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Poison Cake by Marko Bošnjak
Well, here’s a thing. Marko Bošnjak is evoking the campiest of schlock horror traditions with this tale of a would-be poisoner. He’s cooking up a batch of his adulterated cakes with evil glee. Somebody ought to tell Aarzemnieki to check their ingredients in case something’s spilled over.
The song is a mishmash of genres, at turns rocky, grungy, melodramatic, and with a section that could be out of a nursery rhyme, albeit given a creepy edge in context here. The campy feel is augmented by some equally campy visuals – in the music video at least.
There are some decent ideas here, so it’s perhaps an unfair comparison but knowing so well, as I do, Kate Bush’s camp and melodramatic Coffee Homeground the bar has been set high for me for this niche genre of zhushed-up murder ballads so I’m afraid this cake just isn’t cutting it for me; although I dare say they could give it an impactful presentation on the Eurovision stage. It will need a heck of a make-over from the national final though, where the jarring juxtaposition of styles is too distracting.
I’m trying to work out if it’s just bad or whether it might challenge to be one of the worst entries we’ve ever seen at Eurovision. In Marko’s favour, Y Asi is just about clinging onto that unenviable crown.
My marks: 1 point
Photo: Amina Aladuz Lomigora/EBU