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Every 2025 Eurovision Entry, Ranked
Thirty-seven nations are providing us with a smorgasbord of sounds ranging from espresso-powered electro-swing to sauna-based schlager.
With last year’s Aboriginal-inspired entry failing to qualify, the approach in 2025 seems to be “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” Indeed, co-written with “Geronimo” hitmakers Sheppard, “Milkshake Man” is a sugary-sweet novelty song which recalls both Kenny Loggins ’s “The Heat Is On” and Scooch’s double entendre-filled “Flying the Flag” (“Well, I got chocolate, vanilla and lactose-free / And a caramel banana that you have got to see”). Following a string of generic entries that could have hailed from anywhere on the continent, Greece recently appear to have rediscovered their roots, firstly with Marina Satti’s snake-charming bop “Zari” and now with “starry-eyed girl” Klavdia’s dramatic ballad “Asteromata.” Resembling a young Nana Mouskouri, The Voice graduate sings about the bond between Greek refugees and their homeland in a touching, if slightly mournful, manner. But on his rejection, they switched their attention to the slightly less zany Dutch-Congolese singer Claude, a The Voice Kids graduate who scored a massive 2022 European hit with “Ladada.” Co-written as a tribute to his “glass-half-full” mother, the bilingual “C’est la vie” initially threatens to be one of those dreaded sad-boy ballads that clogged up the contest in the early 2020s.
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