In 2001 and 2003 Finland had to skip because Eurovision used this weird average point system that if you didn't get enough points in previous years, you had to skip one year. 2004 they introduced semi finals and thus you start to see those failed to qualify.
Lordi won in 2006 by a huge record breaking margin. The album with the winning song on it did very well. Lordi also broke the style barrier by being the first true rock band to appear. More rock would appear in later years.
Oh that would be so great if you’d react to the whole Finland 2023 song - either the music video or live version. The snippets they put in those compilations really don’t convey why this song got the 2nd highest televote in history of eurovision! The whole performance is the crazy experience
To be honest, Finnish has more in common with Estonian and Hungarian than any other European language because it’s an Nordic language and an Uralic language.
@@suomipoika1796 To be fair while the words are all different, the pace and tonal quality of Hungarian is similar enough that my mom (who is a native Finnish speaker like myself) said it sounded like Finnish when spoken far enough that she couldn't make out the words just the tone and pacing. That said Hungarian is in the Ugric part of Finno-ugric languages, while Estonian and Finland are (obviously) in the Finnic part. However neither of those have very much in common grammar wise with the North Germanic languages of Swedish, Norwegian or Danish, sure due to cultural osmosis there's words that are shared or derived from Swedish in Finnish but those sound different even then. Ja en kusete siinä et unkarin kieli kuulostaa, ainaski mun mutsin mukaan tarpeeks lähelle suomea et jos et saa sanoista selvää ni voit sekottaa ne.
Fun fact: Pernilla Karlsson in 2012 didnt sing in Finnish but actually sung in Finnish Swedish wich is a dialect of swedish spoken natively by about 5% of Finlands population
And as a Swedish person myself, I find the Finnish-Swedish accent so beautiful! Maybe because they all sound like Moomin, and Moomin is a good childhood memory. 🤗
@@aaabee5440sometimes that’s the way with colonial versions of the language from the mother country. A small example: Americans say ‘I have gotten’ which grammatically is more correct/older version of English than we speak in Britain.
The language rule was dropped between 1973 and 1976 (and then again from 1999 onwards), meaning countries didn't have to perform in their national language anymore. The Nordic countries basically all decided to sing in English, since their languages are not well understood outside of their own countries.
I think the language rule should be brought back. English has become a stale and safe meta choice, and the different languages highlight the cultural aspect of the show overall.
@@AaroRissanen-pi4td i would agree if translated subtitles were mandatory which they arent right now. i dont understand why most broadcasters dont include them.
The Dutch who don't do well when they have to sing in Dutch were allegedly thinking of making English an official language of the Netherlands so they could sing in English. But I suspect that was really a comic suggestion.
@@hullmees666 Yeah it should absolutely be mandatory to show translations. If not on your own language, then at least on English since those are pretty much always available and probably made by the song-creators / their associates.
You should check the whole performance of Cha cha cha which won the public vote by a mile, it takes a bit of a turn in the middle so you can't really get the full picture from a short clip
Finland was the clear winner in my opion. It was the only song that had me at 65, daughter, 33 and granddaughter 6, singing and dancing. Total Eurovision spirit. And don't forget that Finland has one of the best bands in the world with Nightwish!
Warmest regards to You, Your daughter and Your granddaughter from Finland! There may be a lot of quite palatable, dance worthy Finnish music with quirky twists available to you three lovely music aficionados. Cheers to everybody over there in your lovely clan of fun-loving dancers with open ears! How about this... ua-cam.com/video/qzgYngXZgaY/v-deo.html ? (Regina: Saanko jäädä yöksi?)
@@Jay_Kay666 True. I laughed when I first watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and I heard them call Clint Eastwood's character "Blondie". He's not blonde. He's not even really sand road colored, like natural blondes become later in life. He's got brown hair for sure. (Sand road colored = an indefinite color between blonde and brunette, too dark to qualify as truly blonde and too light to be truly brunette.)
3:35 the Finnish language is nothing like the other Scandinavian languages. Linguistically it is completely different. It has a lovely distinctive sound though. Try Ievan Polkka
It was so fun to watch how excited you were when Finland finally won with Lordi. Also it was a huge thing when they won. It was the first metal band that did really well in Eurovisions. After it, later on, there started to be more and more metal bands. You asked if the 2007 performance, the singer was Hanna Pakarinen, was around the same time as Evanessence was really hude and yes, I believe so. But in Finland during that time there was more famous symphonic metal band fronted by female singer called Nightwish. I believe that Hanna Pakarinen got a lot of comparisons to that and essentially to their ex-lead singer, Tarja Turunen. In 2000, Finland was about to send Nightwish to the Eurovisions. It won the national selection by people's vote but the jury thought that it wouldn’t do well because Nightwish was a meatal band and they send Nina Åström instead of them. Well, well.... six years later Finland won with a metal band😄 Also during the years, sometimes Finland has performed in Swedish as well. The Rasmus is quite famous metal band in Europe. Especially their song in the Shadows. Thta was a huge hit and when it came out it was everywhere. It is worth checking out😊
If you look just under the year in the bottom left corner you’ll see the number of entries that year and the number of finalists. Its around 40 entries nowdays and approximately 25 of those qualify from the two semifinals to the final..
2018's Saara Aalto did a version of Monsters just her singing playing the piano but sung in 34 different languages. It's brilliant, if she had done that she would have won. It's on here.
Speaking as a uk metalhead, Lordi is my fave memory of Eurovision in recent times. The initial reaction to them was wtf! Usually there's obvious winners but people didn't want to get behind them as it was seen as a risky experiment, but no-one could deny their stage presence, theatrics and energy of the song captured the essence of eurovision. They blew everyone else away. The positive is that it inspired others to take more risks. The negative is that if any act sounds/looks anything like Lordi, they are labelled copycats, like there aren't loads of metal acts out there.
