Tallinn calling! Sixteen acts competed in the final of Eesti Laul 2025 — Estonia’s Eurovision selection. In the end, Tommy Cash came on top with “Espresso Macchiato” and will represent Estonia in Basel.
Returnees, big names and newcomers. Estonia’s Eesti Laul was filled with some of the country’s biggest musical stars. Tonight, they performed their songs in Tallinn’s Unibet Arena.
Eesti Laul changed its format drastically from recent years. This year, Estonian broadcaster ERR scrapped the semi-final. Instead, it directly selected fifteen finalists. Twenty additional songs were put out for a wildcard vote. This meant that Marta Lotta joined the Eesti Laul 2025 final as a sixteenth participant after winning this particular vote.
The Eesti Laul 2025 winner and subsequent Estonian participant at Eurovision in Basel were determined by a combination of televoting and an international jury. Three acts proceeded to a superfinal, where the Estonian public determined the show’s winner.
You could watch Eesti Laul 2025 live on ERR’s streaming service Jupiter from 18:15 CET to 20:00 CET. After that, the show went on a break as ETV then broadcast the news. You could tune back into the show at 20:30 CET for the results.
Eesti Laul 2025 running order
- Ant – “Tomorrow Never Comes”
- Stereo Terror – “Prty Till the End of the World”
- Janek – “Frozen”
- Räpina Jack feat. Kaisa Ling – “Tule”
- Johanna Elise – “Eyes Don’t Lie”
- Felin – “Solo Anthem”
- Elysa – “The Last to Know”
- Gem98 – “Psycho”
- An-Marlen – “Külm”
- Frants Tikerpuu – “Trouble”
- Anna Sahlene – “Love Me Low”
- Tuuli Rand – “REM”
- Minimal Wind – “Armageddon”
- Andrei Zevakin feat. Karita – “Ma ei tea sind”
- Tommy Cash – “Espresso macchiato”
- Marta Lotta – “Tantsin veel”
Eesti Laul 2025 results
International jury (first round)
The international jury consisted of eight jurors from different European countries. Vocal coach and singer Regína Ósk (Iceland), Wiwibloggs’ William Lee Adams (United Kingdom), KEiiNO’s Alexandra Rotan (Norway) LRT head of delegation Ramunas Zilnys (Lithuania), director Juris Matuzelis (Latvia), producer Marvin Dietmann (Austria), Estonia’s 2019 singer Victor Crone (Sweden), and actress Ene Rämmeld (France).
- Tommy Cash – 75 points
- An-Marlen – 68 points
- Janek – 58 points
- Andrei Zevakin feat. Karita – 35 points
- FELIN – 34 points
- ANT – 32 points
- gem98 – 28 points
- ELYSA – 25 points
- Minimal Wind – 23 points
- Frants Tikerpuu – 20 points
- Stereo Terror – 17 points
- Johanna Elise – 16 points
- Anna Sahlene – 15 points
- Marta Lotta – 9 points
- Räpina Jack feat. Kaisa Ling – 6 points
- Tuuli Rand – 3 points
Televoting (first round)
Full results to be announced later.
Superfinal results
Following the first round of international jury vote and a televote, the three acts with the highest total score proceeded to the superfinal.
- Tommy Cash (winner)
- Andrei Zevakin feat. Karita
- Ann-Marlen
Did you watch Eesti Laul 2025 live? What do you think about Tommy Cash and “Espresso Macchiato”? Let us know in the comments down below!
Well, next year Italy could send a song saying Estonia belongs to Russia because there are a lot of russian speaking people. I am sure they wouldn’t be so happy. What we need is reciprocal respect. You can mock your parents, your friends, not other people who are generally friendly and never said anything bad on Estonians.
I like that Tommy Cash says (to italian press and TV) he actually loves Italy and didn’t want to be unrespectful. To me it is just like the one who says he is not homoofobe because he has a lot of gay friends. That’s totally unrelevant. The song is stupid and it’s also stupid to use another country as a mocking subject. Eurovision scope is to reunite the european countries, not mock one another. So this song goes against the deep message and reason of Eurovision.
Appalling.
CRINGE!
I need this in the top 5 in the final!!! By far, my fav song from this season
Possible televote winner .. coz the final is sure
Tommy Trash
First the video disappears from the ESC channel, and now the Eesti Laul account itself has disappeared too.
WHAT IS GOING ON??
