Louane throws herself into a funny crab basket. While France’s candidate at Eurovision will unveil her song, the competition is already taking a funny turn …
Eurovision 2025, which will be held next May in Basel, Switzerland, already arouses tensions while the selection of candidates is in full swing in the various participating countries. Just over two months from the 69th edition of the singing competition, European countries are in fact in working order. If France has already appointed the singer Louane, whose song will be unveiled on March 15 at France-Scotland, the last match of the 6 nations tournament at the Stade de France, others also attack. In the proper sense of the term.
This is particularly the case of Italy and England, two heavyweights in the competition, which exploded with anger this week, while Eurovision is only in its infancy. Rome purely and simply asked for the withdrawal of a competitor when London demanded censorship from the organizers and therefore the modification of the words of a song. Peace in Europe therefore seems to be well threatened.
Italy was the first to throw a paving stone in the fed in recent days, discovering with amazement the song of Estonian Tommy Cash. This funny character decided to embark on the race, with the song “Espresso Macchiato”. A piece conveying a whole bunch of clichés on the Italians. Several transalpine media immediately denounced words that multiply “stereotypical references”, such as “the mafia”, “coffee”, “spaghetti” or sweating, believing that they were “contrary to ethics” of Eurovision.
“No stresso, no stresso, it’s gonna be espresso”, chants the Estonian rapper, who obviously likes to provoke. He has just released another song, “United by Music”, in duet with a certain Joost Klein, Dutch singer excluded from the last edition of Eurovision after a behavior deemed violent behind the scenes with a frame. Between questionable references to Russia, Ukraine, Trump or Kamala Harrys and insults against the UER, the European Radio-Television Union which organizes the competition, the prose of the duo has something to react.
Another targeted country: Malta with her singer Miriana Conte and her title “Kant”. The BBC, which carries the competition in England, stood out to have the title changed and therefore the lyrics of the song, in a protest as unprecedented as it is surprising. In question: “Kant”, which means “singing” in Maltese, would have a top sound close to an insult in English, “Cunt”, which first designates a female sex, but offers a whole panel of bird names.
On social networks, the Maltese artist said he was “shocked and disappointed” that the protest of the English has become an official request from the UER. However, she promised that “the show will continue”. The major musical and television spectacle, followed each year by more than 180 million viewers around the world, should still be tense.