When Eurovision began, everyone was expected to sing in their own language. Then, in 1965, Sweden sang their song completely in English and the next year a language rule was set. All countries must sing in an official language of the country. The rule was removed in 1973 though, and basicly the Nordic countries switched to English. But the rule was put back in 1977. It wasn't removed until 1998. So yeah, that's the reason we see this one period of English in the 70s and then again after 1998. I really wish Finland would send more songs in Finnish! This year made clear that you can succeed with a song in Finnish! (I'm from Finland)
I do like when artists sing it a bit half/half. I want it to be enough English so that I can at least understand the gist of the message they want to convey. This is one reason i think Russias song 2021 about women's liberation in Russia didn't resonate as much with me as I just did not really understand the full gravitas of what was going on until I Googled the song, lyrics and summaries of it. Maybe a verse or a chorus in native language followed by some English, or where the Chorus is an english summary of the verses just so I can understand more about the songs, or like when they had the english translations on the screens in the background. I want the performance to be enough to tell me about the song so that I don't have to google every performance to understand what it's about. Sure, I did love Go_A's SHUM while not understanding a single word, but I would probably have liked it even more had I known a bit more about it.
I voted for The Rasmus last year mainly because they were huge in early 2000's. Their album Dead Letters released in 2003 was when I went full emo teenager (I was 13/14). You should do a listen of the song "In the Shadows".
It’s amazing to me that an American wouldn’t know The Rasmus, because here they were everywhere. Equally I heard Freestyler by Boomfunk MC’s the other day, they are also Finish, and that same thought hit me: only Europeans would know this song, despite it completely owning the 90’s basically. It’s so weird.
The Rasmus ❤ The band I loved 20 years ago, then sadly lost track of them but thanks to Eurovision found the love was back. Stronger than ever. Love those guys. ❤❤❤
The Finnish language is part of the Finno-Ugric language group, possibly the smallest of such collections that exist. The only other two members are Estonian and (more distantly) Hungarian. Being bilingual I cannot experience Finnish like you do, as pure sound. Understanding the lyrics is the obstacle the music cannot overcome. So, Finnish has nothing in common with the Scandinavian languages although Finnish has through association absorbed some loan words from Swedish. It's a history thing.
The Finno-Ugric language family (provided that you use this term as a synonym to "Uralic languages") actually comprises about 38 languages. Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are merely the three most widely known ones. Some of the other Uralic languages include Karelian, Ingrian, Livonian, Mari, Udmurt, Erzya, or the Sami languages. (If you take mean "Finno-Ugric" to mean "Uralic languages, but without the Samoyedic languages", then "Finno-Ugric" comprises around 24-30 languages.) As regards the smallest language family in the world (if we exclude language isolates such as Basque, extinct language families, and families that only include 1 language), possible candidates include e. g. the Fur language family, the Tuu language family, or the Koreanic language family, each of which only comprises 2 languages (although the status of the Koreanic language family is disputed).
2015 the guys with cerebral palsy singing punk rock had a famous band here in Finland. In their Eurovision song they were singing how they are patronized and not allowed to do stuff and have fun like drink alcohol.
Since I can't find that you've done so already - I would enjoy watching your reaction to all the Eurovision winners through the years. Many, if not all, good songs in that video.
Yeah Yeah, get over it already! I want to listen to Käärijä on repeat, but the toxic fuckerage you guys spread makes it fucking hard! Was that the effect you were out for? You stupid fucks! Your plan backfired! The brain melts! Love you, though! ❤
@@semipalatinsk1 it was not a joke. It was not just a funny act made for eurovision. This is how Lordi always looked and sounded before and after the competition. Lordi winning was one of the best things that happened to this competition. They truly opened doors for more alternative music styles in eurovision.
6:53 Lapponia is latin for Lapland (includes northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and a bit of Russia) 16:57 Her 3rd time? Maybe you confuse her, Laura, with Katri Helena (1979, 1993)
I voted for The Rasmus in 2022. I was shocked to see them in Eurovision tbh but my oh my how I loved their performance. Yes, I was also feeling very nostalgic seing them there. I loved that band 20 years ago, then sadly lost track of them and only because of Eurovision I found them again. Will never lose track of them now. They have one big hit that made them famous all over the world: In The Shadows. It was my everything for a long time. They have many great songs though, for the most part I'd say they're rock/pop. Would love a reaction to them.
As many other commented, Finnish is really nothing like the other nordic languages and English is much closer related to Danish, Norwegian and Swedish than you might think. If you really want to look confused have a look at Langfocus "Is English Really a Germanic Language?"
For some odd reason i got addicted in your way of reacting to these! I highly recommend to react to Norways entries aswell there are some diamonds in it
If you want a country where English is not the language and which sings in their languages, react to France. The songs are in French with sometimes a little English in it and they sometimes use regional languages such as Corsican or Breton
Lasse Mårtenson = Fank Sinatra of Finland. (I just thought I should clarify.) edit: Sometimes Finland in Eurovision is way ahead of its time. Many of these songs are not half bad. For example Norma John here at 2017.
the problem here is that your seeing snippets that don't always reflect the complete song. some of the songs that were more ethereal and ballad in form didn't make it past the semifinals. shame too in some cases. Enjoy it. keep it up.
