Latvia: Citi Zēni with the song “Eat Your Salad” to Eurovision 2022
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Citi Zēni won Latvia's national selection, Supernova 2022, and will be represeting the nation with “Eat Your Salad” at Eurovision 2022 in Turin.
Latvia held this evening the final show of Supernova 2022, the traditional national selection format used to determine the country's Eurovision hopefuls over the recent years.
The final show of Supernova was hosted by Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks. Ketija previously had the honor to host Supernova in 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2020. Lauris represented Latvia in Riga in ESC 2003 as member of F.L.Y. performing “Hello From Mars”.
Besides the competing acts on the show appeared as guests Uku Suviste the Estonian ESC 2021 representative and Lithuania's Eurovision 2020 & 2021 acts The Roop.
Following last week's semifinal show, a total of 11 acts will compete in the Latvian national final:
1. RAUM – “Plans”
2. Linda Rušeniece – “Pay My Own Bills”
3. Bermudu Divstūris – “Bad”
4. Miks Galvanovskis – “I’m Just a Sinner”
5. BUJĀNS – “He, She, You & Me”
6. Elīna Gluzunova – “Es pabiju tur” (I was there)
7. Citi Zēni – “Eat Your Salad”
8. Inspo – “A Happy Place”
9. Mēs Jūs Mīlam – “Rich Itch”
10. Aminata – “I’m Letting You Go”
11. Miks Dukurs – “First Love”
The result
The result was influenced by public voting and by the votes of a jury. Here is how the scoreboard turned out once all votes were counted, declaring Citi Zeni the winners of Supernova 2022 and Latvia's Eurovision 2022 hopefuls. Aminata finished second behind Citi Zeni , while in 3rd place came Bujāns
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".
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.
News Source: LTV
Image; Citi Zeni
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