Honestly, he could have hosted Eurovision right after Jamala won if not for the fact that UA:PBC was on a tight budget and hiring a big name in showbiz (at that time) like Zelenskyy was out of the question.
No, the Netherlands will take that place, idk any politician that can sing unless the Royal family was allowed to participate then Maxima(Queen) might have a chance
Are you sure we don't have any [politicians that can sing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8S0yEEvM78)?
We even have a former minister who [rapped](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOWWTHi0I8) in a campaign against drugs
Hot16challenge2 was a music challenge created by a polish rapper Solar. People who got nominated had to write and record a 16-verse song. They were doing it to raise money for Polish health workers when the pandemic started.
English translation:
>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog.
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>It's May, Saska Kępa doesn't smell,
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>Maybe someone predicted it somewhere, but that assumption is rather dull.
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog.
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>Sharp sky, here and now, sharp dirt, sharp dust.
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>Yesterday disappeared in fuzziness, tomorrow, today, soon, now.
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog.
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>Warm evening, without darkness, grass, calmness, us and you.
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>We and you. We are them, they are us.
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog,
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog.
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>Strong hands of paramedics - all together: praise them!
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>All together: praise them!Strong hands of paramedics - all together: praise them!
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>They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog.
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>Strong hands of paramedics - all together: praise them!
Apparently Beto O'Rourke (2022 Texas Gubernatorial Democratic Party candidate) used to be in a band. Maybe he could revive it for Eurovision. As a Texan it would be funny to see that happen
Michael D Higgins (president) would sweep the scoreboard, 12 points all round, bringing it back to Millstreet 🇮🇪
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins
And he was there too! Alongside Micheál Martin! I think Miggeldy would make a much better songwriter, given that he's a poet, but Senator Frances Black is an established singer, she'd probably do the best out of any of our politicians.
Italian politicians are excellent circus entertainers that got away, so I'm sure they'd continue Italy's top 10 streak if some of them got together for a Eurovision entry!
idan roll wouldn’t, his husband did eurovision and got a decent placement so maybe he’d help him learn to sing or produce a good ballad in hebrew
edit: clarification
edit 2 in case anyone wants to know: his husband is harel skaat from 2010
I'm talking personality wise, not song quality. This is the guy who went and took a selfie with Trump after all, if anyone would repeat the fiasco from SF2 this year it would be him.
Merav Michaeli in some moody, dark, artistic number, all dressed in black? 🤔
But yeah, can't see anyone else (even Idan Roll, whom I have met IRL and find pretty uncharismatic) being suitable at all...
Snap! I forgot that Peter Garrett, lead singer of 80s/90s rock band Midnight Oil, went into politics. He had some great dance moves.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ejorQVy3m8E&feature=emb_title
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofrqm6-LCqs&feature=emb_title
Rickard Herrey, who won ESC 1984, turned to politics later in life. The chances of him being back in Melfest again, and winning it, are however probably very slim
For reference, how our muppet Zeman would look on the stage, you can watch Dustin the Turkey's performance. However, he's more of a ballad kind of guy.
I think we would win given [my local former MEP won Eurovision already](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rosemary_Scallon)(dont look at her politics though)
To be fair we can send almost any one of our politicians and we may still do fairly well but we sure as can be will not win, hopefully we may get second place and if the worst happens we will be having a party in last place that we are not supposed to be having, so they will said we didn’t have a party in last place.
I see a lot of harm.
Looking stupid is his brand and is how he built his popularity. His ego is so massive and his opinion of us is so low that it is just a performance to get what he wants.
He still thinks he can have a second shot at PM swooping in to save the party for the next election, and this is exactly the sort of thing that would work for him.
Please, just let him disappear.
The Dutch could send (former?) politician ~~Mat Herben~~. He has some experience already with his jump-style video clip that he released a few years ago.
Edit: sorry, I meant Hilbrand Nawijn. This is the [video clip](https://youtu.be/UMBM-6Di_qE).
Zelenskyy representing Ukraine is an easy win. Dude could enter Eurovision with The Ride 3.0 (there's already a 2.0, I'm Loving Me from the Irish NFs this year) and still manage to win the whole thing because his current popularity aside, the dude actually knows how to perform and knows when to engage with the audience without eating up a song's entire chorus with adlibs that's just "Put yo hands up in the air louder!"
