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The Eurovision Song competition reaches its big final on Saturday night in Basel, with 26 countries fighting for the desired glass microphone.

The competition is less predictable than recently, when works such as Lauren (Sweden, 2023) and the Calush Orchestra (Ukraine, 2022) have been set to win even before a note sang.

Currently, book makers installed Sweden at the top of the table for the sixty -sixth edition of the competition, with Sonit Sount, Para Bada.

But this is the thing: a new number has never won. Voters usually prefer songs about victory over adversity, and they resume a wonderful pop chant.

Ideally, they want a wonderful pop music on Optimized over adversity, and there are many that were sprayed through the runway tonight.

We have talked to the six contestants who have the best possibilities, to find out what makes Eurovision Entirements stand out.

• Opportunity to win: 39 %
• Language: Al -Suwaidi
• Type: Epadunk
• Spotify flows: 43.9M

Kaj is the first Finnish action to represent Sweden in Eurovision, who come from the coastal town of Fortre, where Swedish is still the main language.

The comedy group that met at the school was working together for more than 15 years – the surprising winners of Melodifestivalen were in Sweden, where the audience chooses to enter Urofen in the country, earlier this year.

Their song, Para Badda Basto, is an honor led by the Organism of the culture of sauna (Finland includes more than three million saunas, one for every two people).

“It seemed to be a natural thing to sing about,” says Kevin Holsstrom. “We really love the sauna. It is universal.”

The first introduction in Swedish since 2012, the song destroys the virtues of practice facing stress. Is this the reason that Finland is constantly classified as the happiest nation in the world, I wonder?

Jacob Norgard laughs: “It is a chicken and an egg.” “I don’t know what came first, happiness or sauna, but the sauna is definitely dropping your pulse.”

The trio brought a fake sauna to the Eurovision stage this year, with birch, hot coal branches and dancers in steam towels. In the lyrics, they ask, “How long can you continue?”

“Oh, we can make it continue throughout the evening,” Jacob confirms. “A sauna party lasts for hours.”

“I would like to do it with a lot of time breaks,” says åhman. “Two to three hours, enter and outside, there is something to drink, and perhaps even a snack on the sausage abroad, then return – only to make it a quiet and long session.”

How does Finland feel the fact that the trio represents his neighbor and competitor.

“Finnish loves a deal, so this is great,” Jacob laughs.

“Sweden gets everything, but it is also the Finnish victory.”

• Opportunity to win: 22 %
• Language: English
• Type: Pop Opera
• Spotify: 6M

Austria has the best two subscription to the year: “I am an ocean of love / you are afraid of water.“

“It is about my personal experience with uncomfortable love,” says singer Johannes Beach, who is under the name JJ. “I felt that I was walking in a street in one direction.”

The 24 -year -old lights up in the Eurovision from his daily function in Vienna Opera, where he had roles in magic flute and the von der Liby Todd.

“It has a sale of 1,600 people, so nothing compared to the Eurovision audience,” says 163 million people.

Pietsch, Love Love, is a troubled song that is amazingly from the twenty counter, with EDM’s development.

On the stage, he works in a flowing sailing boat, sticking to policy while threatening the ocean with its consumption. It is one of the most offers at night, and requires a lot of preparation.

“This is the opera singer inside me, I train every day.” He says. “I must perform the vocal warm up to keep the active sound and before I go on stage, I always perform ten payments and one accurate panels.”

Eurovision Final has been a dream since he saw the Conchita Wurst victory for Austria in 2014. Can this success be repeated in Switzerland?

“It will be great for Austria. I would like to do it. I would like to call my mom’s Conchita, so I like to make her proud.”

• Opportunity to win: 8 %
• French
• Type: The Song of the flame
• Spotify flows: 6.9M

“I am surrounded by a sandstorm, a sandy hurricane, and I will wear a dedicated Rapan dress.”

The French singer describes the simple, but amazing classification, which starts from her story, Maman.

The sand is real (how to avoid inhaling it, I will never know) but it serves a purpose: the song, which was inspired by the death of her mother from cancer, is everything about the passage of time.

“It is a song that says even through sadness and deep pain, you can finally feel comfortable,” she says.

Maman is technically a complement to the 2015 song of the same name, written in depths of despair. “I lost my taste for fun / I can’t find meaning“She sang.

The release of 2025 includes many recovers for the first song. For example, the original was opened with the lyric: “Lovers move from bed to bed“But the update finds her singing,”No more lovers, no more family“

He helped have a child on his own to raise the sadness of sadness.

In the song, she talks about how her daughter’s hand returns the memories of the times when her mother did the same thing – only this time, the pain of remembrance has disappeared.

