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Artist: Käärijä

Song: Cha Cha Cha

Currently with bookmakers: 2nd (47/25 - 9/4)

Place 2022: 21st in the FInal

Wins: 1, 2006

Käärijä won Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2023, the Finnish national final for Eurovision in the most convincing way. The Jury gave him almost 1/3 more votes than his nearest competitor, but the public gave him over 50% of the vote. The 6 other competitors had no hope. For all those votes, what did Finland send to Eurovision? A shirtless man with a bowl haircurt. Those crazy Finns

Cha Cha Cha initially defies explanation. What words can be used to describe this lyrical and artistic masterpiece to the uninitiated. tThen about half way through it becomes clear. The song starts with a metal growl and a heavy dance beat then descends into J-pop. This song is essentially BabyMetal without the 12 year old Japanese girls in school uniform. It is what Ladybeard has been doing for a decade in Japan, first with LadyBaby and currently with BabyBeard. This again proves that there is nothing original in Eurovision.

Sometimes the more you look at things the more they defy explanation. In 1976 Finland sent what could have ben Meatloaf or could have been Benny hill.

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Most wins: Finland 1 (Georgia 0)
Most entries: Finland 53 (Georgia 13)
Bookies favourite: Finland 100/1 (Georgia 150/1)

Georgia:

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Circus Mircus is a Prog-rock band that met at circus school a couple years ago and they were not doing too well so they thought they would try their hand at music. The Rasmus are a Alt-rock band who are best known for their 2003 hit 'In the Shadows', which has been used as TV theme music and I believe also advertising, which is probably what Jezebel will end up being used for. Though they both claim to be rock. The Rasmus are the rockier, though it is quite pop.

Though The Rasmus has a following, that does not equate to Eurovision success, artists from Engelbert Humperdinck and Bonnie Tyler to Cascada and tAtU have tried to leverage their fame and failed. Circus Mircus have the ability to use their circus skills to provide an interesting performance, despite sounding like 90s indi music (Caligula meets Ratcat). In the presentation aspect, Circus Mircus may be a little ahead. Could the internal selection in Georgia be more effective than a Finish national selection... maybe

In the end we are comparing a band with 11 songs (Circus Mircus) with one with 11 Albums (Ok two of The Rasmus' albums were compilations) and to be fair The Rasmus has the better song. They are both in the second Semi and The Rasmus, despite being the first song of the night, probably has the wood over Circus Mircus

This round goes to Finland

Finland:

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Selection: Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK)
Wins: 1 (2006)
2020: Aksel Kankaanranta - Looking Back
2021: Blind Channel - Dark Side

Current Bookmakers: 12th

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Blind Channel won Finland’s national selection in a landslide, which is a win for late 90s early Naughties rock. When I first heard this song I thought of Evanescence and Korn, which sounds like a meal that you’ve paid too much for. This years song is a long way from the more standard Eurovision song that was due to go to Eurovision last year.

Unlike last years entry, this years did not get their career via a talent show, well until the Eurovision selection UMK. Meh, this years song is better than some.

Finland’s Eurovision history started with a lot of solo artists, then they went to duos and even had a solo artist with a duo. It wasn’t until 14 years after their first Eurovision that they decided to send a band and this is what they sent in 1975

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This year I don't have much time and I have a lot going on in my personal life, so to get through Eurovision 2019 I will be doing a verses series with two songs from the same semi (or final) so without further ado...

Finland - 1 win
Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman - "Look Away"

Verses

Iceland - 0 wins
Hatari - "Hatrið mun sigra"

"Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman - Look Away - Finland 🇫🇮 - Official Video - Eurovision 2019" (Watch on YouTube)

Repetitive Dull Soulless Dance music verses... well... I am not really sure what Iceland has given us and I am not sure they can stage it in a G timeslot. I am so glad Eurovision goes to the US nowdays. the censors will love this.

"Hatari - Hatrið mun sigra - Iceland 🇮🇸 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2019" (Watch on YouTube)

Finland is a fair to say a Eurovision standard. A well known name doing music from an expected genre and generally conforming. The only part of Iceland that is standard is the key-change. Iceland is probably the biggest 'fuck you' to the competition since Lordi won (for Finland) in 2006.

Who will perform better: This could well depend on how Iceland is allowed to stage their song. Finland is a sure qualifier but Iceland could well the chocolates between these two. I am going Iceland.

