Malta has made a decision. The country’s entry for Basel was chosen on Saturday night during the grand final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
Taking place at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre, 16 competitors made it to the grand final. But in the end, it was Miriana Conte who served stage presence and “Kant.” She ended the night with a trophy and a ticket to Switzerland.
Our hosts for the evening were Valentina Rossi, Davide Tucci and Pauline Agius.
Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Grand final
The decision on who won was determined by votes from both the public and a professional jury — including our very own William Lee Adams.
Jury vote
- Kristy Spiteri – 102 points
- Miriana Conte – 88 points
- Victoria – 74 points
- Kantera – 52 points
- Krista Šujak – 44 points
- Kurt Calleja – 31 points
- JVF – 30 points
- The Alchemists – 30 points
- Raquela – 21 points
- Mark Anthony Bartolo – 15 points
- Justine Shorfid – 14 points
- Dario Bezzina ft. Żeppi l-Muni – 10 points
- Martina Borg – 6 points
- Stefan Galea – 4 points
- Adria Twins – 1 point
- Nathan – 0 points
Public vote
- Miriana Conte – 94 points
- Kantera – 85 points
- Kristy Spiteri – 72 points
- Dario Bezzina ft. Żeppi l-Muni – 62 points
- JVF – 46 points
- Victoria – 40 points
- Adria Twins – 26 point
- Kurt Calleja – 16 points
- Krista Šujak – 15 points
- Mark Anthony Bartolo – 12 points
- The Alchemists – 11 points
- Justine Shorfid – 10 points
- Nathan – 10 points
- Martina Borg – 9 points
- Stefan Galea – 9 points
- Raquela – 5 points
Overall result
- Miriana Conte – 182 points
- Kristy Spiteri – 174 points
- Kantera – 137 points
- Victoria – 114 points
- JVF – 76 points
- Dario Bezzina ft. Żeppi l-Muni – 72 points
- Krista Šujak – 59 points
- Kurt Calleja – 47 points
- The Alchemists – 41 points
- Adria Twins – 27 point
- Mark Anthony Bartolo – 27 points
- Raquela – 26 points
- Justine Shorfid – 24 points
- Martina Borg – 15 points
- Stefan Galea – 13 points
- Nathan – 10 points
Running order
- Miriana Conte – “Kant”
- Victoria – “Juno”
- Dario Bezzina ft. Żeppi l-Muni – “Għażliet”
- JVF – “Festa (No Time for Siesta)”
- The Alchemists – “Rubble & Stone”
- Krista Šujak – “Unheard”
- Raquela – “Silenced”
- Kantera – “LalaRataTakeke LalaRataKabum”
- Nathan – “Concrete”
- Justine Shorfid – “Still I Rise”
- Adria Twins – “Qalb ma’ Qalb”
- Martina Borg – “Yo Listen”
- Mark Anthony Bartolo – “Hideaway”
- Kurt Calleja – “Aziz/a”
- Kristy Spiteri – “Heaven Sent”
- Stefan Galea – “Lablab (Talk Talk)”
What are your thoughts on the grand final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025? How do you think Malta will do in Basel? Let us know in the comments below.
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This song is a joke, I would understand if she was using Kant in context but they just wanted to use a bad word. It doesn’t make sense with the rest of the song. Also why do Malta want to constantly send plus size women with pitchy vocals to Eurovision it’s getting old. She is trying to hard to be like destiny. Does Malta have an obesity problem?
That’s discrimination and stereotyping. As if Malta sends plus-size singers every year. But even if it were the case, why would one have to comment on that issue? It’s 2024. If you don’t like her body, be our guest and be skinny.
2025, even worse. :p
Heaven Sent 8s the Winner Without Crown of ESC 25 sorry Malta
I’ll bop to this in my room, but I will cringe when watching in front of family.
Sounds vaguely familiar to an Alesha Dixon song circa 2006.
And those live vocals need work. The live vocals are a tad week and she was miming the chorus, badly. The jury won’t like this and it will divide the viewers. Be prepared as this won’t do as well as Malta think it will.
Good luck Malta, you will need it. It’s not bad but it’s cliche and provocative in a not that smart and witty way. It will Qualify but that’s about it.
She’s serving cringe
I fear she’ll end up making a fool of herself in Basel :/
Wow… THAT was something uhmm. Serving awful song, terrible vocals, hideous dress sense and overall cheapness.
