When life gives you lemons, make some damn lemonade. When you’re told to change your Eurovision lyrics at the last minute, make a humorous, high-end music video that shows you’re still in the game — and in an even better position than before.
That’s exactly what Malta’s Miriana Conte has done this evening with her newly titled song “SERVING.” The song formerly known as “KANT” is largely identical besides the chorus, where Miriana now sings, “Serving ahhh.”
The silence allows the audience to fill-in-the-blank however they see fit. We have no doubt that Miriana and her dancers will use their bodies to guide them toward an appropriate conclusion. The sound of the audience shouting in unison will help the song retain its spirit of empowerment — and its cheekiness.
Miriana Conte is “SERVING ahh…” (not KANT) in Malta’s Eurovision revamp
The video shows Miriana co-opting so much of the shade that has been directed at her — before, during and after the Malta Eurovision Song Contest. Like a modern and far better looking Rumpelstiltskin, she turns it into comedy gold. Bystanders echo the hateful comments that flooded social media even before she won in Malta. These include comments deriding her body, suggesting that she take the weight-loss drug Ozempic, and saying that she was wearing “trashy” clothes.
People said she was “dead” after the EBU demands. But our girl proves that she’s very much alive. Nodding to the haters, she literally wears trash bags (and looks great doing it). She also dresses as a table with plates of spaghetti, a reference to serving, but also do those hateful comments about her weight. And she also demonstrates extreme body confidence in a champagne-coloured bustier while playing with her pearls in the bedroom. Get it, girl!
The day the EBU told her that she’d need to change her song, Miriana courageously wrote on Instagram, “DIVA NOT DOWN.” She references that as well: it’s written on her tombstone in the video. But like many a queen before her she rises — and so do the souls of so many in her army who stand with her as she gets ready to slay the stage in Basel.
Reaction to SERVING — Miriana Conte
What do you think? Are you loving “SERVING”? Do you like the tweak to the chorus? What will you say in that moment? Let us know down below.
Serving oysters is SO terrific. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
Serving: I think the song is still stupid. It would be my least favorite but Georgia just takes it to the next level of Rage inducing boring
Oh Georgia is unbearable.
Still, this year is serving (pun intended) bad songs all across the map and somehow Malta is somewhere in the middle,
I still hate it. I will change the channel for this there is nothing pleasant to WATCH in the song, video or performance. people with this taste must be some kind of weird fetishists
So as far as I’m aware, the phrase “serving c*nt”, which is obviously what’s being said here, originates from slang used by (gay) men(?) I get that it’s become a frequently used phrase, even by a few women, but personally I find it offensive for our body parts to be objectified like this (esp since it was originally by men)
From kunt to ass and the EBU didn’t notice anything. Lol.
kont means ass in Dutch, really.
People bash this so hard, but then literally want all the joke/novelty entries to win: Sweden, Estonia, Australia, Finland.
Yeah, hating on Malta and then saying Finland needs to win is like saying McDonald’s is bad, but Burger King deserves a Michelin star.
Finland isn’t a joke entry, get a grip. A kitch mic stand in the end isn’t more than a camp feature as a cherry on top of that performance.
Also women are free to express themselves.
Malta for the WIN!
I don’t understand why people here are being so horrible? Not liking the song is one thing, everyone has the right to their opinions, but personally attacking someone because of their weight, how they look, or their sexual orientation goes beyond that. The singer is really nice and sweet in real life, and she’s been through a lot. She’s always there for her friends and is a really sweet soul, so if you don’t know her personally keep your unwanted opinions to yourself. Your comments already make you sound ugly on the inside.
You are right, judge the song or the lyrics, but not the appearance of the singer that’s low.
I am not a fan of the song but I am happy she stuck it to EBU. She knows entire arena will shout KANT.
Malta’s team knows that audience noise can’t affect the TV version during the song due to noise cancelling tech, right? (Just checking.)
It’ll work with “ahhh” anyhow.
Well, I think we all heard p*ss* with City Zeni.
