A brief a generalized report on Finnish music.
What is Finnish music? Really? You want to know?
Finnish music is originally drinking songs. All the oldest songs are drinking songs or religious songs or "humppa".
Why? We're alcoholics, yes I know it's a very stereotypical way of putting it, but Finnish people start drinking at the age of 14 normally, and parties continue for a long time. I am not excluded, and I find no shame in saying that I love the song "juodaan viinaa" (Let's drink booze!) which has been a loved and admired drinking song since it first appeared.
But all these drinking songs are hidden to the outside world, or clocked. How? Well firstly, no one can understand Finnish. Secondly, we also sing (or sang) pop. It wasn't just any pop music, it was FINNISH pop music! Old original Finnish pop music was horrible, the singers couldn't sing and there were only a handful of people who were any good.
But all that is history (except the drinking songs which are fine). These day Finland is the promised land of heavy music, metal, etc.
We are the metal people!
We have Children of Bodom, 69 eyes, nightwish and Lordi!
And then the less globally known bands that I love (which are industrial metal) Turmion Kätilöt and 2 times terror.
I have taken the liberty of adding the words of one TK's songs here (it is the translated version of the lyrics since I know most of you can't read Finnish). The song is called 4 käskyä (4 commands):
I march
Over
Over you
And dance over you
Sound
My scream
Makes you shake your fists at the sky
I command
My order forces your feet to move
Ideology
Your faith
Lights up the skies
Beat, march, destroy, clear
I command, you believe
Attention
Squat
Up
Stay
Sit
(Get) On the ground
Down
Listen
Pray, beg for mercy, kneel, and cross your arms
Miserable faithless are being strangled and faith doesn't want you
Beat, march, destroy, clear
I command you believe
Beat, march, destroy, clear
I command
I march
I dance
Attention
Finnish music is depressing by nature (Finnish rap [hiphop] and drinking songs excluded), and deals with death, love etc etc. Depressing subjects. On this subject of depressing topics I would like to say that I love TK because although their lyrics are quite sick or depressing... or both, they resonate with the darkness within me, and anyone with any darkness in them will know what I mean. When TK sings about false gods and death and aggressiveness I start moshing and my aggressiveness levels rise and I start singing with them.
It is a funny fact how our national anthem's melody was originally a German drinking song.
As a conclusion about Finnish music I would say that we are the people of heavy music, that have a history of icky pop songs, and a future in highly "fly" hiphop.
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