#basel 2025

[gaymer-hag-stan]

Guys, good news, Petruccio survived after all!

He's gonna be representing Italy in the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland

[theladysilvermoon]

Wishlist for Eurovision 2025:

Israel banned from participating

EBU apologising to the Netherlands and Joost Klein

Martin Österdal resigning/fired

Celine Dion performing "Ne partez pas sans moi" at the grand final (and if not, Nemo performing it)

Denmark qualifying for the grand final

Basel doing a better turquoise carpet then Malmö.

[actualidaeurovision]

Con el final del Festival da Canção, Portugal ha cerrado las selecciones nacionales para #eurovision2025 solo quedan 4 países para dar a conocer por medio de selecciones internas: Israel, Suiza, Chipre y Francia.

[austinallaprima]

onto different topics this will be from now on a tautumeitas stan account

[artnuuk]

My logo idea for

///////// Eurovision Song Contest

🇨🇭 SWITZERLAND // Basel

2025

///////// UNITED BY MUSIC

[bettyg196]

Happy New Eurovision Year ! 🥳 🎉🎊

Here are my predictions for Eurovision 2025 no one asked !

Disclaimer : I'm not clairvoyant, so most (if not, not a single one) of my predictions won't come true. Also, please note that I don't mean to offend anyone in this thread, I just like to guess what will happen in the next Eurovision season that may be more chaotic than ever.

- 3 hosts, one woman and two men

- 🇨🇿 will withdraw but 🇳🇱 will participate again

- 🇷🇴 and 🇲🇨 will return, but not 🇲🇰

- 🇽🇰 will try to debut, but it will be unsuccessful because some participants still don't recognise the country as an independent state

- Gjon's Tears will perform as an interval act

- Céline Dion won't physically appear / perform in any of the shows

- "Ne partez pas sans moi" will be covered by one of the last Swiss representatives

- Postcards will include parts of Swiss culture

- The stage design will be decent at best

- A tragic event will happen during the Eurovision week (but mostly not related to the contest itself)

- The grand final closing entry will be second last again

- One of ESC 2024 top 10 countries will open the grand final

- 5th slot will be more cursed than the death slot

- Voting will be open before the 1st performance in all 3 shows

- ROTW televoting will have some changes

- There will be a discussion on the possibility of introducing a ROTW jury

- Producer's Choice will stay in the grand final draw

- In the SFs, the televoting will only qualify the top 9, the juries will pick the 10th qualifier (like in 2008 & 2009)

- Participating countries : 🇦🇱🇦🇲🇦🇹🇦🇺🇦🇿🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇾🇩🇪🇩🇰🇪🇦🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇧🇬🇪🇬🇷🇭🇷🇮🇪🇮🇱🇮🇸🇮🇹🇱🇹🇱🇺🇱🇻🇲🇨🇲🇩🇲🇪🇲🇹🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇷🇸🇸🇪🇸🇮🇸🇲🇺🇦

- No DQ, but a delegation will receive a fine for some reason

- Some NFs will be rigged for contestants least likely to "disrupt" the contest or report unacceptable behaviours from anyone to the EBU.

- The event will lose a sponsor

- A male singer will win with a pop song

- Winning song will receive +600 points and will win the televoting

- 16 points difference between the winner and the runner-up

- At least one country will get 0 points, either from the jury, the televoting, or both

- Glitch during the jury voting results

🇦🇱

- Rigging allegations will happen in FiK

- A female singer will win FiK but another one, who will be a fan favourite, will be chosen as the representative

- Entry will be a ballad in English

- Won't get attention until the rehearsals

- Will qualify but finish in the bottom 5

🇦🇲

- A solo female singer will be chosen

- Entry will be an ethnic ballad in English

- Will cause some controversy in 🇦🇿

- Will perform in SF1

- Will qualify and will perform in the first half of the final

🇦🇺

- Internal selection

- Sheppard, Didirri, Charley or Jaguar Jonze will be chosen

- Song will be either indie pop, ballad, pop or indie rock

- Will be a fan favourite

- Will return in the final but will get the 2nd spot in the final

🇦🇹

- A young female singer and songwriter will be chosen

- Entry will be a pop-rock song

- Will be well received in the random

- Will be cancelled following a drama

- Will perform in the second half of her semi-final

🇦🇿

- An unknown female singer will be chosen

- Entry will be a lyrical ballad in English

- Will be ignored during the season

- Will be one of the few artists that doesn't speak English

- Shock qualifier

🇧🇪

- Eurosong will be a decent nf

- Gustaph will be part of the jury

- A young artist will win

- The entry will be an art pop song in English

- Will be the underdog of the season

🇭🇷

- Zsa Zsa will be involved in Dora as a contestant and won't withdraw this time

- The nf will be disappointing in terms of quality

- A male singer will win against the odds thanks to the televoting

- Entry will be a europop song in English

- Will divide the fandom

🇨🇾

- Internal selection

- A British male singer with Cypriots roots will be chosen

- Entry will be a generic pop song in English

- Will be one of the favourites

- Will close his semi-final

🇩🇰

- No changes in DMGP

- NF will be ok overall

- A duo will win thanks to the jury

- Big drama following the results and people will call for the withdrawal of the juries for the next DMGP