Appearances: 51
Wins: 1
Selection method: Singer: Internally selected. Song: National final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2018
Vote: Jury and public vote combined
Winner: Saara Aalto
Song: Monsters

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Saara co-wrote this song with the writers of the 2015 winning song Heroes, which wold indicate this could be a winner if Heroes won for being a great song rather than being a great performance. If she nails the performance this will be top 10, but it will need a blinding performance to get top 5.

Saara was installed as the singer to represent Finland by Broadcaster Yle. The public and jury were then left to choose between three songs for her to sing. The installation of Saara as the countries representative was done after she tried to get to Eurovision in 2011 and 2016 finishing second both times. In 2016 she was the most popular with the public but was skunted by the jury. Still it is unusual that Finland did not allow a vote of both the artist and the song like they usually do.

This song consists of 2 and a half 4 line stanzas of lyrics, which is not an impediment to winning, it is just a bit lazy. Finland’s only win in 2006 required a lot more words than that, but then Norway won with 5 lines in 1995 and one of those lines was just one word: Nocturne.

Monsters is expected to finish somewhere in the middle of the field, a bit like Finland did in 1966 wit Playboy.

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Finland
Semi Final 1
Artist: Norma John
Song: Blackbird
Odds: $41

Word of the day:
Ihmemaassa - In wonderland
Doubt that one will be useful any time soon

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This act comprises of a singer who came third in Finland's X-Factor (Leena Tirronen) and her long time friend (Lasse Piirainen). I generally hate 'talent' show winners, but presently this is my favourite song in this years event. It is early days yet and I am sure I will hate it soon.

This song borrows the sounds of a few winners. The mid-90s Eurovision winners like Secret Garden (Norway) can be heard as an influence, as can ABBA. The piano in the refrain reminds me of the outro of Chiquitita. You can do worse in Eurovision than to borrow from ABBA, but ou can be more original. Also Leena sounds like Lena who won for Germany

Lasse co-wrote 3 songs on Leena's solo album, Leena in Wonderland (Leena Ihmemaassa), one of which was the third (and final) single from the album. It sounded nothing like the Eurovision entry. It sounded a bit crap. The only good thing I can find in a quick glance with the solo album is that the cover art made Leena look like Veronica Mars. Veronica Mars is cool, the solo album was not.

Blackbird won UMK (Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu - New Music Competition), the Finnish national selection, in a bit of a landslide. Finland won Eurovision in 2006 in a landslide, but usually landslides are more how finland loses... like in 1982

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Finland
Previous entries: 49
Wins: 1 Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah
First Entry: 1961 Laila Kinnunen - Valoa ikkunassa
Most recent entry: 2015 Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Aina mun pitää
National Anthem: Maamme

2016:

Sandhja – Sing it away

This song came third in the public vote in the Finnish national selection, however it romped it in with the judges. It was probably a good save by the judges because the song that was most popular with the public was a bit crap and the song that was second is best described as average. This is a much better Eurovision song.

Being the best of a bad bunch has not translated to good odds. The Bookmakers do not rate this at all, which to me is strange because there is something a little naughties Kylie about this song and I would have thought that would appeal to the general Eurovision audience.

The big issue for Sandhja is she has to nail it on the night, and she was a bit crap in the national selection which probably accounts for the odds. Listening to the vocals in the national selction I wish Sir Terry Wogan was still alive. if she repeated those vocals at Eurovision I am sure Sir Terry would tell the audience that “that was truly awful”.

Sandhja said something about Girlpower in her promo article. Girlpower has changed since 1966

Finland
Population: 5 474 094
Area: 338 424 km2
Language: Finnish (Swedish, Sami)
Eurovision Attendances: 48
Eurovision wins: 1 (2006)

Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Aina Mun Pitää

Pertti Kurikan Nameday is a band made up of developmentally disabled men and though their entry has been panned by many, the song is currently in the top ten with the bookmakers, so they must be doing something right

The good news for people who dislike this song is that it is mercifully short. This is the shortest song to ever go to Eurovision at 1 minute 27 seconds. Considering there is an ad break scedules for straight after this song, the break between this song and the next will probably be longer than this little ditty.

