Would you love a monster man? Well, people, Finland has its entry for the 2006 Eurovision song contest which will be held in Greece.
With like, 54% of the final vote, the winner is Lordi. Check out their website.

More about the Finnish final, can be found on the YLE website. Suprisingly for me, because I have usually watched the 3 or 4 shows they have in different cities around Finland. I guess, I have been too occupied to notice.

They lyrics to their song, Hard Rock Hallelujah and more, can be found on this other YLE webpage.
Honestly, I was pleased with this winner. Most of the other the other contestants were ok singers, but I thought the songs were boring. Nice song, Tommi, but why are you singing in Italian? Annika your Shanghai Valo was a bit dim. Jennie if you are French why are you trying to be Finland's contestant. I know, I remember Geir was from Norway or something. Jane, the song was plain, definately not a v.i. song. Kilpi, you just sucked, but hey, that's only my opinion and at least you followed a dream.


So, the Eurovision song contest started in 1955 and evolved to what it is now. Last year, the contests was held in the country of the previous years winners, the Ukraine. The winner of that contest was Helena Paparizou of Greece. That means, this years contest will be held in Athens,
Greece. Read more about the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 on their website.

2006 will mark the 40th time Finland has competed in the Song contest. Sadly, Finland has never won the contest. Originally, contestants sang in their own language. At some point, they began allowing contestant to sing in a language other than their own. So, nowadays, many artists sing in English. The Finnish band, will sing in English. Many other competators continue to sing in their own languages, also. As I noted earlier, one contestant this year, Tomi Metsäketo sang a nice Andrea Bocelli-sounding song sung in Italian.

Reportedly, the format of the Eurovision Song Contest has been sold to an American company. So, it might appear there at some point in some form. Maybe, each state will have their own contestants.