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Good Lordi!

May 22nd 2006 02:52
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Well its official, the winner of the 51st 2006 Eurovision Song Contest was the ‘Munsters’ entrant from Finland. The win was astonishing, traditionally, Eurovision has been the domain of cheesy Eurotrash pop songs. The stuff of teenage lust, frolicking in fields, Britney and Enrique wannabes, goat herding and a good dash of glitter. This year, glam rock and roll has conquered the stage. Fans at the vote lordi website are ecstatic with the result.


“All you doubters, naysayers, disapprovers, media badmouthers and whatnots: IN YOUR FACE! YEAAH!”

Dear me, when did Eurovision get so aggro? Anyway, Lordi has certainly caused a stir in the European circuit and this recent win is set to cause further controversy. Finnish religious groups have warned that the heavy metal monster band could spark Satanic worship. Prior to the contest, there were rumours that Lordi members were agents of Valdimer Putin sent to destabilize Finland and opening the path for a Russian coup. There were calls for the president of Finland to take constitutional powers and veto Lordi’s performance, replacing the band with a traditional Finish folk artist instead. An anti-Lordi movement in host nation Greece also urged the Finns to remove their outrageous entrant before the commencement of the contest. Tempers ran high in the lead up to Eurovision. One Finn has declared, “If Lordi win Eurovision, I am leaving the country.”


Not everyone was so anti-Lordi. There were claims that the band harks back to the Hakkapeliittas, the legendary Finnish cavalry unit that fought as part of the Swedish army in the 17th century. He argues that the slasher film imitators embody Finnish self-assertion after decades of isolation. Although perhaps the more telling reason for the success of Lordi is Finland’s streak of Eurovision disaster. Finland has come last eight times in previous Eurovision contests. Some Finns rank that humiliation with their nation's appeasement of the Soviet Union or losing in hockey to Sweden. ‘Finland, zero points' has become a source of deep embarrassment in the nation's psyche which has permeated the mass culture.

From the New York Times,

“Timo Soini, leader of "Ordinary Finns," a traditionalist political party from rural Finland, says Lordi has attracted criticism because Finns are so thin-skinned about how others perceive them. "Finns are suspicious when they see someone new come to play in their sandbox," Mr. Soini said. "And that is particularly the case when that someone looks like a monster."”
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