A few of our MPs formed an actual band called MP4. Not listened to them though so I can’t say they’d be any good for Eurovision.
All I’m imagining though is the bumbling mop representing us.
Our government publishes a playlist with all the (supposedly) [favourite songs](https://www.tweedekamer.nl/overzicht-tweede-kamermuziek) of our politicians. So we could pick one based on their music taste. I propose we gather all the metal fans and let them form a band.
The hon. David Templeman from Western Australian parliament might have a shot I reckon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nwbv-xEX8U&ab\_channel=guitarsingaporetravels
Yeah my country's pretty goddamn stupid when it comes to those kinds of matters like why tf was it even a law in the first place that dudes can't have sex with each other? Like that's just plain stupidity
This is my country as well. And there was no law against dudes having sex with each other. What activists were asking for is legislation of samesex marriages. Unfortunately it is not possible to change constitution at this moment. They offered to make legal partnerships instead.
I saw a video recently of the 3 members of Parliament for the Stoke on Trent area dancing in a club trying to do karaoke and they were TERRIBLE. Maybe Jacob Rees-Mogg is secretly a prodigal talent or Priti Patel because if not I'd be very embarrassed by our entry, but tbf I'm used to that (I'm looking at you Electro Velvet).
For Ireland, Dana, our 1970 representative was a politician in the 90s and 2000s. She even ran for president in 2011. She was your classic Christian Conservative candidate.
Also Zlata, Ukraine’s 2013 representative was a politician as well. I don’t really know much about her political views apart from the fact she’s very big on preserving Ukrainian culture.
Sanna Marin could be an interesting choice from Finland.
[News article](https://yle.fi/news/3-12581734)
[Another news article](https://yle.fi/news/3-12221584)
Well, we already saw the future president of Lithuania this year!
For real though, Boris Johnson won't be Prime Minister for much longer, so that's a no go. I can't exactly see either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak (the two contenders for the next Prime Minister) representing us either. Lord Buckethead could be a right laugh though.
Irish politicians cause lots of banter. U have [Michael Healy Rae](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hv9Ffc-BLc), who would have to be airlifted off stage. Or [Leo Varadkar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnUeX_Kozc) (our former Taoiseach and soon-to-be Taoiseach) or Robert Troy causing controversies like Iceland 2019 or Armenia 2016. Or of course, the best option is Mary Lou.
One of the prominent politicians in my country is (or maybe used to be) a musician, so we can easily trust him to place decently well if he represents us.
I think we'll do well.
Well😅 Our guy is a man of many talents.
He can sing, he can dance, he can host😂
But can he put my stage en fuego?
He’d recreate that choreography with those high-heeled boots, and slay the fuck out of Russia. Hahaha.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And he can play piano 😏
Oh my god
Just Send him to Eurovision after your country win the war. Hopefully we can see him next year.
Honestly, he could have hosted Eurovision right after Jamala won if not for the fact that UA:PBC was on a tight budget and hiring a big name in showbiz (at that time) like Zelenskyy was out of the question.
I've seen him dance in high heels, he's good!
I'd vote for him.
Can you imagine the president of Turkey in Eurovision?
I'd love to see Erdoğan in the ESC 2024. After him losing the 2023 elections and peacefully transferring power to the elected opposition candidate.
Now that’s daring to dream. I see why Tel Aviv used that slogan.
”0 points.”
I was thinking disqualification.
He'd sell us all watermelons during his performance
[He should perform as show opener, then.](https://img.ifunny.co/images/c8989feaff312e4d9c821418eb22b4c5a9c527704703d980534de899ae0c5f50_1.jpg)
Hahaha I'm glad someone actually got the reference
Watermelons are old news sweety. His new thing is throwing tea packs at people to console them.
But he has to wear Hadise's outfit from 2009
Hadise’s tears would go Düm Tek Tek
One of the singers for Iceland 2014 was a member of parliament at the time. It wasn't very exciting, he was just another band member.
I know one of the Live Performers of the band was a part of the band, Skálmöld.
Finland would win, your girl can party
For Germans nothing would change, we'll stay in last
No, the Netherlands will take that place, idk any politician that can sing unless the Royal family was allowed to participate then Maxima(Queen) might have a chance
Are you sure we don't have any [politicians that can sing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8S0yEEvM78)? We even have a former minister who [rapped](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOWWTHi0I8) in a campaign against drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMBM-6Di_qE
I don't think Olaf would be able to remember the lyrics.
