Azerbaijan AZERBAIJAN 2025 - Mamagama - Run With U

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[han-g]

Nationality of the composer is a negligible detail to me. As long as they translate the song to Azerbaijani language and add some local elements, I wouldn’t mind a Swedish composition.

At least, Azerbaijan always opted for local artists. This year only, we have a Norwegian artist representing Ireland and a Finnish band representing Sweden so foreign composer is only a minor detail that only hardcore fans care about. We have bigger issues like Azerbaijan still being ashamed of their home language.

With regard to your statement, rather than qualifying like Latvia last year with zero hype, for a country like Azerbaijan it is more meaningful to NQ with a song like Mata Hari that actually builds some hype in the fandom and even charts in a couple of countries.

I feel its more important to Azeri pride to qualify with a home grown song then to qualify with a song featuring Azeri language. Eurovision isn't about charting for Azerbaijan, although I'm sure the artists would prefer their songs to do so. Instead it's all about soft power and if they only have soft power when Sweden helps I feel that's going to be very detrimental to their long term desire to stay in the competition.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

Has anyone met an Azeri fan?

Is there much interest in ESC in Azerbaijan?

 

[Mainshow]

I've met some Azerbaijani fans.
I even watched the 2016 GF with one of them when he was here in Central Europe because of Erasmus.
Also, I've met a couple of ESC fans from Azerbaijan when I was there back in 2012 and 2017 (I spent 2 months in the Caucasus).
You can also "find" some Azerbaijani fans in bigger FB groups - they compose posts on a regular basis there. There's a "Mamagama dancing Tik Tok challenge" going around as well. I've seen a few videos of girls/women dancing to "Run With U" in Baku in front of two/three sights.

When I was in Sheki (Şəki), I even heard two ESC songs at a restaurant (Sergey Lazarev, Ani Lorak).

There's an OGAE Azerbaijan (which was found back in 2007 and it's still successfully running).

It's difficult to tell if ESC is really popular among Azerbaijani people, though, since a) it's running very late and b) we don't have any official viewing figures but there are definitely dedicated ESC fans around.

 

[hijirio]

There are two Azerbaijani Eurovision blogs, both primarily active on Telegram.
Each has more than 1,000 followers, they are very active and there is an ongoing chat throughout the day.
I'd say they are more active and engaged than this forum.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I've met some Azerbaijani fans.
I even watched the 2016 GF with one of them when he was here in Central Europe because of Erasmus.
Also, I've met a couple of ESC fans from Azerbaijan when I was there back in 2012 and 2017 (I spent 2 months in the Caucasus).
You can also "find" some Azerbaijani fans in bigger FB groups - they compose posts on a regular basis there. There's a "Mamagama dancing Tik Tok challenge" going around as well. I've seen a few videos of girls/women dancing to "Run With U" in Baku in front of two/three sights.

When I was in Sheki (Şəki), I even heard two ESC songs at a restaurant (Sergey Lazarev, Ani Lorak).

There's an OGAE Azerbaijan (which was found back in 2007 and it's still successfully running).

It's difficult to tell if ESC is really popular among Azerbaijani people, though, since a) it's running very late and b) we don't have any official viewing figures but there are definitely dedicated ESC fans around.

There are two Azerbaijani Eurovision blogs, both primarily active on Telegram.
Each has more than 1,000 followers, they are very active and there is an ongoing chat throughout the day.
I'd say they are more active and engaged than this forum.

That's interesting. I'm in Ireland and I've never met an Azeri - the numbers here must be miniscule.

 

[Galandar]

Aze cannot magically qualify with just any mediocre song anymore. Everything they have sent in the past few years are risky 'dark horse potential' entries. They need to up their game and send something spectacular that may be underrated in the real game but still be hyped and appreciated by the fandom and safely qualify.
I wish they had bought Hush Hush from Sweden (Meira Omar's entry), would have been a fore runner in this year. May flop, but still be talked by the fandom.
I often tend to forget that Aze is even participating, they don't even interact with other artists that much.

Azerbaijan decided to listen to the fandom and give more chances to local talents, both singers and composers We know it's not easy to reach the past placings by doing that, especially since all Top 5 placings of Azerbaijan came from songs imported from Sweden Nevertheless, this move will teach us and eventually help us grow to earn not only placings but hearts too

 

[Galandar]

Has anyone met an Azeri fan?

Is there much interest in ESC in Azerbaijan?

I’m still an Azerbaijani fan, although much less active I used to be a member of OGAE Azerbaijan. I've been to live shows in Oslo, Düsseldorf and Baku Back then we only had OGAE as our ESC fan club. Today, along with OGAE, we have INFE with even more followers on Instagram. Additionally, there are a couple of quite successful blogs e.g. 12Xal and Songfestival.

To answer your 2nd question, yes, there is high interest among fans and those who follow and watch the contest every year, but when it comes to everyone else, the interest is to a much lesser extent than in early 2000s, so unfortunately, it has faded away a bit

 

[hijirio]

Azerbaijan decided to listen to the fandom and give more chances to local talents, both singers and composers We know it's not easy to reach the past placings by doing that, especially since all Top 5 placings of Azerbaijan came from songs imported from Sweden Nevertheless, this move will teach us and eventually help us grow to earn not only placings but hearts too

Yeah I do think you can be successful with your local talent but your delegation seems to be ashamed of embracing your own culture.

Unpopular opinion but I do think Kemale Guneshli would be successful with a fully Azerbaijani entry. Instead, past 3 years you try to send generic entries with forced local elements that don’t blend well with rest of the song. They seem they are there just to tick a box, not integrated into the song.

Eldar has to go. Sis cannot even help his own poor career, it’s really annoying that they treat him as if he were a Eurovision god…

 

[harey]

I think that they can do better than expected this year. And I'm happy that Azerbaijan rely on their national music scene instead if buying songs from Sweden, I hope it will finally bring them a good result soon.

 

[empo21]

I feel like people are sleeping on this. It's a really fun song. Super vibey.

My only problem is I feel like the song needs an extra minute. By the time I get into it, it's already come to a sudden end, which could affect its score.

 

[han-g]

I feel like people are sleeping on this. It's a really fun song. Super vibey.

My only problem is I feel like the song needs an extra minute. By the time I get into it, it's already come to a sudden end, which could affect its score.

I 2ould say the bigger problem is that for someone who likes it, it takes too long for you to get into it, most people won't give a song that long so no an extra minute wouldn't help