The World Upside Down: Discontent with Non-Binary Eurovision Winner

"The World Upside Down is increasingly nauseating," comments Roberto Vannacci, the general suspended from the Army and candidate with the League for the European elections, on social media about the news of the victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 by Nemo, the artist representing Switzerland and the first non-binary person to win the contest. Nemo, who is the non-binary winner of Eurovision 2024: "Realizing my identity has set me free." Nemo Mettler, a 24-year-old Swiss artist, began playing the piano, violin, and drums from a young age: he approached opera singing at the age of 9 before becoming interested in rap and starting to write songs. He entered the cast of a musical at 13, but his success came in 2016 with a rap in Swiss German that went viral on social networks. In 2018, he won the award for best Swiss artist at the Swiss Music Awards. What does non-binary mean? The term 'non-binary' indicates not strictly recognizing oneself as either male or female, and in English, they refer to themselves with the pronouns they/them. They can identify as a man, a woman, somewhere in between, or completely outside these categories. In addition to them, the Irish Bambie Thug was also present in the competition as a non-binary person.