Bambie Thug Represents Everything Wrong with Modern Ireland

Perhaps no competition better represents the degradation of Ireland’s cultural and artistic life than the visible decline of our Eurovision participants. Music is an important artistic pursuit; musical performances too represent some kind of high artistic calibre in a people – and yet we have lost these qualities and allowed activist singer-songwriters to dominate our media space.

Contrast the 2024 demonic performance of self-professed witch Bambie Thug, with Maria Doyle-Cuche’s 1985 song Wait Until the Weekend Comes. Maria Dolye-Cuche, legally blind, yet withstanding this disability represented Ireland with a worthy entry that may be considered a glimpse of old Irish society.

Bambie Thug, a witch of mixed Irish-Swedish origins, is slated to be performed at the Eurovision finals this evening. Sporting satanic tattoos and referring to fans as her “coven”, Bambi Thug represents precisely what has gone wrong in Ireland’s arts industry.

Bambie Thug has sparked controversy throughout the competition by shoe-horning her favourite progressive causes (Transgenderism and Palestine) into her musical performances, rather than focusing on the competition itself.

All modern art, especially music, has designed itself to fit the tastes of the Irish artsy college student cohort. This hasn’t necessarily been a negative development for the music industry, as by in large art girlos have good musical taste. Bambie Thug’s music is in reality a poor caricature of what someone thinks would fit into the interests of college art girls.

Usually, music tends to communicate a message, but it appears that Bambie Thug’s performance only indicates that she may be more comfortable in a psych ward than on international television. Eurovision – supposedly designed to represent the music of different European nations means that each nations entry is to be seen as a national endeavour and representation of that peoples artistic calibre. So we should be asking ourselves, does Bambie Thug represent the Irish nation or something else?