Malta MALTA 2025 - Miriana Conte - Serving

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[hijirio]

This contest is full of contradictions. Ultimately, decisions are made based on financial interests rather than consistent principles. And dont we all continue to follow the contest despite being aware of these inconsistencies? The double standards were evident when Russia was banned while Israel was allowed, yet we still engage with the contest.
It won’t be shocking the tiniest bit if BBC itself sends a vulgar song and gets away with it.
It’s a contest full of oxymorons and we acknowledge it.

 

[Iker]

And now Miriana can't.

 

[EscGeek]

Just change the title to "Kanta" because it's slovenian for..

Maybe change some more lyrics to focus on recycling or clean environment... stuff like that

 

[lavieenrose]

There are few things I've ever been more confident in than "this isn't just the BBC and there are a lot of broadcasters behind the scenes using the BBC as their fall guy for DoReMiFaSSServingCan't-gate." No way, no how. I refuse to believe that they got no other complaints.

 

[Sammy]

Well Mamagama means motherfcker in Greek and Llamame from Romania 2022 translates to "fck me".

Where did you get that from? It means „call me“

 

[hijirio]

Where did you get that from? It means „call me“

Check γαμα με in Greek

Kuula (Estonia 2012) also meant something vulgar in Greek that I can't recall but as I said, we Mediterranean people don't take everything seriously//make a fuss about misheard lyrics

 

[Mainshow]

There's a difference between foreign words meaning something entirely differently in another language, popping up only once and using "Kant" like 20 times throughout a song as the only Maltese word to replace the same-sounding English "C*nt".
What should "I'm serving singing" actually mean? "Kant" has been used to mean "C*nt" in an English song.

Personally, I think that Zorra should have also been changed last year (I advocated for it in last year's Spanish thread) but the difference is that a broadcast officially complained about "Kant".

Thats also the difference between Russia and Israel there's no "arbitrary choices". No broadcaster officially filed a complaint to the EBU about the Israeli delegation and whilst some broadcasters demanded questions to be answered, they didn't boycott KAN or demanded them to be banned for an edition - whilst several broadcasters officially demanded Russia to be banned.

Dunno, maybe Malta was just very unlucky because now some broadcasters complained about the song.

 

[Seregil Korit]

Anyway, I agree with Mainshow, just drop the word entirely and let the audience take care of it - they surely will.
Let's see them complain about that.

 

[Sammy]

Check γαμα με in Greek

Kuula (Estonia 2012) also meant something vulgar in Greek that I can't recall but as I said, we Mediterranean people don't take everything seriously//make a fuss about misheard lyrics

ah you meant in greek! I thought you meant the actual spanish meaning

 

[ESCConor]

There seems to be an awful lot of things being said so I'll give you my perspective here.

Firstly, this is not the BBCs fault directly. They are bound by OFCOM, which is the UKs broadcast regulator and they are pretty strict on what can be and can't be said before 9pm, even before we knew about this, the BBC couldn't play Kant on the radio purely cause or this reason.

Secondly, people seem to forget that the EBU can't just decide to say to Malta to change their song. They would of had to have looked at the song carefully beforehand and Yes, I do think the EBU should not be coming out a week before the deadline saying the song should be changed and there are double standards.

Overall, people shouldn't be directing their anger towards the BBC, but rather OFCOM who are the rule makers here.

 

[ESCConor]

There seems to be an awful lot of misinformation going on so I'll give you my perspective here.

Firstly, this is not the BBCs fault directly. They are bound by OFCOM, which is our broadcast regulator and they are pretty strict on what can be and can't be said before 9pm, even before we knew about this, the BBC couldn't play Kant on the radio purely cause or this reason.

Secondly, people seem to forget that the EBU can't just decide to say to Malta to change their song. They would of had to have looked at the song carefully beforehand and Yes, I do think the EBU should not be coming out a week before the deadline saying the song should be changed.

Overall, people shouldn't be directing their anger towards the BBC, but rather OFCOM who are the rule makers here.

 

[Judas]

To be honest, all Malta needs to do is switch the word to a made up word. It doesn't have to mean anything at all. This has been done many times in Eurovision. It will not hurt. On the stage, Miriana will just not say the made up word and the audience will fill in for her. That's pretty much it.

It will lose its humor for sure, but there is no better option here. It is too late for changing the song. I kind of blame EBU for this mess because they knew what was going to happen and they took so long to take action. They should have at least granted Malta more time to prepare a solution that they could come up with.

Regardless, the mess can be avoided by a simple trick.

 

[ESCConor]

To be honest, all Malta needs to do is switch the word to a made up word. It doesn't have to mean anything at all. This has been done many times in Eurovision. It will not hurt. On the stage, Miriana will just not say the made up word and the audience will fill in for her. That's pretty much it.

It will lose its humor for sure, but there is no better option here. It is too late for changing the song. I kind of blame EBU for this mess because they knew what was going to happen and they took so long to take action. They should have at least granted Malta more time to prepare a solution that they could come up with.

Regardless, the mess can be avoided by a simple trick.

Absolutely agree.

 

[jatojo]

Serving sex?

 

[Wynnter]

They can just do "I'm serving *oop*" and fix it with that, it's not super hard or complicated, me thinks. Especially if the audience adds on to it like they did with Latvia 2022.

 

[EscGeek]

Audience for Latvia 2022 only had to do it once... will they be as engaged throughout the entire song though? This is whyt worries me

 

[Ted Talks]

While not everyone agrees with the decision I will say on here it has been pretty civilised to what I’ve seen elsewhere - so that’s something!

On the old forum I used to take part in, I see those for the ban have been compared to a certain US President and been called scum by those against the ban.

Others saying it is the ‘worst censorship ever’ which makes me and then sadly those who are making weird threats against the BBC and (if they are unveiled as our act) Remember Monday.

They really need to get some perspective which at least I would say we’ve all got on here whether we agree with the ban or not…

 

[MopManMoss]

Can she not just say camp instead of Kant kinda works

 

[HarryUK]

Streets are now saying it wasn’t the BBC who complained but RTÉ…

 

[Mainshow]

The Maltese broadcaster attempts to spread the narrative that the EBU is discriminating the Maltese language because they asked PBS to censor the one and only word in Maltese in the song.

“We are talking to the artist and her team who are the authors of the song to see what we can change from the song so that it is accepted by the reference group and therefore, accepted to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. We, for our part, feel that this is censorship and discrimination against the Maltese language completely because it is the only Maltese word in the song that is censored.

🇲🇹 Malta: PBS in Discussions on Appealing EBU's "Kant" Ruling - Eurovoix

The Executive Head of the Maltese broadcaster has stated that PBS is in discussions on appealing the EBU ruling on "Kant".

eurovoix.com

It's quite a desperate attempt to turn things around. I mean, it wouldn't have been an issue if the whole chorus was sung in Maltese.
Trying to portray the EBU as discriminators is ridiculous and pathetic.
The EBU tried to make "Kant" happen and even praised the "comeback of the Maltese language" after so many years.

Seriously, they should drop that narrative ASAP and find a creative way to save the song.