MONTESONG 2024 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇲🇪🕸️📊
Welcome to the first NF deep dive of the season! In this series, I look at all links between the writers/artist of a national final lineup with other songs from the Eurovision world. The thread contains a detailed plot for each song 🧵
A quick disclaimer: Many of the credits were revealed with an initial instead of a full first name. Thus there may be a slight insecurity with some of these connections. If any mistakes come to my attention, they will be noted at the end of the thread. Now let's get to it!
Neonoen - "Clickbait"
Band member Marko has a past with the Eurovision world. In 2005 he placed 6th in the Serbo-Montenegrin national final. Two years later, he placed 3rd in the first ever national final of an independent Montenegro. How will his band do this time?
Verica Čuljković - "Čuješ li"
Verica has gotten help from Filip Tančić with her song. He previously wrote Filip Žmaher's entry from PZE23, which unfortunately failed to advance from its semi final. Will he do better this time?
Nina Žižić - "Dobro došli"
No stranger to Eurovision, Nina has competed in a few before, and represented Montenegro at Eurovision 2013 with "Igranka". Her song was written by Boris Subotić of PZE fame, and A-list Balkan songwriter Darko Dimitrov (Firefighter/Proud/Loco loco)
Anastasija Koprolčec - "Kraj"
Anastasija makes her debut in the Eurovision world with the help of Stevan Milijanović who placed 12th in Beovizija 2020 with his group EJO, and the ethnic "Trag", as well as Bojan Marović, who placed 9th in the Serbo-Montenegrin NF of 2005
Isak Šabanović - "Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto"
Isak's song was written by Eurovision royalty Leontina, who helped Serbia and Montenegro reach second place with Lane Moje. This is her third Eurovision collab with Nemanja Filipović, having also written for JESC 2020 and Beovizija 2020
Nemanja Petrović - "Među zvijezdama"
A big name in the Balkan songwriting scene, Bane Opačić has had surprisingly little to do with Eurovision. His songs have placed 12th in Beovizija 2004 and 16th in the 2008 semi final. Can he reach the top positions this time?
Kejt - "Obala raja"
Kejt participated under her full name back in Montevizija 2018, reaching 2nd place only 3% of the televote short of winning. Can she win it all this time?
Glumci Band - "San"
Miha Radonjić has quite a history with Montenegrin preselections, though never quite managing to break through. His best result was 8th place in MontenegroSong 2007
Milena Vučić - "Škorpija"
A major name in Balkan, Milena previously placed 3rd in the Serbo-Montenegrin NF of 2004, in a group that also included Nina Žižić. It seems her song was written by Eurovision icon Sanja Vučić, as well as Marko, who wrote Jelena Karleuša's song in 04
Boban Rajović - "Suze"
A big name himself, Boban has had his song written by Goran Ratković, whose song placed 9th in Beovizija 2004, and Miladin Bogosavljević, whose song took 8th place in PZE 2022
Đurđa - "To ljubav je"
A truly international team, Norwegian Jonas has written songs for MGP like "Death of Us" and "Not Meant to Be", while Serbian Kristina has written songs like Serbian ESC 2011 entry "Čaroban", and Hungarian Olivér Patocska has competed in post-ESC A Dal
BONUS: Danijel Popović - "Kano kastigan"
While not in the lineup now, Daniel is in the back up list. The most succesful Montenegrin in Eurovision by far, he took Yugoslavia all the way to 4th place with "Džuli" at Eurovision 1983, and has since attempted a comeback many times
The following entries do not seem to have any links to previous entries:
Luka Perazić & Rade Vukčević - "Dva srca"
Luka Radović - "Kada dođe maj"
Tina Džankić - "Nova"
Dolce Hera - "Repeat"
Band 9 - "Stop War"
And that's all! Hope you enjoyed reading this thread. Make sure to give me a follow if you want to catch similar threads for all other national finals this season. Until then, take care!
