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Never Let it Go
The failure of Laura Voutilainen's "Addicted to You" to score big points has brought out the traditional madness of the Finns. War between Finland and the nations of the former Soviet block cannot be discounted.
All Kinds of Everything
THEORY #1: The source of Laura's bombing was the lack of taste of other nations.Maria Guzenina, the former MusicTV programme host said she thought the unsuccessfulness was due to other nations having a different taste in music. Jari Tervo in a newspaper article called 'East-vision' said while half of the contestants were from the East-European countries, then Finland had no chance whatsoever.
The head of the entertainment department of the Finnish TV2, Markku Laaksonen, said that the culture of the former East-European countries is different from that of Finland and that their understanding of a good song will not turn to favour Finland in the future either. Peteri Eklund, the marketing manager of Warner Music told newspaper Iltalehti that the cultural differences in Europe are so big that a good song does not necessarily guarantee success at the contest.
Diva
THEORY #2: The nations of Eastern Europe conspire in a way undreamt of by Nordic nations.Laaksonen (above) claims the rules of Eurovision are wrong. "Points are consistently given to friends. For instance, the Balkan countries give the highest points to each other...that drives one mad." Maria Guzenina (also above) reckons if "there had been no points awarded to neighbours under agreements then Laura would have been among the first five."
Iltalehti wrote that no-one in the Nordic Countries thinks very highly of how the points are awarded to neighbours in spirits of the South-European brotherly love. Just to recap, this is how the Nordic countries voted:
FINLAND: Estonia (10 points), Sweden (7 points)
SWEDEN: Estonia (12 points), Finland (10 points)
DENMARK: Sweden (10 points)
"We must eventually believe that Finland has no friends in Europe. It is costly for the state to provide a laughing bomb for Europe very year. We should give up this contest," said the chairman of the Finnish Eurovision fan club, Martti Immonen.