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Finnish Lordi wins the Eurovision Song Contest!

Congratulations to the Monstrous winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. LORDI! Lordi won the contest with the highest score ever, 292 points.

And Finland goes ballistic! Before this year Finland had not once made it even to the top five in the contest. The nation has rejoiced if we didn't finish last.



Huge congratulations from the insane Finnish staff, and HUGE thanks to everyone who voted! Tomorrow pigs will fly, I'm sure.

You can hear (and see) the entire song at Youtube.com.

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Written by: Jari Ketola @ 20 May 2006 13:54

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• 33 comments

• Jannejt

  yes.. we did it \o/ WE WIN \o/
  GO LORDI GO o/
  
  \\o
  o//
  \o/

  20.5.2006 13:57 #1

• CJC

  w00t, FREE membership, i must sign up :-)
  
  Congrats in the Win :-)

  20.5.2006 13:59 #2

• borhan9

  Well in Australia we have not seen the Eurovison yet i think its on this week or next but thanxs for the heads up :)
  
  Congrats on the win.

  20.5.2006 14:03 #3

• Lethal_B

  Lol, grats to Finland & the Finnish staff ;-)

  20.5.2006 14:12 #4

• scorpNZ

  Well that should please the jesus freaks if the news i've heard downunder in NZ is anything to go by...lmao... hell! it's only make up get over it,anyway congrats dudes i look forward to the dvd,even tho i most probably wont understand the words if it aint in engrish :p

  20.5.2006 14:14 #5

• gurnard

  well done you guys and gals.
  just "finnish"ed watching it here in the uk.
  thought i recognized the lead singer. Klingon extract i believe

  20.5.2006 14:14 #6

• Ketola

  borhan9,
  
  Sorry if I spoiled the contest for you. Frankly I didn't think anyone outside Europe cared. =)
  
  I'm still stunned by the win. =) For us it's like if the same city won NBA, NFL and NHL the same year.
  

  20.5.2006 14:36 #7

• yar

  It was the first time i ever saw them (at eurovision) i thought they were great. and even tho i come from russia and live in the UK i cudnt resist voting for them!!!!!!
  Go LORDI

  20.5.2006 14:43 #8

• Lethal_B

  I didn't watch it, lol, us Brits have had enough of embarassing ourselves so many don't watch it anymore. Jannejt kept me updated though.. congrats..
  

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  20.5.2006 15:18 #9

• MrToast

  That sucked
  

  20.5.2006 15:44 #10

• borhan9

  @Ketola
  
  No biggie, its mainly shown after the fact anyway. It's actually on later on tonight...
  
  It's all good mate

  20.5.2006 23:52 #11

• rav009

  Bloody heck, Finlands entry was quite unbelievable, the fact that they won is eqaully crazy....grats to all you fin's!
  Quote:I didn't watch it, lol, us Brits have had enough of embarassing ourselves so many don't watch it anymore.Yep, you see who was representing us by any chance?? Some pathetic rapper called Daz Simpson.
  
  
  
  I would've loved to see us atleast up up a decent fight, god all brit's have got is bad weather and David Beckham...
  
  Ahh well..theres always the World Cup!

  21.5.2006 04:41 #12

• NINVIN21

  ok, What was that ,
  
  Are you kiding me right?
  
  That was terrible,
  
  now I wanna see the whole show.
  
  They looked like a rip off of GWAR.

  21.5.2006 12:39 #13

• rav009

  Thats your opinion NINVIN21
  
  You cant argue with theese facts:
  
  "Lordi won the contest with the highest score ever, 292 points. "

  21.5.2006 12:45 #14

• JXP2307

  I hate to sound retarded, (American...) What the hell is a euorvision?
  
  I take it LORDI is a band? Was this some kind of music contest? Maybe you can educate me.
  
  Sounds important to you fellas, so congrats whatever you did!
  

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  21.5.2006 13:42 #15

• amtiainen

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision

  21.5.2006 14:02 #16

• ireland

  You can hear (and see) the entire song at
  
  here
  Lordi - Eurovision Semi Final 18.05.06
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0PFj9wiEZw

  21.5.2006 14:05 #17

• NINVIN21

  hhhhmmmm,
  I just dont get it, if its a pop contest they should of not really been there.
  This has to be one of the first news topics that was not about tech.
  
  I have heard better music out of finland.
  