- Entry will be a Melfest reject in English

🇪🇪

- Format change in Eesti Laul

- Cecilia will return, but Ollie won't

- A male singer and songwriter will win

- Entry will be a power ballad in English

- Will be hated by the fandom

🇫🇮

- 25/75 voting will stay in UMK

- The winner will choose to withdraw less than 48 hours after the nf

- The runner-up will accept to participate in ESC

- Entry will be a bubblegum pop song in English and Finnish

- Will qualify easily, but will flop in the final

🇫🇷

- Another internal selection

- An emerging female singer and songwriter will be chosen

- Entry will be a power ballad in French with electronic touch

- Will be one of the favourites

- Will do worse than expected

🇬🇪

- A female singer will be chosen again

- Entry will be another girl bop in English

- Several foreign songwriters will be involved but are not necessarily from 🇸🇪

- Will be one of the least divisive entries of the year

- The staging will be disappointing

🇩🇪

- New nf with a weird format

- A wild card contestant will be add in the last minute

- A male singer from Munich will win

- Entry will be a radio-friendly pop song in English

- Will finish somewhere on the right side of the table, but not necessarily in the bottom 5

🇬🇷

- Internal selection

- A male singer signed with Panik Records will be chosen

- Will be cancelled for political reasons

- Entry will sound similar to a popular song released in 2017

- Will compete in SF1

🇮🇸

- No changes in Söngvakeppnin

- All finalists will sing their song in English

- RÚV will let the winner choose to go in ESC or not again

- A female duo will win and will choose to participate anyway

- Entry will be a fun / quirky song on a taboo subject

🇮🇪

- Eurosong will be diverse again but with better quality

- Fan favourite will finish 4th

- A young male singer will win thanks to the international and national juries

- Entry will be a classic pop song

- People will call for withdrawal (not necessarily for political reasons)

🇮🇱

- A planned NF will be cancelled in the last minute

- A well-known male singer will be chosen

- Entry will be either "Dance Forever" with rewritten lyrics or a song similar to Russia 2016

- European far right politicians will promote the song for weeks

- Will finish top 10

🇮🇹

- At least 3 former representatives will compete in Sanremo

- Several dramas will happen during Sanremo week

- A Sicilian male singer will win thanks to the televoting

- Entry will be a rap ballad in Italian

- Will finish top 5

🇱🇻

- Markus Riva will return in Supernova, but will be eliminated in the semi-final

- Only 2 songs in Latvian in the nf

- A female singer will win

- Entry will be a love ballad in English

- Will open her semi-final

🇱🇹

- A song inspired by Doomsday Blue will compete in the nf

- A former representative will win and return to ESC

- Entry will be uptempo pop song in English

- Will be well received by the fandom

- Shock NQ, will finish 13th in their semi-final

🇱🇺

- LSC will change its format

- 8 finalists again and only one song in French

- A band will win against the odds

- Entry will be a pop-rock song in English

- Will perform in SF2

🇲🇹

- New format for MESC

- Several contestants from last year edition will return

- A male singer and fan favourite will win

- Entry will be a dance-pop song in English

- Will NQ as usual

🇲🇩

- No format changes in the nf

- A contestant will be DQ for some reason

- A former representative will win

- Entry will be a folk-pop song in English and Romanian

- Will be underrated by the fandom

🇲🇨

- Internal selection

- A French-Monegasque singer will be chosen

- Entry will be a French pop song

- Will get attention from the rehearsals

- Will be in the same semi-final than 🇸🇲

🇲🇪

- A nf will happen

- At least 8 finalists will participate

- A male singer will win

- Entry will sound similar to Rim Tim Tagi Dim but with more balkan elements and will be sung mostly in English with some Montenegrin words

- Will divide the fandom

🇳🇱

- Several people in the country will express anger and disappointment following AVROTROS' decision to compete despite Joost's DQ in Malmö

