FINLAND

The Finnish final took place on 12th February at the Caribia hall in Turku.
Paradise Oskar sings “Da Da Dam” (which he also wrote and composed) after gaining the highest number of televotes and SMS votes.

Now this is a song with some unusual qualities. First of all this is a very understated performance, very much akin to Tom Dice for Belgium last year. As this did well last year, maybe they are hoping to have the effect. He sits by himself with his guitar and strums away on his guitar. The song is very quiet and folky and does have a nice ring to it. The song does grow slightly but not too much. The chorus is very strong but you do have to listen very carefully to understand the sentiment. But most unusually this is a song has a conscience - it is a song about the environment.

Although I am not a big fan of 'la-la-la', 'do-do-do', 'ding dang dong', and oher nonsense eurovision lyrics, but in this case, the da-da-dam part, espeially at the end of the song, works really well and should possibly be pushed a bit more.

I am pleased to say that Finland are sending something decent this year, but is it a Eurovision song…?


SINGER – Paradise Oskar
SONG - Da Da Dam
MUSIC - Axel Ehnström
WORDS - Axel Ehnström