I know, this “song” is meant to be funny. Well, it isn´t. Just pathetic.
as an Italian I can only smile at this stupid song and I’m sure that if we had released a song against any other country like Germany, England or France because every country has its merits but also defects….well…it would have certainly been banned both at Eurovision and directly from the Sanremo festival because in Italy there is no need to offend anyone to make a hit..our wonderful Sanremo orchestra is enough for us that for a week makes us forget the drama of the mafia where many Italian people like Borsellino and other judges have lost their lives to… Read more »
I like this for some odd reason 🙂
Crap
It is brilliant
The best song by far. Being objective, all the selections so far turned out to be a mess. Surely he’s not going to win, but Tommy is going to achieve his goal, and that is for everyone to be talking about him. In addition to that, let’s agree that last year’s festival was a circus with Joost’s disqualification, among other issues, so it is more than fair for countries to send a joke.
I would be very happy if Tommy wins
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Well, the problem is that it isn´t even a joke. Tommy tries to be a joke, but fails big time.
I do not think that everyone will be talking about him. Malta will wear that crown this year.
Altro che Sanremo
Will EBU approve it? This song is literally mocking another country (Italy) with outdated clichés and making fun of the mafia… “United by music”?
I don’t think this song fits in the competition.
It’s not mocking Italy. It’s mocking worldwide work ethics.
Come on now. This is very overt and in-your-face mocking of Italy. At best, it is an extremely botched attempt at being funny at the expense of a fellow participant country.
Explain to me how it’s mocking Italy. I’ll wait.
It’s like saying that every song in English is about mocking England.
Well, if you do a song in English with bad clichés about British people, yes it would be offensive as well.
No one cares about “bad cliches” or “stereotypes” related to Italy, I’d say there’s 1000 things that people care about much more than asking Google “Hey what are the Italy stereotypes”? I know it’s brutal, but honestly, no one cares.
You have a really strong inner conflict, a simple coffee song is not suitable. Does a Finnish song mock women? I don’t think this song is suitable for the contest…
as an Italian I can only smile at this stupid song and I’m sure that if we had released a song against any other country like Germany, England or France because every country has its merits but also defects….well…it would have certainly been banned both at Eurovision and directly from the Sanremo festival because in Italy there is no need to offend anyone to make a hit..our wonderful Sanremo orchestra is enough for us that for a week makes us forget the drama of the mafia where many Italian people like Borsellino and other judges have lost their lives to… Read more »
The strength of the song is that it is interesting. I never feel bored. True, it needs some work – the vocals, and Tommy Cash also lacked endurance (for example, Taylor Swift reportedly trains for this by singing while running on a treadmill). But with effort, Estonia can have an excellent representative.
Leave it up to the Eurovision fandom to preach that people should be open minded while being closed minded themselves.
Whoever wrote the lyrics of the song did not even do his (or her or their) homework properly. Italians do not say “por favore” but “per favore.”
Por favore is a comedic mix between por favor and per favore. It’s intentional.
It seems than that this year some countries are going into the narrative of “I said that but did not mean exactly that” or ” Yes we wrote it that way (wrongly) on purpose.” Mightn’t it be the case that they simply made a mistake!
It is intentional, it is a mixing of languages, including English.
This is the joke song of this year’s ESC.
Not at all
No, actually that honour goes to Finland.
Maybe also Malta?
One thing I can say: Käärijä created a trend. But this song is an overall no from me (although the chorus is catchy). He is someone you can remember as a face and the concept is ok. The overall execution is poor, to my taste. It sounds more like a parody song (unlike cha cha cha and baby lasagna).
Exactly that, it’s not very sophisticated at all and thankfully the musical experts ‘juries’ will punish it.
Agree with you Poul. Cha Cha Cha was exquisite by itself, but voters, and some of us, are tired with the bandwagon. I’ve started listing to The Eagles for the first time since 1977.
Cute song! No he has 3 months to learn how to sing.
I’m sick and tired of all these joke songs that are so cringe and have nothing to offer. Where is the good old Eurovision?
this is hideous! and it’s per favore NOT “por favore ” .
That was so bad! Her song Is Easy to sing but he can’t sing that! How this won jury vote? As an italian i’m not interested about the joke of italian culture, but this performance…was nothing. I don’t know even how to rank It.
Is it also an Italian thing to put oneself at the front and centre of everything? Or maybe you are youself acting like a materia? for a new stereotype?
It’s probably okay to you to think that the test of Europe should solve your own problems but not okay to use your language in a song or make a joke about this and that?
Calm down and let people enjoy what they want and select what they want. No need to be depresso.
