26WQEurovisionGreece

  Blog post 2: Greece at Eurovision 2025 In my previous blog post, I explained my own definition of national identity and how it applied to Greek national identity. There I talked about Greek national identity being primarily made up of language, religion, historical heritage, and ethnicity/ancestry, along with Greece’s “othering” of groups within the context of their historical relations to Greece. In this blog post, I will analyze Greece’s 2025 performance at Eurovision in Basel, Switzerland, and its correlation to Greek national identity. Klavdia’s “Asteromata” Greece’s 2025 Eurovision entry “Asteromata” was written in part by Greek songwriting team ARCADE and Greek pop singer Klavdia, who sang the piece at the contest. “Asteromata” is a pop ballad mix with powerful lyrics and symbolism referencing ideas about displacement. The lyrics of the “Asteromata” are written entirely in Greek, which is one of many parts of how Greece’s performance seems to be drawing on the ethni...