Eurovision 2025: The Rehearsals

[KNT]

@Ha-lucy-nation

Charli xcx watching Germany send a club banger with a curtain drop:

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

OMGGGGGGG YASSSSSS

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Does anyone know when we’ll be getting the Big 5 draw?

 

[Apo-KANT!]

@Ha-lucy-nation

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Oh they’re coming for that jury top ten

 

[TiShh]

Oh that *is* good I'm starting to enjoy this without forcing myself to now!

If Olly can do sort of well with the juries, they should be able to get a decent result!

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

We need to be 3 drinks in to the running order and we may stand a chance at left hand side.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

They sound very good - has it (crosses-self) had a little bit of an edit in the arrangement?

 

[C’est la VoR]

How does he look even more like a haunted mannequin than he did at San Remo?

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

The fact Italy is so misogynistic they prefer this creepy haunted doll over ELODIE remains baffling to me.

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Like you’d think they’d also hate a feminine presenting man, but even that is preferable to a woman in their eyes!

 

[Velvet sKANT]

Bless her heart, she's really giving it her all even in rehearsals!

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

The gay on her team needs to set that lace front half an inch back!

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

This will be the most immaculately performed 21st placer of all time!

 

[Apo-KANT!]

Is she going to battle Arceus in the first minute of the performance?

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Sorry I’m calling it now, Germany is placing highest out of the big 5!

 

[Marina Salty]

Sorry I’m calling it now, Germany is placing highest out of the big 5!

And possibly top 5 in general.

 

[TiShh]

Somehow Germany is simultaneously giving me shock top 10 and shock 22nd!

 

[TiShh]

Oh they’re coming for that jury top ten

AND they're giving a competent Dolly Style with the styling och consulting and they shocked us all at Melfest! Calling it now, best result since Big Sam

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

AND they're giving a competent Dolly Style with the styling och consulting and they shocked us all at Melfest! Calling it now, best result since Big Sam

That’d be.. 17th place

 

[ADONK5]

That’d be.. 17th place

I'd take that.

 

[Marina Salty]

Oh they’re coming for that jury top ten

Totally giving jury top 10, maybe even top 5.

 

[KNT]

It's* coming 'ome

* It being "not last place"

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

 

[KNT]

SAND! SAAAAAND!

 

[Apo-KANT!]

I thought France wanted to win.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

That doesn’t look good. It sounds great.

 

[Marina Salty]

Open invitation for a stage invasion to the sand lady.

 

[Jacques]

I think France looks great. MUCH better than Austria.

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

He’s sat in the rafters.

 

[ZjermGiraffe]

He’s sat in the rafters.

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Not this.

NOT THIS.

 

[TiShh]

SAAANNNDDD!!! SAAAANNNNNDDDD!!!!

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Oh they’re coming for that jury top ten

After seeing this rehearsal....sorry but if that's the vibe for the whole thing, those girls are absolutely cooked. You wrote a song that mental and all over the place, and you're going to perform it in the most sedate finishing school way possible? You're literally making me actively not care that you can hit the notes and sing them well, if all I'm going to get is something that just feels muted and has no bite whatsoever to it. The sound mixing is just so ineffably crap!

Make it feel like three slightly-too-obnoxious-for-a-full-weekend nepo babies who can all showboat the house down but can't quite bring themselves to admit they've got a coke problem are inviting you into their wild Saturday afternoon party dashing and trashing through a distant relative's Sussex country house for three minutes. Give it some spark and some sense of life at least beyond it just sounding like five different song stubs mashed together to make a whole one in time for the deadline!

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

I'll reserve full judgement until I've seen the whole thing, but on that evidence I get the feeling it might manage to scrape together a jury top ten finish just about, but the televote is going to be such a sub-10 points disaster as to make it obvious it managed to tick some technical boxes for once this time around, but was really on a hiding to nothing beyond that.

 

[ADONK5]

Apparently there's more to the staging than we've seen and they're trying to lean into the tempo changes with the staging too. But we've all be burned by over-optimistically described stagings in the past so let's see.

 

[KNT]

Apparently there's more to the staging than we've seen and they're trying to lean into the tempo changes with the staging too. But we've all be burned by over-optimistically described stagings in the past so let's see.

At what point does Lumo roll on the giant trumpets?

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

I’ve heard they shoot confetti out of their mimsies.

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Not this.

NOT THIS.

 

[ADONK5]

Now this one looks good:

Looking at this further has @C’est la VoR been recruited as Red Sebastian's third dancer?

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Poor love ran out of money! It was this or flogging his buss on a street corner.