Finnish monsters rock Eurovision

[Ferran]

Finnish monsters rock Eurovision

Lordi meet the press

A Finnish "horror rock" group who dress in monster costumes have pulled off a surprise win at the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens.

European viewers voted for Lordi's song Hard Rock Hallelujah in a show that is normally associated with catchy pop and big ballads.

Russia was second with Dima Bilan's Never Let You Go.

But UK rapper Daz Sampson could only manage to come 19th out of 24 countries with his song Teenage Life.

Lordi's masks, armour and jets of flame attracted widespread attention before the contest - but many thought they were too outlandish to win.

EUROVISION RESULTS
1. Finland - 292 points
2. Russia - 248
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 229
4. Romania - 172
5. Sweden - 170
6. Lithuania - 162

"We are a rock band and we just won Eurovision - that's weird," their lead singer, also called Lordi said.

"This was a victory for rock music and also a victory for open-mindedness," he said.

The result would open the doors for a wider range of musical styles at Eurovision in the future, he predicted.

"This is proof that from now on there will be more rock bands who will have the courage to join in," he said.

"This is proof that there are rock fans who watch Eurovision."

UK rapper Daz Sampson was not a hit with Eurovision viewers

The band had been accused by some conservative Greek organisations of promoting Satanism but said they had no connection with the occult.

"We have nothing to do with satan worshipping or anything like that - this is entertainment," Lordi said.

Lordi amassed 292 points after a public vote - 44 ahead of Russia, whose performance by featured a ballerina emerging from a grand piano.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's entrant Hari Mata Hari was in third place, followed by Romania's Mihai Traistariu.

Carola, from Sweden, who was the bookmakers' favourite before the contest and won in 1991, came fifth.

Sixth place went to Lithuania's LT United, six men in suits singing: "We are the winners of Eurovision."

Swedish entrant Carola had been favourite before the contest

Hosts Greece came ninth with Anna Vissi, who had also been hotly tipped.
She was followed by Ireland's Brian Kennedy, who rounded off the top 10 with Every Song Is A Cry For Love.

Daz Sampson - one half of dance duo Uniting Nations - only gathered 25 points from the 35 countries that took part in the vote.

No country failed to get off the mark - Malta's Fabrizio Faniello came last with one point.

The other contenders included a German country and western singer, Israeli gospel and a Latvian a capella group.

Some 18,500 fans packed the arena in the Olympic stadium complex, with 2,000 journalists and 3,000 police officers on duty.

The result means Finland will host the competition next year.



Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4998186.stm

[svin]

Russia was second with Dima Bilan's Never Let You Go.

Non-Russians presenting Russia on Eurovision... That's becoming a tradition.

[Nerthus]

Eurovision simply sucks.

[Zrinski]

Eurovision = trash event.

Btw. what happened with Kazakhstan? Why weren't they at Eurovision?

[Milesian]

How did Israel fare at the Non-Eurovision this year?
I'm not sure how they could possibly better that previous transexual entrant, but I have a lot of faith in their abilities to surpass themselves

[Menydh]

Eurovision reminds me suspiciously to the PANF.


From the PANF FAQ:

This is the central premise of Pan Aryanism regarding racial definition:

An individual aboriginal to Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central/West Asia who is Caucasoid descened in whole or overwhelmingly from the following Caucassdoid subraces, or any combibation thereof, Indo-European (Aryan) Old European, Ural Altaic Caucasoid, or Hametic (Basically confined in modern times to Berbers.) irrespective of nationality, religion or modern geographical location.

Given that position Pan Aryanism believes that all racial White sunder that definition are part of out community and must be preserved along with its European core

http://www.panf.info/upload/showthread.php?t=4443

[Carnyx]

As usual, "France" was among the worst participants and finished in the tail. I'm quite happy about this result.

The French composer, a real genius...

[Gil]

Wohoo!



Now this is my kind of band! (they just have to get their lyrics a bit less faggety...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1sLn4UdFU

[Carnyx]

The blond thing is a lady?

[Silas]

Originally Posted by Duchemin

The blond thing is a lady?

Yes it is haha, qute, aint it?

[Gil]

Yeah, it's Leena Peisa, she plays the keyboard.

[Hrvoje]

Originally Posted by Manji

Yeah, it's Leena Peisa, she plays the keyboard.

She's hot

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Kvasir

Yes it is haha, qute, aint it?

In her genre, yes.

[Ederico]

The best result ever, actually I prayed for it, you might ask why since Malta came last?

First: Lordi won, and they're a cool band, and better still I was happy to read this by Lordi himself:

"# Surely Lordi and Christianity don’t go together? Sure they do. “I am a member of a church and our drummer Kita actually wrote and played some church music.”
# “I don’t want to burn in hell, I want to go to heaven.”

And Malta last? I'm happy, that song and that singer were pushed with enormous hype in Malta. Many gullible people even thought he'd win, I was like, are you serious? I always thought the song was terrible and I'm not a fan of someone singing "I DO I DO I DO" for three minutes straight and dancing around in that way.

This will hopefully induce the local organisers to stop sending crappy pop songs year after year and instead push on something more original. Finland's record sucked, they sent a hard rock band that first took attention then won. Malta has some decent groups, heavy metal or not, but they're not given space locally to participate. It is the same clique year after year, Faniello himself was already a participant, and he is definitely not the best musical artist on the islands. Most probably next year we'll see someone who already participated once again.

[Demoritus]

I dislike Eurovision as it's very comercial competition, but I'm more than satistified with Lordi's win! Metal finally won on Eurovision, hell yeah =D

[Phlegethon]

I watched the whole event through and had to notice that besides incredibly gay singers, and even gayer ballet dancers, bar room karaoke talents and the usual LSD-induced colors and costumes there were some nice and traditional songs. Heck, I even liked the German song this time, but doing a country song definitely was a risk. Norway's song was very good but not mass-compatible, the Danish singer was cute but twist has been rightfully out for at least 35 years.

Finland could have won the song contest before if they had sent real bands like Children of Bodom, Finntroll, 69 Eyes, H.I.M., Nightwish instead of those poor losers with untalented, uninspired songs. Lordi are definitely musically talented (like GWAR, of which they keep reminding me much much more than KISS) the backing vocals were great and the chorus was catchy.

Bosnia-Hercegovian wasn't bad either, the Shakira double from Kiev was quite OK, and the British entry would have fared better if they had focused on the Lolita sex element while keeping this poor middle-aged post-clerk lookalike pseudo-rapper locked up behind the stage.

In the category "crap crying towards heaven": Malta, Israel, the Baltic States, Croatia (the untalented home porn movie star), Russia (sorry, but with that wifebeater and horrible haircut the sentence can only be death through public flogging), Armenia and that lousily bleached, lousily facelifted badly tattooed old owl from Turkey.