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 is clearly the best option here but the broadcaster should hire a professional team to help the song shine on stage
I think Grace has the best entry of these four, but it’s not great. Hope that the next batch of songs is better.
Snippets for group 2 are out and let me tell you.. all 4 seem so much better than last week! Red Sebastian seems to have HUGE potential, I think he’ll be my winner. The techno club song gives so much energy and is also something that Belgium typically excells at. Mentissa’s song seems solid but I’ll have to hear to full 3 mins cause right now I’m a little underwhelmed.
Well sure, these snippets sound okay, but what have the bookies heard that we haven’t? There isn’t a potential winner between them, not even close.
The bookies aren’t based on anything at this point… there’s hype around Mentissa. That’s it. It’s too early to predict anything yet.
Ignore the odds. I don’t give a crap about them.
Yeah, but you’d expect there’s at least some sort of reason for a normally mid table country to be at the top of these odds… Britain’s chances are usually overrated, but not Belgium.
Idk… That dance breakdown in Red Sebastian’s song sounds pretty epic. That could be a huge moment in the arena.
It stands out in this selection, but ultimately it sounds like the kind of dated dance track that could still do well with a part of the Eurovision audience (much like Gustav) but winning the whole thing? Nah.
Le Manou’s song contains show me love by Robin S, Pull-up is identical to Slomo.
Le Manou song would not look out of place in Junior Eurovision!
Le Manou’s song is the best of the four. But overall, those 4 sounds are a bit disappointing. The most disappointing is that (according to my opinion) they all seem and sound bored on stage. I can’t see or feel anything, they look at the camera as if they are doing a chore and waiting for it to finish to go home and have a bath. Let’s see what show 2 has in store.
What is the vibe with Belgium currently being #1 in the odds? Do they know something? Perhaps a big favourite in show 2?
A singer singing a song called “Daddy’s girl” dressed like that? Eh no thanks…unsettling!
Well, the actual meaning would be closer to “spoiled rich girl” than “Daddy’s girl”.
Belgium at this rate you are not in the final. Very very weak songs. The Party Is Over is a million times better than these, and that didn’t qualify, unfortunately! All are nil points!
Grace’s song is so good, she can sing, she can dance and she has ATTITUDE! Belgium, you must send her to Eurovision!
Before this batch of songs released, I already expected that they would be weak, but not this weak.
Next batch will probably be better.
Le Manou the best from these 4!!
For me that’ was the most annoying one. Parapapa…Europapa..I don’t know..
Le Manou is definitely my favorite. As a French, I’m not used to hear my language song and I have to admit that I’m obsessed. Even if the song do not have deep lyrics, I would love top hear it on the ESC stage. Hope that France will bring similar songs this year (even if I don’t think they will) !
they are quite bad….
Lenn is so adorable, he has a nice yet different voice, a impressive debut for him
LEEZ flemish loreen vibes is what i am having with her, in a very good way
Le Manou is lovely, great party song too with a lovely message of love for her dad
Grace is chanel slomo similar-ish but also still very authentic, love the congolese language in there too, from her family roots which gives that extra specialness
I don’t mind the vibe of Fille a Papa,but of course it needs a serious revamp.
Grace and Leez…seen and heard a thousand of times, really forgettable.
Leen…he seems a really nice guy,
but omg does he look inexperienced and out of place, with literally no voice.
Very weak songs, sorry Belgium
There’s four more songs next week. These may be the weakest of the bunch, but the last four could be better.
Don’t apologize…You’re absolutely right !!!
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…
Lenn is the offspring of a famous Belgian entertainment family. There you have the reason why he’s on that stage.
Who’s he related to?
His grandfather is Louis Neefs, who participated in ESC for Belgium both in 1967 and 1969, and came 7th both times. He’s basically an icon for the older generation. He never knew his grandfather though, as he died early in 1980 on Christmas day with his wife in a traffic accident. His father is also a well known singer and musician in Flanders, Günther Neefs.
Oh, so that’s why he was given both Louis Neefs’ Eurovision songs for the Eurovision covers portion of the showcase. To honor His grandfather! So sad he died before Lenn was even born.
Somebody please tell me which famous dance track Le Manou has sampled – it is driving me crazy!
Show Me Love by Robin S
Thank you!
Isn´t sampling forbidden? She´d surely be disqualified if she really sampled a song?
It might not be technically a sample. It does sound very similar to my ears. I like the song, but it did make it instantly think of the other track.
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
Le Manou has more than 10 years of experience ? she went far on The Voice Belgium 10 years ago, she also was a candidate for JESC in 2009 and finished 2nd in the qualification for Belgium ?
It is just that she makes electropop, but she was not out of breath or anything… Is it gonna win ? No, but she did the best and to be honnest, it is the only song representing what we are listening to here in Belgium
Couldn’t have worded it any better. Great job.
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.
Not supposed to be a reveal? It was on national tv in Belgium, so if they’re trying to keep the songs secret, they’re doing a pretty bad job.
Yeah geoblocked…we can see nothing…