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
