Luxembourg
Laura Thorn – La Poupée Monte Le Son
Luxembourg takes a second bite of it’s return from Eurovision exile apple with a song that feels like it never left. Laura Thorn, who by all accounts is a one-woman conservatoire (and once tried to adopt a fly), gives us a track that throws it all at the wall: costume change, choreography, key change, and a final note that sounds like it was rehearsed under a glass dome for six months.
La Poupée Monte Le Son—“The Doll Turns Up the Volume”—is Eurovision as it was in the halcyon days of satin gloves and pre-millennial optimism. There’s a whiff of mid-90s RTL about the whole thing: sparkling, slightly stiff, but undeniably charming. It’s not modern, nor is it pretending to be. This is a love letter to a time when Eurovision songs ended with both arms in the air and a wind machine cranked to “modest breeze.”
Nostalgia might not win you the contest in 2025, but it could well earn you a few misty-eyed votes from fans of the old ways. If nothing else, it’s a masterclass in musical muscle memory.
4 points