What does “Poison Cake” even mean? Marko Bosnjak explains his Dora 2025 song in Croatia [Video]

He finished second at Dora 2022 behind Mia Dimšić. And three years later, Bosnian-Croatian pop star Marko Bošnjak is back.

“I really like Eurovision,” he told our Cinan in Zagreb a few weeks before the Dora 2025 songs were revealed. “I really like Dora. I didn’t think I was going to come back for five years at least, but then I heard this awesome song. And I was like, ‘This is my ticket. This is my time.’ I felt it. I really felt the energy and the calling.”

The calling came from “Poison Cake” — his difficult-to-define number which mixes pop, garage, opera and some very dark industrial beats. 

Marko Bošnjak explains his Dora 2025 song “Poison Cake”

Well what is “Poison Cake” if not a toxic baked good?

“Poison Cake is very much about standing up for yourself,” Marko says. 

With that in mind — and after reading the lyrics — you can interpret the song as …