While Australia may be caught in the grips of the Masterchef phenomenon, it appears that there is an international obsession with the culinary arts (or at least eating dessert) if the titles of this years’ ESC entries are anything to go by.
Latvia’s entry this year is “Cake to Bake“, a catchy, guitar-based folk song about a man lamenting that although he has done many amazing feats, such as “went to desert, made it rain” he doesn’t have a clue when it comes to baking a cake. By the way, one of his feats includes learning Latvian. The band’s name, Aarzemnieki, means ‘foreigners’ so this is a song written in English, by a German man living in Latvia. It features the classic Eurovision song elements of dodgy English, and a meaningless ‘ze ze ze cu cu’ refrain which sounds just as silly in any language. Can Latvia bake their cake and win Eurovision too?
The laid-back groove of Belarus’ entry suggests that “Cheesecake” is not a good lover’s nickname, at least not for the classically trained Teo. But is he sweet enough to tempt the international voting community?