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No this isn't about Cha Cha Cha.

The year is 2019. Eurovision is happening in Tel Aviv1. Other countries are entering the normal happy pop songs you would expect from Eurovision. Titles like "Love is Forever," "Friend of a Friend," "Better Love" and whatnot abound.

Iceland goes a different route.

They enter a song called Hatrið mun sigra. The song's name translates to "Hatred will prevail" and it's an industrial techno track from an anticapitalist performance art group with a BDSM aesthetic called Hatari. Needless to say, there was nothing else that year that sounded quite like it. They ultimately come in 10th place, but have stuck out in my mind ever since because (1) the song is a fucking banger and (2) this was in Eurovision?????


  1. Hatari are openly pro-Palestine and were explicitly warned that they would be disqualified if they made any such statements on stage. When the vote totals were announced they held up Palestinian flag banners, which earned Iceland a €5,000 fine. On the day that Hatari got home from the competition they released a song featuring a Palestinian musician with lyrics in Icelandic and Arabic.


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