...... wow

Wow is right. Look at Germany with Texas Lightning. You just can make this stuff up.

I just can't look away... But what if they, like, take the audience hostage or something?

I was under the impression that in Finland they spoke -- and sang -- in Finnish.

Well, these folk cerainly represent one possible vision of Europa.

DGB

Um, why did I see Turkish flags flying in the audience?

Because Turkey was a competitor.

Finland's Lordi has won.

Irony abounds. While the anthem of political Europa is Kum-ba-ya strummed on an off-key guitar, culturally Europa has voted to express itself with Lordi's menacing "Hard Rock Hallelujah". European cultural expression imagines an frightening, powerful, fantastic Europa to compensate for the reality of a pusillanimous, weak, bland Europa.

Perhaps the EU should reassign its Iranian portfolio from France, Germany, and the UK to Finland, who can then send Lordi to chat up Mr. Ahmadinejad.

DGB

That song is so bad as to be painful to listen to.

I think they won because the competing countries were afraid NOT to vote for them. I think they thought they were really monsters.

What made me laugh so much isn't actually the song winning. It's the presenters (french ones) taking the mic out of Finland when they were singing. Direct quote:

"La finlande n'a jamais gagné l'Eurovision et ce n'est pas avec ca qu'ils vont gagner."

I have to say: in your face, TV presenters. Lordi isn't that good, but they were the only ones to present a new, french side to the soap pop from the other countries...

Sébastien,

Thanks for sharing this priceless piece of Frenchness. And the French finished like third to last? Who were they? I've read Drucker was one of the two...