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Greece’s Ethnikós Telikós 2025 was held with 12 artists fighting for the throne. The Greek representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be Klavdia with the song “Asteromáta”
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This is about the genocide of the Greek people by the Turks in 1919-1924
You already passed the explosion of the song..😅You cannot hear/feel/see in such a low volume😅
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masterpiece voice is diamond song is perfectKlavdia be winner must loveit from uk 💯❤❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Justification of Memory
"Asteromata" is not just a song. It is a voice from the past echoing into the present, a reminder that memory never fades as long as there are souls to carry it forward. It tells the story of those who were uprooted, who left, who were lost—but never forgotten.
Through pain, truth emerges. And through music, truth finds a way to shine. Homelands may have burned, people may have perished, laughter and voices may have been silenced—but the flame never died. It became a song, a breath, a path leading back to the roots.
Justice does not come through vengeance, but through remembrance. As long as stories are told, as long as tradition endures, nothing is truly lost. Asteromata is not a lament. It is a call. To remember. To feel. To never let oblivion win.
It's a great reaction thank you. The Spira the dancers formed attached to the KlaVdia's dress has a very deep philosophical meaning. Spira is the oldest Greek symbol. It's about the souls journey and return to its source, the centre of Spira is the power, life. The blue colour of positiveness, the star of hope, the red of sorrow, the song is a poem a μοιρολόγι. Sang for people who passed away or/and for heroes. The song has many interpretations and adapts to various situations. Yes, it's a dialogue between mother and lost daughter, between a mother country and lost children citizens whether they have been displaced or they've have been lost in the journeys, they don't forget their roots.
Using metaphorical lyrics (political correct), talking for genocide of her people
It would help to notice the big crescendo if you weren't talking about big crescendos over it… Jesus Christ…
I love her vocals and the traditional mix. It’s very Beautiful 😘🎶❤️🪽
Than you Greece!!! My winner!!! 💙🤍🇬🇷🏆
This song made the whole country cry…
she is #1 of the other two. the one in orange is cute and melody but I like Asteromata
Κλαβδια
You have a very nice Greek pronunciation.
Greece ❤❤❤❤❤
Hellas! YES ! Thank you ❤
Lyrics translation
Oh, my sweet star!
Do not weep for me, my sweet mother,
Though black clothes you're forced to wear,
My fading body cannot succumb to flames.
For even if the swallows cross oceans ablaze, the soil their roots they will never forget.
Oh, my little star-eyed girl,
Bow down so I can kiss you,
So I might quench my thirsty lips with your hallowed tears!
Oh, my little star-eyed girl, bow close so I can touch you,
So that my long forgotten wings may rest one last time.
Oh, my star, my precious jewel!
My sweet mother, don't weep for me,
My life is like a ship,
Whose sail is seeking for a homebound wind. Oh, my little star-eyed girl, bow close so I can touch you,
So that my forgotten wings can rest one last time.
Oh, my star, my precious jewel!
Thank you from Hellas!
Thank you for calling us with our actual name! 💙🤍
Thank you for your kind comments and support. Many commentators say that the song ends unexpectedly without a clear peak. I think that it is so lovely that we do not want it to end. The 3 minutes passed without any boredom. The title "asteromata" ('[girl with] starry eyes') is a poetic folk neologism of our grandparents coming from Smyrna (now Izmir). It is a compound of “asteri” (‘star’) and “mati(a)” (‘eye(s)’). The song talks about refugees/exiles/emigrants (wherever they come from) and their special bond with their homeland, family, property, or whatever they have lost. A metaphorical dialogue is formed between two migratory birds (“swallows”): an old, ill mother left behind and her lost daughter. The two personae comfort each other.
In an interview, Klavdia explained that the song's message is meant to honour those forced to leave their homeland, conveying a message of resilience and hope.