I got a feeling you found one or two new hairdo ideas more for yourself than new songs to your playlist? Reggae has been a popular genre in Finland in the recent years. You probably wouldn't associate Tango with Finland either, but the Finnish Tango is an established variation of the Argentine Tango. Internationally Finland is most well known for Classical, Folk and Metal music. Conducting is Finland's soft superpower. In the 70s the Progressive Rock scene got noticed and a band called Hurriganes. in the 80s the Punk and Hardcore scenes found their way to the world as a kind of a cult thing and a band called Hanoi Rocks influenced bands like Guns N' Roses. In the 2000s the Rock, Metal and Pop genres gained popularity. Biggest hits were Bomfunk MC’s "Freestyler" and Darude's "Sandstorm". "Freestyler topped the charts in more than 10 countries and "Sandstorm" was the best selling 12" vinyl album in the world in the year 2000. Especially the Finnish Metal bands have inspired people to learn Finnish, which is kind of a marvelous thing in all. Finland has an interesting song contest history also, because Finland took part into them on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Marion Rung took part in the Eurovision in 1962 and 1973 and came 7th and 6th and she won the Sopot International Song Festival in 1974 and the Intervision Song Contest in 1980.
Even though I'm Swedish and thought that our song, Loreens was great and we won🎉 I think that wrong song won. The true winner 2023 should be Finland 🇫🇮
Weird that Aava was translated as open landscape when more correct translation would be open space as the word is most often used with sea or wide view
This years entry Käärijä was the winner of the fans and the other contestants. Only the jury was not a fan. During the performance, the audience went wild. When they gave the points, every time Finland was mentioned, the crowd went crazy and shouted for him. It annoyed the hosts so much, but they just celebrated the song and the artist. Who was just a normal guy, who doesn't speak the best English in the world, but just won over the hearts of everyone, being his authentic self. Even now, the others talk about how great he is as person, how much they love the song. His performance has now more views on yt than the winner. He went up from 40k monthly listeners on spotify at the beginning of the year to now nearly 8 million.
it was a running joke in finland that we shouldnt even send a song since no matter we sent in, we never did well, but i really feel like we have found our groove and started having more fun with it, im super exited for the next one !
The Finnish language has a lot of open syllables ones that end in vowels which are great for singing Italian has a lot as does Russian However it has no voiced consonants no d, g, b - only t, k and p - and these can be lengthened too so it generates a slight staccato effect. Plus less than 1% of the now voting public understand Finnish as it is not closely related to many languages - only Estonian which is next door to Finland. So they have generally when they vote for a song gone for an English language song when choosing a song at the national level.
To me there are several important years after 2000: 2006 Finland won with for the first time. 2010 Europe finds Kuunkuiskaajat not good enough - god, how stupid they are! 2012 Pernilla with such a beautiful song for the last time in Swedish. Well, Sweden hadn't had one in a long time. 2014 Softengine with a song that should really have been higher - tbh, one of the best ones we have ever sent. 2015 Europe includes everyone but the disabled, as they don't sound so good.This puts the light on ESC. Shame on Europe! 2017 How did this not qualify? It still baffles me. This also lead to a couple of shitty years with no audience participation in the selection. 2021 An excellent song, and this is the song that somehow says that Finland alway sends harder songs. Yeah... 2023 Cha Cha Cha. The first time I saw the video, I knew it was something special. Not he music in itself - more the crazy creativity in and around it.
If you Google Eurovision your guesses can turn to knowledge. The number of countries varies and not every country joins in every year. Maybe you can also find out how it is that Australia takes part and North America doesn't.
He might not have heard of the American company called Google. If he has, he obviously doesn't use it for some reason, judging by the amount of guessing he does about just about everything.
@@stevepage5813 Moi! (a Finnish hello). I really can't say that the guesses bother me in any significant way. The hyperactivity and the jumping from topic to topic and back again is annoying but those are just symptoms of ADD and I (have the same disorder--did you notice my comment on meds? It's not interesting but it was an attempt to communicate. So I'm not going to hold a disorder against him. But what drives me Tasmanian-devil batshit bonkers is not confined to this channel; it's like a cancer spread across this entire platform . The hordes of Tubers who drive me to drink are those who (insert your response here ) ARE CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY ASKING WE VIEWERS TO DO THEIR RESEARCH FOR THEM!! WHEN THEY ARE SITTING IN FROM OF A COMPUTER!! At times it seems like the Tuber pukes out more words than the video they are "reacting" to. There are tiers of offenders but basically they all ruin MY watching of THEIR videos! There should be a UA-cam consumers organisation. Individuals can't demand changes but a couple of million? A no brainer. (I also HATE requests to subscribe and like a video BEFORE they do their shit! Wtf?? I just got here, fucking DO SOMETHING and then we consider what to do.)
@@ThisTrainIsLost Moi! from me here in Halifax, North England. I agree with all of your comments. Most reacters on You Tube do ask you to "pre- emtive" like the clip and some do suggest that if you want to watch the clip uninterupted, you can click on the link in the comments. If you do watch the clip without their interuption, then you might just as well search for the subject in the search bar of YT. I am aware of his affliction as he does mention it regularly. I am old enough and sensible enough, to know that one must make allowances for humans, especially ones with problems that are sometimes invisible on the outside. I have a couple of these invisible disabilities myself, so I am extra careful not to judge people too soon. As far as their constant commenting, apparently if they just sit and watch certain clips, they can be copyrighted. Don't even get me started on the general ignorance about the World outside of North America, that some of these reacters display. To be fair, I have been watching numerous USA reacters for quite some time now and am impressed by the sensible ones, and how their knowledge has improved by a vast amount through the comments section. I am therefore a bit perturbed by the actually more ignorant ones that obviously don't read the comments.
1964 there isn't basically any record because there was fire in (don't remember country) movie database building and 1964 eurovision have any videos. just some clips
Is it just me or did the 1965 contestant Viktor Klimenko kinda look like Abraham Lincoln? I think its just the facial hair but still. What a handsome guy.
Its like old times with Finland and hockey games , no supporter left a finger but today they actually more outcoming and more companions with other nations. thanx to america probabbly and some other countries as well. Maybe the finnish world war make them very isolated and secluted. But today very openhearted and friendly people.
19:51 countries come and go. Some join, some leave, others don’t get an act, some don’t get involved for political reasons. It varies from year to year.
