Ireland IRELAND 2025 - Emmy - Laika Party

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[han-g]

It's a very good euro dance song. It's from the same category as Finland's entry last year and to some extent Austria's - it's just better than those two. That's why I find it hard to rate the song - I want to give it zero because I don't think the singer should be allowed to participate, and yet I like the song because it's so well made within its genre and should give it a 7 or something.

Finland 2024 and Austria 2024 were better imo (from someone who didn't enjoy the latter)

 

[Looren]

Honestly the panel weren't even harsh ? They praised her as a performer but thought the song wasn't strong enough for ESC which is ultimately right, we complain when they're hypocritical and positive but when they're finally honest we complain too ? I would also rather not have a panel judging the contestants and influencing the voters but if there's one I completely prefer one that would honestly comment their thoughts rather than praising some complete turds of a song

 

[Sammy]

Panels are something that belong to talent / casting shows. Adds nothing. Get rid of them. ESC is not the X-factor.

 

[Cathan]

Finland 2024 and Austria 2024 were better imo (from someone who didn't enjoy the latter)

They absolutely were NOT better, they basically had all of Laika Parties negative and none of the positives!

 

[jatojo]

I wonder if all these people complaining about Emmy's nationality and her suitability to represent Ireland are also going to shout at their TVs Celine Dion's victory is mentioned during the shows this year, cos they will mention that a lot!

Dion found it awkward herself.

Why should less than 1% represent normality?

The Irish public voted for Emmy, the Irish jury voted for Emmy... So that's a pretty good indication that Ireland wanted her to represent them. United by Music, remember?

It's Eurovision - the big international event - that unites. If each national final was full of various international artists, then the idea of a main event with different countries competing would dissolve. It would just be a music show. It's already going in that direction in other aspects, such as international juries with big influence.

The concept is losing its authenticity, and we'll also see more and more autotune and backing vocals Dua Lipa style in the future. And many will say "hey, it's just about music and having fun".

 

[HarryUK]

My parting gift to Europe after giving Olly 0 points last year is a bag of to slowly choke on

I’ll stop now

 

[Jupiter]

They absolutely were NOT better, they basically had all of Laika Parties negative and none of the positives!

Uhm, different tastes and all that, but: Finland at this point had a great stage Show and an actually sweet message about being yourself instead of basically making a parody of the sad fate of a dog.
Austria 2024 isn't even compareable at all IMO, it sounds like it's actually written for grown-ups

It is annoying when you've got a panel who are overly positive about absolutely everything but to be honest, I'd rather that than having them totally brutalise certain entries, ruining their chances. Fire and My Way got absolutely wrecked with their comments and then ended as the bottom two in the televote. Meanwhile Bobbi who delivered whispers for 3 minutes (you could almost say objectively delivered the worst performance of the night) was highly praised.

The part about Bobbi is why I get Samanthas annoyance: Bobbi had the worst performance of the night, but got no criticism for that. Powerplay was a much stronger Song than My Way, I agree and it's fine that the panel said that - but Samantha Was criticized for her short-comings while Bobbi was not.

It felt like the panel knew beforehand whom they should praise and whom they should criticize (for whatever reason). And than the ones they were harsher on all did worse in the televote (Adgy too). And if it's true that the audience is told when to cheer during the show (several people on reddit who where there or at least had been in the audience at the show before said so) I would not be shocked if the panel was told before which artist to like and not like respectively. Which must feel really bad as one of the artists being there, IMO.

 

[Looren]

Uhm, different tastes and all that, but: Finland at this point had a great stage Show and an actually sweet message about being yourself instead of basically making a parody of the sad fate of a dog.

I think that's a bit harsh, I take this one more as a sweet tribute to Laika rather than a parody, it's pretty clear that Emmy's intention is clearly not to mock the fate of that dog

 

[Jupiter]

I think that's a bit harsh, I take this one more as a sweet tribute to Laika rather than a parody, it's pretty clear that Emmy's intention is clearly not to mock the fate of that dog

If that is how you read it than that's genuinely good for you - I think it comes across as downright mockery with how childish and OTT the lyrics and the whole Song are. The whole story is basically animal abuse, and not every topic fits being 'cutesified' like this.

 

[han-g]

They absolutely were NOT better, they basically had all of Laika Parties negative and none of the positives!

We will agree to disagree but imo laika is horrible, we will rave tolerable and no rules was actually fun and enjoyable

 

[Mrm]

Agree with Rainy on this issue 100%....

 

[Cathan]

We will agree to disagree but imo laika is horrible, we will rave tolerable and no rules was actually fun and enjoyable

I’m genuinely baffled as to how you find this terrible and AUT/FIN24 “fun” and “enjoyable”. Literally every criticism you could make for this entry you can find in those entries with the exception that there’s actually a hook in Laika Party and it’s actually catchy.

Infact that’s probables Ireland 2025 strength over those entries in 2024, Laika Party actually has the ability to stir emotion in people unlike last years.

 

[SAYAY]

It definitely gives fun Eurovision vibes, and Emmy is a very good singer. I wish I loved this more since she is from my part of the town, but Idk, its just not quite my cup of tea this time around .

 

[han-g]

I’m genuinely baffled as to how you find this terrible and AUT/FIN24 “fun” and “enjoyable”. Literally every criticism you could make for this entry you can find in those entries with the exception that there’s actually a hook in Laika Party and it’s actually catchy.

Infact that’s probables Ireland 2025 strength over those entries in 2024, Laika Party actually has the ability to stir emotion in people unlike last years.

I think perhaps partly its because the hook of a song is not important for my enjoyment at all, there are many songs that have a memorable hook that I really don't care for and many songs without one that I absolutely love and can still play in my head anyway

For me I just prefer the melodies of both Austria and Finland 2024 and the vocal of no rules (not a fan of Emmys voice really)

The other part is the emotion laika party rises in me is not a good one. It makes me absolutely angry that someone thought making a song about a rather extreme case of animal abuse in a bright pretty bubblegum pop kinda way. Laika loves to fly... absolutely not, no one of the worst ideas for song only Moldovan sasha can compete.

 

[han-g]

Duplicate

 

[Decayingbooks]

If anyone is curious to see how Boobi Arlo's staging was meant to be, the choreographer shared a video of the choreo during rehearsals - here -

He mentioned that the choreo was made in one day, which isn't that much, but Bobbi also mentioned in a instastory that they had no budged, so they did what they could with what little they had available.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I hate the story of Laika and wish I'd never heard of it. I don't like the song anyway but the subject matter is making it worse for me. I just can't turn it around in my head to a happy fantasy story.

Btw I don't think it's ill intentioned by the songwriter and performer, just saying I can't gel with it.

 

[Yoozek]

I hate the story of Laika and wish I'd never heard of it. I don't like the song anyway but the subject matter is making it worse for me. I just can't turn it around in my head to a happy fantasy story.

Btw I don't think it's ill intentioned by the songwriter and performer, just saying I can't gel with it.

Same here

 

[Bmbriga]

Words Laika and party should never be used together.

 

[Datura]

If anyone is curious to see how Boobi Arlo's staging was meant to be, the choreographer shared a video of the choreo during rehearsals - here -

He mentioned that the choreo was made in one day, which isn't that much, but Bobbi also mentioned in a instastory that they had no budged, so they did what they could with what little they had available.

hm i don't think that rehearsal footage makes it really better. (though the camera angle where they pull the sword out was especially atrocious during the live show). the song is really cool but whatever they had in mind for thtat performance was just not (and u can have good ideas without having a budget, but imo this was not the case here)

bobbis staging was simply not good, but i think u cannot judge the performances there that much on their staging, i've been quite vocal before that the production of the late late show is just so bad that it's imo impossible for any act to really look good on that stage. bambie looked very amateurish aswell and look what they did in malmö

about the panel: iit's questionable if a panel that gives their impression is needed at preselection shows, imo it's not, but what they said was not wrong and it wasnt rude either. maybe its not what samantha mumba wanted to hear, but it was a valid critique, the song in the state it was in was definitely not ready for eurovision.