FINLAND: UMK 2025: NELLI MATULA - HITAAMMIN HAUTAAN
Nelli Matula is fullfilling a longtime dream to participate in UMK. This pastry chef has had some rough years recently due to her illness but is now ready to take over her career - that she feared lost for good - again.
After starring in Mary Poppins musical as teenager she got a recording deal at 19 and her second single Lemmikki (Pet) was already a success. Her debut album Jumalatar (Goddess) in 2019 went platinum and charted at #6. Second album Kiltti tyttö (Nice girl) was released in 2021 and reached #2.
Her UMK entry is her 17th single. Previous ones include six Top-10 hits. On top of that she's been featured in another nine singles, five of them Top-10, including hits with Uniikki, Robin Packalen, Ani and Eveliina.
In 2017 she did Tähdet, tähdet series where artists every week perform different genres and one if voted out. She made it sixth after singing Britney Spears (Dance pop), Whitney Houston (Love songs), Lenny Kravitz (Stadium rock), Nicky Minaj (Hiphop), Celine Dion (Movies), Gimmel (Finpop). Her future husband Elias Kaskinen won the season joining likes of Jari Sillanpää, Waltteri Torikka, Pete Parkkonen and Konsta Hietanen as season winners.
She suffers from CVI disease (Chronic venous insufficiency) but says she's stable now and give UMK and Eurovision and career it all.
Her UMK entry Hitaammin hautaan (Slower to the grave) deals with all that . There's no rush and hurry, enjoy your time and take it slower.
Hitaammin hautaan
Below are some more Nelli's videos and performances for your enjoyment:
Małgorzata Jamroży aka Margaret has also been tipped for Eurovision and apparently she did turn it down but she'd be perfect. She's got a look and persona you can't unnotice nor forget, she's got hit songs, she has been voted or nominated for everything from Trendy artist to the Hope of the Year, Fashion Icon and Glamour Woman of the year besides the usual best video, song, album, debut..... Oh she's also a fashion designer! She's very clever with social medias and would surely use it to her advantage if selected for Stockholm 2016. Her debut album is titled Add the blonde , do we need to say more? Except it includes mostly Swedish written pop tunes like Tell me how are ya , Wasted , Start a fire and Heartbeat . And of course her debut single and internationally noticed Thank you very much that you can enjoy below with all its anti-textil feel. I think she's Eurovision perfection, she's cheeky and fun, can we have her?
Krista Siegfrids is delivering nice pop tunes one after another and this one is particularly catchy and soon you will be singing along..... Hopefully her Melodifestivalen entry will be equally good!
Today's funniest Eurovision related story comes from Belarus. Some sources claim Ivan wants to perform on stage naked and with live wolf or wolves. It surely would be a first on Eurovision stage! We have seen some forgotten underwear over the years, and some cardbox animals though..... Is it time to take things a bit further? No, according the rules live animals are not allowed, and Eurovision being a family show nudity won't do either. (It seems to be ok to be half naked if you are a dancer though..... )
Update! Another thing got Swedes talking last night: Carola's boobs when she was giving away an award. This is not the first time her boombs cause headlines; her misfortunate adventures in the 80's in Japan wer explained with her boobs being too big for Japanese market. Ok.... Or was it the song ? Anyways, Carola apologies and says she thinks the dress is stylish and elegant (even her friends said so) and she's a mature woman in her 40s, not a 16-year-old girl and looks like one. The Swedish Oscars, Guldbagge awards were given out last night. Carola was there as a guest star to sing Barbra Streisand's The way we were when honoring the movie stars who passed away during 2012. However, the cameras were too much on Carola, not on the stars showed in photos in the background and that upset many viewers as that part of the show was to celebrate them, not Carola. Oh well... The producer of the show tells in Aftonbladet the part of the show was made the sam...
Tim Schou has a pretty good solo career going since he left his friends in London. He's travelling the world and relesing songs and videos. The latest one is a great track and comes with a steamy video that kinda takes away from the song really. But who's complaining. If you got it, flaunt it. Enjoy the video below. This post coming after the other Dane, Rasmus Seebach as wishlist for Eurovision. To think about it, Tim would do nicely, too. Maybe he should give it another go?
Eurovision song contest 2005 winner Helena Paparizou has been enjoying Top-5 hits every year since 2003 with the exception of 2010 and 2014, this latest one being already her 27th! And Haide is charting also in Bulgaria and Finland, of all places. The catchiness of her hits has changed less over the years than her face.... Here's the English version , below the Greek version.
Regina Lund's new video Jag är osynlig was censored by Youtube only minutes after it had been uploaded. In the video she was playing a female Jesus who gets crusified in the end. "I was shocked!" she says. "There's nothing more naked in it as in every church! It's ok to have naked man hanging on the wall but my nakedness is too much on internet? ". Oh well, no comment. She's prepairing a new album Dare Regina Lund and we of course remember her from her Melodifestivalen 2007 adventure with Rainbow star .
Well, almost. The boys celebrated their 650.000th follower on Twitter by being photographed fresh from shower as promised. It's not the first time they drop their clothes as you see here . Meanwhile their second album is nearly here and the title track Young love is hitting the charts....
Seven out of 485. Are they Poets of the Fall , Isac Elliot , ABREU , Nyrkki-Kyllikki x LXST CXNTURY , Ebbe , Isaac Sene and Kiki x Tomi Saario as the first (fake) leaked list suggested back in late September? Most likely not Isac Elliot who's booked the whole UMK week for gigs, nor ABREU (shame) who's announced she will take a long break after releasing a new album and doing summer gigs as wouldn't doing Eurovision and vanish be a bit strange planning for the future? The second leaked (fake) list included Etta , Goldielocks , Miriam Bryant , Nelli Matula , Louie Blue and Tenhi . Since then the fan speculation has centered around both lists more or less. But after hint #4 Nightwish was brought in to discussion which brings me back to my own initial wondering before. In October-November I was planning a series of What if.... posts but due to time and energy skipped it. I was toying with the idea that Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen or/and his wife (and national...
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