Or would the scandal and the threat of disqualification be just a well-planned marketing ploy to draw attention? The determination expressed by the group’s soloist Jānis Pētersons in the program “When They Meet” suggests this. According to the new contestant, the band is not going to become another one-off, and participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is a carefully planned step towards the status of an internationally recognized Latvian music export product: . Well, where else will you get a platform where 200 million people look at you – a cosmic number, a hundred Latvians! ”