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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.

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Luxembourg is nostalgic

LuxembourgLaura Thorn – La Poupée Monte Le Son Luxembourg takes a second bite of it's return from Eurovision exile apple with a song that feels...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Portugal is warm

Portugal—so often the earnest, acoustic soul of the contest—has delivered something this year that feels neither desperate nor overwrought, which in Eurovision terms is...

Nick “does” 2025 – Luxembourg

LUXEMBOURG – La Poupee Monte Le Son – Laura Thorn “And so I wrote a song, la la la lalala, ‘bout how you did me...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 34 – Sweden

Bara Bada Bastu by KAJ Nåjaa! So this is unexpected. I spent most of February giving out to everyone who’d listen (and quite a few...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Greece is restrained

GreeceKlavdia – Asteromáta Greece occasionally tires of sending identikit bops in borrowed clubwear and remembers it has centuries of rich musical tradition to draw from....

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 4 – Austria

Wasted Love by JJ An early appearance for one of the favourites for 2025. Austria is right at the front of the pack with the...

Nick “does” 2025 – Iceland

ICELAND – Roa – Vaeb My lovely late Mum used to work at a nursery back in the 1980s. It was almost certainly completely made...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Sweden is warm and wet

Sweden Kaj - Bara Badu Bastu Sweden, Eurovision’s perennial overachiever, has finally decided to stop pouting in profile and start smiling. Bara Bada Bastu, performed by...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 37/37 – United Kingdom

What The Hell Just Happened? by Remember Monday Our final song is always, by the fact that we're a stupidly named country, the United...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 4/37 – Austria

AUSTRIA – Wasted Love - JJ “Let’s put a song into the contest that is similar to last year’s winner” never goes down well, but...