Brussels calling! Tonight, the first four participants of Belgium’s Eurosong 2025 shared their songs for the first time in a showcase performance to a small studio audience. On the first night of two, Grace, Lenn, Le Manou and LEEZ were set to perform their entries.
Belgium’s Eurosong 2025 returns after a one year absence since Flemish broadcaster VRT is now back in charge of preparing the country’s Eurovision entry. Despite the two Belgian broadcasters growing closer in recent years in regards to the nation’s Eurovision efforts, VRT still holds their national final separately from the Walloon public broadcaster.
VRT has slightly scaled back their Eurosong compared to two years ago. Back then, the Flemish broadcaster held the selection in Brussels’ Paleis/Palais 12 venue. Gustaph emerged on top with “Because of You” — earning Belgium an honourable seventh place at Eurovision.
Somewhat similar to two years ago, all entries are presented to the public in a stripped-down version prior to being released commercially. Tonight and next week, viewers will be able to hear the eight songs that will compete in the Eurosong 2025 final on 1 February. On that date, the public and jury will vote for their favourite song to determine Belgium’s Eurovision contestant for Basel.
You could watch along from 20:45 CET at VRT1 or via VRT Max — though be aware that the livestream is likely to be geoblocked.
Eurosong 2025: First showcase
Grace – “Pull Up”
LEEZ – “Perfectly imperfect”
Le Manou – “Fille à papa”
Lenn – “Air Balloon”
Which song do you like the most? Which song are you looking forward to hear from the second set next week? Let us know in the comments down below!
Le Manou samples Show Me Love by Robin S right? Sounds so similar! I like it though!
The other four songs next week seem more promising. There’s a lot of buzz around Mentissa and Red Sebastian. The four songs this week were rather meh. All would have trouble qualifying. Leez stuck out the most. Her voice is super strong, the chorus was catchy and it’s radio friendly, just not sure if it sticks out enough. Grace could work with good staging. Le Manou had a fun song but the vocals weren’t strong enough… Lenn is a cutie but how he got through the preselection I’m not sure…
Somebody please tell me which famous dance track Le Manou has sampled – it is driving me crazy!
Show Me Love by Robin S
Lenn is such a cutie, but he looked so out of his depth and his vocals were all over the place… shame, because the chorus was rather catchy.
LEEZ “Perfectly Imperfect” is my favourite of these four (even if it feels like a Melfest formula-driven song).
I enjoyed LE MANOU’s song as well
Pull Up to the top
I think Leez is the best of these four on first listen. It has potential to be elevated to the standard necessary.
Lenn is endearing but is not the song for Eurovision. It reminded me of Josh Dobovie.
LEEZ is an absolutely runaway from the other 3 here. Interested to see the remaining 4 songs.
Ok!
Lenn: nice song, good melody but the song doesn’t evolve enough and he needs more stage training, too shy
Le Manou: cool beat but the chorus is too repetitive and I have hard time with these lyrics
Leez: the most competent vocalist of these 4, song very Eurovision coded which could be good or bad, but overall I liked it.
Grace: my fav of these 4, very fun song, competent performer, big potential on stage, I really enjoyed it.
What a cozy show and a good idea for a preview show… … unfortunately the performances were shockingly bad. Absolute no breath control on any of them and it kinda felt like a karaoke show…. “Pull Up” is just another girl bop on the level of “Loop” from last year – dance break and all. “Perfectly Imperfect” was probably the best of the lot, but it reminds me of Surie’s “Storm” and I never fancied that one. “Fille a papa” was junior eurovision all the way and it felt like the song would never end… and “Air Ballon” literally took… Read more »
This sums up pretty much what I thought too!! It wasn’t as disappointing as it seemed initially, so I was in a strange way positively surprised. The snippets looked awful, so I was bracing myself. Grace and LEEZ were quite good imo, both a bit “too Eurovision” for my liking. Maybe it’s because I watched it through the TV, it wasn’t as bad vocally to me. I have the feeling we will probably hear the winner next week too… Lenn and Le Manou were both too inexperienced. That really showed even on a small stage. Pity to be honest as… Read more »
Hopefully, they can improve by the time of the final
The best performance came from Leez! I don’t even want to talk about the songs!!! Hopefully next better!!! WAY BETTER!!!
Pull up is very (very, almost too) Slomo-coded, dance break included. Air Balloon is not it. Fille à papa has some potential, I like the vibe, but I don’t see it winning in the state it is atm. Perfectly Imperfect is not my type of song but it was vocally the best of the evening. Even more curious about next week’s songs now!
Thanks. It’s good to know that something was revealed.
If you ignore the obvious inspiration for Pull Up, the performance was good though, and a small part of the song is in Lingala, so hypothetically speaking this song could bring a new language to the Eurovision (or at least Eurosong) stage!
Good evening to Belgium. I hope you’re enjoying topping the odds.
Interestingly this has been removed from EurovisionWorld, so perhaps it isn’t supposed to be a reveal? Anyhow, have a good evening.
Yeah geoblocked…we can see nothing…