Eurovision Song Contest 2025: All the highlights from this year’s grand final

Finland has stolen the show at Eurovision with a sexually-charge song in another language. We’ve translated the lyrics for you. WARNING: Spoilers.

WARNING: Contains spoilers.

Welcome to our live coverage of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest final.

The 69th annual international competition is taking place in Basel, Switzerland today, with the grand finale broadcast kicking off on SBS at 5am.

Unfortunately for Australians, our representative Go-Jo was shockingly booted in the second semi-final despite his song Milkshake Man being wildly popular among the fan community and 900-strong media contingent.

It was the second consecutive year we didn’t qualify for the grand final, following Electric Fields in Malmo, Sweden in 2024 – Montaigne also didn’t make it in 2022, forced to send a video entry to Rotterdam because of pandemic travel restrictions.

Perhaps the novelty of our inclusion in the European singing Olympics has worn off in our 10th year at the contest.

In the wake of Australia not securing the vital fan and jury votes to advance to the 2025 grand final, SBS will be seriously considering our ongoing participation at Eurovision.

Sweden’s KAJ and their entry Bara Bada Bastu, an offbeat tribute to Nordic sauna culture, remains the song to beat in Basel.

Should the Swedish representative, who are actually from Finland, win this year, they would overtake Ireland as the country with the most titles in its 69 year’ history.

Other favourites include Austria’s JJ with his emo-opera epic Wasted Love and controversial sexually-charged dark horses, Malta’s Mariana Conte with Serving, and Finland’s Erika Vikram with Ich Komme. The song’s title cheekily skirts Eurovision “keep it nice” regulations and translates to “I’m coming.”

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