Montenegro has been a participant in the Contest as an independent country since 2007, but can trace its ESC roots back further. It has participated as a part of Yugoslavia from 1961 until 1991, as part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (along with Serbia, as the remaining constituent republics of Yugoslavia) in 1992, and then as Serbia &Montenegro from 2004 to 2006. Specifically, the 2005 entry representing Serbia & Montenegro was Montenegrin, as were the artists representing Yugoslavia in 1983 and 1984. Montenegro's success has been limited at Eurovision and it has not yet been represented in the Final since joining the competition under its own name. The country's best result so far (and its only non-Montenegrin entry) placed 11th in the 2009 Semi Final with Andrea Demirovic's Just Get Out of My Life.
This year the tiny country is back to (mostly) singing in its official language and being represented by hip-hop group Who See's song Igranka. The duo's official promotional video is a melange of Breaking Bad, a high school marching band, women in bikinis doing their thing in a cage Fight Club style, some random lady shaking her chichis, and another kicking a chair several times in what looks like an abandoned warehouse. I'm not really sure what it all means or how I feel about it (this has not qualified for WTF category), so I'm just gotta let ya'll see and decide for yourselves. Enjoy?
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