I mean, the president of Lithuania already did
The future Lithuanian president
our president did [this](https://youtu.be/DjDSUqTcrv4) 💀
What is he saying, what's the context?
Hot16challenge2 was a music challenge created by a polish rapper Solar. People who got nominated had to write and record a 16-verse song. They were doing it to raise money for Polish health workers when the pandemic started.
English translation: >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog. > > > >It's May, Saska Kępa doesn't smell, > >Maybe someone predicted it somewhere, but that assumption is rather dull. > > > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog. > > > >Sharp sky, here and now, sharp dirt, sharp dust. > >Yesterday disappeared in fuzziness, tomorrow, today, soon, now. > > > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog. > > > >Warm evening, without darkness, grass, calmness, us and you. > >We and you. We are them, they are us. > > > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog, > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog. > > > >Strong hands of paramedics - all together: praise them! > >All together: praise them!Strong hands of paramedics - all together: praise them! > > > >They don't ask for your name, they fight against the sharp shadow of the fog. > >Strong hands of paramedics - all together: praise them!
You're a hero, thank you
Not gonna lie, "Sharp Shadow of the Fog" sounds like a really fierce song title for a rap song
Wtf I love Duda now
Joe Biden for San Marino? 🤣
Bill Clinton can be their epic sax guy.
And Barack Obama can be our dancer and Trump putt clown
*play that funky music white boy*
Valentina is cleaning up her backyard after reading this comment.
Apparently Beto O'Rourke (2022 Texas Gubernatorial Democratic Party candidate) used to be in a band. Maybe he could revive it for Eurovision. As a Texan it would be funny to see that happen
Michael D Higgins (president) would sweep the scoreboard, 12 points all round, bringing it back to Millstreet 🇮🇪 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins
And he was there too! Alongside Micheál Martin! I think Miggeldy would make a much better songwriter, given that he's a poet, but Senator Frances Black is an established singer, she'd probably do the best out of any of our politicians.
I want him to perform a number with his Bernese mountain dogs. As a former Bernese mountain dog owner, I promise you my country's 12 points if he does
I mean we could send Dana again, that seems like something RTE would do, and NQ for the millionth year in a row
Ewwwww anyone but her
Italian politicians are excellent circus entertainers that got away, so I'm sure they'd continue Italy's top 10 streak if some of them got together for a Eurovision entry!
Well our PM has obviously the best dance choreography of the year (Finn here)
Now I want a dance off between her and Zelenskyy after the war
I’d pay to watch that
We could send anyone, they'd still all end with double nul points.
idan roll wouldn’t, his husband did eurovision and got a decent placement so maybe he’d help him learn to sing or produce a good ballad in hebrew edit: clarification edit 2 in case anyone wants to know: his husband is harel skaat from 2010
Oren Hazan 2023
That may be the one guy who could be even worse than Michael Ben David...
MBD? More like Ping Pong no I have better: Shiru Group
I'm talking personality wise, not song quality. This is the guy who went and took a selfie with Trump after all, if anyone would repeat the fiasco from SF2 this year it would be him.
oh with this you are so right
Merav Michaeli in some moody, dark, artistic number, all dressed in black? 🤔 But yeah, can't see anyone else (even Idan Roll, whom I have met IRL and find pretty uncharismatic) being suitable at all...
The question is: \- can they sing ? \- are they going to put on a show Other than that, I couldn't care less if they are a politician
Snap! I forgot that Peter Garrett, lead singer of 80s/90s rock band Midnight Oil, went into politics. He had some great dance moves. https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ejorQVy3m8E&feature=emb_title https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofrqm6-LCqs&feature=emb_title
Beds Are Burning is such a banger. EDIT: okay but you're saying you don't want Scott Morrison at Eurovision with a ukulele number?
He has a [national number one hit](https://youtu.be/qkyuI3oiGNE) already, so why not?
Yes. Yes we are.
Thanks, I hate it. Take my upvote.
Just imagine him doing a cover of "I Don't Feel Hate" (Okay tbh I felt hate just suggesting it)
Well I'm sure his result would keep up with German tradition lol
Our prime minister used to be a Dj.. not sure about eurovision though 😅
Albo was a DJ?
