Baby Lasagna took Croatia to new highs at Eurovision in 2024, releasing a global hit and winning the public vote. And now producers at state broadcaster HRT have the challenging task of finding an act to follow all that glory.
They received 221 songs and, following an internal listening process, have culled the list to just 24 songs for the national selection Dora 2025. The songs and artists are…
Croatia: The 24 acts in Dora 2025
Ananda – Lies Lay Cold
EoT – Bye, Bye, Bye
Filomena – Strong
Irma – Enigma
IVXN – Monopol
Jelena Radan – Salut!
Lara feat LSQ – Mama
laurakojapjeva – NPC
Lelek – The Soul of my Soul
Luka Nižetić – Južina
Magazin – AaAaA
Marin Jurić Čivro – Gorjelo je
Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake
Marko Tolja – Through the dark
Marko Škugor – Šta da Boga molim ja
Martha May – Running to the Light
Matt Shaft – Welcome to the circus
Natalie Balmix – Život Ide Dalje
Natalli – Dom si srcu mom
Nipplepeople – Znak
Ogenj – Daj, daj
Petar Brkljačić – Kraj
Supersonic Trio – Animal
Teenah – Aurora
As you’ll recall, Baby Lasagna only got to compete last year after another artist withdrew. So the list of reserves is of major interest. This year’s back-up artists, who will compete in the event another act withdraws or can’t compete, are…
Swingers – “Ful Kul”
Fenksta – “Ekstra”
Patricia Gasparini – “Karma”
llyricum – “Tananai”
Which artists do you recognise from Eurovision and past national selections? Let us know down below.
14 or more songs in english YUK
all thanks to the Lasagna Loser we get this many plastic fastfood trash
You still did not go to therapy?
Croatia became as generic as Sweden, ugh
enjoy a well deserved NQ hopefully
all thanks to those tiktok youths they have more generic english language entries UGH
Croatia is one of the countries with highest percentage of songs in own language sent to Eurovision. Fact that last year was in English does not change the statistic. Get you facts straight before making comments
Rooting for all the Croatian language songs. The ones in English can f*** right off!!
LOL, one English language just gave Croatia their best result ever
so what? that fake ethno should’ve nq’d since Lasagna was trash
Well he got second place so deal with it..
No bigger trash here than your comments
Lelek
i dont actually know any of these names as long as there is rock or ballads in the final i am happy
Magazin’s title song is intriguing, AaAaA…
…song title
Sequel to Blanca Paloma’s EaEa?
That came to my mind too 😉 , EaEa vs AaAaA
Not sure if people will agree with me or not but Dora last year was very disappointing. Baby Lasagna was an exception and that’s why he won. I just can’t forget all those embarrassing amateurish mistakes singers were making and the worst sound mix that was done by HRT “experts”. I really hope this year at least they fix all the technical issues prior to Dora. And I hope the artists are able to sing their songs live. I also hope Baby Lasagna was not just once in a 10-20 years experience for Croatia. I really hope Croatia starts sending… Read more »
Marko Bosnjak is Dora’s 2nd place from 2022, so he is probably aiming for a win this time, and English language title means he’s targeting ESC chance for sure.
gives me more Kedzo – Angels and Demons effort vibes 😉
not like you have to sing in english to go to ESC, we don’t have to listen to the dictators of United Kingdom with their disgusting english language
Really? “Angels and demons” are words used in way too many songs, it points at unoriginal song and there’s no way that song was exception to that. “Poison cake” can give you anything BUT that same vibe, so you gota think before you write something like that. And these downvotes of analysis are so funny, like…hello kids who visit wiwibloggs without parents consent -.-
Poison is also a song by Alice Cooper, Nicole Scherzinger
quite generic words either
I just hope they will not f*** up the voting like this year. BL would’ve won either way, but if you watch the revealing of the points, you’ll notice it wasn’t 50:50 public-juries (as it should habe been and as it is in the propositions/rules of the contest).
HRT better hire a math expert to explain to them how this concept works (tho a middle school kid can do it just as well).
It absolutely was 50/50 jury/televote. Just the kind of that system where televote points are counted proportionally to the percentages of the televotes received, in this case, they had 58*8=464 jury points, so they had to distribute 464 televote points too (463 in this case, due to rounding, it almost always happens). Just Baby Lasagna scored so many televotes that the margin betwen him and others became absolutely impossible to overpower for juries. So, that system can be different, absolute power of televoters in cases like this… or power of juries if the televotes are really close in the top.… Read more »
I don’t follow your logic, I’m sorry. They tried to implement the ESC voting/scoring system and failed miserably. I am surprised there wasn’t a scandal around it, but I suppose everyone was too excited by RTTD which was the best song indeed. For a 50:50 system to make sense you must have the same amount of points from jury as well as from the public. You are right about that there was 8 × 58 = 464 points for each. Practically speaking, the most valued song by juries could get 96 points max. For the above mentioned system to work,… Read more »
Haha it’s obvious this site’s full of brilliant math experts. ?
Not sure if you guys are aware but reservist Fenksta is actually an active member of r/eurovision and has been organically making songs themselves from scratch for a while now. Fingers crossed they somehow get in!
Looking forward to Magazin and Nipplepeople. They WILL deliver for sure.
Lelek – tanani Nani = wow
River dance with great voices and traditional Croatian. The stage drowns many songs but this blasts the stage. Keep an eye out for them
Welcome back Lorena Bucan! (Magazin)!
At least they fired all those who had on reserve the televote winner of Eurovision 2024…
Petar Brklja?i? ??