As winners of the over-the-top Eurovision Song Contest who hail from Italy, don’t always sing in English, and play supposedly unfashionable hard rock, Måneskin may not have seemed like obvious contenders to become mainstream American superstars. But that’s exactly what has happened, against all odds. Here, band members Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi, Damiano David, and Victoria de Angelis discuss how they’ve stuck to their musical vision, and how the cocaine rumor that followed the band’s Eurovision win in May 2021 only helped them in the end.