FINLAND: WINDOWS95MAN WITH NO RULES TO EUROVISION

Well. Well well well..... I must admit I said when this was released "Wait and see Finns will vote this to Malmö!" In between it looked quite, even very unlikely considering polls and streams and charts etc but here we are. Last with international juries (but Uk gave them 12!), first in televote they beat Sara Siipola to second place. To be honest, I never cared for the video but I had grown a little liking for the song and on stage it came alive and was just over the top in a good way. So I'm not angry nor sad, just amused.

As for the name, they said they have a name in store if Ebu doesn't approve Windows95man. On the other hand it's a product no longer in market and therefor Yle for example can use it now and back in the 2017 New Year's celebration party where he performed.

Otherwise the show was a bit underwhelming. Käärijä and Erika Vikman totally stole the show, as did always lovely Katri Helena with her 1979 entry Katson sineen taivaan. I read Erika wanted to do UMk with this Ruoska, but Käärijä was too tired to do it all over again. What a banger entry THAT would have been! The presenters were maybe better than I expected, especially Benjamin that I didn't have high hopes but the stage was very simple. Was that a screen behind the stage and not a LED?

As for the voting a total of 224.477 votes were recorded. 1,9 million viewers watched the show - 1,2 million live on television and 0,8 million so far on demand.

1. Windows95man feat. Henri Piispala - No rules (jury 28 + televote 285) 313

(Total televotes 72.506)

2. Sara Siipola - Paskana (70 + 203) 273

(Total televotes 51.629)

3. Mikael gabriel feat nublu - Vox populi (42 + 136) 178

(Total televotes 34.589)

4. Cyan Kicks - dancing with demons (48 + 80) 128

(Total televotes 20.382)

5. Jesse Markin - Glow (34 + 76) 110

(Total televotes 19.888)

6. Sexmane - Mania (34 + 74) 108

(Total televotes 18.856)

7. Sini Sabotage - Kuori mua (38 + 27) 65

(Total televotes 6.868)

The juries went all over the place giving full marks to five different songs!

Sara got 12 from Spain, Luxemburg, Slovenia

Sini got from Armenia

Jesse from Sweden

MGN from Ukraine

Windows95man from the UKWindows95 man got also flat zero from Spain, Slovenia and Sweden, while Sara was in Top-3 in every country.

Opening act: Kuumaa/Benjamin - Ylivoimainen/Goida mut

Katri Helena - Katson sineen taivaan

Käärijä / Erika Vikamn - Ruoska

Käärijä - Cha cha cha

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