We have to confess that we'd all but given up on Sasha. After years of supporting his outsider strangeness, he nudged his boat just that bit too close to the pervy edge with his 2023 effort My Favourite Schoolgirl, followed by his catchy-but-creepy Married To Twins the following year. On top of that, times have changed. Fandom on the whole has got younger and more gender diverse. This being the case, Mr Bognibov has got enough lines on his face now to make what may have been ironic-beautiful when Eurovisionia was mostly the domain of older gentlemen of a certain parish feel more than a little bit wrong in these more finely developed times.
However, it turns out that the lad still has a minor hit in him. And while most people will be talking about his other ultimately doomed song this year – the cringingly opportunist We Changed Our Gender – this one here is the kind of thing that he should have been doing all along. Of course this might be down to the fact that Sasha hasn't written any of it. Indeed, it's been penned, produced and videofied by a couple of old friends of this blog who've similarly seen the wonky promise of Sasha, if only he'd try to step away from prodding the noncey bear for once or twice in his life.
The video, though, is oddly unsettling, as it shows a room full of AI-enhanced Bognibov-faced ravers at a pretty sleazy party. It also shows us what Sasha night look like if he ever smiled - which is strange enough in itself. Obviously this is going to go the way of every other one of his past couple of dozen attempts - particularly as he can't employ the benefits of autotune in the punishing live auditions… although to be honest, even that little tool was stretched to its limits here. And you'll be able to set your clock by the boy's sniffy open letter to TRM inside an hour of his rejection, that claims he's easily the best singer in the contest, and how the whole system is a conspiracy against him. It's a story as old as time.
If you're new to this fella, seek out a few of his better efforts, like Wounded Swan, Against Discrimination and Stop The Liars. But for heaven's sake don't even think about clicking on a clip titled I Love The Girls…
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