Eins, Zwei, Drei

"Eins, Zwei, Drei"
Single by Look Mum No Computer
Released6 March 2026 (2026-03-06)
GenreSynth-pop
Length3:11
LabelLook Mum No Label
Songwriters
  • Sam Battle
  • Thomas Stengaard
  • Lasse Midtsian Nymann
  • Julie Aagaard
Producers
Look Mum No Computer singles chronology
"Hungry Vultures"
(2025)		 "Eins, Zwei, Drei"
(2026)		 "Marvellous"
(2026)
Music video
"Eins, Zwei, Drei" on YouTube
Eurovision Song Contest 2026 entry
Country
Artist
Languages
Composers
  • Sam Battle
  • Thomas Stengaard
  • Lasse Midtsian Nymann
  • Julie Aagaard
Lyricists
  • Sam Battle
  • Thomas Stengaard
  • Lasse Midtsian Nymann
  • Julie Aagaard
Finals performance
Final result
25th
Final points
1
Entry chronology
◄ "What the Hell Just Happened?" (2025)
Official performance video
"Eins, Zwei, Drei" (second semi-final) on YouTube
"Eins, Zwei, Drei" (grand final) on YouTube

"Eins, Zwei, Drei" (lit. 'One, Two, Three') is a song by British electronic musician Sam Battle, known by his stage name Look Mum No Computer. The song represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 after it was successfully chosen from a shortlist of songs[1][2] through an internal selection process at the BBC.[3][4][5]

The song was first officially announced and played on 6 March 2026 on The Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, where Battle was interviewed about the song and his participation in the contest.[3][6] The single was released to streaming platforms the same day,[7] as well as the official music video being released on the Eurovision Song Contest's YouTube channel.[8]

Background and composition

Look Mum No Computer performing with his Kosmo modular synthesizer, [1] at the Electromagnetic Field festival at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire, UK in 2022. When asked "Will Kosmo be there?"[1] at Eurovision, Battle responded that "I'm building a Kosmo for it... ...it's got multi-use... ...There's multi-purposes to this certain monolith of knobs and wires."[1]

Halfway through 2025, Battle contacted the BBC in relation to Eurovision and asked "'Can we try and write a song for somebody or something?' not even expecting to do it for myself."[1] The song that was written, "Eins, Zwei, Drei,", then ended up being on a shortlist of songs that were being considered for Eurovision for many months and then at the end of January 2026 the BBC contacted Battle and told him that his song had finally been chosen to go to Eurovision.[1][2] Battle has further commented that "...I think um, writing this song actually caught them off guard cuz everything else was conventional. I think they all had, they had a bunch of projects they were working on already and I was very much, um, sort of shoved in and... like they said, "What have you done? This has completely changed things."[1]

Alongside Battle the other songwriters are Thomas Stengaard, Lasse Midtsian Nymann and Julie Aagaard[7] with Nymann having previously contributed to writing the "The Code" which was the winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 and Stengaard having contributed to writing "Only Teardrops" which was the winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.

Battle is also known for creating experimental electronic music using self-built instruments and vintage synthesizers.[9][10][11]

Reception

"Eins, Zwei, Drei" received polarised reviews from music critics following its release. Several outlets highlighted the song's eccentric and unconventional style, with critics noting its heavy use of synthesizers, shouted vocals, and humorous lyrics. Writing for The Independent, Adam White described the track as an "objectively terrible melange of synthesizers and a very loud man", though he also remarked that it at least provoked a reaction compared with more "beige" recent UK entries.[12] Writing for The Guardian, Stuart Heritage described the track as an eccentric and novelty-driven entry that relied more on spectacle than traditional songwriting, noting its quirky lyrics and theatrical presentation.[13]

In NME, Tom Skinner characterised the track as an '80s-inspired synth-pop song with Britpop influences, featuring pulsing electronic instrumentation and lyrics about escaping the monotony of everyday work. Skinner also noted that the song's chorus counts "one, two, three" in German and incorporates humorous British cultural references.[14] Other reviewers were more positive about its novelty and entertainment value. The Times described the song as deliberately silly and reminiscent of novelty synth-pop tracks from the 1970s and 1980s, arguing that while it lacked lyrical depth it embraced the playful and eccentric spirit often associated with Eurovision.[15] Scott Mills from BBC Radio 2 compared "Eins, Zwei, Drei" to a few songs like "Now You're Gone" by Basshunter or "Parklife" by Blur.[16]

