Finland rocked the Eurovision song contest!

MoP

Hahahaha!

Well, usually it's some annoying pop tartlet who wins the Eurovision, and I never watch it...

But I caught these guys on the TV, Finnish metal rockers called "Lordi" ... all in monster suits and platform shoes.

The lead singer had mechanical devil wings, red eyes AND AN AXE THAT SHOOTS FIRE! He looked like something out of Warhammer...

The song wasn't very good, and the singer isn't all that great, but it was so hilarious and looked so awesome that they couldn't fail!



And Rooster provided me to a YouTube video of their "Hard Rock Hallelujah" music video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdItwaLrv1U&search=hardrock

It's hilarious!

THE DAY OF ROCKENING IS HERE!! \m/

Daz

Classic!

Can be seen in action here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi/newsid_5000000/newsid_5000000/nb_rm_5000088.stm

*edit* omg the UK entry is from Daz, what a chav name, and a truly appalling act.

Daz

Doh, sorry MoP, missed your Youtube link, but man, I cannot get over the horror that is the UK entry. Infinitely more terrifying than any satanism.

pior

Couldn't even hear it... Turned on the show late, didn't see the original Fin performance, and the french audio speakers were so upset about the monsters winning (and France getting only 4 points) that they ranted over the whole end song.

dfacto

France's song was blander than dogshit, so they deserved their low score. Most of the former eastern bloc countries deserved lower too, but they all voted for each other.

And yes, the UK performance was truly terrible.

danr

Terry Wogan for the BBC makes the whole thing worthwhile. They lock him in a small room with a bottle of whiskey and force him to commentate on this shit (after sitting through all the rehearsals too, mind). The results are always killer - you can tell when he's had a bit, he'll start talking over the songs towards the end and openly despairing about the whole affair

pior

Haha well note that I didn't say anything about that bad looking girl we had. Only saw her commercial, and yeah that was crap

motives

yea hehe good stuff

Anyone happened to see the "semi-final" qualification round? I did for some reason and that was pretty weird. It was like the eurovision special olympics. that must have been some of the worst songs ibe heard in my whole life lol. All that was missing was that simon guy from american idol and it would have been complete

ElysiumGX

I don't know what you guys are talking about. But I'm hearing something about guys from Finland dressed as monsters angering the French and the Greek. And that is awesome!!!

\m/ \m/

almighty_gir

its like norways entry last year, awsome hair metal ftw \m/

i dunno why england doesnt come up with shit like this (except for the fact that ALL hair metal has roots in scandenavia... i mean... the final countdown?)

i love it >;D

dur23

ha, holy shit. We saw all the entries when this thing started up. It was either between texas lighting and lordi in my books. Texas lighting wasn't gonna appeal to the 16year olds or the metal heads, so i didn't actually expect them to make it anywhere. But lordi should have one from the start, no contest. Just because they used the word "rock-alypse".

eld

IMO they deserved that win, technicly they had a song that appealed to not only a few people, but everyone, including the elderly, It's some universal rock-sound that everyone enjoys, easy listening.

THE ROCKENING!

Steve Schulze

Damn, I wish I'd watched the whole thing now. I got sick of all the generic eastern Eurpoean Brittany Spears-alikes ad turned it off.

Tulkamir

w00t! 10 points for rock and metal! \m/

Never heard of this contest before, but I actually like that song.

The clip of the UK guy was pretty horrendous. But then I hate hip hop and pop, and it sounded like the evil result of a union of the two, so I'm bound to disagree with it.

Weiser_Cain

This is totaly GWAR.

hawken

I think they sold the format, so expect a USA (euro)vision contest soon, with 50 states.

Tulkamir: the contest has been going since before most of us were born, but its a good thing you've never heard of it.

Whargoul

What a Gwar ripoff!

MoP

You're a Gwar ripoff!

Weiser_Cain

that was a good song...

Slum

Haha! They're the retarded children of Cradle of Filth and Gwar. Awesome!

Anything with zombie demon cheerleaders is amazing by default.

Whargoul

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You're a Gwar ripoff!

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God dammit - I guess I am!

Tulkamir

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Tulkamir: the contest has been going since before most of us were born, but its a good thing you've never heard of it.

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Wow, I'm so not up with pop culture. :P

Is it similar to a star search or idol show or something?

MoP

Well in a way it was probably the first real "pop idol" type thing.

Basically every country in Europe (and some that aren't!? Since when is Israel in Europe?) holds a contest to determine one band, singer or group to represent their whole country in the international contest.

Then all the countries come together in a venue and watch each others' acts ... at the end every country votes for every other country, the votes are added and the winners decided in that fashion.

The winning group's home country becomes next year's host of the next contest. So Eurovision 2007 will be held in Finland.

Tulkamir

Awesome, thanks MoP. Sounds interesting, moreso than the Idols atleast.

KDR_11k

(and some that aren't!? Since when is Israel in Europe?)

I think that's a grey zone since Europe and Asia aren't separated by water.

The contest entrants can be big names or unknown groups. Big names usually pull in votes just from their name alone, the unknown ones use it as free publicity (and get lots of it). AFAIK the contest rules require that you have to make a new song for it.

Ruz

probably the most famous winners in the past were Abba with waterloo.

Slum

found this today. hilarious and appropriate!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oE0i5_Ibd0U

Tulkamir

Wow, that song really grows on ya more and more. At first I liked it yea, but it's really catchy and now I keep listening to it.

And nice link Slum. Haha, the undead and their dance are perfect for this.

Spoon_of_death

Hehe you guys should see the reaction of that b*tch from Iceland... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snG2V-PtpB8 Man, I love the EU

She called our girls sluts

Bet she hasnt been to Amsterdam yet hehe

Zcubed

Bwahaha! Awesome! My friends and I have been watching this over and over in preparation for the day of rockening! Though I've seen the video several times, I can't help but tremble in fear each time he lifts his flaming axe to the heavens and belts out the chorus!

HARD! ROCK! HALLELUJAH!

Weiser_Cain

I think it's kinda' silly.

Zcubed

Oh, of course it is. I thought that was the idea.