The Netherlands NETHERLANDS 2025 - Claude - C'est la vie

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[shameless]

Prior I was thinking I would be drooling over the leads from Ziferblat and NAPA but instead he took all my attention away. What a handsome man. That the performance was a beautiful surprise wasn't harming either. Def one of my favorites from the BOPs (is it one?).

 

[Fluke]

Jury bait, plain and simple, though i can see it appealing to many televoters as well. I actually see this doing better than France and Switzerland, most seem to think France will do best, for some reason, but i still don't think it's a winning candidate.

 

[toinou03]

Absolutely love it. I loved the staging. It's clever and elegant. I don't get the hate for it. It's a great staging with close-ups.
That's brilliant ! Well done !

 

[Milos-BC]

Way better than I feared after reading the comments related to the rehearsals.......one of the best performances of the first semi and the song is also one of the best on the whole edition. With juries support, top 10 is certain.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

Meh, don't care much for the song and the staging didn't change my view of it. Nice story and sentiment, though.

 

[Preuss]

I don’t understand how he’s still third in the odds with that performance?

If it finishes 3rd on Saturday I’d be very surprised

 

[soulm8]

Good luck to this cutie. Big charisma guy, talking straight to the camera, dancing and singing pretty good. And people are surprised he is so popular? Well, I’m not!

 

[Wynnter]

This might honestly be that song which clicks enough with the casual audience to end up getting a result that confuses the core fandom.

 

[hungo]

A very charismatic singer. Sorry but the song ist very bland. Still he will receive a good result.

 

[soulm8]

This might honestly be that song which clicks enough with the casual audience to end up getting a result that confuses the core fandom.

The song has already over 17M plays on Spotify. And we talk about a country with a population far away of Italy and France. He is popular already, only the hard esc fans are denying him.

 

[anabanana2000]

Just might come high enough in both results to take it away I think, at the very least will be top 5

 

[soulm8]

Oh, my poor boy. No idea what went wrong, seriously. Everyone who watched him with me, found him charming and loved his performance. All the political voting ruined this guy, I love him and voted for him, of course. Bitter taste after the tesult though…

 

[Rocket man]

I thought this would do better tbh, especially from the juries. 12th place, not even top 10.

 

[Preuss]

The song was nice, the voice was nice.

The performance and performer were the downfall of this imo… still expected it to finish higher than 12th though

 

[Geborgenheit]

Eastern Europe hasn't voted for it much...

 

[94ayd]

Deserved televoting score, very overrated by the juries.

 

[ShoeFlo]

Most overrated entry this year. Very corny and outdated melody. Thank god the odds were wrong regarding this one.

 

[Sammy]

This should have done way better.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

Oh, my poor boy. No idea what went wrong, seriously. Everyone who watched him with me, found him charming and loved his performance. All the political voting ruined this guy, I love him and voted for him, of course. Bitter taste after the tesult though…

Racism might have been a factor.

 

[0scar]

Quite proud of Claude, he did well! Deserved more imo but not a bad result.

On other note: in the last 5 semi-finals participated in, a top 3 result was secured. Netherlands semi-final powerhouse confirmed