The restrained acting and the minimalist, abstract staging fit the lyrics well. White, like black, is a colour of mourning, mainly related to children. The tail of the singer's dress forms an “umbilical cord” that links the 'embryonic' dancers to their “mother” (the singer) in the form of a spiral. The spiral has been used since the dawn of humanity as a universal symbol of growth (e.g. Fibonacci patterns). Neo-Platonists referred to it as a symbol of prayer and contemplation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral), which is what the lyrics are like. Towards the end, the “embryos” stand up as they grow into adults.
Many other elements of staging evoke the troublesome sea voyage as an experience and as a metaphor for the migrant's life. The first frame is in the blue of a starry night sky. The singer's glasses powerfully attract our attention to her “eyes”. Even if she had never worn glasses, which she always does, she should have put them on for this song. The sticky lateral movement of the camera evokes a boat moving against resisting waves. As the camera zooms out, this image is confirmed. The singer looks like a robust mast, and the dancers move like waves at its (her) base. Overlooking the stage, we hear sirens (the electronic clarinet) and see war light projectors and smoke. Smoke usage is sparse but meaningful. The singer stands as motherland and the dancers as her “dead” (immobile) children connected to her with an “umbilical cord” (the tail of her dress). Then, the calm night blue turns into red of fire and tempest. Toward the end, we see projector lights moving like lighthouse gleaming beams in the background. The dancers gradually stand up and grow into adults. The light turns to the orange of hope, and the clouds begin to disperse. Now, the standing adult dancers look like sailors holding a sail and looking at the stars for the right time to sail off. The song exits with a new look and praise to the stars, and the light returns to a calm night blue.
Art does not need to be explicit and meaningful or tell truths – we have journalists for that. It needs to be beautiful and stimulate our feelings, imagination and thoughts. Art should not drop to the level of the audience but raise its audience higher. However, I doubt that such a reading is possible in the midst of the noise and screams by people who come to Eurovision only in order to dance and stimulate their sexual instincts. Listening to this song, I, an immigrant among so many in the world, cry for my lost homeland, which failed to provide me employment. I cry because the song reminds me of scenes of African immigrants or Syrian refugees in an overloaded boat sinking in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. I cry when I think of deported Jews and their families that had to escape, or those exiles and disappeared from Pinochet's Chile, the genocides of Tutsi, Armenians, Assyrians, Pontic peoples, or Palestinians, and those forced to leave their homes during population exchanges in Türkiye, Greece or, more recently, in Cyprus and Ukraine.
νικητρια!!!!!
0:21 Hell Us for some residents 😢.
Starry Eyes – lyrics in English
My star
My star
My sweet mother, don't cry
Even if they dress you in black
My faded body
Is not defeated by flames
The swallows of fire
Even if they cross the seas
The soil of their roots
They never forget
My little starry-eyed girl
Return so I can kiss you
So in your holy tears
I can quench the thirst on my lips
My little starry-eyed girl
Return so I can catch you
My forgotten wings
To rest in my last moments
Ah, my star, my precious gem
My sweet mother, don't cry
My life is a ship
Looking for wind for its sails
In order to come back home
My little starry-eyed girl
Return so I can catch you
My forgotten wings
To rest in my last moments
Ah, my star, my precious gem
Ah, my star, my precious gem
My star
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the song has a refugee theme, the lyrics are basically a dialogue between the homeland and the children who are separated from their place, it has a very serious message and pain
ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΠΟΛΥ ΑΠΟ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ !
❤❤ πολλά φιλιά από Ελλάδα ❤❤❤ ευχαριστούμε πολύ για την παρουσίαση ❤❤
The song talks about Greek, and other, refugees and that special bond between them and their home land, which they never forget, wherever they are. A metaphorical dialogue is being formed between a mother and her missing child, which comforts her and vise versa. Our love from Greece ❤
I notice that those who react and judge the stage presence, mention that a more dynamic stage is needed.
But… why do you think that you will see this at Eurovision. ?
This was a simple staging, simply to present the song at the Greek competition.
On the Eurovision stage, a different stage and effects will be created.
Filming of the song's official video clip has already begun, taking place at some historical location in Greece.