Music video

The music video[17] starts off with Look Mum No Computer sitting at a desk inside an office with numerous cables hanging down from the desk and onto the floor. On the wall to the left of Look Mum No Computer are three wall clocks and below each of them are telephones which are labelled after the cities; Berlin, Germany, Ramsgate, UK (the location of his museum) and Vienna, Austria which is the host city of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026.[18] The walls of the office then appear to slide in towards him shrinking the space around his desk and enclosing him in.[17] The walls of the office then reverse direction disappearing out of view and reveal behind him the large Kosmo modular synthesizer,[1] that Look Mum No computer uses in all of his live performances.[1][17]

Two "Kosmo" furry characters with TV sets for heads begin playing on small keyboards and join Look Mum No Computer alongside the modular synth.[17] Jodie Bartle (Battle's younger sister and Wrexham A.F.C. Women player) is one of these furry characters in the video.[19][20] All three of them then perform the chorus for the song and the two subsequent choruses in the music video all occur in this setting.[17]

The second verse shows Look Mum No Computer working on the engine of a Mini Cooper, as well as unfolding a wing made of an ironing board onto the side of the Mini Cooper.[17] He is then shown putting a map onto the bonnet of the Mini Cooper and circles his finger around Europe which has already been circled red on the map.[17] He then gets inside the Mini Cooper and begins driving it and the second and third choruses show clips of him driving in the car being interspersed with him performing at the modular synth with the furry characters.[17]

The bridge begins with a pizza that has had plastic moving teeth and eyes inserted inside it to make a face[17] and the same teeth and eyes appear in a portrait of Henry VIII thats hanging on a wall in the office scene at the beginning of the clip[17] and they have also previously appeared in other music videos by Look Mum No Computer, as well as in videos on their YouTube channel.[1] At the end of the video he is seen flying away in the winged Mini Cooper over a chalk cliff, Beachy Head in East Sussex, with a synthesizer, keyboard, large speakers and an old computer strapped to the roof.[17]

Eurovision Song Contest 2026

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 took place at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, and consisted of two semi-finals, held on 12 and 14 May, and the final on 16 May 2026.[21] As the United Kingdom is a member of the "Big Four", Look Mum No Computer automatically qualified for the grand final.[22] Nevertheless, the song was performed in the second semi-final albeit in a non-competitive spot, after Ukraine's Leléka and before Albania's Alis.[23]

The song performed 14th, after Croatia's Lelek and before France's Monroe.[24] It finished in last place with only one point, which was given by the jury vote.[25]

Charts

Chart performance for "Eins, Zwei, Drei"
Chart (2026) Peak
position
UK Indie Breakers (OCC)[26] 10
UK Singles Sales (OCC)[27] 13
UK Video Streaming (OCC)[28] 36

