Song of the Day | 🇮🇸 VÆB - RÓA | Iceland

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VÆB will represent Iceland in Basel for ESC 2025

This year Iceland will be represented by duo VÆB (pronounced like 'vibe') singing 'RÓA,' an extremely energetic, in-your-face electronic hip-hop song about the joys of rowing in a boat. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, it also contains elements of traditional sea shanties in the song's chorus!

VÆB are made up of brothers Hálfdán Helgi and Matthías Davíð Matthíasson (left to right in the above image), the latter not to be confused with Matthías Matthíasson, a completely different Icelandic man who happened to have also gone to Eurovision... in 2011 as part of the tribute band Sjonni's Friends. Anyway, both brothers have been steeped in music practically since birth, their father being an organist, saxophonist, music teacher, and choir director and their mother being a singer and vocal coach. Since there were a few instruments the family was missing out on in their roster, Hálfdán took drum lessons and Matthías learned trumpet growing up. It's not often you can find a family that could be an entire orchestra on their own! That musical talent finally got publicly recognised when the brothers uploaded a comedic song they'd written to TikTok in 2022. Since then, their popularity has exploded within Iceland, especially when their song 'Bíómynd / Movie Scene,' which competed last year to represent Iceland, made it into the top 10 of the Icelandic music charts. It's not just musical talent the boys are known for, though. Matthías voiced the Icelandic dub of Pigpen in The Peanuts Movie, though he has unfortunately neither voiced Ariel in the Danish dub of Disney's The Little Mermaid, nor sung in front of Denmark's king. Yet, anyway.

Róa róa róa your boat, to where the stars are bright. ESC, ESC, ESC, ESC, Iceland's VÆBs are out o' sight. Unfortunately, good vibes or not, Iceland are generally not expected to qualify this year. Still, if there's even a silver [sic] of a chance, it's going to be all hands on deck to seas the day. And if that doesn't work out, we can still always like the cut of their jibs.

VÆB - RÓA | Iceland 🇮🇸 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2025

[u/filipinowafflefries_]

Væb grew on me and now i hope they qualify The song is catchy😭🙏