Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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What does “Czaradoro” really mean? How do you walk like a gorilla? What can prog rock teach us about geopolitics? What happened to Norways’s first K-Pop band? Is Gabry Ponte TRYING to humiliate his former Eiffel 65 bandmates? Come with Më on a Voyage through Semi-Final 1, featuring Comrade @ESCGabe to drink the last few drops of “Espresso Macchiato.”

00:00 Intro
01:08 ICELAND - VÆB - "RÓA"
02:57 POLAND - Justyna Steczkowska - "Gaja"
05:14 SLOVENIA - Klemen - "How Much Time Do We Have Left"
06:52 ESTONIA - Tommy Cash - "Espresso Macchiato"
09:03 SPAIN - Melody - "ESA DIVA"
11:06 UKRAINE - Ziferblat - "Bird of Pray"
13:16 SWEDEN - KAJ - "Bara Bada Bastu"
15:26 PORTUGAL - NAPA - "Deslocado"
17:35 NORWAY - Kyle Alessandro - "Lighter"
20:02 BELGIUM - Red Sebastian - "Strobe Lights"
22:06 MOLDOVER
24:24 ITALY - Lucio Corsi - "Volevo Essere Un Duro"
26:28 AZERBAIJAN - Mamagama - "Run With U"
28:33 SAN MARINO - Gabry Ponte - "Tutta L'Italia"
30:55 ALBANIA - Shkodra Elektronike - "Zjerm"
32:51 NETHERLANDS - Claude - "C'est La Vie"
34:40 CROATIA - Marko Bošnjak - "Poison Cake"
37:18 SWITZERLAND - Zoë Më - "Voyage"
39:16 CYPRUS - Theo Evan - "Shh"
41:34 Outro

SPECIAL THANKS
ESCGabe: writer and performer of Estonia
Jessica Doyle: co-writer on Norway, Belgium, and Azerbaijan
Rocket: researcher on Iceland, Poland, and Cyprus
Andrew Paterson: researcher and music transcriber on Ukraine and Albania
Bee: co-writer on Croatia and Italy
Matic Jenko: researcher on Slovenia
Hetneusje: researcher on Netherlands
Anja: researcher on Switzerland
t2t2: subtitle creation
Oleksandr: pronunciation czar
Efi: script supervisor
Caffini: thumbnail design