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "I Played Look Mum No Computer's Furby Organ". Youtube.com. ESC Gabe. 8 April 2026. Event occurs at 9:54. Retrieved 12 April 2026. The thing is the BBC's process is kind of inscrutable. No one really knows what they're doing. I think and everyone said there's kind of these like cloaked figures in a room somewhere who sort of spirit a Eurovision entry out of nowhere. No one has any idea how it works. Do you just at the end of it all is there a point at which they say "we'd like you to go and write a song?" Lovely Nile, shout out to him from the BBC, will tell us if you can't answer this question. But how does the process even work? Well, I, it seemed like to me I, I, was very much an outside person. We contacted uh the BBC halfway through last year and just was like, "Can we try and write a song for somebody or something, not even expecting to do it for myself?" I just think that maybe I think um writing this song actually caught them off guard cuz everything else was conventional. I think they all had, they had a bunch of projects they were working on already and I was very much um sort of shoved in and kind of um, pushed the, like they said, "What have you done? This has completely changed things." I was in the, um, shortlist for many months and then in January finally yeah they said how do you feel about going to Vienna? .... ...well I was like "What do you mean?" cuz I, I didn't really understand... ...they explained it more and um, yeah, that's how I found out and here we are..."... ..."Will Kosmo be there?" "Uh there is. I'm building a Kosmo for it. Okay. But..., it's got multi-use. Okay. There's multi-purposes to this certain monolith of knobs and wires.
  2. 1 2 "🇬🇧 Look Mum No Computer on becoming a dad and "Eins, zwei, drei" London Eurovision Party interview". youtube.com. Wiwiblogs. 20 April 2026. Event occurs at 7:02. Retrieved 21 April 2026. So there was four of us in the room at the time. When I found out we were writing for me, I pulled out my synthesizers. I showed them how to use it. One of them figured out the riff whilst I just pulled the sofa along and shouted "Eins, zwei, drei," because I was touring in Germany the week before... I was in Germany for two weeks basically. So I was very inspired by doing that and then it kind of snowballed. 12 hours later after having a lot of fun we had a song that we were like "Is this ever going to get chosen? Probably not." but we had a good time and then lo and behold that, that, it's the UK Eurovision entry.
  3. 1 2 "BBC Radio 2 – The Scott Mills Breakfast Show, We meet LOOK MUM, NO COMPUTER! Plus, Martin Clunes and James Buckley!". BBC. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  4. ↑ "LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER". Eurovision Song Contest. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  5. ↑ "YouTuber Look Mum No Computer chosen as UK entry for Eurovision 2026". The Guardian. 17 February 2026.
  6. ↑ Skinner, Tom (6 March 2026). "Look Mum No Computer unveils UK Eurovision 2026 song 'Eins, Zwei, Drei'". NME.
  7. 1 2 "UK Eurovision 2026 song Eins, Zwei, Drei from LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER released". BBC. 6 March 2026. Retrieved 12 March 2026. Fuelled by his signature mix of synths and electronic-bass, Eins, Zwei, Drei is a song about escaping the soul-crushing boredom of the nine to five, into a world of dreams and endless possibilities. The song has a whimsical and strikingly witty feel, with playful lyrics and undertones of Britpop and eighties' synthwave, and is chock-full of uniquely UK references – even the staple dessert of school canteens, "roly poly with custard" gets celebrated amongst the anthemic chants of "Eins, Zwei, Drei".
  8. ↑ "LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Eins, Zwei, Drei – Official Music Video". YouTube. Eurovision Song Contest. 6 March 2026.
  9. ↑ "HOW THE FURBY ORGAN WORKS WITH LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER". YouTube. LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  10. ↑ "Sam Battle: The Sunday Interview – Sam Battle (aka Look Mum No Computer) talks Drones, Drains, and DIY Synths with Alan Rider ...the latest story in Outsideleft". outsideleft.com. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  11. ↑ Rogerson, Ben (26 May 2022). "Look Mum No Computer, Cuckoo and Hainbach are forming "the world's first synth-nerd supergroup"". MusicRadar. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "This year's UK Eurovision entry is Blue Peter meets Berghain – review". The Independent. 10 March 2026. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  13. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (6 March 2026). "The song that rhymes 'pepperoni' with 'feeling okey-dokey': the UK's odd new Eurovision entry is here". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  14. ↑ Skinner, Tom (6 March 2026). "Look Mum No Computer unveils UK Eurovision 2026 song 'Eins, Zwei, Drei'". NME. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  15. ↑ Critic, Will Hodgkinson, Chief Rock and Pop (6 March 2026). "Look Mum No Computer: Eins, Zwei, Drei review — finally, some Eurovision fun". The Times. Retrieved 13 March 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Max Persad (17 February 2026). "Look Mum No Computer: Introducing the electronic musician representing the UK at Eurovision 2026". Official Charts. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER (6 March 2026). LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Eins, Zwei, Drei – Official Music Video. Retrieved 7 March 2026 – via YouTube.
  18. ↑ "Vienna 2026". Eurovision Song Contest. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  19. ↑ "LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – post". Facebook.
  20. ↑ "Jodie Bartle – Post". Facebook.
  21. ↑ "Vienna announced as host city for Eurovision Song Contest 2026". The Guardian. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  22. ↑ "Vienna 2026: Semi-Final Draw results". Eurovision.com (Press release). European Broadcasting Union. 12 January 2026. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  23. ↑ "Vienna 2026: Semi-Final Running Orders revealed". Eurovision.com (Press release). European Broadcasting Union. 2 April 2026. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
  24. ↑ "The Running Order of the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final". Eurovision.com. European Broadcasting Union. 15 May 2026. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
  25. ↑ "DARA wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 for Bulgaria". Eurovision Song Contest. 17 May 2026. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  26. ↑ "Official Independent Singles Breakers Chart on 22/5/2026 – Top 20". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  27. ↑ "Official Singles Sales Chart on 13/3/2026 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  28. ↑ "Official Video Streaming Chart on 13/3/2026 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
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