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Espresso Macchiato by Tommy Cash
As Eurovision fans pore over 2025’s offerings one genre keeps rising to the fore: the ‘joke’ or ‘novelty’ entry. I often find these could just as easily be classified as ‘fun’ or ‘endearingly daft’ as amusement is subjective. I suppose it all comes down to which side you land on. Tommy Cash’s entry is firmly on the ‘annoys the titting crap out of me’ side. I can’t even pretend to enjoy the caffeine buzz.
Mr Cash is something of the provocateur, although he may prefer the epithet of performance artist. He certainly seems to enjoy acting out. He has a history of eye-catching appearances at public events which, like my appreciation of the song, seem highly subjective in their appeal. Most recently he’s teamed up with 2024’s enfant terrible Joost Klein for an attention-grabbing song on the latter’s album.
I’m still struggling to understand how, and mostly why, so many Eurovision fans continue to support Joost when his behaviour last year seems so obviously unacceptable. His grudge is enduring, no more clearly displayed than in their duet with the line “fuck the EBU”. Quite clearly Mr Cash is getting in early, before he’s even let loose on the Contest himself.
Quite how the EBU can tolerate someone entering their competition whilst setting out his stall by saying fuck its organisers is beyond me. If it were me, I’d have been having a word with the Estonian broadcaster, who ultimately will pick up any pieces of their entrant’s behaviour. I can’t believe Cash is going to pass up an opportunity like this to be a prize tool when the spotlight’s on him.
But there’s a song here and I guess I should really mention that. It’s crap. There we are then. OK, so I found the initial video marginally engaging, he can have a point for that. The live performance was so staggeringly awful that I hope viewers will just laugh him off the stage.
I’m not opposed to fun. I’m not even opposed to there being daft entries that don’t float my boat. But Eurovision feels more like a personal project for Cash to hijack and I’ve absolutely no time for that.
My marks: 1 point
Photo: Alina Piyazok/EBU