FINLAND

The Finnish Final was  held on February 9th at Barona Areena in Espoo, hosted by Anne Lainto & Ile Uusivuori. Before the final there were 3 semi-finals. The winner was chosen by televoting (50%) and an "expert" jury (50%) and was announced as "Marry Me" performed by Krista Siegfrids.

As the title suggests the song an performance set up is all about weddings and Krista is dressed in a particularly puffy (and low cut) wedding dress and very clumpy pick platform school whilst her dancers are dressed as grooms. I am not quite sure what her two backing singers are dressed as but whatever it is they look embarrassed to be there. There is also a plethora of extras on the stage too - far too many for the Eurovision stage. It will be interesting to see how they get around adding in all the vocal and visual tricks with just 5 extra people on stage. She will need a lot of vocal help in the chorus but the visual gags will keep her memorable.

The song is extremely cliché and too, too over the top even for Eurovision standards. The song is quite a standard ESC pop song in structure however the 'oh-oh ding ding' refrain after the chorus - and the complementary stomping on the spot dance routine - is just cringe worthy. The breakdown part in the middle is just unnecessary and has just been put in to make the song sound more modern than it actually is.

In summary - I really dislike this song and in particular I actually find some of the lyrics of the song quite distasteful - if I could whiff a sense of irony maybe I would not feel so bad but I cannot see it at all. Knowing my luck with will win by a mile in May but if it were up to me it would be a most definite DNQ.

 

Artist - Krista Siegfrids

Song - Marry Me
Music - Krista Siegfrieds, Erik Nyholm, Kristofer Karlsson, Jessika Lundström

Lyrics - Krista Siegfrieds, Erik Nyholm, Kristofer Karlsson, Jessika Lundström