Eurovision 2025: A Gender-Bending Dirge in Glitter and Despair

Eurovision 2025: A Gender-Bending Dirge in Glitter and Despair

Eurovision 2025, held in a vast, hollow echo chamber masquerading as an arena in Switzerland (a country that rarely wins anything, but always has enough money to host international galas), was yet another chapter in the slow, operatic death of a once-great institution. Let’s address the winner first. Not because it was particularly memorable—goodness no—but because it’s what everyone is pretending to care about. The winning act, from Austria, wa…

In the end, Austria won. But that's the least of it. As almost always at Eurovision, the important thing isn't who takes the crystal microphone, but how much glitter can be thrown into the air while coherence flees through the emergency exit without looking back. This edition, held in Basel, was much more than a musical spectacle. It was yet another attempt to disguise an… Origin as art.