Oh Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah

Lordi the Finnish Eurovision entrant won with a great song and stage act that has really put the UK’s effort to shame.
This is what the official Eurovision site has to say about the UK entry:

...Daz Sampson of the United Kingdom who describes himself as “the people’s champion”, but there’s no sign of him at the start of the song, which is being sung by five girls in cute school uniform, sitting at desks in a classroom. It’s only after the chorus that Daz appears from behind a blackboard, dressed in a bright yellow jacket and rapping about the gulf between teachers and teenagers.

“Peoples champion”? Lets not get above ourselves now Mr Sampson. There certainly seems to be a gulf but its between the UK’s choice of Eurovision and what the UK is actually listening to. Rock is back - how many times do we have to tell you! Its outselling popular music - which therefore makes it the current pop music. And its not just here in the UK but obviously the whole of Europe. Perhaps the cynical UK public were making a mockery of the event by voting for the worst song as our entry… it’s the Big Brother phone vote phenonemom at work.

Paula and I only watched the show from the last couple of songs but all the voting (the highlight of the show) and we were willing Finland on all the way! Despite this I’m not a big fan of Eurovision (though Wogans PC commentary makes me chuckle) but the UK could have trounced the rest of Europe this time if we had entered a rock song. Yes I know the public choose the song to go forward but who puts the songs on the short list in the first place? My guess is not the public but some industry people who have their ‘finger on the pulse of pop music’ - i.e. a corpse of lost opportunity… Yet another case of the corporate UK music industry getting it so very wrong.

Well done Lordi for showing the way forward. I predict that next year there will be a sea of rock orientated songs as Eurovision entries.

Posted by Simon at May 22, 2006 9:57 AM

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