The Swedes grabbed the possibility of the Finns to have fun. The road of humor music did not stop at the expert jury, writes Jenny Matikainen, Nordic correspondent.
Jenny Matikainen-North Correspondent
Stockholm Sometimes it is a good sauna and forget about the world’s worries. This is what was done in Stockholm on Saturday night when Kaj from Vöyri took the stage to hit the Swedish audience.
– One, two, three, sauna! He rushed at the Swedish football team at the home arena in Solna.
Bara Bada Basta, who danced together, stood out from other competitions and was exactly what the audience now needs.
In Sweden, too, the news has been full of reflection on Europe’s security and nuclear weapons in recent weeks, so there was an order for the sauna rally. Kaj signs were visible around the arena.
Although there were clear signs of Kaj’s popularity in the air, just about anyone dared to bet the band as a winner. According to all the pre -estimates, the votes of a professional jury had to overthrow the potential of Kaj, but otherwise. That’s why the victory tasted two sweeter.
Sweden now needed humor instead of a stylish pop piece Jakob Norrgård, Axel Åhman and Kevin Holmström Kaj had to offer.
In the finals The jury, consisting of foreign experts, had the same number of points as the public. After the jury had told their points, Kaj had scored 74 points, and the pre -favorite, the singer Måns zelmerlöw 76 points.
At this point, the atmosphere began to elect also electrified in the press room, where the media followed the competition. The situation was completely different than anticipated. At the last moments before the result, Zelmerlöw seemed to be tense.
Eventually, the points scored on the screen: Kaj got 90 points from the audience, Zelmerlöw was 81 points.
In recent weeks Kaj drug has been a treat for Finland. After the popularity of the wrapper, it has shown that finally the strange and funny visa we have also melted the Swedish audience, considered to be a style conscious.
Stockholm Elisabeth Strömdahl Hammar summarized in an essential Ylen Svenska interview: all other songs are so similar. The same was said by the other interviewees on the street.
Now the boring, polished shell mentioned by the Melodifestivalen, got a grandfather -brown Finnish frosting. It served as a complete counterweight in the glitter sea.
Amusing It is that Bara Bada Badu, a Finnish Swedish dialect, was the only Swedish song in the final. In this millennium, Sweden has trusted in English songs: the last Swedish candidate has sung in Sweden in the Eurovision Final in 1998.
The last time Sweden has been heard in the Eurovision Song Contest Pernilla Karlsson Singed in 2012. Now Finnish Swedish will be taken to the visas again.
In terms of Eurovision victory, Sweden took the risk. Instead of a stylish, easy -to -world artist, Finnish sauna brothers leaving the world. Måns Zelmerlöw’s attraction has been tested once. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 with the song Heroes.
However, the international jury also fell in love with the sauna, so Kaj may still surprise the spring Eurovision Song Contest.
Norrgård, Åhman and Holmström have worked for their victory. After the final place was confirmed, the trio were able to dance to the cameras, climb with journalists on the rafts and give interviews tirelessly.
Kaj said earlier that he didn’t even want to win the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest. Still, at the time of victory, it seemed to taste even though the band said he didn’t even understand what was going on.
Åhman has said that the band has hoped that the Melodifestivalen tour will bring them more gigs to Sweden. Its goal Kaj certainly achieved – and quite a lot more. In their home country, the trio also bathed their way into the hearts of many Finnish -speaking.
Next, you have to heat the whole of Europe.
These were Kaj’s moods before the finals: