Austria Wins Eurovision 2025 Song Contest With JJ’s ‘Wasted Love’

Austria surpassed Israel to win the Eurovision song contest after a tense count on Saturday night in which the leader changed repeatedly and the winner became clear only at the last moment.

Israel received the largest number of points of the public voting, which represents half of the general account. Last year, the competition was eclipsed by protests on Israel’s participation due to the country’s military campaign in Gaza.

Austria was represented this year by JJ, a trained classic singer, who played “Wasted Love”, a dramatic song about anguish. 436 points were recovered to Israel.

Sweden, the favorite of before the event, came fourth.

Austria won the competition for the last time in 2014, when Conchita Wurst, a Barbuda Drag Queen, triumphed with “Rise Like A Phoenix”.

JJ, a 24-year-old whose real name is Johannes Pietsch, is a contractor, which means that his vocal range must coincide with that of a female mezzo-soprano. He sings in the Opera School Choir of the Opera of the State of Vienna, and in recent months he has appeared on stage in the productions of the company of “The Magic Flaute” by Mozart and “Billy Budd” by Benjamin Britten.

Acceptance the trophy of the Eurovision winner, an crying JJ, thanked the voters and asked the issue to “spread more love” in the world.

The four -hour Eurovision final at St. Jakobshalle Arena in Basel, Switzerland, presented all the surreal and spectacular places that music fans expect from the competition, including dancers and Gothers scarcely dressed. Ridthesponhesponhesponheh, from the roof and current flames. Some 6,500 fans cheered in the sand through the time.

Last year’s competition, Hero in Malmo, Sweden, had a completely different atmosphere. The period before the final had been tense after some fans, and also some artists in the competition, protested for the presence of Israel there due to their actions in the war in Gaza. Some members of the audience in the Arena for the Boud event aloud when the contestant of Israel, Eden Golan, acted, thought that others cheered.

This year, Israel was represented by Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the October 2023 attacks led by Hamas in southern Israel. Duration of his performance in the Eurovision final, only a handful of angry and whistles were audible in the sand.

Before the final, many Eurovision fans had speculated that Celine Dion, the Canadian singer, would appear in the appointment. Dion Won Eurovision in 1988, Representing Switzerland With “Ne partz Pas Sans Moi” (“Don’t Leave Without Me”), and Fans Had Hoped That Would Be Reprise That Track In Basel, Just Thought She has barely appeared This Dishe Dishe Hen Hen Rare A Rare A To take Rare Aane Rare to Rare Aane Rare to Rare to Rare to Rare to Rare to Rare a rare a rare he raises a rare and weird and weird sever weird, a weird, rare, a weird sever weird, a weird, a weird, weird, a weird, a strange queer. Known as the rigid person syndrome. In the end, Dion was absent from Saturday’s event.

JJ, who spent most of his childhood in Dubai, began to sing classic at age 15 when he moved to Austria. His father, pointing out JJ’s high voice, asked him to prove the “Queen of the Night” of “The Magic Flaute”, a piece at the end of that range, JJ recalled in a recent interview. Hello, watching YouTube videos of actions by Maria Callas and Montserrat Caballé and imitating those renowned sopranos, he said.

JJ said he expected his performance “to arouse interest in classical music” among Eurovision spectators.

After winning the trophy, “Wasted Love” sang a second time for the final of the final, and ended with a penetrating “High C.” Then, he started crying.