Fun thing that Katri Helena sing that song like over 40 ears ago and allmoust look and sound like same ❤ i like moust finish who sing finnish or swedish..
2007 Eurovision in Finland really had a different kind of opening that the watchers of Eurovision had used to. :D ua-cam.com/video/AhV9zcX4Oco/v-deo.html
Finalnd has a much higher preponderance of blonds thatn even Sweden does... But a lot of it is microevolution... in the thousands of years the Suomi people have inhabited that region there;s been a natural shift to pale skin and pale hair.. since there is FAR FAR less solar exposure up there.
Lordi was so popular they literally broke the record for most points EVER in eurovision, in 2009 (i think) Alexander Rybak from norway got a bit more points and to this day lordi got the second most points ever in eurovision. Some claim the one portugese guy got 450+ points but that is by another system as they changed how points are given or something like thay
Did you notice that in 1990 and 2012 they sang in Swedish? Totally legit in Eurovision even with the language rule because Swedish is an official languege in Finland.
That late 80s early 90s hairstyle is done with "volumizing" hair care products, rollers and and hairspray. Plenty of women slept wearing hair rollers to need less hairspray.
Eurovision rules have been changed many times, it used to be mandatory to sing in your own official native languages. These days it is fully free and some countries have even sung in imaginary languages or without any words at all.
80s and 90s hairstyles are the reason we had a hole in the ozone layer. So much hair spray it's not even funny. The reason there are so many years missing is due to the poor results so they didn't compete. Finland is one of those countries that has most 0 pointers. Being the last 5 in just about every contest. Swedish is an official language of Finland so some of the songs are in Swedish.
Lordi in that full make-up had a terrible time because the final was in Athens in late May and it is already hot there. BTW you realise that the winners in one year the television company hosts the next year's competition sadly the Ukraine who won last year 2022 couldn't host which is why second placed Britain hosted it on Ukraine's behalf.
I know this is off topic. Sorry. Please check out "Ren - Hi Ren". I'd love to hear your reaction to what I consider the best performance I've ever experienced.
Dude, the finnish language is really something else. Tolkien used it as an inspiration for his first elwen language by the way. And I’m a swede. Don’t understand a goddamn word. Norwegian and danish is fine. Icelandic a few words here and there. Finnish. Nope. None. Nada.
finnish has nothing in common with NO SWE DAN, I know all 3 (but swedish used to be taught in finnish schools) and know very few words in finnish I believe its still more similar to Estonian btw Beat with Fri 1990 was mixed swe/finnish Pernilla Karlsson with När jag blundar 2012
Lordi was something new that had never been done before in Eurovision. They really paved the way for the Eurovision song contest of today.
In 2001 and 2003 Finland had to skip because Eurovision used this weird average point system that if you didn't get enough points in previous years, you had to skip one year. 2004 they introduced semi finals and thus you start to see those failed to qualify.
Also 1995, 1997 and 1999
Lordi won in 2006 by a huge record breaking margin. The album with the winning song on it did very well. Lordi also broke the style barrier by being the first true rock band to appear. More rock would appear in later years.
Also the style barrier regarding outfits. 😄
Yup, hard rock, there were some pop rock bands. 🤟🏻
Oh that would be so great if you’d react to the whole Finland 2023 song - either the music video or live version. The snippets they put in those compilations really don’t convey why this song got the 2nd highest televote in history of eurovision! The whole performance is the crazy experience
To be honest, Finnish has more in common with Estonian and Hungarian than any other European language because it’s an Nordic language and an Uralic language.
It doesn't sound anything like Swedish, Norwegian or Danish my dude is deaf 😂
Estonia sounds like foreign trying to speak Finnish and gets some letters wrong. Hungary does not sound Finnish at all.
@@suomipoika1796 I didn’t say it sounded like Hungarian, I said it had more in common as a language.
Estonia mentioned. Let's meet in the town square :D
@@suomipoika1796 To be fair while the words are all different, the pace and tonal quality of Hungarian is similar enough that my mom (who is a native Finnish speaker like myself) said it sounded like Finnish when spoken far enough that she couldn't make out the words just the tone and pacing. That said Hungarian is in the Ugric part of Finno-ugric languages, while Estonian and Finland are (obviously) in the Finnic part.
However neither of those have very much in common grammar wise with the North Germanic languages of Swedish, Norwegian or Danish, sure due to cultural osmosis there's words that are shared or derived from Swedish in Finnish but those sound different even then.
Ja en kusete siinä et unkarin kieli kuulostaa, ainaski mun mutsin mukaan tarpeeks lähelle suomea et jos et saa sanoista selvää ni voit sekottaa ne.
Fun fact: Pernilla Karlsson in 2012 didnt sing in Finnish but actually sung in Finnish Swedish wich is a dialect of swedish spoken natively by about 5% of Finlands population
Finnish Swedish also in 1990.
And as a Swedish person myself, I find the Finnish-Swedish accent so beautiful! Maybe because they all sound like Moomin, and Moomin is a good childhood memory. 🤗
@@Jullebulle1991 I have heard that many Swedes call it "Moomin Svenska" 😁
Jag fattar inte va du mera...😂 Toisaalta Kristahan on finsvensk... Dutch. Jury decided that.
@@aaabee5440sometimes that’s the way with colonial versions of the language from the mother country. A small example: Americans say ‘I have gotten’ which grammatically is more correct/older version of English than we speak in Britain.
The language rule was dropped between 1973 and 1976 (and then again from 1999 onwards), meaning countries didn't have to perform in their national language anymore. The Nordic countries basically all decided to sing in English, since their languages are not well understood outside of their own countries.
I think the language rule should be brought back. English has become a stale and safe meta choice, and the different languages highlight the cultural aspect of the show overall.
@@AaroRissanen-pi4td i would agree if translated subtitles were mandatory which they arent right now. i dont understand why most broadcasters dont include them.