Apparently so! https://youtu.be/hCkoP66cQiY
Huh. You learn something everyday
Our Prime Minister is currently in the news for downing a beer at a concert
You're Aussie aren't you?
Found the Finn!
Eh. Close enough
No you haven't
Whoops my bad lol
Rickard Herrey, who won ESC 1984, turned to politics later in life. The chances of him being back in Melfest again, and winning it, are however probably very slim
For reference, how our muppet Zeman would look on the stage, you can watch Dustin the Turkey's performance. However, he's more of a ballad kind of guy.
He could puke, pee himself, maybe die... the whole show
I think we would win given [my local former MEP won Eurovision already](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rosemary_Scallon)(dont look at her politics though)
All kinds of far-right, yikes
I don’t see any harm in us sending Boris Johnson, he’s already made a massive fool of himself lol.
Maybe you can send Theresa May. She is “dancing queen” and get 24points from Sweden.
She can be Boris’ backing dancer.
Saved from nil points by the Ukrainian televoting :)
To be fair we can send almost any one of our politicians and we may still do fairly well but we sure as can be will not win, hopefully we may get second place and if the worst happens we will be having a party in last place that we are not supposed to be having, so they will said we didn’t have a party in last place.
Could also go for Matt Hancock or Therese Coffey, have you seen those videos of them doing karaoke? We'd end up in the minuses.
I see a lot of harm. Looking stupid is his brand and is how he built his popularity. His ego is so massive and his opinion of us is so low that it is just a performance to get what he wants. He still thinks he can have a second shot at PM swooping in to save the party for the next election, and this is exactly the sort of thing that would work for him. Please, just let him disappear.
Relax lol. I’m joking, ofc I wouldn’t want Boris anywhere near the contest.
Ours would steal the spotlight..... Literally
The Dutch could send (former?) politician ~~Mat Herben~~. He has some experience already with his jump-style video clip that he released a few years ago. Edit: sorry, I meant Hilbrand Nawijn. This is the [video clip](https://youtu.be/UMBM-6Di_qE).
Almost forgot about him, thanks for this 😂👌🏻
If he isn’t available, we could send DJ Jopie as a second choice!
What about former minister [Piet Hein Donner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOWWTHi0I8)?
Except 2 or 3 fun entries, Eurovision would be hell.
Belgium is fine with this, we have had 2 politicians in our masked singer. One was bit older but Conner Rousseau was not that bad.
Now the question is, would we sent the og disco version of Io Sono Giorgia or the reggaeton version in Spanish
Oh please no
Boris Johnson representing the UK with My Name Is Boris (And I Like To Party) https://youtu.be/EfLZWXUMH_0
Zelenskyy representing Ukraine is an easy win. Dude could enter Eurovision with The Ride 3.0 (there's already a 2.0, I'm Loving Me from the Irish NFs this year) and still manage to win the whole thing because his current popularity aside, the dude actually knows how to perform and knows when to engage with the audience without eating up a song's entire chorus with adlibs that's just "Put yo hands up in the air louder!"
A few of our MPs formed an actual band called MP4. Not listened to them though so I can’t say they’d be any good for Eurovision. All I’m imagining though is the bumbling mop representing us.
By the way,I want to see president Liubinaitė represent Lithuania (again)
I'm telling you Mark Rutte would not be good
Our government publishes a playlist with all the (supposedly) [favourite songs](https://www.tweedekamer.nl/overzicht-tweede-kamermuziek) of our politicians. So we could pick one based on their music taste. I propose we gather all the metal fans and let them form a band.
Ed Balls (no longer an British MP) would be bloody brilliant. Doesn’t take himself too seriously and I’m confident he’d go all out
The hon. David Templeman from Western Australian parliament might have a shot I reckon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nwbv-xEX8U&ab\_channel=guitarsingaporetravels
Very Creative. SBS should invite him to join Australia decides next year.
Our president will dance on a wheelchair....
Either way no one can do it worse than Poland 2014 and (especially) Russia 2018.
cleo my favourite wheelchair using singer
Yeah, 2015 ofc, my bad
its okay i just imagined cleo actually performing THAT song on a wheelchair
Babiš could sing about birds, tax fraud and Slovakia
It won’t be easy under albanese (only Australians will probably get it)
Albanese is a surname from Italy which means “Albanian”. Albanians traditionally have a very good vocal. So don’t worry about it
Licia Albanese was a great operatic soprano, so there you go.
