Lithuania: The Roop

 
There's two kinds of crazy in the world. There's the crazy that you let babysit your kids knowing that they will howl with laughter and have a blast. And then there's the kind of crazy where you feel uncomfortable giving them access to cutlery. The Roop are the latter.

"On Fire" was one of the highlights of the 2020 No Eurovision Song Contest. The band is made up of long boy, long girl, man bun, Dave and the accountant. The song is super catchy with a drop that will have you "do do do"ing to supplement the "la la la"ing already covered in the lyrics. The video is pretty much what you get if you let your kids loose in the mirror section of B&Q and the dance moves are taken straight from Arnold "Psycho" Robinson's book "How to Exorcise the Spirit of a Chicken".

Despite their inability to use chairs, The Roop would have almost certainly brought a strong, somewhat unhinged but compelling performance to the competition. 

So what do we get this year? 50 seconds into the video and all we have is him walking to a dressing room and sitting down. Please don't let me down!.....1 minute in some picked guitar....ooh and a beat......yellow clothes....come on, I need this to be good......1 minute 16 seconds....CHICKEN!!!!! Yes!! The chicken is back! This is what we wanted....And look, the whole band are yellow chickens! Happy days!

After the crushing devastation of Georgia's decision to follow up on an excellent tune by submitting a soggy fart of a song this year, I was desperate for The Roop not to disappoint. And they haven't. They are still terrifyingly odd. They still have the best dance moves. They still have a super fun song. 

Thank you, Lithuania! I will be at your poultry disco, wondering what the cluck is going on but having the time of my life.