The bizarre sauna song that rocked the world

Bara Bada Bastu (which translates to ‘just take a sauna’) rocked and shocked the world in the 2025 Eurovision song contest and may have jumpstarted the UK’s sauna obsession. Unfortunately, the lyrics don’t quite sound as catchy in English.

Here’s the English side by side with the phonetic translation so you can see what it sounds like.

We’re gonna sauna, sauna- Vee skah BAH-dah BAHST-oo BAHST-oo

Steam it up and let go of all stress today- OHNG-ohn OHPP oh SLEPP ahl STRESS ee-DAHG

Sauna brothers, we’re the ones who glow BAHST-oo-BRUR-der eh yeh vee sohm GLUR-der

One hundred degrees, oh yes- HOON-drah GRAH-der noh-YAH

Throw it on, till the sweat just sprays- HAYT-tay poh soh SVAYT-tin BAH-rah eer

Oh oh, oh, oh oh

Sauna, yeah

What’s more interesting is the song is a blend of Finnish and Swedish, really showing how central in Finnish culture saunas are but how important saunas are to both countries. After all of the songs of the competition were released, not only did the majority fans online believe it should have won, Bara Bada Batsu had over 43 million streams on Spotify, that is almost 10x the actual winner Wasted Love by JJ of Austria with 6 million streams. To date Bara Bada Batsu now has 133 millions streams on Spotify and Wasted Love 53 million.

The largest Eurovision poll

246,000 people voted on who should have won the 2025 Eurovision song contest and Bara Badu Batsu came out on top with a staggering 39,360 votes.