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
On first time hearing, it reminded me “Loin d’IcI”(Austria 2016), which was intentionally naive and sugary.
This was try to be also sugary, but seems more calculated in it’s approach.
It’s catchy and like it,although it can be a bit repetitive.
My points: 7 points