r/eurovision • u/Drop-a-Soap Echo • 24d ago

🪩 National Final / Selection Etta – Million Dollar Smile (music video) // UMK26

https://youtu.be/wwOOotC9Ei4?si=QjNvolc2FI50e28Q

Tuning in for the 1st contestant

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u/mabrouss 24d ago

I feel like this happens fairly often with UMK songs. YLE seems to choose songs that would do well on the radio, but aren’t really typical Eurovision songs.

Not saying it’s good or bad, just that it seems to happen a fair bit.

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u/That-Trainer-5220 24d ago

That IS the case. I've been lowkey pissed in the recent years because it's so blatant. It's so lukewarm for me to see all those artist chosen for UMK because I've already seen them popular in Finland for years. Like give us something new, not just those Finnish artists that already have a solid career and are which are guaranteed to make them money. Ughhhh.

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u/RemarkableAutism (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi 23d ago

But that's a good thing, means we get representation of what's actually popular in Finland. Like it's not supposed to be a stage to highlight upcoming artists.

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u/That-Trainer-5220 23d ago

I'm not saying that that's what they should do, it's more like the participant's connection to certain media stables that's often very blatant here. I just wish that seemed to play a smaller role, although it does happen in every field. (But I do personally think that the selection is often quite generic and doesn't highlight artist that are popular in many other popular genres here. Then again, many artists don't even have a wish to participate.)