Johannes Piettsch, artistically known as JJ, won this Saturday the Eurovision 2025 festival representing Austria in a heart attack final. Your subject Wasted Love maintains a style very similar to The Code From the Swiss Nemo, which was made with the glass microphone last year, combining operatic tones with urban rhythms.
The staging of the winning song has Spanish DNA, since behind her are the stage Sergio Jaén and the choreographer Borja Rueda. The young hiring, which is declared queer, He has appeared during his drift performance, grabbed the mast of a ship, representing the pain of a loving break.
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Currently, JJ acts in Vienna’s state opera and has participated in numerous productions, including The magical flute. Austria has been by far the proposal most supported by the professional jury, which does not participate in the semifinals, and has obtained 436 points in total. While Israel has once again swept the Televoto (297 points for a total of 357) and has been in second position, about to win the contest.
Regarding Spain, Melody and That diva have been in 24th place with only 37 points, standing two positions below that Nebulassa last year.
This edition has been marked by the pulse that RTVE has filed in recent days with the European broadcasting Union (UER) for the comments regarding the Gaza conflict during the semifinal last Thursday. After receiving in writing a letter from the European organization threatening with sanctions that is one of the countries that contributes the most to its financing, RTVE has insisted on launching a message of support to Palestine just before the start of this Saturday’s broadcast.
Eurovision, often accused of defending an agenda Wokehas been shown in this 69th edition, thanks to positions such as RTVE and the position of some of the singers on stage, proud to defend those values.
As for the musical events of this final, let’s start with the shortest story, that of the serious people that have gone through the stage of St. Jakobshalle. Portugal has sneaked back in the final with its eternal effort, already before Salvador Sobral, to claim Eurovision as a song festival with Dazzledof the Napa minimalist. A position similar to three songs sung in French: host Zoë Më, tenth with the emotional Voyagethe right one C’est la vie, of the charismatic Dutch Claude (twelfth), and the candidate Gala Maman (seventh). An extra point for tautumeitic tautumeitas nymphs that, in addition to providing exquisite folklore, have lived up to the visual department of what it is also, and must be, in addition to a musical competition a television show.
Regardless of what is thought about your song, Melody, with all the tables in the world, has been able to execute perfectly what I thought for the remote version of That diva. Ana María Bordas, head of the Spanish delegation has defended her performance, despite the result. “Melody has not failed a pass, he has given everything. She is a winner. We are very proud. Today, more than ever, we must applaud Melody; a great artist, with a huge vocal quality. Honestly, we do not understand that the professional jury has not valued it,” he told the media.
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Between the sobriety of Portugal and the irony of Malta, the proposals of Luxembourg and Lithuania have remained. The first, with a tribute to the classic that gave the victory 50 years ago, the Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son by France Gail and Serge Gainsbourg, although passed through one of the most extreme Instagram filters. The second, has done it with a young and languid rock band that, each with her instrument but with identical outfit, looked like the Beatles under the musical production of Finneas O’Connell, Billie Eilish’s brother and musical advisor.
To the third way, that of the Petardo department (which has not necessarily worse), has joined this Sweden year. The country that has been royalty of world pop music for decades is usually taken very seriously Eurovision. But he has not done so this year. The Kaj trio has interpreted an absurd tribute to the Finnish sauna with Bara Bastu Bara. He has not met the expectations, after taking weeks as a clear favorite in official bets, but has been in fourth position, auged at the end by the popular vote.
Tuscan Lucio Corsi has thrown out of a more than dignified, although aesthetically crazy, British glam-rock with Volleyball essere a hard. Even so, the night has been very Italian. Between the voluntary parody of Espresso Macchiato by Tommy Cash (Estonia, third position) and the involuntary parody of Tutta l’alia by Gabry Ponte (San Marino, one of the two countries that, together with Iceland, has been behind Spain), few would say that a good part of the party was paid by Basel Tourism. The Swiss agency hopes to recover twice the 30 million euros contributed, explained one of its spokesmen to this newspaper last Thursday. Judging by the revelry that has been in the streets of the city of the Swiss neutral, which has not even stopped before the timid proper manifestations that occurred meters away, perhaps obtain the long -term revenue they were looking for.
Variable criteria of the UER
But it is among the most eccentric proposals in which the internal conflict that Eurovision in the middle of 2025 resides. The three victories in Eurovision of Switzerland, the host country this year, equals three different births that define the drift that the contest has taken throughout its history. Switzerland was the mother who gave birth to this invention, hosting the first edition in 1956 in Lausana, which he also won. In that debut only seven countries participated and Lys Assia won the subject Softlaying the stylistic and musical bases that have governed the festival for decades.
That manual of good creative behaviors remained almost intact when Céline Dion represented from the alpine country in 1989, with Ne partaz pas sans moitheme to which the country’s public television paid tribute during the first semifinal of this Tuesday. The conquest of Dion of first place in that edition gave birth to one of the most powerful musical races in pop history.
But, when last year the Non -binary icon obtained the third glass microphone for Switzerland, the polarization that in postwar years had tried to dilute the creation of this contest, had returned with great force. Of the nerves, Nemo dropped the award to the ground. It was shattered. Minutes after getting the ill -fated trophy, he said before the media that perhaps Eurovision also needed some arrangements, after the questioned decisions that the Uuer made before the tensions lived by Israel’s participation in the contest. This year, journalists’ access to artists has been much more limited.
Those responsible for Eurovision 2025 were rapid by detecting that the issue of Malta played by Miriana Conte and entitled Kant (which means “sing” in the local language) was not a tribute to the author of Criticism of pure reason nor to the Enlightenment. The song was renamed Servingkeeping the word game with which this proposal makes a wink to generation Z. Serving CNT It means serving pussy, an expression with which adolescents and twenty -year -olds praise the empowered and public attitude of a person.
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The Uuer has also ensured this year that no participating artist wore any type of LGTBI+ flag on stage or in the Green Room.
The categorical imperative of the Uuer that has constrained Malta’s commitment is the same one that has threatened RTVE with fines to mention in his retransmission the conflict of Gaza. And it is the same as this year has not found political references on the subject New Day Will Risethus allowing Israel to place a 24 -year -old girl under the focus. Yuval Raphael contestant of a talent Television in his country and with hardly any artistic or media experience, he has faced for a week boos that, not yet personally directed to her, intimidated to the bones. During this end of Saturday, its interpretation of a ballad that is correct and generic has passed without great incidents.
The representative of Finland, Erika Vikman, has not been very subtle in the word game in German of her theme Ich Komme (Something like I come in Kant’s language). He has had to take the stage with more clothes than the planned, given the demands of the organization, which saw his proposal too sexual. By contrast, the male representatives of Australia and Armenia have spent days in Basiela singing without a shirt, pouring a nipples duel that has not been supported by the audience. The first stayed in the semifinals and the second has achieved a 20th position in this final.
Surely Nemo, who advocates breaking with the old codes to create a more inclusive new one and has also served as everything in the two performances he has offered in this final, was not thinking about such arrangements when he talked about fixing the festival, during that intense night of broken crystals last year.
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