FINLAND: KRISTA AND LORDI IN THE EUROVISION EPISODE OF TÄHDET, TÄHDET

Finnish variety show Tähdet, tähdet, hosted by Eurovision 2007 host Mikko Leppilampi, where artists compete every week performing a different genre this season also Eurovision got its night. In tonight's episode the remaining artists sung their hearts out with Eurovision songs, choreographies, glitter and wind machines. Sadly only five artists are left in the show, so we only got to enjoy only five songs. Eurovision wannabes Mikael Saari and Tomi Metsäketo have already been voted out in the previous weeks.... (Next week will be country, last week was Finnish singer-songwriters for example)

Krista Siegfrids was the expert jury member and also opened the show with an Eurovision medley with the respective choreographies doing an amazing job with My number one, Wild dances, Dancing Lasha tumbai, Marry me and Pump pump.

Lordi was the guest star of the show proving once again despite all, they like to pop into the Bubble time to time again. They did Hard rock hallelujah, of course.

Krista also told where she was when Lordi won: "I was hosting a party at home in Vaasa, as always. When the voting started we were so loud the neighbours called police. Soon enough there were two cops at the door telling us to end the party and be quiet. I was like "FINLAND IS WINNING EUROVISION!. Come in!!!" and they: "Really? Oh, party on!" and they came in and sat on the sofa to watch the end of the show with us!

Erika Vikman - Eläköön elämä

The pop tango singer did justice but this was maybe closest to her own genre of all these genres.

No one beats Sonja Lumme though. Horrible styling, too

Jannika B - Diggi-loo diggi-ley

Jannika looked like Carola doing Herrey's, in Swedish. Nice enough

Andrè Linman - Bye bye baby

CatCat was wildly applauding for him in the audience. The heavyrocker jumped totally into the Eurovision bubble and delivered a fun performance.

Erja Lyytinen - Molitva

Erja delivered once again. Amazing performance despite being ill, singing the chorus in Serbian and giving goosebumps all the way.

Elias Kaskinen - Euphoria

Conan the Barbarian with glitter doing male version of Loreen's dance. So kitch it was already fabulously weird and superb! Despite missing most of the notes.

In the end televoters kicked Erika - Jannika being second to last - out and Erja won this episode. Well done televoters!

And meanwhile Mr Lordi did what he has done ever since I have seen him in tv, that is for over ten years: licking people's ears. Only this time social media erupted with #metoo proving all this #metoo affair is becoming ridiculous..... (No offence for those real #metoo cases)

Watch the performances here

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