The Dutch who don't do well
when they have to sing in Dutch
were allegedly thinking of making
English an official language of the Netherlands
so they could sing in English.
But I suspect that was really a comic suggestion.
@@hullmees666 Yeah it should absolutely be mandatory to show translations. If not on your own language, then at least on English since those are pretty much always available and probably made by the song-creators / their associates.
You should check the whole performance of Cha cha cha which won the public vote by a mile, it takes a bit of a turn in the middle so you can't really get the full picture from a short clip
I grew up in a Finnish-American household, so I recognize Finnish immediately and it always makes me nostalgic…
Finland was the clear winner in my opion. It was the only song that had me at 65, daughter, 33 and granddaughter 6, singing and dancing. Total Eurovision spirit. And don't forget that Finland has one of the best bands in the world with Nightwish!
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Nightwish was third in the Finland national final in 2000, what a shame they didn't win!
❤❤from Finland
Warmest regards to You, Your daughter and Your granddaughter from Finland! There may be a lot of quite palatable, dance worthy Finnish music with quirky twists available to you three lovely music aficionados. Cheers to everybody over there in your lovely clan of fun-loving dancers with open ears!
How about this... ua-cam.com/video/qzgYngXZgaY/v-deo.html ? (Regina: Saanko jäädä yöksi?)
Nordic countries tend to have a higher percentage of blondes, much like Ireland and Scotland tend to have a higher percentage of redheads.
North Americans don't know intricacies like that.
Yeah and we don't even call most blondes (international standards) as blonds but light browns.
@@Jay_Kay666 True. I laughed when I first watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and I heard them call Clint Eastwood's character "Blondie". He's not blonde. He's not even really sand road colored, like natural blondes become later in life. He's got brown hair for sure. (Sand road colored = an indefinite color between blonde and brunette, too dark to qualify as truly blonde and too light to be truly brunette.)
Yeah pretty much 80% of Finnish people have blond hair.
@@Skerrry I wouldn't say blond, but fair of light coroured. Sweden has maybe twice as many blond haired people on the other hand.
3:35 the Finnish language is nothing like the other Scandinavian languages. Linguistically it is completely different. It has a lovely distinctive sound though. Try Ievan Polkka
True, but from an English-speaking viewpoint, it uses a very similar set of sounds.
Finland isn't a part of Scandinavia, strictly speaking.
It was so fun to watch how excited you were when Finland finally won with Lordi. Also it was a huge thing when they won. It was the first metal band that did really well in Eurovisions. After it, later on, there started to be more and more metal bands.
You asked if the 2007 performance, the singer was Hanna Pakarinen, was around the same time as Evanessence was really hude and yes, I believe so.
But in Finland during that time there was more famous symphonic metal band fronted by female singer called Nightwish. I believe that Hanna Pakarinen got a lot of comparisons to that and essentially to their ex-lead singer, Tarja Turunen.
In 2000, Finland was about to send Nightwish to the Eurovisions. It won the national selection by people's vote but the jury thought that it wouldn’t do well because Nightwish was a meatal band and they send Nina Åström instead of them. Well, well.... six years later Finland won with a metal band😄
Also during the years, sometimes Finland has performed in Swedish as well.
The Rasmus is quite famous metal band in Europe. Especially their song in the Shadows. Thta was a huge hit and when it came out it was everywhere. It is worth checking out😊
2015 was punk band of disabled guys😄💕 I kinda love us for sending surprising entries from time to time.
If you look just under the year in the bottom left corner you’ll see the number of entries that year and the number of finalists. Its around 40 entries nowdays and approximately 25 of those qualify from the two semifinals to the final..
Loved you and your commentary! Don't be afraid to comment more while you watch, you are super likeable :)
Love from Finland
2018's Saara Aalto did a version of Monsters just her singing playing the piano but sung in 34 different languages. It's brilliant, if she had done that she would have won. It's on here.
I agree. She is extremely talented singer and piano player. I wish she had done that version on a song.
Speaking as a uk metalhead, Lordi is my fave memory of Eurovision in recent times. The initial reaction to them was wtf! Usually there's obvious winners but people didn't want to get behind them as it was seen as a risky experiment, but no-one could deny their stage presence, theatrics and energy of the song captured the essence of eurovision. They blew everyone else away. The positive is that it inspired others to take more risks. The negative is that if any act sounds/looks anything like Lordi, they are labelled copycats, like there aren't loads of metal acts out there.
When Eurovision began, everyone was expected to sing in their own language. Then, in 1965, Sweden sang their song completely in English and the next year a language rule was set. All countries must sing in an official language of the country. The rule was removed in 1973 though, and basicly the Nordic countries switched to English. But the rule was put back in 1977. It wasn't removed until 1998. So yeah, that's the reason we see this one period of English in the 70s and then again after 1998.
I really wish Finland would send more songs in Finnish! This year made clear that you can succeed with a song in Finnish! (I'm from Finland)
I do like when artists sing it a bit half/half. I want it to be enough English so that I can at least understand the gist of the message they want to convey. This is one reason i think Russias song 2021 about women's liberation in Russia didn't resonate as much with me as I just did not really understand the full gravitas of what was going on until I Googled the song, lyrics and summaries of it.
Maybe a verse or a chorus in native language followed by some English, or where the Chorus is an english summary of the verses just so I can understand more about the songs, or like when they had the english translations on the screens in the background. I want the performance to be enough to tell me about the song so that I don't have to google every performance to understand what it's about.
Sure, I did love Go_A's SHUM while not understanding a single word, but I would probably have liked it even more had I known a bit more about it.
@@Ferdawoon broadcasters should provides subtitles. some do, most dont. why, no idea.
