Lordi, Lordi...
Europe, unfairly credited for the dire cheesey pop music that huge swathes of its ancient & cultured civilisations vote for every year in the Eurovision Song Contest, has picked a METAL band as this years winners!
Lordi, hailing from Finland, came on in full make-up & costume looking like a monster freakshow and performed "Hard Rock Hallelujiah" to a backdrop of fireworks and a demonic lead singer with a battle-axe mike stand and giant batwings that unfurled for the final chorus. This has GOT to win, I laughed and texted my vote. And lo & behold they WON! LMAO.
...said one Finn, according to a story in the New York Times.
Well, Suomi, I got a spare room you can rent for a couple o' months ;)
Lordi, hailing from Finland, came on in full make-up & costume looking like a monster freakshow and performed "Hard Rock Hallelujiah" to a backdrop of fireworks and a demonic lead singer with a battle-axe mike stand and giant batwings that unfurled for the final chorus. This has GOT to win, I laughed and texted my vote. And lo & behold they WON! LMAO.
"If Lordi wins Eurovision, I am leaving the country."
...said one Finn, according to a story in the New York Times.
Well, Suomi, I got a spare room you can rent for a couple o' months ;)
Blue Skies thinking @ 5/20/2006 10:03:00 PM
15 Comments:
At Sun May 21, 02:59:00 PM,
BeckyBumbleFuck said…
Oh how Slipknot.
Nice one, Europeans. ;)
(I wish I could have caught it, definitely....next year...)
At Sun May 21, 04:23:00 PM,
Lever said…
My BBFK: Yeah, it was good, and particularly for rock to get so many votes across Europe... TFFT
Yeah, you'll love it next year, whether there's metal or no, it's a friggin good laugh :D
At Mon May 22, 03:27:00 AM,
RahX said…
lol, I heard that song via a well, sort of friend of mine. Weird stuff. Never before heard of that contest. BTW, answer to your question in my recent blog post.
At Mon May 22, 03:35:00 AM,
rebekah said…
ew butt rock
gross man
At Mon May 22, 08:45:00 AM,
Lever said…
RahX: Dude, the tune aint so hot - reminds me a bit of the Alice Cooper track "Poison", a bit tame for Alice, and not quite as hard rock as you'd expect from the spawn of hell... But the rock aspect counts for a massive vote against pop and rap - oh and the UK did the rap track *shakes head in embarrasment*
OK popping over :)
Rebekah: Butt rock? LMFAO I looked that term up on Google and found this for butt rock at #2...
At Mon May 22, 09:27:00 PM,
woman wandering said…
Being a kiwi and all, I watched the eurovision voting open-mouthed as my Belgian predicted which country would vote for whom ... his biggest surprise was probably the Belgian vote that went so strongly to Armenia, he didn't expect that.
Bizarre phenomena ... but interesting NY Times article. Thanks :)
At Mon May 22, 10:38:00 PM,
Brom said…
It was great. A crap song, but still it was rock. I texted a vote too, something I've not done before, ever.
Looking forward to me next trip to Finland!
At Mon May 22, 11:09:00 PM,
Lever said…
Wandering Woman: I did wonder if you guys were watching, and yeah, the vote for Armenia was as surprise - with no Dutch I thought your other half & the country would vote for the French - someone had to ;)
Yeah the NYT story was a nice delve into the psyche of a nation I know nothing about... here's to travel & learning :)
Brom-man: Woo Hoo. Hey Brom, nice to see ya :D
Yeah, my sentiments entirely; without the stage show extravaganza it was a weak tune and not in the least hard rock, but rock nonetheless... and yeah, this could open up the way for prog-rockers in the future :)
And didn't you think it was great that our stupid white man Daz (or was it Baz or Gaz?) tried to rap and came 19th out of 24? Hahahaha. For a nation of such musical talent we're so so shite sometimes! OK, A LOT! ;)
At Tue May 23, 03:55:00 AM,
Jay said…
Guess you had to be there, huh?
At Wed May 24, 10:21:00 AM,
Lever said…
Miss Jay: Yeah, I'll record it for you next year if you want? ;)
At Wed May 24, 05:12:00 PM,
Simon said…
Are you sure those aren't just angry Nivea Anti-wrinkle Cream users?
At Wed May 24, 06:35:00 PM,
Jay said…
I'm going to hold you to that.
At Wed May 24, 08:16:00 PM,
Lever said…
Simon: LMAO You could be right, dude... either that or somebody REALLY HAS invented Oil of Ugly ;)
Miss Jay: OK, you're on :) You and Jason can have a Eurovision party next year or you can come & watch with me & BBFK :) Looking forward to the latter version of events ;)
At Fri May 26, 12:23:00 PM,
rebekah said…
:: shrug :: that's what my fiancee calls it and i'm not quite sure what it means but i'll ask him. i bet he doesn't know either and it's just a funny sounding phrase >)
ha! i can't believe you searched it on google ... hehehehehe
that link though - that's awesome. i want to hang out with that sort of thing :P
ps thank you
At Tue May 30, 02:14:00 PM,
Lever said…
Rebekah: Butt Rock! Hahaha :) Still funny :)
Of course I searched it, one of those inquisitive minds have I ;)
Nah, you wouldn't catch me playing with fireworks, let alone launching them from my butt :o
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