Aka “The Tommy Cash and 15 other people” competition. Still, I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Let’s see if I will or if a song I really dislike will win due to the singer’s popularity.

Norway doesn’t own the name “MGP”, so I always specify that it’s thhe N MGP. The lineup this year is more disappointing than most other NFs, so yeah. Whatever. Let’s get this out of the way.

It’s time for Malta to select their entry. They have an option I’m highly not fond of, so let’s hope they make the right choice. Especially given the fact that their selection this year is actually good for some reason.

After a long scandal with the 2023 NF and the 2024 internal selection, Poland reverted to a national final, but it’s 100% based on televoting. I hope this can help TVP avoid scandals. May the best song win (aka one of the songs in Polish).

What has Finland cooked up for us, I woner. Well, not really, I’ve listened to all these songs a thousand times already, so I know. So please, Finland, don’t let me down. Ok, you can’t let me down because I like all songs here, but still. Don’t let me down.

Let’s see what Latvia has cooked up for us, shall we? I mean, I already know that there are plenty of great options in the running, so I’m excited to watch and discuss them.

It’s time for my country to make the choice. While other countries making the wrong choice is, ultimately, fine (hey, less competition for us), my country making the wrong choice always sucks - and there’s a chance of us making a terrible choice. At least I can vote here, so I’ll be complaining a lot if the worst outcome comes true. Also, this is four hours long, so yeah. It’s our chance to have some fun, and it’s not like this is actually made for foreigners.

This is it, from now on, we’ll be having multiple national selections each week. In about 1.5 months, we’ll know most of the lineup of ESC 2025. Today (or rather, on Tuesday, Thursday and a week after the NF has finished because I got suddenly busy), we’ll learn what Spain has cooked up for us.

After two years of internal selections that made the Slovenian music industry mad, RTVSLO is back to doing EMA. They brought back that stupid format where the main round is based only on jury votes, which pick two songs to go to the superfinal, which is based only on televoting. It worked out in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2019, so let’s keep an open mind (even though I already know the outcome).

There’s still no will to make a standalone NF in Ireland, so we’re back to watching The Late Late Show. Let’s hope they tried to make the production a little more fitting for a national final.