I voted for The Rasmus last year mainly because they were huge in early 2000's. Their album Dead Letters released in 2003 was when I went full emo teenager (I was 13/14). You should do a listen of the song "In the Shadows".
It’s amazing to me that an American wouldn’t know The Rasmus, because here they were everywhere. Equally I heard Freestyler by Boomfunk MC’s the other day, they are also Finish, and that same thought hit me: only Europeans would know this song, despite it completely owning the 90’s basically. It’s so weird.
The Rasmus ❤ The band I loved 20 years ago, then sadly lost track of them but thanks to Eurovision found the love was back. Stronger than ever. Love those guys. ❤❤❤
The Finnish language is part of the Finno-Ugric language group, possibly the smallest of such collections that exist. The only other two members are Estonian and (more distantly) Hungarian. Being bilingual I cannot experience Finnish like you do, as pure sound. Understanding the lyrics is the obstacle the music cannot overcome. So, Finnish has nothing in common with the Scandinavian languages although Finnish has through association absorbed some loan words from Swedish. It's a history thing.
There's many finno-ugric languages. Not just those 3. Although they are small and some of them are dying.
The Finno-Ugric language family (provided that you use this term as a synonym to "Uralic languages") actually comprises about 38 languages. Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are merely the three most widely known ones. Some of the other Uralic languages include Karelian, Ingrian, Livonian, Mari, Udmurt, Erzya, or the Sami languages.
(If you take mean "Finno-Ugric" to mean "Uralic languages, but without the Samoyedic languages", then "Finno-Ugric" comprises around 24-30 languages.)
As regards the smallest language family in the world (if we exclude language isolates such as Basque, extinct language families, and families that only include 1 language), possible candidates include e. g. the Fur language family, the Tuu language family, or the Koreanic language family, each of which only comprises 2 languages (although the status of the Koreanic language family is disputed).
Cha 🎶Cha Cha🎶Cha Cha Cha Cha 🎶❤❤I can't get this out of my head❤❤ Eurovision fans favorite song this year❤❤Please do one with Russia🙏🙏
Love to Finland from Sweden ❤ we are brothers and Sister.
React to the full performance of Cha Cha Cha. Finland got 376 points from the public, the 2nd highest of all time. Juries promoted Sweden to win.
Did you really think that we would skip Eurovision over 9/11???
Vähän läppä.😄 Mutta jenkit on jenkkejä. Niiden maailma pyörii täysin oman maansa ympärillä.
2015 the guys with cerebral palsy singing punk rock had a famous band here in Finland. In their Eurovision song they were singing how they are patronized and not allowed to do stuff and have fun like drink alcohol.
Since I can't find that you've done so already - I would enjoy watching your reaction to all the Eurovision winners through the years. Many, if not all, good songs in that video.
I was just waiting for Lordi :D They have some cool songs, definitely check their studio versions.
Yeah, Finland can have a chance of winning when there is only public vote. Last time that was 2006.
Yeah Yeah, get over it already!
I want to listen to Käärijä on repeat, but the toxic fuckerage you guys spread makes it fucking hard!
Was that the effect you were out for?
You stupid fucks! Your plan backfired!
The brain melts!
Love you, though! ❤
Finland never won even without juries, except in 2006 which was a joke song. You can't take "Hard rock hallelujah" seriously. It was a joke.
@@semipalatinsk1 it was not a joke.
It was not just a funny act made for eurovision. This is how Lordi always looked and sounded before and after the competition.
Lordi winning was one of the best things that happened to this competition. They truly opened doors for more alternative music styles in eurovision.
@@semipalatinsk1 Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a joke song. I listen to it very much unironically, same as Cha Cha Cha
@@semipalatinsk1 A song doesn’t match your preferance in style = joke? I guess you’re the average europop fan then…
6:53 Lapponia is latin for Lapland (includes northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and a bit of Russia)
16:57 Her 3rd time? Maybe you confuse her, Laura, with Katri Helena (1979, 1993)
I voted for The Rasmus in 2022. I was shocked to see them in Eurovision tbh but my oh my how I loved their performance. Yes, I was also feeling very nostalgic seing them there. I loved that band 20 years ago, then sadly lost track of them and only because of Eurovision I found them again. Will never lose track of them now. They have one big hit that made them famous all over the world: In The Shadows. It was my everything for a long time. They have many great songs though, for the most part I'd say they're rock/pop. Would love a reaction to them.
A really different review video compared to others one and I liked it. AAA+
As many other commented, Finnish is really nothing like the other nordic languages and English is much closer related to Danish, Norwegian and Swedish than you might think. If you really want to look confused have a look at Langfocus "Is English Really a Germanic Language?"
Thanks and greetings from Finland ❤
Thank you for this. I thought that finnish eurovision performances are walk of shame but there are diamonds also.
Finland was relegated from the competition for 2001, based on their results of the previous 5 contests.
I hope you do more of these
The red outline around the placing means last place in the final
19:45 The video literally tells you how many entries the finale has.😅
For some odd reason i got addicted in your way of reacting to these! I highly recommend to react to Norways entries aswell there are some diamonds in it
That 1980 guy was a real renaissance man. He was a soccer goalie, boxer, pool champion, actor, singer. We miss him.
If you want a country where English is not the language and which sings in their languages, react to France. The songs are in French with sometimes a little English in it and they sometimes use regional languages such as Corsican or Breton
i saw many swedish names cool. Oh and the 2012 one is in swedish
Lasse Mårtenson = Fank Sinatra of Finland. (I just thought I should clarify.)
edit: Sometimes Finland in Eurovision is way ahead of its time. Many of these songs are not half bad. For example Norma John here at 2017.
the problem here is that your seeing snippets that don't always reflect the complete song. some of the songs that were more ethereal and ballad in form didn't make it past the semifinals. shame too in some cases. Enjoy it. keep it up.
Because Ballads are boring and lack subject matter other than "I love you more than life" or "I hate you we're breaking up" they are garbage.
