Ireland
Emmy – Laika Party
It takes a certain kind of song to make you both laugh, wince, and question the state of the education system. Laika Party is a glittery, sugar-rushed ode to the most famously doomed canine in Soviet history—a chirpy tribute to Laika, the stray dog blasted into space in 1957, never to return. Norwegian Emmy, however, sings it as though Laika might still be orbiting Earth, alive, well, and ready to throw down in zero gravity. It’s unclear whether this is tragic, moving, or just appallingly misinformed.
Vocally, Emmy delivers her lines with a pronounced lisp that somehow adds to the surreal, fever-dream energy of it all—less Eurovision entry, more CBBC musical about space history gone terribly wrong. The lyrics veer between the oddly sincere and the utterly inane (“We’re gonna party in the sky tonight!” being a particular lowlight).
Musically, it’s 90s Manchester clubland via children’s novelty pop, with a pounding beat so devoid of soul it makes Believe-era Cher sound like Mahler. The production is tinny, the concept baffling, and the emotional tone completely unhinged from the subject matter. A party for a dead dog? In space? Set to Eurodance?
I hate it. Hate it, hate it.
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