Less than a month after winning the Luxembourg Song Contest, Laura Thorn has hinted at a revamp of her song “La Poupée monte le son” for Eurovision.
A “tiny glow-up” for the doll
The announcement came in an Instagram story, which has since expired. After filming her Eurovision postcard in Switzerland, Laura Thorn went to Paris, to work with the production team behind “La Poupée monte le son”, made of Julien Salvia, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal and Christophe Houssin.
The revamp has been described as a “tiny glow-up”, foreshadowing a light revamp, which is not unusual for Eurovision. Last year’s entry for the Grand Duchy, “Fighter”, had also gone through such a process.
The team behind “La Poupée monte le son”
The song “La Poupée monte le son” was written by Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal and composed by Julien Salvia, a French songwriting duo from Paris. They mainly work on musicals and live shows (having recently produced a show for the entertainment park “Park Astérix”), and are long-time Eurovision fans, who saw the opportunity of applying to Luxembourg’s selection.
The song, through its text and music (composed by Salvia, with the help of Christophe Houssin for the production part), is a tribute to Luxembourg’s 1965 entry by France Gall, “Poupée de cire, poupée de son” (“Wax doll, rag doll”, or “Wax doll, sound doll”, the expression “son” meaning “sound” but also, in a much less frequent way, “bran”, the matter that would fill a rag doll), written by Serge Gainsbourg. In “La Poupée monte le son” (“The doll turns up the sound”), the writers wrote the 2025 version of what the Doll of Gainsbourg would do: more feminist, more liberated, she “turns up the sound” and gets her voice heard.
The team found Laura Thorn thanks to her Belgian music teacher, Nicolas Dorian, a common acquaintance. After a “fit performance”, they agreed on the collaboration, and sent the entry to the LSC auditions. The rest was history, and in January, Laura won the national selection with their song.
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