I got a feeling you found one or two new hairdo ideas more for yourself than new songs to your playlist? Reggae has been a popular genre in Finland in the recent years. You probably wouldn't associate Tango with Finland either, but the Finnish Tango is an established variation of the Argentine Tango. Internationally Finland is most well known for Classical, Folk and Metal music. Conducting is Finland's soft superpower. In the 70s the Progressive Rock scene got noticed and a band called Hurriganes. in the 80s the Punk and Hardcore scenes found their way to the world as a kind of a cult thing and a band called Hanoi Rocks influenced bands like Guns N' Roses. In the 2000s the Rock, Metal and Pop genres gained popularity. Biggest hits were Bomfunk MC’s "Freestyler" and Darude's "Sandstorm". "Freestyler topped the charts in more than 10 countries and "Sandstorm" was the best selling 12" vinyl album in the world in the year 2000. Especially the Finnish Metal bands have inspired people to learn Finnish, which is kind of a marvelous thing in all. Finland has an interesting song contest history also, because Finland took part into them on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Marion Rung took part in the Eurovision in 1962 and 1973 and came 7th and 6th and she won the Sopot International Song Festival in 1974 and the Intervision Song Contest in 1980.
Even though I'm Swedish and thought that our song, Loreens was great and we won🎉 I think that wrong song won. The true winner 2023 should be Finland 🇫🇮
Would be nice to see your reactions to Cha Cha Cha (2023 entry) official music video and whole performances 💚🌞💚
Weird that Aava was translated as open landscape when more correct translation would be open space as the word is most often used with sea or wide view
One constant through the decades is the high quality of the singing. Well most years.
This years entry Käärijä was the winner of the fans and the other contestants. Only the jury was not a fan. During the performance, the audience went wild. When they gave the points, every time Finland was mentioned, the crowd went crazy and shouted for him. It annoyed the hosts so much, but they just celebrated the song and the artist. Who was just a normal guy, who doesn't speak the best English in the world, but just won over the hearts of everyone, being his authentic self. Even now, the others talk about how great he is as person, how much they love the song.
His performance has now more views on yt than the winner.
He went up from 40k monthly listeners on spotify at the beginning of the year to now nearly 8 million.
The jury was a fan tho. They gave him the 6th most points out of the 26 songs in the final
@@neville1311 that's not really being a fan
i suscribe to see more videos like this...tnx for this honor to eurovision
Finnish do have some loan words from Swedish, but they are from entirely different language familes.
There were the rule that you must sing only countrys viral languages so thats why we sang on finnish/swedish many years.
it was a running joke in finland that we shouldnt even send a song since no matter we sent in, we never did well, but i really feel like we have found our groove and started having more fun with it, im super exited for the next one !
LOL Good luck!
The Finnish language has a lot of open syllables
ones that end in vowels
which are great for singing
Italian has a lot as does Russian
However it has no voiced consonants
no d, g, b - only t, k and p - and these can be lengthened too
so it generates a slight staccato effect.
Plus less than 1% of the now voting public
understand Finnish as it is not closely related to
many languages - only Estonian which is next door to Finland.
So they have generally when they vote for a song
gone for an English language song when
choosing a song at the national level.
15:14 they did that with a lot of Mousse and hairspray.
To me there are several important years after 2000:
2006 Finland won with for the first time.
2010 Europe finds Kuunkuiskaajat not good enough - god, how stupid they are!
2012 Pernilla with such a beautiful song for the last time in Swedish. Well, Sweden hadn't had one in a long time.
2014 Softengine with a song that should really have been higher - tbh, one of the best ones we have ever sent.
2015 Europe includes everyone but the disabled, as they don't sound so good.This puts the light on ESC. Shame on Europe!
2017 How did this not qualify? It still baffles me. This also lead to a couple of shitty years with no audience participation in the selection.
2021 An excellent song, and this is the song that somehow says that Finland alway sends harder songs. Yeah...
2023 Cha Cha Cha. The first time I saw the video, I knew it was something special. Not he music in itself - more the crazy creativity in and around it.
If you Google Eurovision your guesses can turn to knowledge. The number of countries varies and not every country joins in every year. Maybe you can also find out how it is that Australia takes part and North America doesn't.
He might not have heard of the American company called Google. If he has, he obviously doesn't use it for some reason, judging by the amount of guessing he does about just about everything.
@@stevepage5813 Moi! (a Finnish hello).
I really can't say that the guesses bother me in any significant way. The hyperactivity and the jumping from topic to topic and back again is annoying but those are just symptoms of ADD and I (have the same disorder--did you notice my comment on meds? It's not interesting but it was an attempt to communicate. So I'm not going to hold a disorder against him.
But what drives me Tasmanian-devil batshit bonkers is not confined to this channel; it's like a cancer spread across this entire platform . The hordes of Tubers who drive me to drink are those who (insert your response here ) ARE CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY ASKING WE VIEWERS TO DO THEIR RESEARCH FOR THEM!! WHEN THEY ARE SITTING IN FROM OF A COMPUTER!! At times it seems like the Tuber pukes out more words than the video they are "reacting" to. There are tiers of offenders but basically they all ruin MY watching of THEIR videos!
There should be a UA-cam consumers organisation. Individuals can't demand changes but a couple of million? A no brainer.
(I also HATE requests to subscribe and like a video BEFORE they do their shit! Wtf?? I just got here, fucking DO SOMETHING and then we consider what to do.)
