Germany sounds THRILLING
15:40 CEST: Rehearsal 1:
Germany - Abor & Tynna – Baller
Are you ready for a German electro-banger as our first Big 5 rehearsal of 2025? Ja, wir auch.
Germany’s Abor & Tynna are our sixth (thank you commenters) on-stage siblings this year (see also: Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Ukraine, Portugal) – these two hail from a family of musicians based in Vienna, so Austrians representing Germany in Switzerland - never let it be said that Eurovision doesn’t transcend borders. This is the also first time Germany have fielded a song in German since 2007, and it happens to be an absolute bop.
So, let’s talk staging. This is another performance that’s had a huge glow-up since the national final – it opens with Abor playing a classical intro of
Baller on cello in front of a floor to ceiling curtain, but it’s a very cool white electric cello that’s lit up with white LEDs. Then the curtain drops along with the bass, to reveal Tynna on top of a huge prop – an 80s-style boombox stereo, maybe 3 metres high, with a central platform where Tynna performs the first verse and chorus before descending to join her four dancers, who light her up with handheld spotlights while they freestyle around her.
Tynna is wearing an outfit that’s giving Lara Croft at a Berlin rave – black military-style hotpants and knee-high military boots, a black crop top and elbow-length ruched leather gloves. The lighting and graphics add to the gritty, industrial vibe – lots of pulsing white and blue strobes, BALLER in huge white letters on the black flashing LED wall, and a huge echo on Tynna’s vocal in the chorus that makes it feel like this party is in the biggest warehouse ever.
For the final verse and chorus Tynna dances on the walkway while Abor plays his cello on top of the boombox for the second half – worth noting that his are currently the biggest shoulder pads at Eurovision 2025, but we haven’t seen Italy yet. The cello-smashing at the end? Gone, but never forgotten.
Also

PYRO UPDATE - the boombox explores in the final chorus, and there's a big firework finish.