Wolves with bananas, Meghan Markle’s hair and a plea to live greener: these are the most bizarre acts at the Eurovision Song Contest | showbiz

Forty participants, but not even forty numbers. For example, the Armenian entry Rosa Linn will only announce her song on March 19, and the Azerbaijani singer Nadir Rustamli has not yet mentioned a date for his song. Fortunately, there is a lot of – ahem – wonderful material among the already known entries. At least: for whom weird and wonderful holds. This list includes the most bizarre and eye-catching acts.

“Just because it’s bizarre doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a chance of winning,” part one. And so Norway delegates Subwoofer. According to the bookmakers, the Scandinavian country is therefore good for seventh place, and therefore an outsider for first place. Name this entry – pun intended – feel free to be a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

Oh yes: after Tix – last year’s entry – was the last to receive the Barbara Dex Award, we would like to give Subwoolfer the prize for most original lyric. “And before that wolf eats my grandma, give that wolf a banana”. It doesn’t get much better, does it?

“Just because it’s bizarre doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a chance of winning,” part two. France is also going in a very alternative direction this year. After the country came in second last year with Barbara Pravi, they now send Alvan & Ahez. Alvan is a multi-instrumentalist singer specializing in electronic music, and Ahez is a Breton folk trio made up of three female singers. The song itself is about a Breton legend where a young woman emancipates herself from societal norms. She does this “by dancing at night, bathed in the light of a bonfire”, according to the website of the Song Contest.

This makes ‘Fulenn’ — a hypnotic mix of electro and folk — undoubtedly the most original entry to compete this year. This immediately seems to be the song that will gain momentum during the match, just like last year’s ‘Shum’ by the Ukrainian band Go_A turned out to be the case.

We had never heard of Konstrakta before, but the Serbian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest can already call itself a viral success. Her song has been listened to more than 1.3 million times on YouTube, and the song is also said to be good for millions of views on TikTok. This apparently has everything to do with the content of ‘In Corpore Sano’. According to the translation – our Serbian is rusty to non-existent – Konstrakta is talking about… the secret of Meghan Markle’s healthy hair. Yes.

For those curious, Konstrakta thinks it’s hydration before explaining what dark circles around your eyes and dark spots around your lips mean to your health. Serbia has participated as an independent country since 2007. That year, the nation also won, thanks to Marija Šerifović and her song ‘Molitva’. Whether Konstrakta will repeat that trick seems unlikely, but that happy note? She has it anyway.

We imagine the brainstorm at #TeamSanMarino went something like this:

“Mannekes, by sending Senhit and Flo Rida last year, we ran out of money.”

“Ah, but next year we will probably have the budget to organize the competition here.”

“Then let’s send something that we’re sure works. Something a la Maneskin.”

And then there was Achille Lauro. At the festival of San Remo, he turned fourteen, and he got into an argument with the bishop of San Remo because he performed a fake baptism on stage. However, L’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, said they were not impressed by Lauro’s performance. For some reason, that turned out to be the incentive that San Marino needed. They asked the singer to participate in their pre-selections, and Lauro fared a lot better there. Something tells us that with a number like ‘Stripper’ there is also no risk of a fake baptism…

In 2014, the Latvian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest urged us to bake a cakein 2022 the Baltic country will again make a plea for a greener life.

Before Citi Zēni won the Latvian preselections, ‘Eat Your Salad’ went viral. Not so much because of the green message, but because of the first sentence. “Instead of meat I eat veggies and pussy,” he said. This was obviously not possible for the EBU, and ‘pussy’ was replaced by a pause. Although this cleaned-up version does not immediately seem like a guarantee of success. Latvia has the dubious honor that no country has more often finished last in the preliminary rounds of the Eurovision Song Contest. They did that five times, to be exact.

Admittedly, we have a soft spot for the Moldovan entry every year. Also this year. The country has never won the competition, but it is not their commitment. The Moldovans pride themselves on sending something that you can at least call remarkable every time. This year, veterans are doing Zdob şi Zdub – the group also took 2005 and 2011 share – live up to those expectations. After the hip grandmother and the fairy on a unicycle – we’re really not making this up – this time the band sings about a train journey. Reportedly, the singer would like to drag a train onto the stage this time. After the gigantic globe that the Spanish entry Blas Cantó dragged onto the stage last year, a rather modest request.

Who wondered if the lace blouse that Jan Kooijman wore during ‘Dancing with the Stars’ has been given a second life? Yep. Michael Ben David wears them now. And no, we don’t know how that happened either.

Last in this list is the Romanian entry. We think singer Andrei of WRS could use a stylist who didn’t stick to the eighties, and the advice to shave his mustache. Fortunately, his song is more catchy than his looks, although we do wonder if this could not have been better the Spanish entry…

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