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A few hours ago, Windows95man, the Finnish representative in Eurovision 2024, stepped on the stage of Malmö Arena for the first time, for his first technical rehearsal.
The second day of first rehearsals is underway, with Finland and Windows95man and the song “No Rules!” to take the stage for their first rehearsal.
Who is Windows95man?
A sweet and pleasant person, he’s a bit of a shy nerd during the day, but when he dons his outfit – the famous T-shirt and jeans hotpants combo that doesn’t work – he transforms into superhuman!
His DJ sets, consisting of Eurodance and 90s techno hits, have been combined with such intense live performances that audiences are regularly left breathless.
For the participation “No Rules!” combined Windows95man’s style, Henri Piispanen’s incredible vocals and a legendary gin egg, which led the duo to an unexpected but undeniable victory at UMK 2024 in Finland.
The rehearsal:
It’s time for Finnish Windows95man to rehearse No Rules! It’s still early in the rehearsal schedule, but we’ve had our coffee and are ready to start again.
Fans of their winning performance at UMK will be pleased to hear that the Denim Egg Show has arrived in Malmö, along with the ‘just-within-the-rules’ nudity (a thong, we can confirm, hopefully secured with more than two Clippy ), tiny celebrations and high notes by Henri Piispanen. In fact, this is pretty much a cut and paste of their UMK staging, but with even more processing power and a blurry LED wall that delivers a 90s screensaver.
Listeners of the Official Eurovision Podcast will know that the dancers in this performance are inspired by Teemu’s love of Ooh Aah…Just A Little Bit by Gina G. So Windows 95, inspired by Eurovision 96. We live for this fun fact.
Pyro Rehearsal coming soon – it’s reasonable to assume smoke and fireworks are coming…
The second rehearsal of Finland will take place on Wednesday 1/5 so we will have a better idea of what we will see on the stage of the competition.
Finland’s first rehearsal – Eurovision 2024. Credit: Alma Bengtsson/EBU
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Below you can watch a small snippet from the Finnish first rehearsal:
@eurovision Malmö Arena transforms into a denim dreamscape as @Windows95Man enters the chat #Eurovision2024 ♬ original sound – Eurovision
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A few days before the start of our favorite competition all countries are ready to start rehearsals! Just before taking the stage for the first rehearsal, Finland’s representative Windows95Man shared some information about their stage performance!
Initially, as he stated, he does not know if he is allowed to wear the skin-colored underwear he wore in the Finnish final. He was also forced to make changes to his T-shirt logo as he was not allowed to have the Windows logo on it. So, the artist chose a new t-shirt, with a blurred logo. Speaking tou YLE he stated:
“I have six different (options). Let’s start with the wildest of them and go to the goofiest if the EBU insists.”
He then revealed that in addition to Henri Piispanen, there will also be two dancers with him, one of whom (Jesse Winjnans) was also last year in the Finnish entry with “Cha Cha Cha”
The emblematic “egg” we saw in the national final of Finland will also be on the Eurovision stage.
Finland is scheduled to take part in the First Semi-Final on 7th of May, claiming one of the 10 tickets for the Grand Final of Saturday 11th of May.
Source: YLE
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Just like last year, some time before the first rehearsals of the countries, the show called “A Little Bit More” aired on the official Eurovision YouTube channel. Read more
Just like last year, some time before the first rehearsals of the countries, the show called “A Little Bit More” airs on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.
So, for all this time before the rehearsals, Eurovision TV will upload various performances of the artists, like different versions of their songs, or covers of songs from other artists.
Below you can listen to the “Spa Mix” of Finland’s entry for this year’s contest, “No Rules” by Windows95man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5vUpSzxeFw
You can also listen to the an acoustic version of Marcus & Martinus’ Melodifestivalen 2023 entry, “Air” as well as Sarah Bonnici, covering “Hold Me Closer” by Cornelia Jakobs (Sweden 2022):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTRQohm74A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK-6zKvrmY
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A few days ago, the national final of Finland took place, and the country has its representative for Eurovision 2024. The winner of UMK, was Windows95man with the song, “No Rules”.
Despite the Finnish people being happy with this choice, right after his win, many thought that the singer might needs to change his name and his clothing style for Eurovision, as product names and trademarks are not allowed on Eurovision stage. It is also strictly forbidden to mention an established brand name in your entry. In Finland’s case, the duo’s name is “Windows95Man” and their attire consists of a large “Windows” logo, Microsoft’s operating system.
However earlier today, Yle, the public broadcaster of the country, states in an article that there is a chance Windows95man, won’t need to change his name, and the explain why. In detail, Ansii Autio, one of UMK’s chief producers, states:
“Keister’s clothes don’t have the logo of Windows, but specifically the more than 28-year-old Windows 95 logo. Technical support for the operating system in question was discontinued in 2001.”
He also says that this was the reason he was accepted in UMK in the first place, because “Windows 95” has not been a protected trademark for a long time. In anh case, the EBU, may be more strict on this matter
The UMK team, new right from the start that the EBU, might not accept Windows95man, and they have already gone ahead and found many different ways to solve this problem, with the help of lawyers, so that they can be in accordance with the rules.
“There are so many alternatives that it is pointless to go through them at this point. We’re going to Eurovision as we are now, and if it’s not necessary, we will not change anything.”
One thing that’s for sure, is that in the coming month, we will know whether Windows95man will represent Finland in Eurovision 2024, or if it will be under a new name.
We reminf you that Finland, takes part in the second half, of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2024, in May 7:
https://youtu.be/Tf1NS1vEhSg
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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu‘s official Instagram account has released the next details about the sixth artist to participate in the Finnish national final, UMK 2024!
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First estimations talk about Mikael Gabriel and Nublu who seem to meet these conditions.
Markus Pulk, is a 27-year-old Estonian rapper and is most commonly known by his stage name, Nublu. He has released two albums and several singles.
Mikael Kristian Gabriel Sohlman, is a 33-year-old rapper from Finland, better known by his stage name, Mikael Gabriel. He has released six albums and he has performed with many artists like Cheek, Lord Est, Robin and Uniikki. He took part in the fifth version of the show Vain Elämää and he was one of the judges in the finnish version of X Factor 2018.
The complete list of competing artists in UMK 2024 will be revealed tomorrow, 10/1 at 19:00 CET.
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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu‘s official Instagram account has released the next details about the fourth artist to participate in the Finnish national final, UMK 2024!
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The first estimates speak for Alma and it seems that it meets the conditions. Alma-Sofia Miettinen is a 28-year-old Finnish singer and songwriter who went by the stage name Alma. Starting her career in 2013, she placed fifth in the seventh season of Finnish Idol. Her first effort started in 2015 when she released the single “Muuta ku mä” by Sini Sabotage and then signed with Universal Music Group.
The following year he released the singles “Karma” and “Dye My Hair”, both of which became big hits in Finland. In 2017, the release of “Chasing Highs” repeated this success and also reached the top twenty in Germany and the UK. He has collaborated with big names such as Charli XCX, Tove Lo, MØ and Miley Cyrus.
