Back in December last year, Nina Žižić became Montenegro’s act for Eurovision 2025. In the months since, the singer has been busy revamping her song, “Dobrodošli,” and adding extra flourishes ready for the contest in Basel.
Now, ahead of Sunday’s song submission deadline, Nina has shared the final version.
Nina Žižić – “Dobrodošli” (revamp)
Right from the offset, there are instrumental changes to the production that give the song more grandeur and power.
The intro has been extended to a rather lengthy 25 seconds. Meanwhile, the outro has been cut completely to give the song a more dramatic conclusion.
Whilst the orchestral strings are still very much present throughout, extra instrumentation has been added around them to provide even more dynamism to the power ballad.
Just like Nina explained previously, the song remains entirely in Montenegrin.
After failing to qualify from the semi-final during her previous appearance at Eurovision in 2013, alongside Who See, Nina Žižić will be hoping these changes will give her a stronger showing this time around.
Montenegro are scheduled to perform in the first half of semi-final 2 on 15 May.
What are your thoughts on the “Dobrodošli” revamp? Has Nina given Montenegro a greater chance of qualifying for the grand final? Let us know in the comments below.
Montenegro HAS to qualify! Hopefully the staging in Basel brings it all together. I can’t wait another 2 years without Montenegro lol
This and slovenias entry are my dark horses this year. Ajmo!
Not Slovenia…..DOA.
Thank you to Nina and Montenegro for taking ESC seriously this year. I will almost always appreciate a classy dramatic ballad, especially one that has added detail and has been well revamped. I understand why it probably will not qualify though; the semi final is televote only now, so the voters will have to connect with this somehow, and unless the voters understand the song, they won’t connect with it. This can be remedied with good staging though, so good luck.
the staging will make or break this i think
I wish Montenegro the best of luck because there’s a lot stacked against them. They’re in the first half which puts them at a high chance of being placed in the number two slot. They only have Serbia to give them a boost in the televote, but it may be just as endangered. Ballads can qualify with the televote, but they need something to hook people in, and I’m not certain even with this revamp it can do that. It would certainly be the ultimate underdog story of Montenegro qualifying 10 years(!) after the last one against the odds, but… Read more »
Very good revamp, I do like her voice. If delivering in Basel, I will call for her from Austria.
I like this one and Nina has a beautiful voice. The orchestration in this new version in very good and adds more layers to the song, but there’s something with long intros that makes me always a bit skeptical, because they create anticipation that is not always rewarded. I want Montenegro to qualify but I think it will be borderline. Best of luck!
I had ti turn it off halfway through… Booring.
Boring…….try majestic.
OK, majesticly boring.
I still find it hard to believe she’s the same singer as in 2013; that song was so out there and current, while this is so dated. And tbh apart from her voice, there’s nothing memorable about this.
Meh, heard it all before – nothing orginal. I don’t see it qualifying.
Montenegro having the strongest entry from ex-Yugoslav countries wasn’t something that I expected at the beginning of the season. Hope she can make it in the final.
The revamp is just ok to me… didn’t do much difference compared to the first version. But I prefer this over the now other female ballad in the same semi…
It’s fine and I hope it qualifies because too many Balkan countries are already gone but Balkan ballads used to be a lot stronger tbh
It’s a great song, among so many joke acts this year (Estonia, Australia, Sweden)…
Good revamp. Now to anotehr country whose comments were turned off. “Darkenss will fade, but we will stay” yes, we know EXACTLY what you mean… disgusting! Disqualify them already like Russia and Belarus.
Don’t spread lies! She never says “Darkness will fade, but we will stay”. She says: “Darkness will fade/All the pain will go by/But we will stay/Even if you say goodbye”. You intentionally left out lines to distort the meaning.
Yes, those are just the lines that stuck extra out to me. The problem is that you can read and misinterpret this song as well as last year’s song in any way possible. You can read into it, which could be a problem given the situation. Honestly, they should have just sent a standard bop like Unicorn or Kant.
NAH, if Israel had an upbeat pop song, you would accuse it of being tasteless.
Excuse me, you used QUOTATION marks, and intentionally left out parts of quoted text. Are we just going to ignore how wrong that was?!
I heard Yuval served time in the IDF in which case she should be rotting behind bars at the hague. Either way I wish her all the worst!
Hope you feel as strongly about that terrorist group who started this.
It’s such a good song tough
Still dated
IRRELEVANT MATTER, BUT WHY THE HECK COMMENTS IS DISABLED IN ISRAEL ENTRY?
Oh… i wonder why
Why are yoy shouting or is that how Israeli’s communicate?
Sure…. cause it’s better to communicate by being a generalizing r@cist like yourself, who hypocritically constantly crashes every page on this blog to trash almost every country which takes part and everything you can feat on your filthy fingers on the keyboard. You’re probably the most toxic person commenting on this blog (evenyhough there’s a fierce competition for this title on this blog) as we all see for months, with your uncofidence smeared all over your poisonous communication. Interesting how you also disrespect this thread being about Montenegro by making this pathetic comment to disrespect another country – 2 birds… Read more »
Becaus there were mostly negative comments.. Wonder why?
Oh, it at least makes sense now. I thought they were turned off to begin with, which would have been really unprofessional. Even turning it off like this feels wrong – if you are not capable of moderation on your own site and banning IP addresses of people who keep breaking rules, then you should either allow all or block all. Musically, Israel’s entry predictably is exactly what has been missing in this year’s ESC, and it made 3 minutes go in a flash. In my opinion in May we may easily have an outcome that many people will not… Read more »
Please stick to the topic which is Montenegro’s entry. What is wrong and unprofessional is people like you gatecrashing pages that have nothing to do with Israels entry. Nina Zizic deserves better.
Do you even know what “unprofessional” means!?
If a comment section is closed, what’s wrong with commenting that topic/song elsewhere (if the comment is relevant to the song and is polite)? You’d prefer that some songs should just not be mentioned at all? In my book that’s far more wrong.
I like it. Good luck Nina.
I like the string arrangement gives a bond music feel but still not sure if its enough to lift the song out of the semi. After hearing Isr song earlier that is more powerful ballad emotionally and they are both in the same semi
Likeable
Much improved. Not sure if it’s enough.
If any of ex-YU countries deserves finals this year it’s Montenegro. Definitley a quality music and vocals, I would love to see Nina make it.
Agree. And she really deserves it after the whole Igranka thing.
I appreciate the effort but the song is just… boring. It really goes nowhere.
Idc what anyone says this is amazing. I’m hooked from the first second till the last and its so much more powerful now. Most underrated entry this year by far. One thing I wished was that there would be more backing vocals especially in the final chorus but overall its a very good effort. Hope it pulls a Proud moment and gets the jury respect it deserves.
I like this revamp version.
real class act