This nighmare is like that Destiny chick but even more dreadful.
Girl, keep that kunt to yourself please.
She’s serving it whether you like it or not 😀
She’s serving pork
Well, f*** me silly! There I was thinking this would be about the great German philosopher…
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel. There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya’ ‘Bout the raising of the wrist. SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED… John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away; Half a crate of whiskey every day. Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,… Read more »
awful song ..cheap and vulgar performance.
I finally get the recognition I deserve
Just learn to sing
Aight I’ve actually made my mind up. This could do very well in the televote actually, it has certain “meme” value to it. It does have a nice catchy beat to it, idk I wouldn’t write it off.
It’s catchy! But I got last place vibes…
Chant?
There is absolutely no way the BBC or any radio station in UK or Ireland will play this song. It’s very rare we hear this word on TV let alone in a drama late at night, its practically banned , taboo more likely, and for those in which English is their first language its probably one of the most offensive words one would use in the English vocabulary. Let alone being a family show at 8pm. This will have OFCOM hounded. I’m telling you now , this ain’t going to Eurovision. Or the lyrics will have to be changed. As… Read more »
They’ll just replace the word with a beep or some kind of sound effect to it while playing, instead of the word. A good example is Missy Elliott’s ’Work It’ where the C-word was replaced with a elephant sound
Or use her surname Conte?..easy
peasy and sounds similar
Ok Mary Whitehouse pipe down
He’s probably right, though. The world is not ready.
Mexico might be ready. People think it’s a conservative country but a song about a n a l s e x topped the local charts for 3 weeks in 2023 ._.
Source: I’m Mexican and you couldn’t escape that song for a while
What’s to be offended by here? It’s ki da a feminist reclamation of the word. Vulva power!
Ask a first language English speaking woman, on the contrary, she would definitely find this very offensive.
“hasta me duele la pinche vulva nada más de acordarme de ti”
It may surprise you but the UK is not the world. Who cares what the poor soft souls at the BBC think.
Here’s the fear (though I think this is unlikely to happen):If the content goes against the BBC Charter and the EBU refuses to allow the transmission to be altered, the BBC would have to pull out of ESC 2025 altogether. Realistically they just kant do that; they’ll be a compromise of some sort. (Probably just a bleep machine.)
It’s not about the UK and the BBC’s opinions; it’s about the proper use of the English language throughout the world. Non native speakers of English don’t realise how offensive certain words are. You would never do this in your own language, for sure.
I forgot the DJ’s name but he announced that as a DJ working for the BBC he won’t be playing it for the very obvious reason.
NQ
DP 😉
Trumpistic sound…biatchonce meets anaconda
In Dutch the word kant has two meanings 1. side and 2. lace nothing ambiguous.
She’s like if Jesy Nelson slayed
Awful, so far my second-last place
Malta 2/12
I found the one act that will never be higher than my last place this year I guess. This is song beyond stupid, and the only ones stanning this are the types of people who call literally every female above the age of 18 “mOtHeR”
Us gays are extremely powerful. Btw, are you named after the Australian bus?
Hahahahaha…..touché!
Miriana has a car accident this morning ! Hope she s ok !!!
Negativity … Why can’t people who do not like the song just skip the bs and move to another song…
Nowadays psychos
Nothing wrong with constructive criticism. Hatred is something else.
Very poor voice, kitschy performance. It will be like Olly Alexander last year.
This is…a thing. I mean, I bet Malta’s pride is going to be a show. But beyond the Drag Queens…I can’t see who might side with this song, especially as Finland is there, and Finland is better.
I’m not sure about that, I think they might be in each other’s way
Another rubbish for this year, even junior eurovision doesn’t deserve this. Aren’t they ashamed to sent this pathetic thing to eurovision, millions of viewers gonna see this means embarrassment for Malta, sorry but this is another piss taker
i wanted concrete to win
Sack the stylist for a start. The whole act is coarse and vulgar.
Gws dear Miriana!! 🙁
My Favourite so far….the juries will kill it but I think it should get to the final…great fun!
Didn’t watch the NF, but just watched Heaven Sent, and it’s 100x better. They really did just send Kant so they could swear on live tv.
simply awful , cheap and vulgar !
Suddenly, I miss Destiny.
