Latvia: Citi Zēni release the music video of their ESC 2022 entry 'Eat your salad'

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Latvia's Eurovision 2022 hopefuls, the band Citi Zeni, have released the music video of their song for Turin "Eat your Salad".

Citi Zeni won the Lativian national selection of Supernova 2022 with their song "Eat your Salad" and will be flying the flag at Eurovision 2022 in Turin.

Citi Zeni's song has been penned by Roberts Memmēns, Jānis Pētersons, Dagnis Roziņš and Jānis Jačmenkins. According to the band, their Eurovision 2022 song was created "to make a hard topic easy to digest & fun to listen to". Two main sources of inspiration were named for the song: one was a vegan friend of Jānis who wore a shirt that said "Instead of meat, I eat pussy", and the other was a contestant on a Latvian TV cooking show who convinced him to change Jānis' views on the environment, and at the end, challenged him to make a song based on that ideal and "develop this into a song that would not be depressing"

The song talks about the attractiveness of being vegan and eco-friendly living. The first verse talks about eco-friendly things the group does. The second verse is filled with numerous sexual references, referring to an eco-friendly woman the group is attracted to. The chorus combines the messages of veganism and how the characteristic is sexually desirable.

Now the band has released the music video:

A few words for Citi Zēni

Citi Zēni are a Latvian pop band, currently consisting of six members. Namely, Jānis Pētersons, Dagnis Roziņš, Reinis Višķeris, Krišjānis Ozols, Roberts Memmēns and Toms Kagainis formed the band in March 2020 in a songwriting camp in Riga.

In 2021, the band released their debut album, called "Dogs take to the streets".

Latvia in Eurovision

Latvia participated in Eurovision first time back in 2000. The country on its debut participation, with Brainstorm finished in 3rd place with the song My Star. It didn’t take long for Latvia to win the contest, since in 2002, with Marie N’s I Wanna the Baltic country was crowned winner.

Latvia only participated in 2002 thanks to the withdrawal of Portugal from the contest, as Latvia’s poor result in 2001 had relegated them from the 2002 contest. From 2009 to 2014 Latvia met disappointing results as it failed to qualify to the Grand final. In 2015 achieved its best results the latest year with Animata and her Love Injected which ended in 6th place. In 2018 the country was represented by Laura Rizzotto with her song Funny girl which finished 12th in the semi final failing to qualify to the final .

In 2019 Supernova winner Carousel represented the countey in Tel Aviv with their entry That night. The song didn’t make it to the final marking Latvia’s third successive failure to qualify to the final.

Samanta Tīna won the Latvian Eurovision national selection, Supernova 2020, with her song “Still Breathing” last . However her Eurovision journey never reached its destination in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless the Latvian act was selected internally to compete in Rotterdam in 2021 with her entry 'The Moon is Rising' which competed in the second semi final show but unfortunately didn't qualify to the final.

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Latvia: Citi Zēni release the music video of their ESC 2022 entry 'Eat your salad'

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