The Wiwi Jury — our in-house team of music unprofessionals — is reviewing and rating the 37 competing songs in Eurovision 2025. Next we review Greece, who have chosen Klavdia with “Asteromáta”.
Were we entranced by the song? Read on to find out!
Klavdia – “Asteromáta” (Greece Eurovision 2025)
Review: Klavida – “Asteromáta”
Lucy: I think Greece have been a little shy to send a big ballad in Greek for a while, given the lack of success in 2016 and 2018. They’ve taken the risk to bring it back in 2025, and thank goodness they have. “Asteromáta” is wonderful. It has the ethnic elements with a backing beat accompanying them you’d hear on the radio. Klavida’s vocals are obviously flawless, what an incredible performer! I just want to listen to this on a beach as the sun sets over the Med. It maybe gets a bit repetitive towards the end but I don’t mind, it’s just gorgeous.
Score: 8
Tomas: Klavdia has such a beautiful voice and “Asteromáta” is a wonderful ballad. However, I’m not as big of a fan of this entry as the rest will be. I hope the broadcaster makes changes to the performance. “Asteromáta” itself is a beautiful ballad in Greek that reminds me of their 2018 entry “Oniro Mou”.
Score: 4.5
Simon: Greece does best when sounding real Greek, and this is certainly the case with “Asteromáta”. Klavdia’s vocals sneak into your ears with a power and ease, and the subtle beat in the chorus makes you dream of the Aegean Sea and everything Greek. While beautifully executed, it needs the staging to match it, otherwise it could earn the same fate as “Oniro Mou” from 2018 and be overlooked in the semi. But my hopes for Greece are high this year.
Score: 8
Tom: Greece have again chosen a very traditional route this year, which I am very on board with. It feels like a Greek version of a “fado” song. It’s guttural, passionate and honest. To take it to the next level however, I feel the performance needs a bit more production to keep the audience hooked. With more interesting choreography, more accessible storytelling, I feel the performance will be elevated to greater heights — which I feel “Asteromáta” needs if it wants to get the result it deserves.
Score: 6
Greece Eurovision 2025 ranking
In the Eurovision 2025 Wiwi Jury, we have 17 jurors but only have room for four reviews. The remaining scores are below:
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Andreas: 7.5 Antranig: 7.5 Bernardo: 6 Burak: 7.5 Cinan: 9 Deban: 8.5 Jonathan: 8 |
Jordi: 7 Pablo: 6.5 Ruxandra: 7 Scarlett: 8 Suzanne: 5.5 William: 8.5 |
We have removed the highest and lowest scores prior to calculating the average. This is to remove outliers and potential bias. We have removed a high of 9 and a low of 4.5.
Wiwi Jury verdict: 7.30/10
What do you think of Greece’s Eurovision 2025 entry? Share your own score and review for Klavdia’s “Asteromáta” below!
Overrated, great voice, boring song.
This is just beautiful and right up my alley. I didn’t think national final performance was that awful so if they improve it even a little bit, I’m sold! Would love to see this top5
9.5/10
good song, fades a bit into the background but i don’t skip it on spotify.
6/10
still wish barbz had won ethnikos telikos
Come on, Wiwi staff. This is starting to look like those teachers that say “Only God is perfect so a 7 in my class is a 10” ? This one didn’t get any bad score and it doesn’t reach an eight…
This song is classy, Klavdia is an incredible singer and the Balkan sounds are just beautiful. Top 5 material for me if they elevate the staging.
It’s not Balkan. It’s Pontic.
That’s at the Black Sea. Not the Mediterranean or Aegean. That’s the whole point of rhe song.
Definitely in my top 10 of a weak year.
NQ
won’t finish higher than Cyprus thats for sure
My favorite this year
I miss the days when Shkodra Elektronike’s country was the only word that would mark a comment as needing approval.
This kind of song screams out “Classic Eurovision” and that’s very welcome this year. It kind of occupies a similar place to “Ramonda” last year for me, but I like this a lot more. It seems to have more fire in its belly. But the yearly context definitely helps. My #8
This is “Bridges 2023″… moderate televote in the semi followed by a major elevation in the final. 8th to 10th?
This is as high as 8th place with a good staging or as low as 15th with a meh one. So, for me Greece will be once again around 10th position. A nice and sober song very very needed this year.
GREECE – When I heard the chorus for the first time I felt something special. I assume the Greek voters felt it too, as it would take a strong song to win over Evangelia in the NF. The sentiment was also accompanied by a desire that they do a small instrumental revamp which could have made it instantly flawless in my eyes. So I was left with a decision: Should I embrace Asteromata in all of its colors, including the digital percussion in the backing track, or should I not? In the end, there was no doubt that this is… Read more »
Weak, weak Eurovision this year.
