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JJ celebrates victory in Eurovision 2025
Austria won the Eurovision 2025 festival, which took place this Saturday at St Jakobshalle Arena, in the Swiss city of Basel. Opera singer JJ beat Yuval Raphael, Israeli’s representative, who was second in the world’s largest musical competition. Portugal reached for 21st position.
The Austrian Singer JJ This Saturday won the Eurovision 2025 Eurovision Festival, with “Wasted Love“A dramatic staged ballad on a storm -shaped ship that combined elements of opera, techno and acute vocals.
“This is Beyond my dreams crazy, ”said the 24 -year -old singer, whose real name is Johannes Pietsch. “It’s crazy.”
JJ revealed that he wanted to give the listeners a vision of your deepest thoughts When he wrote “Wasted Love”, and confessed to being happy with the reception that the song had with the spectators. The ballad told the story of an unrequited love, with a Breakdown Techno in the final moments.
“There is no wasted love. Love is never wasted. There is so much love that we can spread and we should use love as the most powerful force on planet Earth, ”said the singer.
JJ, who originally graduated as a contractor, became the third Austrian to win the competition after Conchita Wurst in 2014 and Udo Juergens em 1966.
Israel second: a new day will come
After having been until the last points of the television to lead the score, Israel, whose participation in the contest was once again, was in second place, with the ballad to the piano “New Day Will Rise“, interpreted in Hebrew, French and English by Yuval Raphael.
Com Only 60 points attributed by the juryIsraeli music seemed to have little possibilities to get a good classification. However, “New Day Will Rise” turned out to be the more voted by the publicwhich attributed to him 297 points.
The total of 357 points led her to the leadership of the contest until the delivery of the televotttal points to Austria, which (258 of the jury, 178 of the public).
The Israeli singer, who was at the New Music Festival on October 7, 2023, is one of the survivors of the Hamas attack In southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people and hostage.
Pro-Palestinian groups appealed to the UER / European Union of Broadcasting, which organizes the contest, the exclude Israel due to conflict in Gazawhere more than 50,000 people were killed in the offensive launched by the Israelites after the attack by the Palestinian terrorist organization.
Contrary to what happened last year in Malmo, Sweden, the organization flexed the rules that prohibited the display of certain symbols, and was possible to see Palestinian flags in St Jakobshalle Arena de Basel.
According to about 200 protesters organized a demonstration in Basel, next to the show site. Inside the enclosure, during the performance of Raphael, two protesters tried to take the stage and go to the singerhaving been prevented by security agents.
According to a spokesman for Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, responsible for spreading the show, “at the end of Israeli performance, A man and a woman They tried to pass over a barrier to take the stage. A member of the behind -the -scenes team It was hit with paint, but was not injured“.
Portugal Failure Top 10
The representation of Portugal was in charge of the song “Shifted”, Interpreted by the Madeiran Napa, who had achieved the qualification for the final of the contest.
This time, the predictions of the betting houses, which gave reduced probabilities of success to Portuguese representation, did not fail. With only 13 points of the vote of the public to add to the 37 jury, “Dislocated” was in a modest 21st place.
In recent years, Portugal has been in the top-10 of the Euro Festival Song Festival: Victory in 2017, was in 9th place in 2022 and, last year, was 10th classified.
O contest podium of this year closed with “Expresso Machiato”, from Estonia, which shot Sweden to fourth position – Which, with “Bara Bada Castu”, was pointed out as the main favorite to overcome Eurovision 2025.
