Austria Eurovision 2025: JJ – “Wasted Love“
Artist: JJ
Song: “Wasted Love”
Songwriters: Johannes Pietsch, Teodora Špirić, Thomas Turner
Language: English
JJ:
Johannes Pietsch, or JJ, is a 23-year-old Austrian opera singer with a soprano voice type. Raised in Dubai, he previously participated in The Voice UK in 2020, impressing judges with his high voice. JJ also took part in the series Starmania 21 and currently performs at the Vienna State Opera. Prague, the capital of Czechia.
“Wasted Love”:
The song explores feelings of pain and loss following a love that was either unfulfilled or not reciprocated with the same intensity. JJ describes himself as an “ocean of love,” while the person he loves is afraid to “drown” in emotions and chooses to distance themselves. He expresses a sense of abandonment, struggling to hold on to the relationship but ultimately finding himself alone, drifting in a sea of emotions with no way to reclaim what was lost.
The chorus reflects the emptiness that follows the breakup—all the love he had has turned into “wasted love” with no purpose anymore. Despite the pain, there remains a faint hope of holding onto something from the past, but in the end, only a sense of loss and an inability to fill the void remain.
Lyrics of “Wasted Love”:
I’m an ocean of love
And you’re scared of water
You don’t want to go under
So you let me go under
I reach out my hand
But you watch me grow distant
Drift out to the sea
And far away in an instant
You left me in the deep end
I’m drowning in my feelings
How do you not see that?
Now that you’re gone
All I have is wasted love
This wasted love
Now that you’re gone
Can’t fill my heart with wasted love
This wasted love
When you let me go
I barely stayed afloat
I’m floating all alone
Still I’m holding on to hope
Now that you’re gone
All I have is wasted love
This wasted love
Now that you’re gone
Can’t fill my heart with wasted love
This wasted love
Wasted love
This wasted love
Wasted, wasted, wasted, wasted
Wasted, wasted, wasted, wasted, love
Wаѕted love
