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Portion Boys: “Expect a high energy performance with surprises!”

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The Portion Boys are participating in this year’s national final of Finland, UMK 2023 with the track “Samaa taivasta taksanas” and a few days ago they spoke exclusively to Eurovisionfun, specifically to Apostolis Matamis and Apostolοs Bogiannos, about their participation and their plans for the national final.

After getting to know all five band members, we chatted about their decision to take part in this year’s Finnish national final!

“Last year we wrote the song and immediately knew that it would fit UMK, and we felt that this was the right time! Now Finland is ready for us, we are ready for her and hopefully all of Europe!”

Regarding the song with which they participate in this year’s national final, they told us:

“Life is not that serious and you can enjoy it the way you want! We want to make the audience feel happy through our song.

“Our message is that we are all different but equal! In our own unique way, we use humor as a tool to convey the very important message of our song.”

Regarding the references to other countries in the song’s lyrics, the band revealed that it was a way to include more people as they also liked the word “Acropolis” very much and wanted it in the song. Also, many countries and regions did not manage to get into the song but on the other hand they have received messages that their song also has an educational function for many young children.

“Among the countries there is also Hungary, which does not participate in Eurovision either! So we’re not using the countries to necessarily win votes, but of course we’d like the public’s votes!”

For their stage appearance, the Portion Boys revealed to us:

“Expect a lot of energy from us and a lot of surprises!“

They stated that their favorite Finnish participation is Lordi (Finland 2006) and Blind Channel (Finland 2021), while as their favorite participation of the competition they mentioned Loreen from Sweden, Dana International from Israel and the Moldovan participation from 2010 with the viral sax-guy!

Enjoy the full interview of Portion Boys below:

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Finland: Käärijä’s song accused of plagiarism!

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A few days ago, Käärijä’s song titled “Cha Cha Cha”, was released in order to compete in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2023, the Finnish national final for Eurovision 2023.

From the moment it was released, it quickly became one of the fan favourites and rised to the first place of the betting odds for winning the national final, by a great margin.

However, some of the comments in the Finnish press came in to change everything and even disqualify Käärijä  from the contest. The journalists accused Käärijä of plagiarism and that his song is a copy of another song, something that is prohibited by EBU’s rules for the contest.

In detail, the accusations want “Cha Cha Cha” to be a copy of the song “We Got the Moves” by Electric Callboys a German electronicore group:

What do you think about all of the above? Do you think that “Cha Cha Cha” is indeed a copy and that Käärijä should be disqualified from UMK?

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Finland: These are the clues for the second competing artist of UMK 2023!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’s official Instagram account, gave away the clues for the second artist that is taking part in this year’s Finnish national final!

The second artist’s clues are:

  • He/She started his/her career in a young age
  • He/She is capable of creating emotions
  • He/She has something in common with the host of UMK (Samu Haber)

 

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The first speculations, want that artist to be Robin Packalen, who seems to meet these conditions. Robin is 24 years old and he is a Finnish singer who started his career in Finnish pop as a teenager. During the course of his career, Robin has won many awards for his albums and singles, which have sold more than 370.000 copies. This automatically puts him in the list of the 70 Finnish artists with the most sales of all time!

Robin Packalen has perfromed many times with Samu Haber, having also done a tour together.

We remind you that the songs of UMK are going to be released fro January 12 to 20, one each day, while the competing artists will be announced in January 11, while the final of UMK will be broadcasted live from Turku, in February 25.

The last winner of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu and Finland’s representative in Eurovision 2022 were The Rasmus with the song “Jezebel” and ended up in 21th place with 38 points:

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Finland: These are the clues for the first competing artist of UMK 2023!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’s official Instagram account, gave away the clues for the first artist that is taking part in this year’s Finnish national final!

The first artist’s clues are:

  1. He/She is the youngest artist taking part in UMK (in 2023 or in general?)
  2. Has taken part in a reality show
  3. He/She has a dance song

 

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The first speculations talk about the singer Joalin Loukamaa who, for sure, meets these conditions. Joalin is 22 years old, model, singer and dancer. She took part in Survivors Finland in 2020 and was part of the group Now United.

We remind you that the songs of UMK are going to be released fro January 12 to 20, one each day, while the competing artists will be announced in January 11, while the final of UMK will be broadcasted live from Turku, in February 25.

The last winner of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu and Finland’s representative in Eurovision 2022 were The Rasmus with the song “Jezebel” and ended up in 21th place with 38 points:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Finnish participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!

Finland confirms participation for 2023 with UMK

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Finland is set to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.  Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) continues as the national final for Finland.  In 2023 UMK will have its 12 edition as the national selection for the artist and song representing Finland at Eurovisin 2023.

Finnish Head of delegation and producer Anssi Autio has stated:

The reputation and popularity of Eurovision and UMK among audiences as well as artists have increased year by year, and our next season will be bigger than ever. If you are interested in submitting a new song, start writing it right now!

Yle has launched UMK as a national final for 12 years since 2012.  The Rasmus won the last edition of UMK and went to Turin.  They ended up in 21st place.

The artists participating in the Finnish national final can submit their songs for UMK starting in September 01 until September 05.  According to the EBU rules, songs released from September 2022 are eligible to participate in Eurovision 2023.

The Rasmus represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest held in Turin with the song Jezebel.  The Rasmus received 38 points.  They finished in 21st place.

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Source: Eurovoix

 

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