The official EM song “Fire” sounds so perfect that it won’t bother anyone between Turin, Tirana and Titisee-Neustadt. The only surprise: Doctor Müller-Wohlfahrt somehow appears.
The official EM song was released on Friday and anyone who listens to it even briefly will be faced with big questions. How did the idiosyncratic idea, in terms of attention economy, come about to deliver the product on the very weekend on which the Eurovision Song Contest ties up the continent’s capacities? What exactly is it, the “Fire” of Meduza, OneRepublic and makes Leony sound indifferent in such a perfect way? And why does this song, which wants to be a song of joy, begin with an MRI scan?