Witness Me! Lithuania: Fury Road: 2026!

 Is Lithuania making the responsible choice, or its own terrible decision? 

After watching both the national final performance and the official music video, we give a blunt review and yes, we talk about the silver face paint, because it becomes the perfect symbol of a performance that’s memorable but hard to read at a glance. 

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Transcript

Multilingual Cold Open

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Bonjour, Guten Tag, Brevet. Hello, and welcome back to the Duce Poix Podcast as we go 100% Lithuania here at the Deucepois Podcast. Lithuania, Lithuania. How do we sum up the last 12 months? Well, Lithuania has spent the past year doing what every small, strategically located European democracy does best. Acting like the responsible adult at a family reunion where Russia keeps flipping the tables. First, the country tightened its national security so aggressively you think it was trying to win NATO's most paranoid cousin award. Authorities uncovered illicit exports of Lithuanian tech to Russian defense institutions. Because apparently someone thought, sure, let's ship sensitive equipment to the country currently invading its neighbors. I mean, oh what could go wrong? Then came the arrest of nine people involved in a plot to assassinate anti-Kremlin activists. Nine. At that point, it's less a plot and more a badly organized flash mob. Economically, let's give 10 cheers for Lithuania as lith as Lithuania raised the minimum wage, increased pensions, and bumped corporate taxes.

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Basically the government equivalent of saying, look, everything is really expensive now, so here's a little bit of money. Please, please don't riot.

Meet Lion Sikhar For Eurovision

The Performance That Doesn’t Connect

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Meanwhile, the Baltic states prepared to finally unplug from the Russian electricity grid a breakup decades in the making. It's the geopolitical equivalent of, it's not me, it's you. Uh also I'm changing the Wi-Fi password. Meanwhile, the renewable energy sector had its own drama. When a billion euro offshore wind tender was suspended, I mean nothing says green transition, like slamming on the brakes for a project that has the size of a small country's GDP. I mean nothing says commitment to an immediate change to a SWIFT to a green future. Like, oh no, hang on, just just gonna fill out these forms. On the international stage, Lithuania doubled down on its absolutely not stance towards Russia in sports. The national broadcaster refused to air the 2026 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony. Why? Because Russian athletes were allowed to compete under the Russian flag. Lithuania basically said, nope, if Russia's here, we're not watching. It's the diplomatic version of leaving a party because your ex showed up wearing your hoodie. So yes, Lithuania's year has been a mix of security crackdowns, economic recalibration, and a lot of geopolitical side-eye. There is currently a lot of craziness occurring across Europe, but throughout it all, Lithuania continues to behave like the region's designated driver. Sober, responsible, and constantly wondering why everyone else around them insists on making such terrible decisions. So that being said, let's have a look who Lithuania has picked for Eurovision 2026. Is this the responsible decision, or have they made their own terrible decision? They have selected Lion Sikhar, who's hailing from Villanue. He's a stage artist, performer, songwriter, an advocate of drag culture, and a specialist in musical theater. And if you have seen the promotional photos for Lion, ha ha honey, you didn't need to mention musical theater. It's already implied. Lion actually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theater, and you think you've wasted your life. He then went on and did a master's degree at the Music Academy in Canal. Since then, he has gone on to become one of the most prominent figures in the Lithuanian drag scene. He has studied violin from 2000 to 2007, whilst developing skills in ballroom and later street dance. Oh no, it's gonna be like that. What's that terrible stepping up move where she learns to be cool and gets her street moves and then shows up at the dance audition and does like a boxy robot dance. Woo! The real turning point. Look, let's face it, it seems at this stage for everyone on the Eurovision stage this year was when they appeared on a musical talent show. What? In 2017, Lion first appeared on X Factor. One year later, he had released his debut single, ASEA, held his first concert, and founded his own creative space, Studio 91, which hosted exhibitions, performances, and the first drag art workshops in Lithuania. That's what they say. Find a gap in the market and make it your own. Lion actually attempted to represent Lithuania in 2025 when he competed in national selection with his song Drobi. Unfortunately, he finished in second place. But then the following year, 2026, he has returned this year, achieving Vittory. He will be representing Lithuania with the song Solo Krio Mas, which was performed in Lithuanian, Spanish, and English. Now let's take a look at Lion and see if he can drag me into support for Lithuania. So I have just listened and watched both the national final and the official music video for Latvia for Lion. And I have to say, I was there. I still don't know what the hell is going on with this. I watched the live production. I didn't understand what the messaging was. I went to the official music video, which makes even less sense. I went to the directories to read the words. Ah, I mean it the bad song, Lithuania. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying I don't understand what is going on with this performance. I think a live performance is just sort of an organic representation. It works with the song. I kind of feel like the stage production of this is quite separate from the song. I think he sort of may have thought, oh, one day this would be like a really good dool. This would be a good statement. This is a good production value and moves. And then the song has sort of been worked in around that production.

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Ah.

Semi-Final Prediction And Final Verdict

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There was also, I'm gonna say, from the national finals, there were some live vocal issues with some notes. Ooh, there were some live notes that had been wandered so off course. They were completely in the wrong airspace. They needed to be taken down. Not a bad song, but I just feel this live performance is so disconnected. And what is with the silver face paint? I saw it in the live productions. I'm like, sure, I'll listen to the song. The I'll watch the live production. It's gonna make more sense. Honestly, now that I've seen both, it makes even less sense. The entire time, all I could picture him were the young men in Fury Road spray painting their faces with silver paint. Witness me! As they try to take down Mad Max on the road. Ah, look, I have to say this one is definitely a pass from me, Lithuania. It's just disconnecting and I don't understand just what is going on. I mean, Lithuania is lucky in that it's song 12 on semifinal one, which is gonna be look, I'm calling it now. This is the first song I'm predicting not to go through to the grand final. There's just too much of a disconnect. I don't know what's going on. Hopefully. Oh, there will be some changes before the final product. Sorry, Lithuania, but this one is lost in translation, lost in C. And I think it will also be lost in semifinal one.