SANREMO 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇮🇹🕸️📊
Always a highlight of the Eurovision year, Sanremo is back for the 75th time. And as always, the songs feature many familiar faces from Sanremo past and present. Let's take a closer look at all the connections (a thread 🧵) #sanremo25
Sarah Toscano - Amarcord
"Amarcord" was written with the help of regular writers Federica Abbate and Jacopo Ettorre who previously collabed on "Due" and "Fino a qui", as well as a team of less frequent writers who worked on "No grazie" and "Furore"
Serena Brancale - Anema e core
Another Abbate/Ettorre song, this time with Nicola Lazzerin in the mix. Nicola is making a big debut in this years contest, being behind 4 of the original 30 songs. Serena herself competed in the Newcomers section back in 2015
POLSKIE KWALIFIKACJE 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇵🇱🕸️📊
After a brief experiment with internal selection Poland is back to giving us national finals. In the lineup we find multiple entrants and songwriters from the past. Let's take a closer look at all the connections (a thread 🧵)
Chrust - Tempo
"Tempo" was written with the help of Krzysztof Falkowski, who was behind Maciej Musiałowski's entry in last year's internal selection, finishing 9th, receiving Kasia Moś highest points
Daria Marx - Let It Burn
Daria made the superfinal back in 2022 with her hit song "Paranoia". Now she's back, this time with the help of veteran writer Peter Boström and DMGP 2025 entrant Maria Broberg. The two also collaborated on Xannova Xan's song for this year's Greek final
VIDBIR 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇺🇦🕸️📊
As always, #Vidbir is a highlight of the Eurovision season. This year, five out of the ten entries have connection to other entries in the Eurovision world. Let's take a closer look at all the connections (a thread 🧵)
A quick note:
As I source my database from different sources, different translitterations have to be harmonized for me to make these connections. Due to that some connections may have been missed. Please let me know if non-Ukrainian transliterations have been used in the plots!
Molodi - My Sea
The Mariupol group is making their Vidbir debut with the help of one of last year's winning songwriters, Anton Chilibi. On top of his "Teresa & Maria" involvement, Anton also wrote Carpetman's "Endless Fight"
EUROSONG 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇧🇪🕸️📊
Tonight is the night, where we'll once again witness a Belgian selection, after last years internal process. What really sets #Eurosong apart, is the fact the 5/8 were written by the same person! Let's take a closer look (a thread 🧵)
Leez - Perfectly Imperfect
Perfectly Imperfect was written by Will Knox, who was involved with Eurovision 2019 winner "Arcade", in addition to a few NF entries. Also in the mix is Loek van der Grinten, who helped write Netherlands 2023 entry "Burning Daylight"
Le Manou - Fille à papa
One of five songs written by Willem Vanderstichele, who is truly making an impactful debut in the Eurovision world
ETHNIKÓS TELIKÓS 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇬🇷🕸️📊
After many years of internal selections the Greek selection is finally back to our screens! Among the participants we see a few connections to former entries, both recent and older. Let's take a look (a thread 🧵) #EthnikosTelikos
Klavdia - Asteromata
One of the two big favourites, Asteromata was written by the writing team Arcade, who were also involved with Stefania's 2020 and 2021 entries. Will they be able to add another Eurovision participation to their resumé?
Constantinos Christoforou and Kostas Karafotis - Paradeisos
Constantinos is no stranger to Eurovision, having represented his native Cyprus three times (1996/2002/2005). Will he be able to at a Greek participation to his list? Rodoula was involved with two Cypriot entries as well
MALTA EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇲🇹🕸️📊
Another year, another MESC. Like previous years, the song list is filled with connections to previous entries, with not a single song being disconnected. Let's take a closer look! (a thread 🧵)
Adria Twins - Qalb ma' Qalb
A collaboration between regular Maltese writers Sebastian Pritchard-James (Loop) and Joe Julian Farrugia (We Are More) and Swedish writer Melanie Wehbe (Move/Sand/Love Is Forever)
Dario Bezzina ft. Joseph Il-Muni - Għażliet
Dario's fifth attempt, and the second with the help of mega-writer Phillip Vella (7th wonder/Desire/Breathlessly/etc.). Could this be Phillip's 7th Eurovision entry?