Switzerland’s Plot Twist Year

Veronica Fusaro representing Switzerland with “Alice”, a sweet, moody, hooky ballad about a lovelorn lesbian. We trace her path from The Voice of Switzerland to basement recordings, awards, big festival stages, and albums that chart at home, then get specific about why this track could outperform expectations with both juries and the public. If you’re building your Eurovision party trivia or trying to pick sleepers before the grand final, this one’s for you.

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Transcript

Hello From Switzerland 2026

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Bonjour, Guten Tag, Prev! Hello and welcome back to the Duce Poix podcast as we take a little nibble nom on the sweet, delicious chocolate that is Switzerland 2026. So, how do we describe the last few months for Switzerland? Well, we have to ask Switzerland, are you still neutral or just bored? We need to talk about Switzerland, the country famous for neutrality, chocolate, and clocks that are somehow always judging you. And yet in the last 12 months, Switzerland has been busy. Like midlife crisis, but for a nation busy. Firstly, Switzerland clearly wanted a plot twist, so Switzerland had a hunter virus case that triggered a full public health scare scramble. That's not a Swiss disease, it's something you get from opening the wrong chest in Skyrim. Swiss authorities immediately launched contract tracing because of course they did eat Switzerland. If a squirrel sneezes, they file paperwork. One of the biggest political debates of the year a proposal to cap Switzerland's population. Imagine being so organized, so efficient, so Swiss that you look around and go, you know what? This is enough humans. Other countries are begging people to emigrate. Switzerland is like a nightclub bouncer, saying, sorry, we're full. Switzerland has taken over the OSCE. The adult is in charge now. Switzerland became the chair of the giant European security organization, which is perfect because Switzerland is basically Europe's designated driver. While everyone else is screaming and fighting, Switzerland steps in. Okay, give me the keys. You're done. Meanwhile, Switzerland, i.e. the famously neutral Switzerland, turned around and said no to arm sales to the United States. No weapons for you. This was over the escalating Iran conflict. And Switzerland, the country that won't even take sides in monopoly, suddenly took aside. That's when you know things are bad. Switzerland talked about canceling its patriot missile order to the US. Their payments were frozen. Switzerland basically ghosted the Pentagon. The US is texting like, hey, just checking in. So you read my message. So left on read. And what can only be described as a Switzerland problem, the Swiss franc got too strong. Again, the Swiss National Bank hinted it might intervene because the franc surged during the Iran War. Switzerland is the only country where the currency gets too strong. It's like being too attractive. It is a problem nobody else has. Meanwhile, Swiss banks started testing a Swiss franc stable coin because of course they did. If there's one thing Switzerland loves more than neutrality, it's money that lives in a bunker. After years of stalled talk, Switzerland and the EU finally signed a major cooperation package. Look, this is basically Switzerland saying, fine, we'll hang out, we'll go on a date, but we are paying for our meals separately. Meanwhile, a thousand Roman artifacts were found in a lake in Switzerland, with archaeologists pulling over 1,000 Roman objects out of a Swiss lake. Switzerland, it's so tiny that even its ancient ruins and treasures are stored neatly underwater. Switzerland, was this a year or was it the plot for a Bond film? So there we have Switzerland. It's too rich and it's too pretty. Oh, if only to be Switzerland for a day. Switzerland with no real cares in the world has sent Veronica Fusaro, who is singing Alice, a beautiful sweet ballad of a lovelorn lesbian. Veronica was born in 1997 in Switzerland. In 2014, she appeared on The Voice of Switzerland. She didn't win, but it essentially really kicked off her career. In 2016, she started releasing her own music. These songs were famously recorded in her parents' basement. She quickly won awards like Demo of the Year, Best Talent. But her real breakthrough came in 2019 with the song Rollerposter, which got played everywhere. She found herself playing at festivals, even major festivals like Glastonberry. She released her debut album, All of the Colors of the Sky, in 2023, which reached the top five in Switzerland. This was followed up with Looking for Connection in 2025 to 2026, where she was selected to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision song contest. So it has been a beautiful, swift, short but sweet transition from her parents' basement to Glastonbury and now the Eurovision stage. I have to say I like this song for a sweet, lovelorn lesbian. It is sweet, it is moody, it is catchy, it has a hooky chorus. I actually like this. I think this will do better than people will expect it to do. I have no doubt. If there's any justice in the world, this is going to go through at the grand final. I think the juries will respond positively to it. Think the public will as well. It's just a catchy little bop. I love it. And again, definitely hope to see this on the grand final stage. Now we only have, well, what should be only two acts to cover? I realize I actually have four. We have the Ukraine and the United Kingdom, which I will be releasing tomorrow evening. I have not released the Australia episode. It is still sitting in my editing box. And we will be taking a tasty bite out of Estonia's Vanilla Ninja. I actually enjoyed, I fell down a vanilla ninja rabbit hole. They actually have a very surprisingly interesting back story. But we'll be covering that. That should be out tomorrow as I slam these out so you can have all your little bits of trivia ready for your Eurovision parties. See you tomorrow. I hope I make it through to the grand final at this stage. Ugh I am working harder than a tracker tracking a child being lured into crime. Oh, it's a hard job. Hard job, but someone has to do it. But as Blade famously once said, some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. And that's me reviewing the songs of Eurovision 2026 just nights before they debut. I must really like you or something. Anyway, join me tomorrow as we round out the collection for Eurovision 2026. Night.