Can relate. This must feel as bad as Emilia Pérez
Get over..
It’s curious because I liked it more before in studio than now watching it live (with this kind of songs is usually the other way round). Weak voice and nothing interesting or entertaining on stage, the acting isn’t enough. By law, this is usually supported by the televote, so I suppose Estonia is getting a top 15 placing at the very least. I hope that the Eurovision juries are not as condescending and want to act as modern as the Eesti Laul ones. Surely, Kaarija supporting Tommy had something to do with getting the 83% of the votes I liked… Read more »
I was there and everything was powerfully enough, the show was brilliant. Käärijä and Joost are just a good friends of Tommy and defenitely they support Tommy Cash, but they have nothing to do with success of Tommy. Tommy is the choice of the Estonians, and as I understand you don’t like it, so could you at least respect the choice of the Estonians.
The performance got DELETED from the ESC official channel just 12 hours after being uploaded.
What’s the drama anyone?
Yeah, that’s surprising. I don’t know what happened.
So bad that it should be automatically DQ.
there is still hope this war crime does not go to Eurovision
It was deleted by mistake, instead of “Serving C*nt.”
Tommy Cash is a pretty international artist, it’s likely record label interference if i had to guess
Just speculating…perhaps the Eesti Laul performance will be copy-and-paste to Basel and the artist doesn’t want to spoil the surprise for the viewers in May’s Semi-final.
I think this entry is great and will do very well in the televoting! I also liked Janek’s «Frozen» alot! Impressed that a small country like Estonia has such strong national finals year after year!
The responses by some on here whenever a song they don’t like wins are hilarious!
“I’m boycotting Eurovision”
“I’m offended”
“Gays have no taste”
“ZERO points”
“It’s a family show”
“NQ, mark my words”
Keep ’em coming…
Indeed. Plus, Tommy Cash is in the same category as Zdob si Zdub 2022. As in: being hated for being a so called joke while easily qualifying and making the top 10 easily.
Zdob si Zdub makes music. Tommy doesn´t.
Both make music.
Estonia 0/12
I don’t get why most of the fandom likes this, it’s utter cringe
One person’s cringe is another person’s binge 😀
Big letdown.. It was uncomfortable to watch and those vocals were like.. Oh no!
I think it’s all part of the parody of the song. It’s more like a joke song than a proper song.
Wait why has Eurovision set the video to private? https://youtu.be/IWIxvkt3hoI
Okay, it’s finally happening…Tommy Cash at ESC! Why then is this such an anticlimax? Perhaps he will perform this song in Basel is an interesting and fun way (unlike the bizarre unfunny, non-entertaining, cringey mess that his Esti Laul performance turned out to be). The joke may be on Tommy if he doesn’t come up with some big ideas for Basel.
Yeah I think with Tommy, fans are used to getting the real shock-factor, but “Espresso Macchiato” is just playfully funny and a bit of cringe. Hence, the anti-climax. However, ESC viewers who haven’t heard of Tommy Cash before will love “Espresso Macchiato” so it will get Tommy new fans. So it’s a very clever move for him.
I hope you are right. I hate to see any artist fail at ESC. I feel what we saw at Eesti Laul is just not enough.
Praise mediocrity. And Europe wants respect from the rest of the world ?
Since when does Europe want respect from the rest of the world? That doesn’t even make sense
the best italian entry!
so ethno
It’s all funny when it’s a stereotype of white people. Haha “espresso, mozzarella, mama mia” or “oui-oui, I’m le French” or “my name Igor da, I drinking vodka, da”. But now imagine the singer would sing “sushi, sashimi, ling ling ding” and he’d be disqualified. What would happen if he sang “Indian curry”??? Netta was literally accused of appropriating Asian culture for her outfit and those stupid cat figurines. It’s such a double standard. And the song isn’t even good to be honest.
Netta went on to perform and win the context. You give too much value to stupid comments on an internet.
I mean, “sushi, sashimi, ling ling ding” does sound catchy tbf
If you think he’s appropriating Italian Culture, then it means you don’t understand the song.
Grow up and ignore criticism
I assume this is a Trump pastiche?
The studio cut was actually really catchy, but omg the live performance was so awkward. I hope it stays in the semis.
Stop comparing this to Windows95man. He was actually funny. A better comparison would be Subwoolfer from Norway, an unfunny joke entry.
You mean the opposite, I expect?
He scares me a little bit, The song is catchy and not very special at the same time time. Children will love it.
I’m sorry to say but it’s trash. Estonians were known to have better taste in music.
