Songfacts®:

• Baby Lasagne is the stage name of the Croatian musician Marko Purisic. His musical moniker emerged in a gloriously mundane way – during a search in the Croatian town of Novigrad for water to take a headache pill.
  
  "Suddenly it occurred to me that I should be named Baby Lasagna even though I'm not much of a lasagna fan. I eat them three or four times a year," he told Dnevnik. "If I was named after the food I prefer, then I should have been Baby Pizza."
  
  This song is Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
• The song is a tale of a farm boy bidding farewell to his milking stool and venturing out for the bright lights of the big city. This might sound like a lighthearted coming-of-age story, but there's a deeper layer to "Rim Tim Tagi Dim." It tackles the very real issue of economic emigration faced by Croatia. Many young people, like our fictional farm boy, are leaving the country in search of better opportunities. Baby Lasagne, however, handles this sensitive theme with a "humorous and lighthearted approach," as he puts it.
  
  And the "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" of the title? Well, that's pure invention, a fictional folk dance dreamt up in the farm boy's village.
• Baby Lasagne wrote and composed "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" in his bedroom. Loud and aggressive, it blends elements of rock and techno.
• The bedroom-born banger was originally intended as a mere filler track for Baby Lasagne's Demons and Mosquitoes album, but it took on a life of its own. Buoyed by a surge in online streams, Purisic decided to take a gamble and enter the song into Dora 2024, the competition to pick Croatia's Eurovision Song Contest entry. The gamble paid off in a big way – "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" won Dora 24 by a landslide.
• Baby Lasagna finished second in the Eurovision final behind "The Code" by the Swiss act Nemo. It was Croatia's best result to date, after three top five finishes: in 1996, 1998 and 1999.