{"id":675515,"date":"2026-05-16T22:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:04:17","slug":"uks-eurovision-entry-sam-battle-explains-why-he-wont-be-singing-in-english-at-tonights-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675515\/","title":{"rendered":"UK’s Eurovision entry Sam Battle explains why he won’t be singing in English at tonight’s final"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 finalists will not be entertaining viewers in his native language.<\/p>\n

Sam Battle, also known as Look Mum No Computer on the music<\/a> scene, is representing the UK tonight (May 16) with his tune ‘Eins, Zwei, Drei’, which translates to ‘One, Two, Three’ in German.<\/p>\n

Asked by<\/a> RadioTimes about his unconventional decision to sing in German – Sarah Engels performs at the latest Eurovision<\/a> on behalf of Germany, singing ‘Fire’ – the Lincolnshire-born artist revealed that it’s all to do with his personal life.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ve probably spent more time in Germany<\/a> than any other country except for the UK<\/a>, be it working on music, meeting people, or playing shows,” Battle replied. <\/p>\n

“So it’s certainly inspired by spending a lot of time there.”<\/p>\n

Whether or not this is a good move for the electronics-heavy artist is something that only time will tell. Could Eurovision’s UK voters be put off by this incongruence? <\/p>\n

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Battle went on to further explain of the thinking behind ‘Eins, Zwei, Drei’: “I had the chorus and then came up with the verses, and it was like, ‘How do they merge together?’ <\/p>\n

“Nothing really worked, and I thought if only there was a language I could count in that would make me feel better on a Eurovision stage. It just made sense.”<\/p>\n

The same publication then questioned Battle on what separates himself from previous UK entrants in this illustrious and colourful competition.<\/p>\n

“There’s a different style to the music. We’ve always had a run of very good pop songs but sometimes they haven’t translated well to points, though they’re still very good songs. <\/p>\n

“We’ve gone for a different tactic with this one. It’s different because it’s just a little bit more tongue in cheek,” he said.<\/p>\n

The grand final is being stationed at the Wiener Stadhalle arena in Vienna, Austria, and begins at 8pm BST on BBC One<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Another of this year’s Eurovision trophy hopefuls is soap star turned singer Delta Goodrem, who’s flying the flag for Australia.<\/p>\n

During an interview with<\/a> Metro, the 41-year-old opened up about her fight with Hodgkin lymphoma, which she was diagnosed with shortly after the success of debut album Innocent Eyes.<\/p>\n

Goodrem’s subsequent surgery left her with a paralysed tongue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When I woke up I realised there was nerve damage,” she recalled. “I actually had a flight booked for the UK \u2013 this was 2018 \u2013 but I ended up having to go to ground and go to speech therapy. I didn’t have any idea when it was going to get back to normal. It could be three months or three years.<\/p>\n

“I understand that everybody has their challenges and that just happened to have been one of mine. But yes, it was definitely a challenging time.”<\/p>\n

As for the opportunity to clinch Eurovision glory, she told<\/a> The Independent that it’s ‘truly an honour’.<\/p>\n

“Eurovision is one of the most iconic global music stages, and to represent Australia is something I feel incredibly proud of,” shared Goodrem.<\/p>\n

“There’s a real sense of excitement \u2013 it’s a moment to connect, to share music, and to bring a piece of Australia to the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 finalists will not be entertaining viewers in his native language. Sam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,30451,136,427],"class_list":["post-675515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision","tag-music","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}