My standout guilty pleasure is Zaleilah by Mandinga who represented Romania at Eurovision in 2012 in Baku. The song is Latin influenced and sung in both English and Spanish. Clearly Mandinga went with the premise “more is more” when writing the song and included as many instruments as possible including marching drums, bagpipes, accordions and trumpets.
The same “more is more” approach was used in the performance which saw the band members marching around the stage with the various instruments to a backdrop of images of moving drums and beating hearts along with pyrotechnics going off every at intervals with choreographed dance moves. The performance was three minutes of pure fun! You can check it out here.