I’m no fan of the song, but I dont understand why people are being so revoltingly toxic in the comments?! No need to get so personal with the insults. Honestly, the Euro-stans are vile. Miriana hasn’t said anything personal or made any remarks to deserve such vile treatment that she’s getting in the comments section. Honestly makes me want to leave the Wiwibloggs thing behind and move to another Eurovision platform where the comments are more controlled and balanced. Also, to those who cannot seem to grasp why the word Kant was banned….yes, it’s not a derogatory word in Maltese,… Read more »
Malta is in my top 5. Fresh, up to date song. A light version of Nicki Minaj. Like most people say over and over (and rightly so!), it is really hard to find even 10 good songs this year. But I still think Malta is top 5 worthy.
i don’t dislike it as much as our colleagues here seem to do, but it’s just a typical eurovision pop-dance song, something that we’ve heard zillions of times before, certainly not “fresh”
A positive comment??! Are you MAD!?
Bottom 10 song for me
The song is okay, but I really can’t stand the look at her.
Thanks for sharing Tony, you seem lovely
Thank you. ?
Gosh, some people in comments you would really benefited by therapy.
There a lotta hate in people’s hearts!
Oh Andrew you are a sweetheart though
There is a negative comment unanswered. Go!
Totally off topic, but Dinle is my all time fav ESC song.
Not conversion therapy, I hope. (Let’s put that one on the rubbish pile right now before we start.)
No, no this adipose woman is nothing for me. I doubt if she can survive semi final. .
For example.
N.B. For fans of “Doctor Who”, your comment reads very differently. The side effects of Adipose Industries medication would be another way not to survive a semi final.
Hang on… There’s an episode of “Doctor WHO” this year that’s about a future version of the Eurovision Song Contest. So, that’s wizard.
All that gay manierisms of Sinan is exactly where the song aims at At gays with poor taste All that “slay queen, go girl, she is a godess, a diva” (basicaly wiwiblogs’s entire vocabulary) trash gay talk makes me sick And the trash bag…what? Makes it better if you become part of the joke? You are altready a joke And enough with the “kant means singing in maltese”. They haven’t sing in maltese for ages, Malta knew exactly what they were doing They will flop hard without the kant gimmick Already Malta 2021 when they tried to manipulate the odds… Read more »
Tbh you seem like a bit of an a*shole
You too ! Now go write “slay queen” so people can push the plus button
Lol what a w*nker
I agree 100 %
Ah of course you do! Like attracts like
I’m not sure if it is the “slay queen case”. If you look at today’s American music industry you see far more nudity and dirty lanugauge than what Malta offers us.
I agree. This is like the Spanish song last year. Some gays think It is very bold and daring to sing Kant or sl^t at Esc. But in the end neither juries or televoters are impressed by that.
Maybe some people just love it. I expected more from you 🙁
If they love the songs It is fine but I think what they like IS the fact that they say serving Kant or Zorra. Is the gay Talk, the yaaas Queen. I am completely sure that if instead of Zorra or Serving Kant they had sung “woman” or “spreading love” they would not have won their NF. We gays are Pretty basic.
I won’t forgive Spaniards for choosing that over Dos Extraños
Dos extranos was so boring
Gays are known for their terrible musical taste, so I gotta give it to you
I am gay and I have a marvelous musical taste… A bit outdated maybe. Can you believe that until not so long ago I thought Dua Lipa was a model?
Oh look, another self hating gay
And in the video they put in every stereotype on the sexual spectrum – from the non-binary heterosexual to the other extreme of trans and/or drag queens. That way they please (excuse the pun) everyone.
Have you ever considered the fact that she’s gay as well and is only a ‘self-called fat diva’ as you put it to stick it to the people who are so rude and horrible because of someone’s weight? Do you know the singer personally and what she’s been through? Do you know whether she was passed on for opportunities as a child because of her weight? No? Then please shut up.
Still trash like her… and so fat
Don’t be a f******a******, OK?!
Go tell someone who actually cares
Your mothers pussy is trash
Perkele!
Munapää!
I admire Miriana for her courage and resilience. She has a catchy song, but … it still gives me last place vibes… I hope I’m wrong…
Diva is serving
She is certainly serving, but she is not a diva.
She is absolutely a diva!
We are divas you and IIIIIIIIIII… How do you put in writing in English a belting with the word “I”??
Serving cringe
Serving a Big Mac and Large Fries
What does a diva make?
