Tuesday saw us taking our first trip of the week to Belgrade. Serbia began its search for a Eurovision act with semi-final 1 of Pesma za Evroviziju 2025.
There were 15 acts performing, but only eight were able to advance further in the competition.
Our hosts for the evening were Dragana Kosjerina and Kristina Radenković, as well as Stefan Popović in the green room.
Pesma za Evroviziju 2025: Semi-final 1
The eight qualifiers were determined by a combination of votes from a jury and the public. Each counted for 50% of the results.
Qualifiers
- Ana & The Changes – “Brinem”
- Bojana & David – “Šesto čulo”
- Iskaz – “Trendseter”
- Biber – “Da mi se vratiš”
- Milan Nikolić feat. Caka – “Storia del amor”
- Filarri – “Meet and Greet”
- Kruz Roudi – “Sve i odmah”
- Harem Girls – “Aladin”
Non-qualifiers
- Igor Simić – “Ne mogu”
- Vampiri – “Tebi treba neko kao ja”
- Nataša Kojić – “Up and Down”
- Tropico – “AI”
- Jelena Aleen – “Kameleon”
- Mila – “Gaia”
- Anton – “U grad”
PzE returns on Wednesday evening, where the remaining 15 participants will perform in semi-final 2.
Were you impressed by the show? Can any of the semi-final 1 acts go on to win the ticket to Basel? Let us know in the comments.
My God, Biber were fantastic!
Oh come on, they really weren’t
Oooh yeah, they were. Nice, raw vocals, even better than I thought they’d be.
Other than that, what’s the name of the beefy guy all in black? Fillari?! That one sounded cool and would be a good choice for ESC.
Filari beefy? Seriously? He’s just a stale twink….
E jbg, mozda moram pogledat opet lmao.
Well I agree he’s not ‘beefy’ but he is quite cute. Stale is a bit harsh!!
OK, don’t shoot me! I said up there that maybe I need to rewatcb. But yeah, he is defo fit. ?
He does grab his crotch a lot in the performance. Hard to tell if it’s a meaty grab or like a finger and thumb type grab…
To old for a twink lol… he’s like a beaver now or idk what kind of gay animal
Beaver lol. Is there an animal for every sub section of gay now? I think I might be a sloth. Or a moose actually.
I find this faacinating lol.
Well Moose (or Meese? Mooses?) are fairly solitary until they need to mate, at which point they go crazy hahah
Announcing harem girls last was homophobic.
LOL 😀
15 people obviously didn’t get the joke lol
Hahaha 19 now.
Extremely disappointing Semi Final musically. Loved the postcards though! But the songs were absolutely terrible. Also, why there’s never the audience at PZE?
Yeah, this is definitely the weaker of the two semi finals for Serbia this year. In fact, it overall feels really weak for Serbia this year, which is unusual.
I think it is a small studio, they need to take away the audience to make room. It’s all a spacial illusion.
It kinda looks silly when they show the wall with lights in front of the artists. Lol.
Ok my 4 favs of the night qualified it’s cool!
Trendsetter and Aladin are my big favorites to win the whole Pezma already !
Bojana & David for me so far 😉
Who are your four faves?
Bojana & David, Harem Girls, Filarri, Iskaz,
What are yours?
Not what lol, who are yours?
About the same, although Iskaz is actually number 5 of my personal ranking of semi final 1, with Storia del amor as fourth place).
Well, Ne mogu and Anton didn’t make it go the final, unfortunately, but the rest of my favorites are there.
Tomorrow more!
Tomorrow we’ll have the total lineup for the Final, it will be more clear.
Even if 16 acts for a Final it’s too much imo.
Kind of too much, yes.
When will they start announcing the finalists?
Now 😉
What an amazing mini concert av interval acts!
Yep very cool!
This Origami song is good
I liked song 1, song 7, song 11, song 12
Same + songs nr 2 and 15
Verdict soon
My qualifiers are:
Anton – “U grad”
Iskaz – “Trendseter”
Harem Girls – “Aladin”
Milan Nikoli? feat. Caka – “Storia del amor”
Filarri – “Meet and Greet”
Bojana & David – “Šesto ?ulo”
Igor Simi? – “Ne mogu”
Vampiri – “Tebi treba neko kao ja”
Omg Iskaz – “Trendseter” is my winner tonight) the carpet….
And then comes Aladin who might win the whole Pezma )
Song nr 4 is the worst so far …
Song nr 6 is even worse (
Waiting for Filarri
Igor Simi? – “Ne mogu” is kinda nice
Hello everybody. Didn’t check any of the songs yet and hoping for something interesting. So tired of generic pop songs winning almost in every NF this year …
Hi Eve! Hope you passed a good evening!
Haha I hope for more people tomorrow) concert was quite good actually
Yeah nice show, tomorrow there will be the 2 big fan favorites so more people interested I guess
I’m waiting for Dushan Kurtic )
Who are those two big fan favorites tomorrow?
Mimi Mercedez and Tam
i just finished listening to the semi final 1 playlist of PZE and unfortunately I think it’s the weaker semi final because there are only three songs that I think would be contenders to represent Serbia at Eurovision 2025.
1. Šesto ?ulo
2. Aladin
3. Meet & Greet
Semi final 2 definitely looks stronger with more of the contenders there, but I’ll have to listen to the playlist later to see if my prediction is true.