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SWEDEN – KAJ – Bara Bada Bastu
I’m under strict instructions from the site’s CEO and head of content as to how I should vote on this one. I absolutely hear what he’s saying and, well, I’m choosing to ignore it.
First of all, let’s get it out of the way. Bada Bara Bastu is probably the winner of the 2025 Eurovision Thing Thing, it probably deserves to be, and all you’re really here for is to see it get another inevitable 12 coming in…
There’s a ‘but’ coming here, isn’t there?
There’s a ‘but’ coming here. Damn, but it’s such a flimsy little thing musically. It’s wrapped in layer upon layer of glorious, precision-crafted, laser-guided silliness (not my favourite kinds of silliness, to be honest), it’s obviously got a melodeon and a sausage (some of my favourite kinds of silliness, to be honest), but if you look under the bonnet of this particular comedy Volvo it’s actually little more than a set of IVAR shelves with the word “fun” scrawled on it with a Swedish Sharpie.
It only needs to stay fresh for one-to-two performances worth of entertainment and it can certainly do that, but for me over the last couple of months since it won Melodifestival it’s rapidly gone as stale as the safety baguette on the cooker hood at OnEurope Towers.
I certainly won’t begrudge its apparent coronation amongst this particular set of opponents, but it’s by no means an all time great, and I do think that quite a few of the near misses from the last few years will be cursing their luck that they didn’t keep their powder dry until 2025.
Nick’s score: 8