Second Turanfest song contest to be held

The Turanfest song festival and competition, first held in September 2021, will be revived and held on 24 April. Sixteen songs will contest the event, with the winner planned to represent Hasanistan at the upcoming IBU Microsivion Song Contest in Belcity. Turanfest is similar to the Swedish Melodifestivalen, with both the public and a judge voting on which song is the best. The event will be organised by the "Hasanistan Today and Tomorrow Network" and the territory of Sridjina will serve as the ceremonial host of this year's edition (although the event is held online). The rapping mouse and murderous gangbanger "Biggie Cheese" will be the guest presenter for the 2025 Turanfest.

Logo of the 2025 Turanfest

The previous Turanfest in 2021 was won by DJ Chase's experimental song "Nonsense Screamed into A Microphone", although he failed to reach the final with the song in the 2022 TVB Microvision. DJ Chase is notably returning this year with the AI-generated sea shanty "Heave Ho Cecil", a 'ultra-woke' song about the struggles of an African called "Cecil", hoping to defend his Turanfest title.

The songs submitted to this year's Turanfest are as follows (in the order of their draw): "TRUMPWAVE" by "Hasanistani-Americans for Trump", "Heave Ho Cecil" by DJ Chase, "Tuttu Fırlattı" by Gökçe, "We Are The People" by Empire Of The Sun, "That's Nuts" by Squirreljak, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants, "İzmir Marşı (Nightcore version)" by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk-chan, "Zilvervloot" by Mymy Schoppenboer, "Let's Start WW3" by World Order, "Kalimba" by Mr. Scruff, "Long Way to Mukumbura" by the "Rhodies", "99 Luftballons (Asuka cover)" by Asuka Langley, "Ze New World Order" by Klaus Schwab, "Bomb Iran" by Vince Vance & the Valiants, "Freie Deutsche Jugend" by IFA Wartburg and "Proud to be an Albanian" by Etnon (ft. Lyrical Son & DJ Blunt).

The IBU Microvision Song Contest, for which Turanfest will serve as a national selection, will be held on 3 May. The event, formerly organised by Belcity's national broadcaster TVB, had been dormant since its Summer 2022 edition had been cancelled. However, the Hasanistani government helped support the national broadcasters of Belcity, Todia and Slitronia in reviving the event. Despite a relatively 'poor' performance last time, Hasanistan has high hopes of success in the event this year.

According to the main organiser for Turanfest Hasan Çakar, Hasanistan's national song festival will become an annual event regardless of the future of Microvision. There are additional future plans for another song contest organised with Brennonia, who is also participating in this year's Microvision with the song "Dance The Night Away" by cjb.