A documentary about these guys apparently gave them quite a following in Scandinavia and Germany. Good on ‘em. While here, the Australian government is haggling to avoid paying disabled workers what they deserve for their work saying a couple dollars an hour is enough, these guys show that disabled people have value.

So this year’s entry is punk, but Finland has tried all kinds of music, including in 1981 Reggae, ok.

This is all of the semi final 2 performers this year. SPOILER ALERT this has details of their performances as well as a link to their rehearsals. If you want to keep how dire the acts are a surprise, please stop reading now

There is always one Eurovision semi that is far better than the other. This is not the better semi.

Anyways

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so in short, I doubt anything from this semi will win or even come close. either the song is dire or the performance it not good enough to get it votes.
Best performances: well... possibly slovenia
Auto non-qualifiers: either greece or poland wont qualify or both,

the highlight of this semi is clearly Jessica Mauboy

Finland took forever to work out how to win a Eurovision and finally work it out, they just needed a little Hard Rock Hallelujah. This year instead of hard rock they are sending softcockrock.

Artist: Softengine
Song: Something Better

This song was a last minute entry to Eurovision, which shows, but it also took ten days to write and record. Some bands could knock out a whole album in that time. It wouldn't be a great album, it would be rather formulaic, but then this song is pretty much that too.

The song isn't bad, I mean as a song writer you would have to be pissed if you spent 10 days working on a song and it turned out to be a steaming pile of shit. It is just something that any US softcockrock band could have done a decade ago. It is nothing special. It is not too good but not totally crap

I think with all rock music the proof is how it is performed live. The best thing about Eurovision is that for good or ill, every vocal is live. This should be too much of a car crash.

If you are going to do Softcockrock at Eurovision, at least give it a bit of ethno. Albania did Ethnosoftcockrock last year and it failed to qualify. No one likes a softcocks though

Country: Finland

History...
Debut: 1961
Previous Appearances: 46
Wins: 1 (2006 – Lordi 'Hard Rock Hallelujah')

2013...
Artist: Krista Siegfrids
Song: Marry Me

I think it is kind of appropriate that at the start of the clip you see she lives in a trailer. This is he trash anthem of a new generation.

I cant help thinking that the singer is a psychotic Pink, if there is a difference. If I saw someone walking down the street singing this song, I would slap them, partially for fun but partially because they would be asking for it.

Even though this song is everything hat is wrong with the younger generation of women, It will probably qualify and do quite well. Stupid bints.

If this make it to the final, it will just another thing that will make it a Hullu yö

Performer: Pernilla Karlsson
Song: När Jag Blundar

Out of 540 songs submitted to be the potential representative for Finland in Eurovision, this is what was chosen. rally says alot about how poor the the other 539 songs were really. They could have sent this or this (is it just me or is 80's music big in Finland), but no, they sent this.

This is such a pretty song. It doesn't go anywhere, it doesn't do anything, but it is a pretty song... pretty bloody boring. I mean it isn't Lordi is it? The only practical use for this song to be played in an overpriced candle shop or some hippy shop or something. It shouldnt be in Eurovision.

The only sure thing about this song is seeing it is sung in Swedish, it will get high points from Sweden in the final... if it makes it to the final, which i highly doubt. I mean the Lyrics arent that bad, they are actually quite, pretty, everything else about the song is awful

The last time Finland sung in Swedish was 1990 and they finished last, and Sweden didn't give Finland any points towards that loss. Before the clip showing why they were so successful, I want to look back at something awful. How not to be interesting

Finland

Wins: 1
Entries: 41
Eurovision 2007 Semi Final: Straight to Final from 2006 result
Eurovision 2007 Final: 17th

2008:

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Teräsbetoni - Missä Miehet Ratsastaa (Where The Men RIde)

( Lyrics - Finnish )

( Lyrics - Translated )

If you don't want to watch this clip, imaging the Village People Wearing black, singing 'Macho Man' with two backing singers whacking drums and with extra guitars downtuned for that dark sound. Thats Finland this year. A poor attempt to relive the one single solitary Eurovision win in 2006 that Lordi (below) gave them.

I do remember in 2006 saying Lordi wouldn't win and I ate those words then they caned the competition, but I don't think this will win only because it is a repeat of something successful and Austria tried with something similar last year and didn't get far.

So lets compare it to the Great Lordi with 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' complete with some Terry Wogan comentary...It was song 17 and listening to it, do you think he was drunk yet?

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