JJ – Wasted Love | Austria 🇦🇹 at Eurovision 2025 | ELLE On The Go With GINTA

🎭💔 JJ – Wasted Love | Austria 🇦🇹 at Eurovision 2025 | ELLE On The Go with Ginta 💔🎭
What happens when pop, opera, and techno collide on the Eurovision stage? You get JJ — Austria’s powerhouse voice and genre-blending visionary, delivering heartbreak with high drama and soaring elegance. 💫✨

In this deeply personal, charmingly vulnerable episode of ELLE On The Go, Ginta sits down with the brilliantly emotional and effortlessly stylish JJ, who’s here to talk about his genre-bending entry “Wasted Love” — a track born from unrequited affection and reimagined as a symphonic anthem of closure, catharsis, and confidence.

From karaoke nights in Dubai to opera-fueled school performances in Vienna, JJ walks us through his multicultural upbringing, his love for fashion, and how he turned wasted love into a performance that pushes literal buttons on stage.

🎬 Timestamps & Highlights
00:00 – JJ steps into the Elle Bubble (with Basil the teddy bear in tow) 🧸
01:30 – The heartbreak story behind Wasted Love — written in a Berlin studio with Teya
02:50 – Can love really be wasted? JJ answers with emotional wisdom 💌
04:15 – If “Wasted Love” were a dish: messy Geschnetzeltes or a layered Sachertorte 🍰
05:20 – On-stage secrets: the button that controls the show (and what happens if it’s missed) 🎛️
06:40 – JJ’s fashion inspirations: Diesel vibes, edgy tailoring & black on black on black 🖤
08:10 – Rings, symbolism, and grandma’s legacy — jewelry that tells stories 💍
09:30 – Childhood in Dubai, classical mornings and pop karaoke nights 🎶
11:45 – The opera-pop-electronic fusion: how “Wasted Love” became genre poetry 🎼
13:30 – JJ’s studio process: 12 magical hours of chemistry, creativity, and closure
15:00 – Countertenor origins: from party trick to professional identity 🌟
16:30 – Rituals: 10 push-ups and a plank before hitting the stage
17:45 – His message in a bottle: Stay strong. Use your voice. Never give up.
18:30 – Imitations & hidden talents: from Cher to vacuum cleaners
20:00 – Icon Battle: Mariah Carey, Maria Callas… and JJ chooses himself 😌
21:00 – A love note to Lithuanian fans (and a heartfelt “Aš Tave Myliu”) 🇱🇹❤️

🎤 Quote Highlights

“I poured all my love into someone... and then wrote a song to reclaim it.”
“Wasted love can become something beautiful — if you turn it into art.”
“I start my day by checking if my voice is still there.”
“I’m not a morning person... but I am a maximalist.”
“If I switched lives with Mariah Carey, I’d whistle all day long.”

💡 JJ’s Eurovision 2025 Entry
🎵 Song: Wasted Love
🎶 Genre: Pop x Opera x Electronic
🎭 Theme: Closure, emotion, transformation
🔘 Staging Gimmick: A button-activated set, symbolizing emotional buildup and release

🌟 This episode is for you if you love:
✔️ Maximalist fashion meets minimal sleep
✔️ Eurovision performances with high-concept stagecraft
✔️ Emotional storytelling and real tears turned into vocals
✔️ Voices that defy range and gender
✔️ Culture-crossing artists with multilinguistic charm

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