- Internal selection

- A female singer will be chosen

- Entry will be a classic pop song in English

- Will finish 11th in her semi-final

🇳🇴

- Small format changes in MGP

- A finalist will be DQ before the final

- A male singer, who previously compete in the nf, will win

- Entry will be a EDM song originally sumg in Norwegian, but will be revamped in English

- Will end up somewhere in the top 10

🇵🇱

- Internal selection

- A Polish artist living in Western Europe will be chosen

- Entry will be a generic pop song in English

- Will be overhated by the fandom

- Will go viral on Tik Tok after the contest

🇵🇹

- FDC will be average

- The main fan favourite will be eliminated in its SF

- The other fan favourite will win

- Entry will be a folktronica song in Portuguese

- Will do better than expected

🇷🇴

- Selecția Națioņala will return with a new format

- Will be a bad nf

- Fan favourite will win

- Entry will be a power ballad in English

- Will be overrated by the fandom

🇸🇲

- An American youtuber will participate in UVPSM for some reason

- A Sanremo reject artist will win

- Entry will be an urban pop song in Italian

- Won't get much attention until the ESC week

- Shock qualifier and will get its best result in the final

🇷🇸

- PZE will be less good than usual

- The fan favourite will win

- Entry will be an alt-pop song in Serbian

- Will be seen as a contender for the win before the rehearsals

- Shock NQ

🇸🇮

- EMA will return

- New format

- A male duo will win

- Entry will be a generic pop song in Slovenian

- Will compete in the first half of their semi-final

🇪🇦

- Benidorm Fest will increase in quality

- A male artist from Madrid will win

- Entry will be a rock ballad in Spanish

- Will come out during the season

- Will finish somewhere on the right side of the table

🇸🇪

- Melfest will be alright overall

- John Lundvik will compete

- A well-known male singer will win

- Entry will be a generic pop song in English

- Will have a similar fate than Benjamin Ingrosso in 2018

🇨🇭

- A female artist from Zurich will be chosen

- Song will be leaked on the Internet, forcing her to release it earlier than planned

- Entry will be a classic ballad in English

- Won't be well received in the fandom

- Will finish in the bottom 5

🇺🇦

- A tragic event will force Suspilne to postpone Vidbir until the end of February

- A female singer will win thanks to the jury voting

- Entry will be a folk pop song mostly sung in Ukrainian

- Will go viral on Tik Tok

- Will finish at least 5th in the final

🇬🇧

- Internal selection

- A well-known singer will be chosen

- Entry will be an alt-rock song

- Will have one of the best staging of the year

- Will finish in the bottom 5 and possibly last in the final.

And that's it for now.

The post could possibly be updated if countries not mentioned or predicted to withdraw / not return actually confirm their participation.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading this post.

Have a great Eurovision season !

[gaymer-hag-stan]

My Eurovision 2025 Ranking as of the 16th of February:

1. 🇫🇮 Erika Vikman - Ich komme - She keeps switching spots with Justyna

2. 🇵🇱 Justyna Steczkowska - Gaja

3. 🇲🇹 Miriana Conte - Kant - I said this might go lower later but turns out it's staying because the songs being picked get shittier by the day

4. 🇬🇷 Klavdia - Asteromáta - She also keeps swapping places in my ranking with Shkodra Elektronike

5. 🇦🇱 Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm

6. 🇳🇴 Kyle Alessandro - Lighter - Catchier than I thought at first. Let's see if this initial hype will keep it in my top 10

7. 🇱🇻 Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi

8. 🇪🇸 Melody - Esa diva - I'm embarrassed to have this song this high but, again, it only goes to show how bad we have it this year...

9. 🇲🇪 Nina Žižić - Dobrodošli - I really want people to start appreciating this more it does NOT deserve to be dead last in the odds...

10. 🇧🇪 Red Sebastian - Strobe Lights - At first I didn't understand the hype, then it clicked and now I'm honestly kinda over it again? Maybe it climbs back up again, we'll see

11. 🇮🇹 Olly - Balorda nostalgia - It's ok. Annalisa really should have waited one more year and release Sinceramente this year...

12. 🇱🇺 Laura Thorn - La poupée monte le son - This one is also higher than it deserves but... It's catchy

13. 🇺🇦 Ziferblat - Bird of Pray - Ukraine's choice this year still baffles me

14. 🇱🇹 Katarsis - Tavo akys - It's alright

15. 🇸🇮 Klemen - How Much Time Do We Have Left? - I didn't start liking this more than before, I just hate Laika Party even more the more I listen to it

16. 🇮🇪 Emmy - Laika Party

17. 🇪🇪 Tommy Cash - Bad song, bad vocals, bad staging and possibly bad person in general. I obviously don't know him and Estonians seem hellbent on convincing us that he is the funniest shit ever but I really don't see it. If this qualifies...

