I vote for Lordi

Eurovision 2006 is coming up. I have long known that Eurovision is just corrupted, political show business which has nothing to do with music. Every country votes for their neighbour countries, countries with political ties between each other or countries who voted for them the last time. Music really doesn't matter. After the Eurovision's glory days, when the competing was fair and every country voted for the music instead of the country itself, the singers have been either rip-offs of some American band (Russia, 2002), national singers singing songs they never have sung (Finland), or just singers with awfully broken english (the rest).

And all of them sing pop, hymns, dance songs, or whatever and are dressed fancily in black suits or beautiful dresses. But who cares, when nobody votes for the music anyway. You're there for your 15 minutes of Euro fame and everybody knows the country with most political ties is going to win.

But perhaps in the upcoming Eurovision it's going to change! Why? Because Finland has done the impossible and instead of a middle aged, boring tango singer in black suit, we are going to bring in Lordi!

As the picture shows, this band is quite unorthodox. Instead of being another tango band in fancy suits singing pop songs, they play the good old heavy rock with all those masks and demonic clothing on, maxed out with pyrotechnics! Fire, brimstone and explosions! Image this in the Eurovision!

How did Lordi manage to get to the semifinals? Who would vote for Lordi?

Three kinds of people. The real fans of Lordi, the fans of heavy rock and finally the haters of Eurovision. Just look at them. Lordi is so unorthodox that he has become somekind of anti-hero of Eurovision. Those who protest the Eurovision will vote for Lordi, just because he and his music are so different. We want someone to shake up the corruption of Eurovision and Lordi is going to do it for us, no matter if he won or not.

I vote for Lordi. And watch the Eurovision contest just because of him.