If you are visiting Malta right now, your timing could not be better. Malta’s favourite popstar Aidan has just dropped his brand-new single Taste, hitting streaming at midnight, and the music video premiered this morning at 7.00. Plenty of cafés and beach bars have already started slipping it into their playlists, so you may hear it drifting across a terrace before you even realise what it is.

Aidan himself has called Taste a milestone. He wrote it at home with a small team, still buzzing after his biggest concert to date. There is something about the track that carries that feeling of momentum. For anyone discovering Maltese music while travelling, it is a neat little snapshot of where one of the island’s most talked about artists is heading next.

The timing lines up neatly with his big announcement today, as he has officially confirmed that he is returning to the Malta Eurovision Song Contest in 2026. Two years after his last attempt, he says he feels more certain, more prepared and more determined to take his music onto a larger stage. He has also been clear that Taste is not his Eurovision entry. He has described it more as a warm-up, a way of setting the tone before he reveals the more emotional song he has prepared for the contest