@@ThisTrainIsLost Moi! from me here in Halifax, North England. I agree with all of your comments. Most reacters on You Tube do ask you to "pre- emtive" like the clip and some do suggest that if you want to watch the clip uninterupted, you can click on the link in the comments. If you do watch the clip without their interuption, then you might just as well search for the subject in the search bar of YT. I am aware of his affliction as he does mention it regularly. I am old enough and sensible enough, to know that one must make allowances for humans, especially ones with problems that are sometimes invisible on the outside. I have a couple of these invisible disabilities myself, so I am extra careful not to judge people too soon. As far as their constant commenting, apparently if they just sit and watch certain clips, they can be copyrighted. Don't even get me started on the general ignorance about the World outside of North America, that some of these reacters display. To be fair, I have been watching numerous USA reacters for quite some time now and am impressed by the sensible ones, and how their knowledge has improved by a vast amount through the comments section. I am therefore a bit perturbed by the actually more ignorant ones that obviously don't read the comments.
Hanna Pakarinen is still on my playlist. One of a kind.
Yes do a reaction of full song of the top 5 of this year or top ten bc the other countries was great too.
1964 there isn't basically any record because there was fire in (don't remember country) movie database building and 1964 eurovision have any videos. just some clips
It was partly a fire in the basement of Danish TV, and a dispute about camera technology (don't ask, even the Danes find it silly!)
Is it just me or did the 1965 contestant Viktor Klimenko kinda look like Abraham Lincoln? I think its just the facial hair but still. What a handsome guy.
Its like old times with Finland and hockey games , no supporter left a finger but today they actually more outcoming and more companions with other nations. thanx to america probabbly and some other countries as well. Maybe the finnish world war make them very isolated and secluted. But today very openhearted and friendly people.
19:51 countries come and go. Some join, some leave, others don’t get an act, some don’t get involved for political reasons. It varies from year to year.
Ohh man, Lordi was this long ago already? It feels like it was just a few years ago.
Fun thing that Katri Helena sing that song like over 40 ears ago and allmoust look and sound like same ❤ i like moust finish who sing finnish or swedish..
02:52 : Finland! Pro tip from Sweden! If you ever wanna win eurovision again you better send Fredi!
That would take some serious necromancy. Fredi died in 2021.
2007 Eurovision in Finland really had a different kind of opening that the watchers of Eurovision had used to. :D ua-cam.com/video/AhV9zcX4Oco/v-deo.html
Finalnd has a much higher preponderance of blonds thatn even Sweden does... But a lot of it is microevolution... in the thousands of years the Suomi people have inhabited that region there;s been a natural shift to pale skin and pale hair.. since there is FAR FAR less solar exposure up there.
I didn't even know at 1973 and 1976 songs have english versions, i have always heard the finnish versions.
6:51 Lappland is northern Finland
and Sweden
You know, you have a pretty nice head of hair; ask your stylist for that 90’s blow-dryer look. I bet you’d look great! 👍
Lordi was so popular they literally broke the record for most points EVER in eurovision, in 2009 (i think) Alexander Rybak from norway got a bit more points and to this day lordi got the second most points ever in eurovision. Some claim the one portugese guy got 450+ points but that is by another system as they changed how points are given or something like thay
Did you notice that in 1990 and 2012 they sang in Swedish? Totally legit in Eurovision even with the language rule because Swedish is an official languege in Finland.
1973 and 1976 there was new rule that u can sing any language but 1976--> they remove that rule again. 1998 language rule don't have anymore -->
That late 80s early 90s hairstyle is done with "volumizing" hair care products, rollers and and hairspray. Plenty of women slept wearing hair rollers to need less hairspray.
I like that Finland mostly stuck to finnish rather than english for so long
2 dubs, 2006 and 2023 💪
Lordi are the best.
Eurovision rules have been changed many times, it used to be mandatory to sing in your own official native languages. These days it is fully free and some countries have even sung in imaginary languages or without any words at all.
Haha , nice
9:19 1982 Nuku pommiin means overslept/oversleep, not sleep into the bomb. Some of these translations are clearly done by Google.
2007 actually good pog
you will do more of these
80s and 90s hairstyles are the reason we had a hole in the ozone layer. So much hair spray it's not even funny. The reason there are so many years missing is due to the poor results so they didn't compete. Finland is one of those countries that has most 0 pointers. Being the last 5 in just about every contest. Swedish is an official language of Finland so some of the songs are in Swedish.
Lordi in that full make-up had a terrible time
because the final was in Athens in late May
and it is already hot there.
BTW you realise that the winners in one year
the television company hosts the next year's competition
sadly the Ukraine who won last year 2022
couldn't host which is why second placed Britain
hosted it on Ukraine's behalf.
I am from finland
The thing that happened 2001 happened after eurovision
I wish I could rrroll my Rs like that too. 😄 Terrrve!
Minä rrrakastan Suomi!
I know this is off topic. Sorry. Please check out "Ren - Hi Ren". I'd love to hear your reaction to what I consider the best performance I've ever experienced.
Notice how many of those songs have ascending sequence as a chorus.... It is almost embarrassing how similar they are from mid 60s to mid 70s..
Jeez Finland scored so poorly for decades, how did they not give up in like the 80s?
Dude, the finnish language is really something else. Tolkien used it as an inspiration for his first elwen language by the way. And I’m a swede. Don’t understand a goddamn word. Norwegian and danish is fine. Icelandic a few words here and there. Finnish. Nope. None. Nada.
There are some words in Finnish that can be understood. Hissi, silli, tulli, posti, lääkäri, hamsteri, professori, poliisi enter my mind.
Interesting that the singer in 1973 was the same singer as 1962
the 1983 songs name actually doesn't have a English word to describe it.
Its the song tho that gets the judges points.....writren music and lyrics...
Finland did not send an entry to the Eurovision contest in 2001. Focus on 2006.
finnish has nothing in common with NO SWE DAN, I know all 3
(but swedish used to be taught in finnish schools)
and know very few words in finnish
I believe its still more similar to Estonian
btw Beat with Fri 1990 was mixed swe/finnish
Pernilla Karlsson with När jag blundar 2012