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Over the Course of a Decade, Estonian Avant-Garde Rapper Tommy Cash Has Become One of Pop Music’s Eminent Tricksters. He’s gone viral for his Peacocking Front-Row Fashion Week CostumsWalked The Runway With Rick Owens, Collaborateed With Maison Margiela, Sexually Explicit Music Videos on Pornhub, showcased His Own Sperm in an art ejib, and netted a Feature On Charli XCX’s Critically ACCLAIMED Pop 2 Mixtape.
But this year, Cash, Born Thomas Tammets, is setting his sights on something a little more traditional than he used to: Representing Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest. Taking the Stage in Basel, Switzerland, Cash Will Perform HIS Song “Espresso Macchiato” in Front of the Entire Continent of Europe (Australia), Vying for the Chance to Bring Himself and HIS Home Country.
“Espresso Macchiato” is bot an ode to the uniting power of coffee and a cheesy, electro-swing track that features Cash alter ego, tommaso, and some level-One Italian Vocabulary. ITHO ALSO A Deeply Song That Fits Right in the Eurovision Stage-and in Some Ways, Cash, With His Penchant for Attention-Grabbing Stunts, is the Perfect Eurovision Contestant. During a recent episode of Switched on popCash spoke about the hit song and made a case for who should Compete for the US
Thank you for jaining with Today!
What’s up? Where are you calling from?
I’m calling from los angeles –
Be is the USA gonna be on Eurovision? Becuse Australia is…
I Feel Like there’s an Opportunity there.
Yeah, absolutely. Its like the olympics for singing and performing. I think America Should be there. I WOULD PICK JOJO SIWA FOR THIS YEAR. I think she would do Very good.
That’s a good pick.
Strong artist.
She has the showmanship. She Could Really Command a Crowd.
She was Born with Eurovision in her genes.
Talk to me a little bit About “Espresso Macchiato.” What’s the story of the song?
IT’S A Story to Bring People Together, You Know? I wake up; You wake up. First Thing WE DO: WE DRINK COFFEE, RIGHT? If we Meet up, what we gonna would? We’re gonna go for a coffee, you know? SO BASICALLY, LIKE, COFFEE BRINGS US TOGETTHER; I Hope that my song will bring US Together too.
What was the Sonic Inspiration? Your catalog is filled with a lot of High-Energy Dance Music. Theree’s a lot of gabber and Traditional Eurodance Sounds. “Espresso Macchiato” is a littleferent for you.
The Sonic Inspiration was freedom. I had a trip to capri. Its This Italian Island Little; Its Very Beautiful. And i came back, and we had this idea of “espresso macchiato” as a title. IT JUST WAS BORN BY ITSELF. But the verses is weird. It ‘s vays Bad style of jazz mixed with electronic music that no one use. I was Saying, “Let’s use this, Because no one is use this sound.”
For me, it’s the year of trying things that tommy hasn’t tried before. If you’ve been to my concerts, you know my catalogue, and it is a really Scary to perform with a song this songs, you are naked on the stage; You have no beat to Hide Bebind. If you have gabber or Eurodance, you have this man-made Energy pulsing bend you. It already work with the Crowd automatically. Its Our Heartbeat. It make you Move.
I don’t know if I can call “macchiato” a balalad or opera song, but it is different. It ‘s kind of a battle with myself. It was Scary Becuse i’m not used to it. I’m use to have Having “Baba yaga” or “UNTZ UNTZ” or “Winaloto,” right? Already work, opens up the age pit. But this is wen i’m naked – when it is just my charisma, my aura, my stare. With.
How you are experiment a song like to translate to the Eurovision Stage, which Celebrates a kind of maximalism?
Eurovision is Hungry for New Ideas and Approaches. But i know hows you will aeed a few years to understand and be like, “Ah, actually, Pop 2 was Such an Amazing album, ”but fuck, we just underestand this only five years late.
Yeah.
This song Speaks for itself Because the pool of People who can listen to it are from 2 years old to 70 years old, and they are all connecting with it. So this is the magic of the song. ITH’S NOTHING A Concrete Demographic – Its Getting This Wide Palette of People Who Can Find Different Things and Vibe with the song.
How you will you approtting a song for Eurovision versus Writing Something for Your Own Catalogue? Is there a different take that you have on songwriting?
Yes, we took some time to figure it out. The sessions of getting the verses right took us time. And the variety of People that watch Eurovision is different. I feel that I couldn’t do classic tommy cash, which is for a smaller group of People, but i would Say “macchiato” is for eachone, where they can have a coffee.
I appreciate when Eurovision songs have to be to the country they’re representing. Eurovision’s Estonian Entry Last Year was one of my favorites, and They Sang in Estonian. How do you think “Espresso Macchiato” represents the Country Specific?
Well, it represents it is sung by the most estonian artist of all the artists-the top of the balls, the top-tier, no. 1 Estonian artist in the world. I ALSO LIKE WHEN EUROVISION SONGS REFLECT THEIR COUNTRIES, but we’re way past. The Language Being Used in Different Songs Are Not their Own Languages; The actual musicians are not from the Countries They Represent. The Competition is so international that what matters is the emotion. What Happens OnStage Matters. It matters if you make meheel good or bad. If it works, it work. Doesn’t matter the Language.