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EUROVISION 2025 REVIEWS: NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBURG, IRELAND AND NORWAY

It's time to kick of the usual reviews. The opinions are all mine and if I don't like some song it's simply just not my cup of tea so to speak. If I like something you dislike or hate, it's fine, too. No stresso, no need to be depresso it's just music and tastes that re diverse and therefor beautiful!  I also try to predict their success come May a little bit but as we know once the staging is out everything may change, remember Fuego and Rise like a phoenix for example? For this series I have grouped the songs in fours as usual as the songs may have similarities or something in common. Some fours came out beautifully, the others.... well not so well. Here comes the second part. NETHERLANDS - Claude - C'est la vie I was very happy when Claude was announced, and I do like his song a lot. The mix of languages works very well, at least for someone who speaks both English and French so it all blends together without effort. All this said I am quite surprised this is...

EUROVISION 2025 LUXEMBURG: LAURA THORN WINS LSC 2025

As she should have, after topping all fan polls and being by far one of the best entries in any national final this season if you ask me, Laura Thorn triumphed in Luxemburg song contest 2025 despite home ground audience voting en masse for Zero Point Five band.  She scored full 12 points from 7 out 8 international juries - only Estonia placed her second giving full points to Luzac - and placed second in televotes behind Zero Point Five (90 to 110). Her La poupée monte le son is a very nice homage to France Gall's winning entry Poupée de cire, poupée de son in 1965 but with updated lyrics and attitude. Great stuff! All in all good looking show with several good staging and tricks on screen while some also were flat and weird (Mäna) and vocally most delivered but Mäna again and also Zero Point Five vocally wasn't so great but their stage energy made up for it. Luzac performed great but didn't come across otherwise very reachable and welcoming where as Laura was all smiles all...