerpt from Tommy Kesh’s video for Espresso Macchiato’s song with the inscription “That insulted Italy should be excluded from the Eurovision.”
The performance of Ukraine
Ukraine in Eurovision 2025 is represented by the Ziferblat team. The Ukrainians will perform with the Bird of Pray song. In it, they talk about a happy and at the same time sad home memory that lives in each person’s memory, at the same time they sing about searching for a home, such as a symbolic movement in space.
The group has already performed in the first semifinal.
Group members identified two Eurovision activities – to sufficient to represent Ukraine and to raise funds for Ukraine’s robotic clearance systems (4 million UAH for the foundation of the Sergei Pritula).
As with the remaining 36 participants of the Zferblat contest, two general exercises held on stage. The director of the group’s presentation is the director of the show Marina Korosteleva, who works with Kazka, Alina Pash, Erize and set numbers for NTSotbor, the country’s voice, who danced with Zirki.
“First of all, we chose the mostdramatic and most -thenamic part of the song. This is our main argument. As for the number, in the dramaturgy of the day that relies on the sun with the singers, and without this spark, will not come the next day. In part of Dan, which is the main character and traveler, which will look for the light, which is the light of this The solar eclipse-meet-meets, complete darkness, but after all, he still sings, goes on, and at one point the light begins to grow around him, “Corteleva commented on his work.
Source: korrespondent