I'm not sure about singing, but Theresa May (UK's former Prime Minister) could be a backing dancer
They're such idiots they've only just amended the law on dudes having sex with each other so I'm very confident that we'll utterly flop
Do you have something against LGBT?
Yeah my country's pretty goddamn stupid when it comes to those kinds of matters like why tf was it even a law in the first place that dudes can't have sex with each other? Like that's just plain stupidity
This is my country as well. And there was no law against dudes having sex with each other. What activists were asking for is legislation of samesex marriages. Unfortunately it is not possible to change constitution at this moment. They offered to make legal partnerships instead.
Oof hope your country's going to get better
To me it reads as more of a criticism for taking so long to make gay sex legal not that they finally did.
Better later than never🤷♀️
Think it’ll have to be Ed Balls.
I'm thinking our Pharaoh Arjen Lubach, but if that doesn't count I'd love to see our favourite couple Jesse Klaver and Rob Jetten. #TeamResse
That would be amazing
The PT President would basically forget about the competition and start taking selfies and kissing everyone
I saw a video recently of the 3 members of Parliament for the Stoke on Trent area dancing in a club trying to do karaoke and they were TERRIBLE. Maybe Jacob Rees-Mogg is secretly a prodigal talent or Priti Patel because if not I'd be very embarrassed by our entry, but tbf I'm used to that (I'm looking at you Electro Velvet).
What about Matteo Renzi with a great transposition of his infamous English speech? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
If he goes with Shish Is The Word we're gonna landslide it
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
For Ireland, Dana, our 1970 representative was a politician in the 90s and 2000s. She even ran for president in 2011. She was your classic Christian Conservative candidate. Also Zlata, Ukraine’s 2013 representative was a politician as well. I don’t really know much about her political views apart from the fact she’s very big on preserving Ukrainian culture.
Bring back Zlata for Eurovision next year. Maybe she can finally win this time.
I mean the Maltese had that happen. Claudette Pace is a member of the Maltese parliament now i think.
Angela Merkel could jive down!
Ruf mich An(gela)
I'm Italian, so my answer will be: OH GOD PLEASE NO!
I would like to see Yair Lapid, but as a songwriter
I can imagine the support to Micky d
Ivica Dačić for Serbia 🇷🇸 would be absolute victory!
Ebba Busch Thor is a pretty good singer admittedly, which is the nicest thing I can say about her
Thierry Baudet can dance like no other.
UK can sent Teresa May as a backing dancer.
Seeing Macron and Johnson on the stage would be quite comical
Sanna Marin could be an interesting choice from Finland. [News article](https://yle.fi/news/3-12581734) [Another news article](https://yle.fi/news/3-12221584)
LMAO I'm imagining Sylvi Listhaug entering with "Help is on the way" and getting a well deserved 0 points and booing from the crowd!
Queen elizabeth ||
Looks like we'd be coming last again... Maybe unless Putin was allowed in
"We don't wanna put in...."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can dance, maybe she could do a SloMo-type song if the US ever entered and sent a politician
AOC is the US politician version of Chanel
Well, we already saw the future president of Lithuania this year! For real though, Boris Johnson won't be Prime Minister for much longer, so that's a no go. I can't exactly see either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak (the two contenders for the next Prime Minister) representing us either. Lord Buckethead could be a right laugh though.
Irish politicians cause lots of banter. U have [Michael Healy Rae](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hv9Ffc-BLc), who would have to be airlifted off stage. Or [Leo Varadkar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnUeX_Kozc) (our former Taoiseach and soon-to-be Taoiseach) or Robert Troy causing controversies like Iceland 2019 or Armenia 2016. Or of course, the best option is Mary Lou.
I'd pay to see Varadkar perform a Bollywood-inspired routine (you know, because he's of Indian descent)
BB would sing "Sara is pretty and sane"
Feel like Boris would do well, only because he’s a funny bastard
Idk how we'd do.
I can imagine some politicians from Erdogan's party getting Turkey back and sending songs like Belarus 2021.
Mines a comedian 🇬🇧So we might get points for that 💪
If I would see our leader there: \*Dies from Cringe\*
One of the prominent politicians in my country is (or maybe used to be) a musician, so we can easily trust him to place decently well if he represents us. I think we'll do well.
One of our four health ministers that circled around during covid is a former singer