  Its just I think that music is going downhill big time in USA. I guess I was just expecting better from over there. (but it looks like you guys are just ripping old stuff off of us.(gwar/rob zombie)
  
  Its all to commerical.
  
  I no its my just my opinion but come on everyone in here could write something like that and put on a better show they just stood there.
  
  I got to go see how they scored points sorry but thats just crazy.and Im a big fan of the harder stuff.
  
  

  21.5.2006 17:17 #18

• xXx

  at least i am very proud about that what now we achieved. we did history in many ways.

  21.5.2006 22:26 #19

• domie

  I thimk it is a bit irrelevant of you to go shrieking " WE GOT THE HIGHEST POINTS TOTAL" considering they increased the number of countries who give points from 20 to 37, divide the points total by number of countries involved in voting and the finn guys wouldn't be in the top 10 of overall winners (not that anyone cares about that, good luck to them i say)

  22.5.2006 00:57 #20

• xXx

  perhaps in question song has not been best, in any case it was however something what people have wanted to hear. is extremely boring listen always and always something from so similar. future comes to show, which type music will come to be most popular.

  22.5.2006 04:06 #21

• Lethal_B

  I agree, xXx; Finland went BOLD, and it paid off. Too much of the same tripe over the years, and I think Lordi really shook it up this year.
  

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  22.5.2006 04:10 #22

• ville30

  Personally I think Lordi is an insult and an embarrassment to our whole country with music like theirs. Dealing with HIM (or HER) is enough. We do have normal people here too. They are rare but they do exist.

  22.5.2006 06:12 #23

• oappi

  luckyly for lordi most of the ppl liked it.. I dont see anything wrong with the music. Maybe bit more "Heavy" than i normaly listen, but way better than that other cr*p that was played in that contest

  22.5.2006 07:09 #24

• NINVIN21

  YEah, Him is getting kinda Big over here(usa) Because of Viva LA BAm.
  
  That little punk lives 30 min. from me
  
  Well im done with this topic,
  Thanks for the info I never new about eurovision.
  I have to find a copy of the whole thing so I can show some friends and say look at this crap.

  22.5.2006 08:42 #25

• thor999

  this is by far one of the worst bands I have ever heard. are they the only ones that entered the contest? finland has much better offerings than this gimmicky drivel.

  22.5.2006 08:43 #26

• GrayArea

  Big CONGRATS to Lordi & Finland! I listened to the broadcast on BBC2 internet radio. Lordi is perhaps not my cup of meat but it made me smile. The people have spoken!
  
  Personally, I liked Germany's entry, "No No Never" by Texas Lightning. Really good old school country western music from a German band. Who would have thunk it?

  22.5.2006 09:01 #27

• GrayArea

  rav009
  
  Is that a picture of Daz Simpson? That's the old fart singing something about "a teenage life"? Wow, looks like the teen years are pretty far behind him...

  22.5.2006 09:11 #28

• rav009

  @GreyArea, Yep! Lol :P
  
  I didn't watch The Eurovision as Britain are misreably poor at it, I'm awaiting a decent entry!
  
  
  

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  22.5.2006 09:41 #29

• borhan9

  Quote:this is by far one of the worst bands I have ever heard. are they the only ones that entered the contest? finland has much better offerings than this gimmicky drivel.Mate it maybe not your cup of tea and im not a big fan of that type of music either but its different thats why it got there cause it was not the same like all the other entry's.

  22.5.2006 13:46 #30

• tonygibbs

  Hi all,
  
  I watched the contest for the first time in a while.
  
  I didn't think that UK's entry "Teenage Life" was that bad, or as bad as the lack of marks, as I had the chorus going round in my head for a few weeks.
  
  But I voted for Lordi, and my 16-year old son and I agreed on this (I'm 42.)
  
  My wife didn't like it though, and prefered Latvia's.
  
  Romania's entry was good as well.
  
  I was really pleased when Finland won, and that the UK gave them 12 points as well.
  
  Hyvaa Lordi! Hyvaa Suomi!
  
  Cheers,
  Tony
  

  1/2 Finnish 1/2 English

  23.5.2006 05:27 #31

• juniorken

  actually not my style of music but the finnish r brave that they had the guts to send something completely NEW to the contest instead of some popsong... maybe some message to the other countries for not being too scared to send some band "not 100% eurovision-compatible"
  
  congratulations Lordi + the rest of Suomi! :-)

  27.5.2006 03:01 #32

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