Pernilla Karlsson won the Finnish final aka UMK with När jag blundar (Wehn I close my eyes), a sinple ballad written by her brother to their mother. She beat the superfavourite Stig in the second round of voting where the third wheel was Ville Eetvartti. YLE produced quite an entertaining show, shame the songs were on the same level I must say.
The song is sung in Swedish and it will be interesting to see if it stays or will it be translated into English for Baku 2012.
Update: Reading the comments on various chatrooms and papers Finns didn't really swallow this win so easily and no one seems to like it nor believe in her chances in Baku 2012. This said, Finns would have said so about anyone who won (and did with Lordi for example) but this time the negative comments beat the few positive ones 9-10)
Update: Reading the comments on various chatrooms and papers Finns didn't really swallow this win so easily and no one seems to like it nor believe in her chances in Baku 2012. This said, Finns would have said so about anyone who won (and did with Lordi for example) but this time the negative comments beat the few positive ones 9-10)
I will update later with full results and news.
Update 2: YLE has finally published the televotes. Or not really; not the number of them as usual. Also the final was watched by some 550.000 at max, half of the usual. The comedy show just before the UMK on MTV3 gathered over 1,5 million Finns infront of the TV so the viewers were there but just didn't switch to see UMK. Anyways, Pernilla won the first round with 30%, followed by Ville 18% and Stig 17%. The order was the same in the second one where Pernilla took home 53%, Ville 29% and Stig only 18%.
Update 2: YLE has finally published the televotes. Or not really; not the number of them as usual. Also the final was watched by some 550.000 at max, half of the usual. The comedy show just before the UMK on MTV3 gathered over 1,5 million Finns infront of the TV so the viewers were there but just didn't switch to see UMK. Anyways, Pernilla won the first round with 30%, followed by Ville 18% and Stig 17%. The order was the same in the second one where Pernilla took home 53%, Ville 29% and Stig only 18%.
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