Onhell
Infinite Dreamer
I was driving aimlessly last night when my phone rings and my mother tells me that there is something on TV I just have to watch, so I make my way to her house. It turns out it was the Eurovision competition. For those of you who don't know what it is it is an international talent show basically where every (or most... not sure) European country sends one of their top acts to represent them and the country with the best song wins... something, don't know don't care.
At any rate, she told me to come over because she told me that Finland had just played and she said,"It was one of those weird bands you like, and I said to myself 'angel has to see this'." Unfortunately I didn't catch the act, but I stuck around just to see if they played it again. Much to my dissapointment the rest of the countries played horribly unoriginal "britney spears" type pop songs one after another. I usually hail Europe as a continent of deep diversity and it shows in the massively varied tastes its people have in music and intead, in this massive contest one country after another had some standard pop song to sing making it look more like the Billboard Awards than Eurovision.
But my suffering would soon end as they started recaping the songs that were played and sure enough they replayed part of Finland's song and my mom was right, While I don't know the name of the group, they dressed in medieval armor a lá Gwar and the singer carried a HUGE fake axe and they wore masks that made them look like they came straight out of Armies of Darkness. They blasted their heavenly death metal upon everybody and I rejoiced for two reasons: 1. It was Metal! and 2. They were the only "different" act out there, in a contest loaded with pop acts Finland had the guts to do different! Well Poland had a regueton act, but I've said it once and i'll say it before, Rap/hip hop/regueton are not music... baseline beats don't make it so.
Thus I was pleased because it was my favorite genre of music and they were by far the most original in that respect. Not to mention they made the finals
NOTE: I have nothing agaisnt pop music, but the songs at the contest lacked originality in more was than one that made it quite dissapointing...
At any rate, she told me to come over because she told me that Finland had just played and she said,"It was one of those weird bands you like, and I said to myself 'angel has to see this'." Unfortunately I didn't catch the act, but I stuck around just to see if they played it again. Much to my dissapointment the rest of the countries played horribly unoriginal "britney spears" type pop songs one after another. I usually hail Europe as a continent of deep diversity and it shows in the massively varied tastes its people have in music and intead, in this massive contest one country after another had some standard pop song to sing making it look more like the Billboard Awards than Eurovision.
But my suffering would soon end as they started recaping the songs that were played and sure enough they replayed part of Finland's song and my mom was right, While I don't know the name of the group, they dressed in medieval armor a lá Gwar and the singer carried a HUGE fake axe and they wore masks that made them look like they came straight out of Armies of Darkness. They blasted their heavenly death metal upon everybody and I rejoiced for two reasons: 1. It was Metal! and 2. They were the only "different" act out there, in a contest loaded with pop acts Finland had the guts to do different! Well Poland had a regueton act, but I've said it once and i'll say it before, Rap/hip hop/regueton are not music... baseline beats don't make it so.
Thus I was pleased because it was my favorite genre of music and they were by far the most original in that respect. Not to mention they made the finals
NOTE: I have nothing agaisnt pop music, but the songs at the contest lacked originality in more was than one that made it quite dissapointing...
I'm sorry but do my eyes decieve me? Brian Kennedy's "song" is one of the cheesiest pieces of tripe that I have ever had the misfortune of hearing, but each to their own. I can proudly say that I voted for Lordi on Thursday night in the semi-finals and will vote constantly for them tonight. Lets bring on the "a-rock-alypse"! (they could give Manowar a run for their money for the cheese factor)
P) are really ignorant about this. They are stereotyping all metal bands byt he standars that "Lordi" are setting without properly researching them. for example, the Irish News called them "Death Metal" and the BBC said they haven't revealed their names (untrue) and they are satanic (untrue).
