Malta MALTA 2025 - Miriana Conte - Serving

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[njdevils94]

Miriana put out a statement.

The word Kant will not been allowed to be aired and will have to be changed according to EBU HQ.

 

[Seregil Korit]

Not them telling the Maltese team to change the entire point of the song in less then a week

Fucking embarrassing but who's surprised
BBC and ESC can fuck off.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I still think it will qualify despite the word change.

 

[Sabrewulf238]

This is really shitty of the EBU to do with just 11 days before the confirmation deadline.

Personally I think it could make Malta's qualification shakier if the word play is no longer obvious. I guess they might try an Eat Your Salad and try to get the audience to say it? Though in that song it was the one time...

 

[joao]

What? That's insaaaane! They submitted the song ages ago and approved. NOW they have to change? Ridiculous

 

[Ted Talks]

It’s not ridiculous in the slightest folks. It’s plenty of time to change the song. They shouldn’t have been stupid to send a song with a word like that in the first place in my opinion.

Malta and Miriana’s faux shock at all of this just reinforces my view of them and the song. They were never doing it for the Maltese language - it was purely an attention grabbing gimmick.

Thank god the EBU saw sense.

 

[mauve]

I mean Isaak wasn't even allowed last year to sing "sh**", so why should Malta be allowed to sing "Kant" which is even worse? But on the other hand what is with "Ich komme"?

 

[Judas]

I mean Isaak wasn't even allowed last year to sing "sh**", so why should Malta be allowed to sing "Kant" which is even worse? But on the other hand what is with "Ich komme"?

I can understand the censorship of C-word but what is wrong with Ich komme now? One next step would be taking a very conservative step now.

 

[Ted Talks]

I mean Isaak wasn't even allowed last year to sing "sh**", so why should Malta be allowed to sing "Kant" which is even worse? But on the other hand what is with "Ich komme"?

I think sexually suggestive aka Ich Komme and Milkshake Man is a lot easier to work with than the most offensive swear word in the English language.

They’re both lacking subtlety but we’ve had the Polish milkmaids and other sexually suggestive acts before - we’ve not had ones who swear - and in major fashion before.

 

[mauve]

I can understand the censorship of C-word but what is wrong with Ich komme now? One next step would be taking a very conservative step now.

With such sexualized words, there is always a fine line - where is it allowed and where is it not? "I'm coming" is borderline, at least for me, because it triggers clear associations.

 

[RainyWoods]

They should have absolutely been informed sooner of course, but this was always going to happen, as some of us mentioned at the time the song won the selection.

Whether you think it should be allowed or not, the one clear thing here is that Kant is a sassy song, entirely in English, except for this one word in Maltese which to every single pair of ears that can understand English listening to it, is going to consider what they've just heard to be the swear word, as that's how it was intended for you to hear it. As others have pointed out, "serving singing" makes pretty much zero sense. It was always just an excuse to say the strongest swear word in the English language at Eurovision, and it was also never going to happen. It doesn't affect or offend me personally, but this coming on tv before 9PM over here, Ireland and (I'm guessing) Australia too was never going to happen.

 

[joao]

If they wanted to ban KANT they should have done it when Miriana won. Hell, EBU even posted the song on youtube. Of course it's ridiculous to make them change now, if there was issues they should have been presented then, not now. I'm sure this was pressure from the BBC and nothing else.

And of course Miriana isn't doing for the music. The same way Erika isn't trying to say that she is arriving or going with "Ich Komme". It's ridiculous and hypocrite. And I don't even like the song!

 

[Truskawka]

ofc it's the bbc ruining the fun for everybody else, haven't we suffered enough by having to listen to their previous entires year after year?

 

[Mainshow]

I fail to see why the EBU couldn't have acted earlier.
It was funny while it lasted (them putting "(Singing)" after the song title; promoting the idea of "finally having the Maltese language in Eurovision again")- The "final decision" is a correct one, though. Some words are simply not appropriate. I know that some songs in popular music make use of such language (or even worse) but since it's Eurovision, there are some rules to follow.

It's a shame that Miriana and her team are being told to significantly change the song WHILST filming the music video.
Muting "shit" in Isaak's song which appeared only once was easy - but the pun in "Kant" is basically the whole point of the song, its core essence. What is left if you get rid off it? - a dated pop song, no tracks of the Maltese language...

The EBU will probably allow them to re-record the song even past the deadline but I'm genuinely questioning if Miriana had won MESC without the word pun. - How can they change the core essence/the spirit of the song in less than 2-3 wks time?

 

[Sammy]

I mean Isaak wasn't even allowed last year to sing "sh**", so why should Malta be allowed to sing "Kant" which is even worse? But on the other hand what is with "Ich komme"?

Well „ich komme“ is not understood by everyone, unline the c-word. Secondly, it is falsly pronounced so for non native speakers it‘s even harder to understand and thridly anyone can take the non-sexual meaning, whereas in „serving c…“ you don‘t have the option instantly - cuz nearly no one would be that fluent in maltese to swith mentally to the alledged harmless meaning. This is even more hindered by the change of the languages. If she had sung the whole line in maltese, nobody would have taken offense.

She gambled - she lost. period.

Thanks BBC.

Now I‘m able to judge the song unbiased and maybe it might rise in my ranking. Before I couldn’t cuz I don’t like to be arsed.

 

[Truskawka]

maybe we should just host the entire contest in french again so we don't have to deal with this

 

[HarryUK]

The distaste for the song from the BBC was pretty sudden after MESC. It was swiftly banned on the airwaves, so I’m not blaming them entirely - the EBU definitely dragged their heels on this one. Whether it’s the right or wrong decision though is up for debate.

 

[Judas]

ofc it's the bbc ruining the fun for everybody else, haven't we suffered enough by having to listen to their previous entires year after year?

I don't think it is fair to point at BBC, they have no authority to "decide". There are regulations they have to follow afterall.

 

[lacrymea]

What a surprise. NOT. It was obviously gonna happen and rightfully so. Considering other cases in the past (Maneskin comes to mind), what were they thinking?

 

[Sammy]

I fail to see why the EBU couldn't have acted earlier.

I suppose - but I don’t know - that they had to wait for someone to file a complaint. So the question is - why did the EBU member in question did not complain earlier. I don’t think that the process of deciding upon such a complaint took that long