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Countdown 2025

Reviews of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest entries from various (clueless) members of the OnEurope team. The views and opinions expressed in these reviews are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of anyone with verifiable sanity.

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 10 – Denmark

Hallucination by Sissal If there’s one thing Denmark can do at Eurovision, it’s pull off a surprise win. In 2000 the Olsen Brother’s entry...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 9 – Czechia

Kiss Kiss Goodbye by ADONXS Several artists of the class of 2025 have chosen to stylise their stage names in capitals, which makes it look...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Georgia is earnest

GeorgiaMariam Shangelia – Freedom There’s earnest, and then there’s Freedom, which barrels in like it’s been sent on a mission to single-handedly fix the world...

Nick “does” 2025 – Georgia

GEORGIA – Freedom – Mariam Shengelia Georgia rarely get it approximately right at Eurovision. They seem to have a musical tradition that’s only accessible to...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 8 – Cyprus

Shh by Theo    Shh may not take the record for the shortest Eurovision song title, but it ties with only one other – except...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 7 – Croatia

Poison Cake by Marko Bošnjak Well, here’s a thing. Marko Bošnjak is evoking the campiest of schlock horror traditions with this tale of a...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: France is very French

FranceLouane – Maman France arrives this year draped in melancholy and bathed in sepia, with Louane delivering what is arguably the contest’s rarest creature: an...

Nick “does” 2025 – France

FRANCE – Maman – Louane France pushed the boat out for the premiere of this one to an extent I don’t think I’ve ever seen...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 6 – Belgium

Strobe Lights by Red Sebastian I had a cracking time when I went to the Belgian final a couple of years ago, the time...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 5 – Azerbaijan

Run With U by Magamama Azerbaijan’s Eurovision fortunes have taken a downward turn of late. Since debuting in 2008 they finished in each of...