Not spagetti with ketchup after drinking a whole lotta cokes so she can have some curles, I think.
For me this has lost its momentum. It’s just feels a bit meh now. Not because of the removal of the word but just think the novelty of the whole song is wearing off. The video is so cheap too. But she will kill it live so maybe all not lost.
If she had actually sung the word Kant, instead of deliberately pronouncing it C * NT that would have been fine surely, and people would still get the innuendo
I dont get why malta thinks you either say the word outright, or not at all
That is how you pronounce Kant in Maltese though? Please do not try to be smart if you do not actually know the language. I’m not saying they didn’t do it on purpose, but there is no other way you pronounce ‘kant’ in Maltese, so please educate yourself.
whatever she’s serving , I wouldn’t touch with a stick !
Should’ve changed the title to “Serving Ant” and pronoounced “g” as “k” really.
She’s a Madonna wannabe. A cheap copy at that
This has literally no trace of Madonna in it. At all.
Yes, she failed.
More so Katy Perry.
The music video is actually very clever, it’s shows she’s got a lot of humor and that she doesn’t give in to the hate but actually uses it for success! Way to go Miriana! The “Ahh” is so clever too, the audience will fill in what was forced to be scrapped by some salty, oversensitive people.
It’s a family show and she clearly pronounces it with a U not an A. I think it’s fair enough.
i dont about these haters of malta tbh, miriana is gonna serve aswell…
shes gonna serve her way to top 10
Thanks god we will not see her in the final show
“Ahh” is good, BUT make it count! It’s not a “the-doctor-asks-you-to-make-an ahh”, ahh.
Still very bad, with or without “Kant”.
Serving Anaconda
Malta will never win Eurovision no matter what they do as the voting is rigged in favor of countries with high populations and not a tiny island. Look at its performance in past years, miniscule. Why is it even trying?
It’s crazy it’s fun we need that! Go Mega Go!
Guess peeole are allowed to scream trash now that she’s wearing garbage bags in the video.
She obviously read the comments section to inspire the video
Bless her! ????
Cheap and trashy doesn’t come close.
That song is such a gimmicky trash, it’s like she’s trying way too hard to be “iconic”. It’s so gonna flop in May.
I feel the same. The paradox is that the song itself is not bad, it’s catchy but the vibe, performance, staging, video scream trash. Every artist is free to express themselves as they wish. However, making comedy and fun (like, yes, SWEDEN and KAJ) is one thing, making it trash is another thing. Now, to be objective, I also like Finland. Isn’t the same trash (overall)? The song is super catchy and anthemic, the video was just as much (in terms of being provocative). The live staging was a bit too much but not to the point to call it… Read more »
Exactly – she’s trying to be iconic to straight men and women, iconic to gays, iconic to trans, iconic to drag queens. There is everyone represented in her video. She wants to please everyone maybe ending with pleasing very few.
Serving cheap
I am fed up with the gay slang “go girl, slay queen, diva”
And I am a gay man myself
Perhaps I have some dignity though
The song itself is rather good, but please…”It means singing in maltese” and all that kind of crap, they haven’t sing anything in maltese for ages.
Malta you know exactly you were doing
I won’t be surprised if all this nonsense backfire
Malta 2021 all over again ! Remember trying to rig the odds?
Gay here too, agree 100% with everything you said.
Why do I have a feeling this will flop…
Because it will
Just cos you WANT it to flop does not mean it WILL flop
It’s English grammar. She/he couldn’t have used another auxiliary verb (isn’t it what that is called?). I feel it will flop, too. Based on my opinion, it’s a prediction.
In 1984 a BBC Radio 1 presenter made a complaint about Frankie Goes To Hollywood song Relax as filth. The song then got masses of publicity was then banned from the airwaves but went on to become the biggest selling single in the UK that year and has now gone down in history as groundbreaking and is celebrated accordingly. In 2025 allegedly according to newspaper reports a BBC Radio 2 presenter and Eurovision semi final commentator has done the same but to Malta 2025. And who is getting all the publicity…Miriana Conte. She has a good catchy pop song and… Read more »
A lot of stans are blaming the Brits. Is there any proof at all that the complaint came from the BBC? Bear in mind that English is still an official language of the entire EU and it’s the first language of Ireland, Australia (where it will be shown in the morning) and the Canadian and American broadcasters that the show is sold to.
