Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

These post-Eurovision weeks are always busy by fans into charts and stuff like that. And proves some real success - which songs people are willing to buy/download in various countries besides maybe voting them in the final? And Krista Siegfrids and Finland may have resulted in somewhat disappointing 24th place in the final after the high votes in the semifinal vanished somewhere (maybe to same place the Azeri votes for Russia went?). Despite that she's among the about 10 songs making the various national charts across Europe and elsewhere in the world like Australia post-ESC 2013... Anyways, if she managed to create the biggest media fuss ever for a Finnish artist in Eurovision, matching and maybe even beating Lordi, she's also proven to have chart success, also matched by no other act but Lordi before her.  So far she has charted with Marry me as #6 in the official Finnish download charts (there has been no physical release) as well as in radio charts. She was #29 in I...

This blogger hasn't been this excited about the Finnish entry since Lordi back in 2006 and we all know how that ended! Anyways, Krista Siegfrids is fantastic and with her Team Ding Dong doing eveything right. No more Finnish wall flowers and songs no one noticed. Like it or not, no one can avoid Marry me and everyone has an opinion! Which is all it is about in a game like this!  She said in the press conference according eurovision.tv: : About the "surprise" kiss with one of her female backing singers at the end of their performance in the rehearsals she said that "the kiss is not a surprise anymore; it's 2013, and I can kiss anyone I want". There's no stopping us in the live shows". I think way too much attention is given to that kiss, but as long as people talk, it's good. Ding dong! Watch the show here . 

Those wonderful Parody Guys are at it again and this year (again) the Finnish entry will have their treatment and make over. Interested? Watch the trailer here .

In Finland the discussion runs wild for the eternal question, can gays marry? The question was once again pushed aside by the Finnish politicians and Tahdon2013 ( Iwill2013 ) campaign was launched, the citizens' initiative for equal marriage law . Dozens of celebraties have already joined and the organisation will start collecting names on March 19, 2013 to have the matter re-presented to the parliament... Krista Siegfrids has also stepped in the spotlight to support equal marriage right and hopes her Marry me could ne used as the theme song for the fight for the right to marry whoever you want. Go girl!