Overthinking Eurovision 2025: Semi-Final 2
If you’re here for the geopolitics, we’ve got the Pontic Greek genocide, Georgia making Orwell proud with “Freedom,” Princ winning the NF in the middle of Serbian Les Misérables, and why Eurovision is the only reason Israel still has public broadcasting. If you’re here for fun facts we’ve got a history of ice cream trucks in Australia, how “serving” emerged from the drag Ballroom scene, and Latvian wedding insults. And if you’re here because you can’t decide if “stay-aliver” is a terrible rhyme or the BEST rhyme, we can help. (SPOILER ALERT: Parg deserves a Pulitzer.) Special thanks to @ESCTom who crunched the numbers on Finland.
00:00 Intro
00:49 AUSTRALIA - Go-Jo - "Milkshake Man"
03:04 MONTENEGRO - Nina Žižić - "Dobrodošli"
05:48 IRELAND - EMMY - "Laika Party"
08:31 LATVIA - Tautumeitas - "Bur Man Laimi"
11:21 ARMENIA - PARG - "SURVIVOR"
13:50 AUSTRIA - JJ - "Wasted Love"
15:28 UNITED KINGDOM - Remember Monday - "What The Hell Just Happened?"
17:39 GREECE - Klavdia - "Asteromáta"
20:06 LITHUANIA - Katarsis - "Tavo Akys"
22:42 MALTA - Miriana Conte - "SERVING"
24:47 GEORGIA - Mariam Shengelia - "Freedom"
28:04 THE G:SPOT
30:25 FRANCE - Louane - "maman"
33:28 DENMARK - Sissal - "Hallucination"
36:39 CZECHIA - Adonxs - "Kiss Kiss Goodbye"
39:00 LUXEMBOURG - Laura Thorn - "La Poupée Monte Le Son"
41:19 ISRAEL - Yuval Raphael - "New Day Will Rise"
46:27 GERMANY - Abor & Tynna - "Baller"
48:40 SERBIA - Princ - "Mila"
51:13 FINLAND - Erika Vikman - "ICH KOMME"
54:10 Outro
SPECIAL THANKS
ESCTom: writer and performer of Finland
Jessica Doyle: co-writer on Ireland, Austria, UK, Denmark, Czechia, Luxembourg, and Serbia
Joanna: researcher on Australia
octocd5: researcher on Montenegro
adopted child of love: researcher on Latvia
Bee: researcher on Greece
Katherine: researcher on Greece
Svai Dunchan: researcher on Lithuania
Andrew Paterson: researcher on Georgia
Oph: researcher on France
Rillum: researcher on Israel
Efi: researcher on Germany
Fia: researcher on Germany
Victoria: researcher on Germany
t2t2: subtitle creation
Oleksandr: pronunciation czar
Efi: script supervisor
Caffini: thumbnail design