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Erika Vikman – Ich Komme (Finland)
What would Eurovision be with out sexually particular songs? Australia’s Milkshake Man via Go-Jo is reasonably self-explanatory; the standout is Finland’s Erika Vikman with Ich Komme (“I am coming” in German). Set to a four-on-the-floor beat and Eurodance instrumental, the observe bursts with unrestrained hands-in-the-air power. Vikman sings of delight, ecstasy and a state of trance with a vigour harking back to Norway’s 2023 access Queen of the Kings, via Alessandra. Vikman hails from a circle of relatives of Finnish tango musicians – her mom and sister are each energetic within the style – and he or she herself embraced it early in her profession. Still, again in 2020, her breakout hit was once some other sex-positive, disco-inspired anthem: Cicciolina, which celebrates the arrogance and self-determination of the Hungarian-born porn celebrity Ilona Staller.
Lucio Corsi – Volevo Essere un Duro (Italy)
Italy’s entries have at all times portrayed masculinity in some way that’s extra layered than meets the attention, with performers and songwriters equivalent to Cristiano Malgioglio, Renato Zero, and Ivan Cattaneo difficult machismo. In 2025, Lucio Corsi takes the baton with Volevo Essere un Duro (I sought after to be a difficult man), which demanding situations gendered preconceptions. Melodically, it has hints of 1970s glam rock and Elton John’s ballads, and it conjures a fairytale-like setting that’s amplified via Corsi’s elven-like self-presentation. There’s a little of a fairytale to his position right here, too: he positioned 2d on the Sanremo track pageant – to decide Italy’s contender – however were given to compete after the winner Olly declined to take part.
Emmy – Laika Party (Ireland)
Upon studying in regards to the bleak destiny of the distance canine Laika, Norwegian pop celebrity Emmy attempted to ascertain another tale: what if she had now not been left to die in house however as an alternative loved dancing some of the stars and comets? A lovely synthesis of Aqua, Grimes and a touch of Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road permits us to consider her partying love it’s 1999. But why is a Norwegian making a song in regards to the Soviet house canine Laika representing Ireland, chances are you’ll ask? Technically, Laika Party counts one Irish and 3 Norwegian songwriters. It had initially been submitted as a candidate to Norway’s nationwide contest Melodi Grand Prix, most effective to be rejected via the broadcaster. Ireland’s Eurosong permitted it and it received each the nationwide jury and the televote. Technicalities exist, and will have to be taken benefit of!
Princ – Mila (Serbia)
“Dear, you paid the price of me loving you,” is going the chorus of Mila, a heart-rending Balkan energy ballad in regards to the finish of a poisonous dating. The artist is polymath Princ – frontman of the rock band Sisyphus, former karate champion, philologist and language trainer with a point in Scandinavian languages, literature and tradition, and Jesus within the 2020 Serbian manufacturing of Jesus Christ Superstar. While the lyrics painting a slighted guy grovelling within the aftermath of the connection – at one level calling his loved’s new spouse a “liar” – Princ’s supply renders him tortured and sympathetic fairly than pathetic.
Laura Thorn – La Poupée Monte le Son (Luxembourg)
Dolls and their company – or lack thereof – are a super musical and creative trope: have a look at the ballet Coppélia, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Doll on a Music Box and Aqua’s Barbie Girl. The Luxembourgian Eurovision access La Poupée Monte le Son (the doll turns up the quantity) via Laura Thorn is a tribute to France Gall’s track Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son, composed via Serge Gainsbourg, which received Eurovision 60 years in the past. However, over a melody that mixes strings, a four-to-the-floor beat and a vaguely eerie music-box melody, Thorn’s doll asserts “je ne suis pas ta marionnette” and lifts from Bizet to warn the person she addresses: “Prends garde à toi” – watch your self.
Tommy Cash – Espresso Macchiato (Estonia)
Amore, spaghetti, mafia and coffee are the foundation of Tommy Cash’s rap-dance ode to Italian cliches: “Mi like to fly privati / With 24 carati / Also mi casa very grandioso / Mi money numeroso.” It stocks no thematic similarities with Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso however fairly DJ Ötzi’s après-ski anthem Pronto Giuseppe!, and in a 12 months the place a number of vaguely Italian-themed, AI-generated surrealist memes referred to as “Italian brainrot” are going viral, the nonsense of Espresso Macchiato absolutely embodies the zeitgeist. Cash co-wrote it with Johannes Naukkarinen, who gave us the metal-dance-pop fusion observe and 2023 Finnish Eurovision access Cha Cha Cha via Käärijä, by which the drink of selection is piña colada.
KAJ – Bara Bada Bastu (Sweden)
As the land of Max Martin and Abba, Sweden has traditionally despatched reputable – albeit most likely too clean-cut – pop acts to Eurovision. This 12 months they unexpectedly modified creative course, and alongside got here KAJ, a Fenno-Swedish track/comedy staff that credit the unapologetic weirdness of previous Finnish acts for the muse in the back of their track, Bara Bada Bastu (let’s take a sauna), carried out within the Vörå dialect and that includes that different conventional Eurovision sound, the folksy, pan-European accordion. (A line about shedding the cleaning soap was once expunged from the general minimize.) At this 12 months’s Melodifestivalen – Sweden’s contest to call their Eurovision entrant – KAJ began because the underdog however ended up profitable in addition to topping Spotify’s world viral chart.
Melody – Esa Diva (Spain)
In 2001, age 10, Spanish singer Melody launched the Euro-rumba music El Baile del Gorila, whole with ape-channelling choreography: the beginning of a a hit profession within the Spanish and Latin-American marketplace. In 2025, she’s representing Eurovision with the anthemic Esa Diva (that diva). It begins as an introspective ballad, very similar to 2014 winner Conchita Wurst’s Rise Like a Phoenix, with Melody herself reminiscing on her profession. Then the refrain hits and the beat drops, and he or she gives her personal expansive definition of what makes a diva: now not simply anyone who does now not step on others with a purpose to shine, or anyone who can upward push once more “with more strength than a hurricane”, however a mom who wakes up early and a suffering artist. The thumping bass traces and lyrics celebrating an individual’s personal specialty without reference to their lifestyles instances makes this 2025’s an identical to Emma Muscat’s 2022 access for Malta, I Am What I Am.
Ziferblat – Bird of Pray (Ukraine)
What would Bohemian Rhapsody sound like if it have been composed for Eurovision via a Ukrainian alt-rock band in 2025? Ziferblat’s Bird of Pray feels instantly out of a 70s rock opera; it balances more than a few parts, together with an all-female choir conjuring a sacred setting, rock anthemics and the theatrics of singer Danylo Leshchynskyi, whose presentation echoes Bowie. The lyrics supply a sombre distinction to the high-octane manufacturing, telling the tale of Ukrainians who’ve been separated via the warfare, with the titular hen conveying a message of hope – it’s a hen of pray, now not prey.
Sissal – Hallucination (Denmark)
With an digital base harking back to Sia and David Guetta’s collaborations, and with powerhouse, Adele-lite vocals that stave off predictability, Sissal’s Hallucination is a smartly packaged EDM-scandi-pop document that seems like a welcome 2010s throwback (comparable to Carola’s Invincible and Loreen’s Euphoria). This isn’t a twist of fate: Sissal’s inspirations are Norwegian singer Dagny and Swedish singer Robyn. Is it a little secure? Sure, however excessive camp, sexual innuendo and joyous nonsense desire a counterpoint to keep away from the competition descending into cartoon. Plus, the obsessive posters on Eurovision boards and subreddits swear she is perfect on degree.
