Switzerland have won the 2024 Eurovision song contest. In a tightly fought final, Nemo’s darkly eclectic track, “The Code,” has been a firm fan favourite throughout the lead-up to Eurovision 2024 and came out on top just beating Croatia’s “Baby Lasagne”.
Glazed with an aura of midnight dance pop, “The Code” infuses divine, quirky cinematism with otherworldly high notes and cut-throat rap sections, serving Eminem’s edge of lyrical terror. If you are in America, scroll down to watch a version that isn’t blocked in your country.
Unfortunately, due to licensing reasons, Eurovision block America from watching the contest on YouTube. However, if you are in America you can watch a different performance of Nemo’s Eurovision winning song below (the performance is very similar).
Croatia’s representative act, Baby Lasagne, boasts an unexpectedly brutal yet ridiculous strain of industrial rock-pop. Their Eurovision track, “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”, ignited its wildfire of English and Armenian lyrics with ludicrous hooks sculpted from nonsense rap and nu-metal, topped by a cat-studded music video. But beneath its imposing absurdities, “Rim Tim Tagi Dim” hid a fascinating lyrical insight into Croatia’s exodus of young emigrants searching for a better life elsewhere.
The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest saw a smear of pop glitz and macabre gothicism, stirred with the most ardent ballads imaginable. While some of this year’s artists plucked cultural quirks and novelties from their most eccentric local sources (check out Estonia’s entry track!), others epitomized the grandiosity of Western pop stardom in all its golden allure. But among the 26 acts to perform in the grand final in Sweden’s Malmö Arena, five artists proved to be absolutely unmissable.
Nemo’s darkly eclectic track, “The Code,” has been a firm fan favorite throughout the lead-up to Eurovision 2024. Glazed with an aura of midnight dance pop, “The Code” infuses divine, quirky cinematism with otherworldly high notes and cut-throat rap sections, serving Eminem’s edge of lyrical terror.
TV nerds might already recognize Nemo from his 2021-22 appearance on Switzerland’s The Masked Singer. Born in the bilingual city, Biel/Bienne, Nemo Mettler is a 24-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer. As well as representing Switzerland, Nemo also represented his non-binary community on the Eurovision stage. “The Code”‘s official music video was fearlessly bedecked with dresses and androgynous etherealism.
Born in Umag, Croatia, the 28-year-old performer and producer Baby Lasagna (real name: Marko Purišić) is one of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest’s most vivacious entries: crazed with a sinister flamboyancy that’s absolutely hypnotic.
While some of 2024’s Eurovision contestants performed tracks which captured Americanised finesse, Angelina Mango’s high-energy entry, “La Noia” came threaded unafraid with tantalising European harmonies, shockingly catchy and addictively unique.
Representing Italy, Angelina Mango’s track had already hit #4 on the Italian singles charts, while the Basilicata-born singer’s latest EP, “Voglia di vivere” hit #2 on Italy’s album charts. From her irresistible tones and rhythmic intricacies to the disturbing spider-leg hair styling of “La Noia”’s official music video, the artistry behind Angelina’s act proved her one of Eurovision’s best.
Bambi Thug’s Eurovision song entry, “Doomsday Blue,” painted disturbing princess fantasies into their horror movie soundscape; industrial goth rock turned pop and smeared with Billie Eilish frequencies. This is the ultimate genre-bending track, traversing auras from old-school jazz to black metal, bubblegum pop to screamo.
Convulsing with witchery, occultism, and claw-biting, demonic terror, Bambi Ray Robinson (the 31-year-old non-binary singer-songwriter behind Bambi Thug) describes their unique concoction as “ouija-pop.” Born in Cork, Ireland and now living in London, Bambi’s already got three EPs under their belt and a devoted cult following on Spotify.