[anotherescsite]

KAJ

Sweden

[justinsentertainmentcorner]

Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo:

Hollywood has been cracking down on pro-Palestine voices since Oct. 7th, 2023, from the firing of Melissa Barrera from ‘Scream 7’, to the demotion of CAA power agent Maha Dakhil, to Susan Sarandon saying her “projects were pulled.” It was, therefore, a rather pleasant surprise to see the most elite Hollywood audience of all - the crowd at the 97th Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theater on Sunday evening - loudly applauding and cheering a Palestinian onstage, in primetime, as he decried the “ethnic cleansing” of his people and the “atrocious destruction of Gaza.” Basel Adra is the Palestinian co-director of ‘No Other Land,’ which won the Oscar for Best Documentary on Sunday. The film was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists - Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor - and tells the story of the destruction of Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, by the Israeli military. The title, ‘No Other Land,’ comes from a woman in the film who asks where else the Palestinians of the West Bank are supposed to go. Abraham, in his acceptance speech, not only highlighted the “ethnic supremacy” instituted by his country in the Occupied Palestinian Territories but also challenged the destructive role of the United States: “I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path [to peace].” Got that? Not only did a film about occupied and persecuted Palestinians win an Oscar, but the great and the good of Hollywood put their hands together for two speeches slamming “ethnic cleansing” and “ethnic supremacy” in Palestine. To quote the title of a previous Oscar winner’s best song: Times Have Changed. Nevertheless, they haven’t changed enough. As the New York Times noted on Sunday night, the film’s Oscar win represents “a landmark and a rebuke. Despite a string of honors and rave reviews, no distributor would pick up this film in the United States, making it nearly impossible for American filmgoers to see it in theaters or to stream it.” As I have said many times before, the biggest victims of so-called ‘cancel culture’ in the US remain the Palestinian people and their supporters. The shameful treatment of ‘No Other Land’ by the big distributors in our movie industry is just the latest and best example of that.

Glad to see a speech calling out Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza on the Oscars stage coming from the No Other Land directors Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra. No Other Land won the Oscars for Best Documentary, yet no American company wants to screen it.

[myeurovisionsongcontest]

[forgottenswan]

TUTTA L’ITALIA

TUTTA L’ITALIA

TUTTA L’ITALIAAAA 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

[eurovision]

Erika Vikman representará a Finlandia en Eurovision 2025 con "ICH KOMME"

Tras la final del Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025 (UMK, abreviando) Finlandia ya tiene nueva representante en el Festival de Eurovision 2025 con Erika Vikman y "ICH KOMME" segunda clasificada del jurado pero primera en el televoto (donde arrasó).

Recordemos que Finlandia participará en la segunda semifinal de Eurovision 2025 el próximo 15 de mayo en Basilea.

[rydersayz]

if it means getting rId of israhell, PLEASE JOOST WE NEED YOU!!!

[yesimtrashforit]

The Academy Awards were last night and there was a huge win for Palestine. The winner for Best Documentary Feature was No Other Land, a film about the horrors of the destruction in Gaza as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I haven’t gotten a chance to see the film, but I was so moved by the directing team’s acceptance speech. 

The four directors are Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, who are Palestinian activists, and Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, who are Israeli. These four filmmakers came together despite their divide and created something powerful. 

Their speech last night called for an end to the conflict and I want to people to see this and hear it because this is so important!

Here is their speech:

Basel Adra, Palestinian activist, lawyer and journalist: “Thank you to the Academy for the award, it’s such a big honor for the four of us and everybody who supported us for this documentary. About two months ago, I became a father, and I hope to my daughter that she will not have to live the same life I am living now. Always feeling … always feeling surveillance, home demolition and forced displacement that my community … is living and facing every day under occupation. “No Other Land” reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still resist, as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”

Yuval Abraham, Israeli journalist and filmmaker: “We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together, our voices are stronger. We see each other. The atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people, which must end. The Israeli hostages, brutally taken in the crime of October 7, which must be freed.  When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law. Basel is under military laws that destroy his life and he cannot control. There is a different path, a political solution, without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both of our people. And I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. And, you know, I … why? Can’t you see that we are intertwined? That my people can be truly safe if Basel’s people are truly free and safe?  There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way. Thank you.”

This is so wonderful to see. Congrats to the filmmakers! This is a huge achievement!