Like last year? LOL
I don’t even remember whom did they have last year so don’t come at me.
I’m now listening to Sabrina’s Espresso to clean my ears.
Literally about to do the same thing
What sort of a jury gives such a disaster its highest points? Did our William put it at first too? I mean it’s the least vocally demanding song and the guy still managed to exactly hit zero notes. A I thought the jury were there to award musical quality and vocal prowess.
William liked gem98 🙂 he has the same taste as me, I thought that song worked best on tele, and was very original.
At least the kids had fun.
The song is catchy, yes. It is also rather inappropriate, mocking a nation and stereotypes. Some people may find it funny, but if it was about your country – would you feel 100% comfortable with it? My husband is Italian, he did not enjoy this performance and did not enjoy find out it is going to represent Estonia on ESC this year.
How old is your husband? And btw, know that most Italians (including me) love to make jokes about themselves
I’m Italian and I’m tired of foreigners treating us like living caricatures. Couldn’t he make jokes about his own country instead of a foreign Country he doesn’t have anything to do with? This song is supposed to represent Estonia!
Also I found the cheap broke Italian/Spanish mix and the mafia reference very lousy
Cosa c’entra la sua età con tutto questo?
“Grazie. Grazie. You have brought a great a joy to this old Italian stereotype!”
In all seriousness, I cannot imagine many Italians being upset by this, just as there aren’t many French who get upset about wearing a beret or Brits who get upset about mocking the whole gentleman/Downton Abbey thing. We’re Europeans. We make fun of each other because we’re family not because we don’t like each other.
It’s not mocking Italy and its stereotypes… It’s mocking bad working conditions, greedy bosses, capitalism.
You know that because you studied the topic in-depth and you are on this forum. For an average receiver, for people detached from the ‘meaningful lyrics’ it will be just a parody performance, mocking Italians. It is based on stereotypes, if you want to sing about capitalism and how wrong the system is – chose a wiser way of doing so? Good example – Konstrakta (Serbia, 2022) or even Hatari (Iceland, 2019). We are allowed to have our opinions, I am glad you like the song, but believe that someone may find it offensive and respect that.
It’s literally easy to understand. You’ve got to have an IQ below room temperature to not understand. The Estonian jury understood the song, the Estonian public understood it.
I didn’t find it particularly negative, it’s just incredibly dumb.
Tommy had perhaps the worst vocal performance of the night.
Now i know comedy is subjective. But i found this amusing and well staged. It didn’t try too hard and to be honest it was the supporting act that swung it for me (ie dancers!). Kaarija also was well placed to support. Is it the best song..no. Will it do well on this staging…yes.
I am a cappuccino person myself but I love this Espresso.
Watched the final just for the level of its quality rather than the results. I mean, I like Espresso Machiato and I respect the fact that their biggest pop name of their industry opted to go to the NF, but it was visible from the whole publicity (Tomy Cash giving points to UMK…) that even for the broadcast there was a frontrunner. Kinda feel sad for the rest that they had to go through a selection that wasn’t meant from them from the beginning (I mean look at the jury votes as well…) About the song, it is “jokey” but… Read more »
But this song is not as good as Kaarija’s or Joost’s.
He won thanks to the support of Kaarija.
The song itself is just trash
Tommy Cash is just about the biggest popstar they have in Estonia. He didn’t need Kaarija. But apart from that, he just had the best performance. Even if you’re not a fan of the song you have to acknowledge that.
Tommy Cash has released singles with Charli XCX, Little Big and Kim Petras. It’s honestly quite insulting to him to think that he’s riding off the coat tails of somebody who isn’t even his biggest collaborator just because people don’t like the song.
What do you mean Tommy Cash won because of the support of Kaarija lmao Tommy Cash was making this kind of music in Estonia to massive chart success before Kaarija was known to anyone outside of Finland. You can hate the song but let’s not act like the guy isn’t probably the most mainstream successful Estonian artist in the world right now.
Ciao Bella, Ciao Europa
Douza pointi go to Estoni
every year there’s a troll entry and I guess Estonia did it again
Only illiterates think Espresso Machiato is a joke entry.
and I am not going to argue with you sir or maam,the song lyrics itself is a comedy. so its up to you if if you appreciate it, then good for you good luck.
Imagine getting that easily offended over a song. I would prefer to hang out with these “IllItErAtEs” than someone who can’t handle facts.
It’s not, jokes are mostly funny.
It would be fine if there was only one troll entry each year…