I agree, every year it’s another bit weaker, it’s turned into a celebration of mediocrity (at the very best). There’s little by the way of talent of innovation or originality. The gushing that takes place on this site (and others) is laughable, you’d think people were discussing life and death stuff. I used to be a hard core fan for decades but have been losing interest.
Honestly, there’s far better music out there than any of this years songs.
12 points for this beautiful song from Greece
This is my winner
My 2nd place! Let’s go Greece!
I’m going to get a lot of downvotes but this leaves me cold. But it will qualify, I’m sure of it.
Wow, I didn’t realise people loved our entry, I mostly expected positive reactions but seeing the score Asteromáta got makes me happy! 🙂
I still do feel we will be underrated in May so at least, I hope we qualify for the grand final.
8.2 from me.
I like it, I feel I can only like it more… I’m not easily burned out on it like too many of the others.
14th place: Greece: My country once again returns to sending ethnic songs, with Asteromata being a beautiful ballad. Its greatest strengths are Klavdia’s amazing voice and interpretation and the intense instrumentation. Its greatest weakness is the fact that the melody is kinda monotonous, though this is characteristic for Pontic dirges. The song could do with a better crescendo at the end so as to keep viewers interested for the entire three minutes. Nevertheless, I find it to be a pretty solid entry. I hope for a good staging, as that is a prerequisite in order for a qualification to occur… Read more »
Greece is my 3rd this year, and I actually love the melody in the chorus. It’s just haunting and beautiful. The instrumental is also really good, especially in the studio clean-up version that accompanied the video. Digital percussion blended more naturally with the rest of the instruments in that version. Overall, this is among my top favorite Greek entries of the 21st century next to 2001, 2006 and 2022.
I am so glad to hear that! I also like the song a lot albeit not as much as you do. I am curious about its qualification chances, but ultimately as of now I feel like it has the potential to captivate viewers.
“Crescendo” seems to have become a bit of a dirty word in a lot of modern music, there’s an awful lot of blandness creeping into ESC, we need more crescendos not OTT stage acts.
I usually like this type of song performed live but for some reason i didn’t get the emotional attachment when watching the National Final. I actually found the video release more interesting and absorbing. Not among one of my favourite’s this year but i do admire the vocal ability
Such a beautiful song. Hope for a mesmerizing performance.
Always a sucker for some nice laiko…and this is great. In my top 3 this year. Loooove the Nana Mouskouri vibes.
And Deirdre Barlow
No idea who that us so I had to look it up. Don’t see it.
Greece 10,5/12 .- the best entry since 2013
This is a total dark horse this year I think. Not strictly a top 10 shout but I think it’s slipped under a lot of peoples radars and too many people are lumping it in as a potential NQ
I like the studio cut a lot, but the performance has got to be more dynamic
“Asteromáta” is a beautiful piece of music that really aches the soul for three minutes. Despite this, it sits just outside my top 5. There’s not much I can write about this song because it simply exists in a perfect form as it is right now. It just doesn’t quite excite me enough to break my top 5, but it is beautiful nonetheless. What elevates this song is the singer’s interpretation of it. Klavdia has one of the best live voices I’ve ever heard prior to the ESC, and she emodies this song with all her being. This is certainly… Read more »
Greece is in the lead so far with 7.30, and deservingly.
Song wise and artistically, yes, definitely. The live performance needs to be improved though. Otherwise in will turn out to be like Greece 2018.
30. Greece – Klavdia – Asteromata – 5/10 – this is not my kind of thing, it is far too sparse to start with and therefore loses my interest quite quickly. The melody is a little repetitive and the obligatory strings feel predictable. There is a slightly interesting build in the second half, but it arrives too late and is not impactful enough, this song does not live long in the memory but is not irritating, it feels to me like it is not fully realized as a song
Always the contrarian, Kosey! 🙂
This seems to be quite popular, even among the artists. I’m a bit surprised because I just couldn’t connect with it. Sure, it’s pretty and in national language but I am not captivated at all. Maybe the melody doesn’t hit me. On paper, I am supposed to like it, it has many ingredients a good entry is supposed to have, including a performer solely focussed on her craft, and yet I still feel nothing here.
Greece – I LOVE this one! I enjoy the build up a lot and I really like the atmosphere of the whole thing. Klavdia has a really lovely voice and I’m really hoping that this one does well, especially after their 2018 entry failed to qualify. I love seeing a more “traditional” edge to a song. 8.5/10