LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER, a man in his late thirties named Sam Battle whose bio is so sparse we don’t even know what UK city he’s from, attracted minor fame on the internet a few years ago for making instruments out of found objects – he once wired a Furby into a synthesizer (KOOKY!

For the first time ever in the contest’s 70-year run, the UK’s song is not sung entirely in English.

“Eins, Zwei, Drei” is described as a song about “escaping the soul-crushing boredom of the nine-to-five, into a world of dreams and endless possibilities”, while musically it has “undertones of Britpo...