Finnish group KAJ early favourite to win Eurovision; Erika Vikman ranked in top 6
With all of this year's Eurovision Song Contest entries now released, the clear early favourite is a Finnish comedy group representing Sweden.
Finnish group KAJ early favourite to win #Eurovision
#sweden #finland #earworm #sauna
https://yle.fi/a/74-20150060
DarkChocobo 
@darkchocobo@masto.esMira que como me la sé y por lo del año pasado, me reservaré el tema #Eurovision para bluesky(si lo soportan, o no tienen una visión tan pragmática por cierto tema).
Voy a poner solo este tema, que creo que puede ganar y me ha hecho mucha gracia solo esta vez.
Dejo a #Estonia aquí y es probable que no hable por estos lares para no ofender o enfadar a gente:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6aJJ6Q5zhg
Hola NeoPaquiters! Nueva presentación! Soy Maria y vivo en las afueras, en un lugar llamado brexitlandia. Me encanta el #cine, las #series, #Eurovisión, #leer, #viajar… en fin, las cosas básicas del universo, soy orgullosamente #friki en mis cosas y quemaría el mundo levantándome por una revolución #feminista. Mi mejor forma de expresión es la comida y los gifs y creo firmemente en la llegada de la Gran Calabaza y en que las croquetas son un bien universal.
Pour l' #eurovision c'est mort, pour le #rugby on conserve une mince chance de l'emporter.
Bon, on est en passe de perdre le tournoi et on a déjà perdu l'Eurovision. #Rugby #6Nations #FRAECO #FRAvSCO #Eurovision
Zoë Më released a Eurovision medley on her TikTok account 
#Eurovision
Just trying to get the word out: ESC Gabe is doing a live fundraiser for Ukraine right now on Twitch and YouTube. There are guests that are current and former Eurovision contestants. I donated for Ukraine and hope you do too!
I only know the YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/nE1u1ZOmyvQ?si=S7oy53rMcnFkJpke
From the vids I've seen so far on YouTube, the theme of the songs for this year's #Eurovision is "pretty boys with high pitched operatic voices singing over rejected Faithless instrumentals"
Re #Eurovision:
Music is art. Art is always political.
Home alone practicing the Bara Bada Bastu dance.
So… is that the reason why there were no signs of Måns in last year’s #Eurovision?
#Eurovision / Israel still allowed to maintain access to platforms of cultural diplomacy despite an ongoing genocide
Israel's strategic deployment of cultural representation in the face of allegations of genocide is relentless. While facing #ICJ investigation and scholarly condemnation of a genocide that has resulted in over 46,000 Palestinians deliberately and systematically murdered by the #IDF (using U.S.-supplied weaponry,) Israel's Eurovision participation—featuring a survivor of the October 7 attack—is attempting, once again, to instrumentalize personal victimhood in service of state legitimation.
It’s difficult to ignore the fact that this centering of Israeli suffering within international cultural forums occurs simultaneously with the systematic marginalization of Palestinian perspectives and experiences. The disproportionate media attention given to Israel's Eurovision candidacy, relative to, say, coverage of ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, not to mention a brutal occupation, reflects broader patterns of narrative control that obscure accountability for actions against an occupied population.
As one Israeli commentator wrote, “the song written for her [Yuval Abraham] by Keren Peles lacks even a trace of originality and freshness, resembling something more on the level of a young talent night at an unpopular brasserie - and conveys an oppressive sense of extra effort to be appealing.[…] And if that doesn't help either, one can always say that the problem isn't the lyrics, the melody, the French, the clip, the Keren, or the Peles: in the end, everyone is antisemitic.
Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/entertainment/article/bjkqmw3s1x
@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
#IsraelOccupation
#eurovision2025
#yuvalabraham
#antisemitism
#hasbara
Re: #Eurovision
Our children like the Swedish entry.
What they like most is the start of the chorus and the chorus itself.
However, being children from the #Kollum, #Fryslân area, you can't expect them to hear everything right
'Uksi, kaksi, kolme, sauna!' has been interpreted by them as 'ik zie kak zie Kollumer sauna!'
For anyone not understanding either okay of these languages
'1, 2, 3 sauna' was turned into 'i see poop see sauna from Kollum'
Just listened to the UK entry for Eurovision and honestly? Still slaps. It might be my favourite this year lmao
Maybe I'm not being overly critical about the UK this year. Maybe the song really is that great.
No clue but I like it.
@jess@blop.socialYksi, kaksi, kolme, saunaaaaaaaa!
@jess@blop.socialBara Bada Bastu’s a total bop tho.
(Måns appears to have sour grapes as well, that makes me quite sad.)
@Siph@meemu.orgSweden picked a really fun song for #ESC2025 #Eurovision this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3HOMhAeQY
Nothing groundbreaking in this era of the contest but such a nice change from the kind of stuff Sweden has been sending since forever. This is the first song in Finnish they send since 1998, and they only did it then because the rules forced them to. It’s the first time they send a song in Swedish in an edition of Eurovision without a language restriction
Funniest is that they’re not Swedish nationals, they’re a comedy group from the Swedish-speaking part of Finland, which is reflected in their song
#eurovision finals are gonna be tricky