In the closing Maman bars, we hear the voice of her daughter for a short time.

“You will not be here in Basel,” says Louis. “You will watch on TV, because it is only five years old.”

“But it is very proud. She continues to tell me, Maman, you have to bring the cup home.

“It is just adorable.”

• Opportunity to win: 6 %
• Language: French and English
• Type: Song
• Spotify flows: 17.2M

The Netherlands originally asked the participant last year, Just Klein – who was prevented from the final after an alleged quarrel with the camera operator – the opportunity to return to 2025.

Although he actually wrote a song for the competition, he refused, saying that his exclusion was still “stings.”

Instead, the honor went to Claude Kiabi, 21, who moved to the Netherlands from the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was nine years old.

“It was not always safe in the Congo,” he says. “I couldn’t go to school … and I love school.”

His mother eventually managed to smuggle the family outside the country, and for her that his European song was dedicated.

Entitled C’est La Vie, it is a joyous mixture of French and French Chanson, which repeats the advice I used to give Claude and his brothers at the asylum center in Alkmaar.

“She used to tell me,” c’est la vie. Life is beautiful, even if it is sometimes difficult. “

“So when I heard about Eurovision, you like,” wait, if you go there, I want to bring this message to the world. “

“I have a lot of respect for her. I fought life, and we are still here.”

Claude comes to the competition with a small feature, as is known throughout Europe because of his huge beating for 2022. But he had to capture a new skill for Eurovision: dance design.

“I only did a single dance step before, but when I was writing the song, I was like,” it’s time for me to get out of my comfort area and dance around it. “

Learning the Kuriography took three days, and it is believed. “We started at eleven years of age and ended at nine. I wanted to know this so well that I could do it in my dreams.”

• Opportunity to win: 4 %
• Language: Finnish, German
• Type: Eurodance
• Spotify: 11.8 m

Ask Erika Vikman to describe her song, and do not withdraw any punches.

“It is about orgasm.”

Fill out with the delicious technical environment and what appears to be a sound choir of al -Wuelzi, it is one of those paths that ensure that it becomes part of the folklore europheng, regardless of the place that comes in the final.

Vikman was once welcomed as the Tango Queen’s scene in Finland, but he abandoned pop, “Because I cannot be very wild with this type of music.”

Quoting artists such as Madonna, Sher and Lady Gaga as an inspiration, she is one of the few artists who take the theater without dancers.

“Why? Because I am selfish!” Laugh. “I want attention.”

“No, because when I go to the stage, I feel like a rock star, and when I feel that I am the rock star, I don’t really need dancers, because she has my strength and myself.”

Certainly she has the theater – she ends her song over a giant golden microphone that raises the fire while lifting in the sky.

However, viewers with eyes may notice that her uniform is less revealing than the exhibition she wears to show the selection of Finland, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu.

“They said that it will not pass if we did not reduce anything, and one of the suggestions was my clothes,” she says.

“So you are like,” well, if that, this is the payment price, cover my ass. “

This does not mean that she is happy with that.

“The song revolves around having your sexual nationality, then someone comes and controls it, saying:” You will destroy every child who watches this show. “It is a double standard.”

Censorship or not, Vikman’s possibilities are largely limited after the storm’s performance in the semi -finals.

“I have a feeling about it,” smiles. “I can be a dark horse.”

• Opportunity to win: 1 %
• Language: English
• Type: Music Theater
• Spotify: 3.1 m

After the semi -finals on Thursday, the UK Law on Monday remember the possibilities … well, somewhat.

It was previously expected to come in seventeenth place, and they are now getting the eleventh position.

But the trio – who are the first girl to represent the United Kingdom since 1999 – are determined to enjoy, regardless of the result.

“This is all surreal, along with anything we could imagine,” says singer Lauren Bern.

“It seems very cheese, but it’s really everything we want,” says her colleague Charlotte Steel, her group’s colleague. “Who will get standing and perform their music, with their best friends, for millions of people? It is my mind.”

“Listen,” adds Lauren. “If we do it badly, we will continue to return until we win.”

In their favor, remember that Monday’s performance is chirpy and fun, and dependent on their background in the music theater. There is a tearing gesture for the former UK winners, Paczz, and their live consistency is great.

“They have a crazy experience,” says ACE Bowerman, Creative Director of Dua LIPA and BlackPink, who designed.

“Their performance is constantly moving, bringing the audience. Ultimately, the energy we want to create is that people want to be part of this band.”

Perhaps the fans had reduced the estimate of Monday’s chances because the West End Show of the offer of the offer is not testing in Eurovision – but a busy record in the UK does not herald good.

We will have to wait and see what is happening against hell.