April 23, 2006
DIDN’T WE EVOLVE AWAY FROM FINNS AGES AGO?
Finland gets bloody minded (Matthew Campbell, The Times, April 23rd, 2006)
Fed up with their “losers” tag at the Eurovision song contest, the usually nondescript Finns can hardly avoid being noticed this year. They will be represented by a group of men in repulsive monster masks, one of them wielding a blood-spurting chainsaw. The heavy-metal band Lordi like to blow up slabs of meat on stage and are a departure from the wholesome fare more generally associated with a contest that launched the careers of Abba and Celine Dion.And it’s a far cry from 1970, when Dana’s sickly-sweet All Kinds of Everything took the plaudits. Rather than “Snowdrops and daffodils, butterflies and bees”, Lordi’s entry, Hard Rock Hallelujah, includes “I got horns on my head, my fangs are sharp and my eyes are red”.
Finland’s religious leaders are among a growing army of critics who have warned that the monster mutants with giant retractable wings could inspire devil worship. But vocalist Tomi Putaansuu, a former film student who calls himself Lordi, denies any satanic leanings, despite the horns and black, 6in-long fingernails. [...]
Yet many Finns are attracted by the monsters. Lordi’s members include Amen, a mummy in a rubber loincloth, and Kita, an alien predator who plays flame-spitting drums from inside a cage. There is speculation that their use of flaming, dragon-encrusted swords appeals to latent warrior Viking instincts.
You know your society is in big trouble when the only philosophical principle it has left to distinguish good from evil is: “Eww...that’s gross!”
Posted by Peter Burnet at April 23, 2006 7:31 AMBesides, everybody got sick of GWAR fifteen years ago.
Posted by: Bryan at April 23, 2006 7:56 AMYes, and there is no place on earth more deserving of a visit from GWAR than the Eurovision song contest. It's the sort of event that GWAR was born to put out of it's misery.
Posted by: BC Monkey at April 23, 2006 10:20 AMI can't wait until The Manolo gets hold of this bunch.
Posted by: Mike Morley at April 23, 2006 10:28 AMEvery time someone mentions the Eurovision song contest, I think of that dopey musical "The Apple" where two plucky Canadians have to win the World Music Festival and defeat the evil corporate magnate Mr. Boogalow.
Posted by: Bryan at April 23, 2006 10:56 AMThe one good thing the Eurovision song contest has provided the world is the episode of Father Ted where Ted and Dougal represent Ireland at the Eurovision, with their classic song: My lovely horse
My lovely horse, running
through the field,
Where are you going with
your fetlocks blowing in the
wind?
I want to shower you with
sugarlumps,
And ride you over fences,
Polish your hooves every
single day,
And bring you to the horse
dentist.
My lovely horse,
You're a pony no more,
Running around with a man
on your back,
Like a train in the night (yeah)
Like a train in the night.
These at least sound slightly interesting compared to this bomb from Finland:
Warning: I will not be responsible for any illness resulting from clicking on this link.
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at April 23, 2006 2:34 PM
jd. It's sweet. Those white collegiate sweaters reminded me of an old movie with Peter Lawford and, I think, Alice Faye.
BTW - Shouldn't the girl be the one with the provocatively plunging blouse?
Posted by: erp at April 23, 2006 4:03 PM
Lordi will perform 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' in the next round of the Eurovision Grand Prix, so prepare to dial in your votes. The official single will be released on 19.05. And then, on 20.05 the final decision will come down in Athens. A grandiose pyro show is guaranteed, and for your viewing pleasure click on the link for a short but amusing film from Finland
http://files.ww.com/files/15151.html
Have you seen the trigger happy TV version of the Daz Doorstep challenge..... Genius!
There is NO working class anymore... Just Chavs and everyone else.
http://files.ww.com/download.html?id=14207 (Download Daz Sampson Teenage Life music)