Reanna Cruz

And if you weren't sold by the rapping and the auto-tune,

Akilah slows it down in the final verse and kind of switches the meaning of the song on its head.

it's a wild pivot and he's singing in Greek that all of this he's doing for his mom, talking about the fact that he grew up poor and saying to his mother, look at all the things we didn't have.

I'm going to make sure we never lack again.

So when he's singing about like buying houses, buying sushi grade tuna, buying all of these really expensive things, you think it's about hedonistic pursuits, but actually it's,

The last verse flips it, and he's reflecting on his past growing up without much money.

So it's the classic Eurovision switch.

Whatever that means in the eyes of the EBEU.

Yeah.

I think Ferto kind of checks off all the boxes.

While I would love Achillas to take it home, he is in second in terms of odds.

People are predicting that this year's winner comes not from Greece, but from Finland with the duo Linda Lampenias and Pete Parkonen and their song Lickenheiten, which translates to flamethrower.

Lots of fire motif in Eurovision.

Linda Lampenius is a classical concert violinist who also goes by Linda Brava.

And Pete Parkunen is a singer-songwriter for Finnish people tapped into both Eurovision and classical violin.

I can imagine that this is like earth-shattering, groundbreaking collaboration.

This track to me feels like quintessential Eurovision where it's intense music.

It's arresting, has the orchestral flair in the violin, ultimately is not too risky, but catchy nonetheless.

So I think Finland represents a sort of...

We heard Karya earlier with Cha Cha Cha.