Farty or Party 2025 ep2

It's the wrong time of year to be judging Eurovision songs (although national final season is already in full swing) but it *is* the right time for looking at this year's Junior Eurovision offerings!!! Ann and Marcus are here to decipher this year's 18 songs! This year's JESC is being held in Georgia after they won the title (again) in 2024 and were given first refusal of hosting. A few countries have withdrawn but a few have also re-joined giving us a reasonable show of 18 entries. Although the songs showcase a range of genres and singing styles, the cast list (bar Cyprus) contains almost exclusively solo singers which is disappointing. This may reflect the state of the music scene with its proliferation of solo acts over group, as well as indicating the strictness of personnel and monetary budgets the individual delegations have to spend on the project. By the time we started this podcast project, the running order had been set so we used this official order to structure our reviews rather than a random pick from a hat.

Here, we review the next 5 songs:

5 Armenia - Albert "Brave Heart" 6 Ukraine - Sofiia Nersesian "Motanka" 7 Ireland - Lottie O'Driscoll Murray "Rúin" 8 Netherlands - Meadow "Freeze" 9 Poland - Marianna Kłos "Brightest Light"