And, despite initially banning it the BBC have happily played Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood for the past 30 years which isn’t a subtle innuendo it’s full of intentional filth ?
Canada doesn’t get Eurovision. We live stream it online as it’s not on tv here so I don’t know where you get your information from.
I remember last year Spanish TVE had to explain EBU about the title of the Spanish song (which they translated as “bitch” but It is in fact “sl^t”). There was no complaint from any other country, It was EBU Who addressed Spanish TVE because Eurovision rules do not allow the use of swear words at Esc.
And that was with a song in Spanish which most viewers would not have understood anyway.
Serving balls!
I hope she keep the bouncing balls on the stage.
She could use them in a smart and classy way. I am afraid she is doing it in a “trashy” way.
Please enlighten us with how she can use the balls in a smart and classy way
She could put a white linen tablecloth on them, maybe serve some afternoon tea
Urgh these hateful comments are so tiresome and ridiculous. Last year it was Nemo, this year it’s Miriana. Are people really that triggered by anyone different to them??
This is amazing and I’m prepared for one of the most iconic moments in the contest when the audience in the arena will be shouting “kant”. Miriana is serving and eating and this is a bop and a slay. Thank you Malta, you’ve got my vote in May and I don’t even care about the result.
This is something only a few thousand Eurofans in the arena (but bare in mind, it’s in Switzerland) and a few thousand Eurofans from their homes will understand that. We live in a eurobubble that millions upon millions of viewers have no clue what’s going on inside.
It happened with Eat your Salad, it happened with Zorra, and it’ll happen with Kant 😉
That depends on the commentators of each broadcaster and it’s a story (the renaming of the song due to the title resembling the infamous English word) that will most likely mentioned and it’s very easy for the viewers to make the connection once they hear the crowd singing. And this has the potential to be very memorable. Don’t forget that viewers that are not fans but vote in the final rely a lot on the live commentators to get information about the entries.
Little comparison to explain why Kant is banned.
Gift = present in english.
Gift = poison in German.
My german grandma read this on a parcel I received and thought there was poison inside and she was scared and worried.
She didnt know any word in english.
So do only few people know maltese listening to kant. They believe it’s C U next tuesday.
I’ve posted the same comment three times with multiple changes, praising the entry, and I still get flagged. Goodnight, I ain’t bothering with this nonsense.
Not gonna lie, she ate. I don’t really enjoy the song but for the sake of this contest’s reputation, she’ll better smash the televote in the semis. Even the chorus sounds much better than before, more polished.
Everyone in the arena will be shouting “Kant” after “serving”. So either way Miriana will be “Serving Kant”
So what? Then, you can go to bed satisfied and have sweet kant dreams.
Yessss we will have sweet dreams indeed.
Eurovision is being mocked worldwide for its public display of queerness… yet swearwords are somehow a problem.
Imagine how out of touch you have to be
LOL what an idiotic thing to say
The song itself is not bad overall but everything else is cheap and cringe. Serving cheap… I am sorry dear Malta!
I suspect they spent a lot of money on the video but it’s a total mess. “It costs of a lot of money to look this cheap”.
And she ain’t no Dolly!
Oh dear Malta, yes. They spent so much on this. Why not bring Destiny back. That girl will shine in ESC one day.
I agree with you; the song is not bad but the music video looks like trash and complete mess.
It’s a total mess but in some cases this is on purpose, to provoke or because that simply matches with the song.
As a marketing and communication person, I can see the concept is unfortunately “trash”. They sat down and said “we are going to be utterly provocative and trash”. So they do everything to the extreme.
It’s a pity because she seems to have a good voice. The song itself is okay. With a bit of sassy attitude the song would be elevated. I feel this will not work out. But it remains to be seen.
Does your vocabulary extend beyond the word trash?
Absolutely! Garbage, does that count? ?
I do miss the “Kant”, but whatever this is still serving
Fashion Director: How many outfits do you wanna serve?
Miriana: Yes!
EuroGays hearing queerbaiting joke songs: ??
EuroGays hearing other joke songs: ??
Y’all took the bait. This song is still bland, her singing pitchy, and staging dull.