Kristy should have won. She had the most potential to do well and produce a hit as well. Kant’s over sexualised nature puts it at odds with casual audiences and more conservative families who will not vote for this. In addition, Finland’s Erika Vikman delivers a song of a similar tone but does so in a slicker and more effective way – she essentially will decapitate this song at Eurovision to the point where Malta might lose votes where Finland will take them.
Well they need to lighten up and be dragged into modernisation… sick of conservative viewers. The double standards towards UK last year were wrong.
Just because someone is gay don’t assume they want to watch someone simulate sex in a shower block on live tv with the family around.
Exactly. If you hold conservative values, simply don’t watch.
It might be the other way around, I’m not a fan of both of the songs, but this one is more catchy than Erika’s.
Last place for me this year. This song is the opposite of a quality song. My eyes and my ears are bled after watching and hearing this “song”.
Best get to A&E
It’s sad for me that the music taste of europeans is changing so bad. This song has an audience and it enter a music genre or performance, I accept that, but It’s horrible to see in Eurovision the very genre music destroyed in favor of some pop/bop/unoriginal music
This is what sells in the UK and America
maybe she’s singing about the german philosopher, let’s not judge pls
You don’t have to gaslight yourself, buddy. This song is exactly what others say it is. A poorly disguised excuse to swear on global TV
Alternatively, it’s a fun, silly, sassy song sung by a talented young woman
serving cünt
I genuinely kant believe I stayed up an extra two hours just to see this win. I’m pretty unsure what to think of it, but this definitely has an audience.- just probably not me.
I’ve just watched the performance and I’m speechless but in a good way. Will certainly get the televote! However will the borrowing of the do-ri-me phrase pose any problems?
Borrowing from whom? It’s a universally used mnemonic.
MESS. But I’m loving it
Imagine kindergarten kids all over Europe singing “serving kant”. ? This will be very interesting to follow.
Malta can win the televote.
They Kant.
Eurovision deserves better and a bit more respect! Love the song and performance and would like nothing better than to see Malta win but the title and lyric is a problem. It might be a Maltese word but the lyric doesn’t make sense, so it’s hard to defend. I’m no prude and like a bit of smutty innuendo in the right place and time. This is more than that, it isn’t funny, just makes me a bit sad that the contest has come to this. EBU have a situation.
What is the problem. 3 minutes not in your taste. Can you develop what makes you sad?
“Serving c*nt” is the obvious problem. The song is completely in English except for the Maltese spelling of the c-word. Small children will sing this song at school and in kindergarten. Most people don’t know the context, nor do they know Maltese. It doesn’t help much to add (Singing) to the title since what you hear is a woman singing “serving c*nt”.
100% agree with that.
If your children are singing ‘serving kant’ then it is not Malta’s problem but your problem as a parent. learn how to deal with it or else shut your kids in a basement.
Maybe they should stick to just junior Eurovision. Junior Eurovision should be marketed more as family and Eurovision as Adult.
100% The song is listed on Wikipedia as having English and Maltese lyrics when in fact it is using just one word of Maltese because it sound like something else. I’ve been to Malta several times, everyone there speaks very good English so they know exactly what’s going on here. It’s a bit of an insult to the Maltese language just using one word because it sounds like something else. I wasn’t even aware of the term “Serving Cnut” until now, we know what they’re saying and they’re not serving singing.
I was rooting for Kantera. Well, you can’t have everything in life.
It’s so weird and so Eurovision! And those bouncing balls in the end. I’m so embarrassed. We want to feel something from the songs and like first ten songs this year didn’t make me feel much. Of course it’s not a winner, but I feel stuff. Like it’s weird and awkward and all. So I’m glad they send it.
What does that even mean? Like serving kant on a restaurant? Garbage
it means singing in maltese, so for the first time in more than 50 years maltese is back in the contest
also verified by eurovision.tv
She really needs a new stylist. When you look like this, you should not wear this outfit. It really doesn’t do anything good for her. The song is okay, but you forget to listen to it, because you think: Where is the stylist!!!!
Say all you want, good or bad about ‘Kant’ but at least they’ve earned a publicity stunt and make MESC even more noticeable this year and realised that they have 4 good songs worth it to be as a song for Eurovision. This is not new for Malta to send some silly song. Remember they’ve send Morena promoting alcoholism back in 2008. Sad that it didn’t qualified.
What’s up with this year? Not liking this either… I only got Greece in my list for now :/
Utter garbage