What does Sweden's bizarre Eurovision hit have in common with India?
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In the end, Austrian JJ's opera-techno fusion took the top spot, despite Bara Bada Bastu the clear bookmakers' favourite to win the contest on Sunday.
Indian readers who watched Eurovision this year may have noticed that the accordion loop at the start of the entry sounded remarkably like the chorus to Indian DJ Devinder Sunny's Enough is Enough.
"Both songs are in roughly the same tempo and tone, and they're very similar," Jan-Olof Gullö, professor in music and media production at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, told TV4 news.
The similar sound isn't due to plagiarism. Rather Kristofer Strandberg, one of the songwriters behind Kaj's sauna hit, said they had legally downloaded the loop ‒ originally a saxophone loop ‒ from audio library Splice, a subscription service which allows users to download millions of sound files royalty-free.
According to Splice, the package which included the loop used in Bara Bada Bastu is one of the website's most downloaded packages.
The band then got an accordion player to record the loop, which Eurovision officials confirmed was perfectly allowed.
The loop was originally created by Niles Hollowell-Dhar, or KSHMR, a US-born DJ whose father emigrated from India. His name is a reference to Jammu and Kashmir, the area his father's family comes from.
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SVT contacted KSHMR to ask him about the loop.
"I just make a little piece of magic, and I let the world do what it wants with it," he said.
"When people are critical, 'oh, you're just using loops' ‒ but it's really what you do with it. You see there are a couple other songs who have used the same sound and they didn't get nearly as big as this one."
He told SVT that the song was "very Swedish", laughing when they told him what it was about.
"OK, it's about going to the sauna? That's what I was thinking when I made the melody," he joked.
There are at least two more songs using the same loop as KAJ and Devinder Sunny ‒ Zapłakane Matki by Polish rapper Yung Adisz and Straume by Latvian pop duo MUSIQQ.
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