I was just out at dinner, and the restaurant was playing millennial throwback songs. The moment “Livin’ La Vida Loca” came on, I was immediately like, “Rickyy vanhaa kunnon Marttinii,” like some kind of sleeper agent activation moment. Jere Pöyhönen, your impact 😂
having a similar experience with Kot Kot as what I had with Huhhahhei, namely that on listen #1 I was like 'hm idk about this one jere' and then on listen #2 I was like 'actually that's catchy' and then from then on it's like, 'someone inject this song directly into my veins'
I often think about the photos at the fairground for HHH, it’s like it never happened, I love this photo, Mikke must be sitting on millions of unseen photos by now
A lot of Finnish fans were understandably surprised that he would debut the new song in Sweden for the first time, and not the previous night at the gig in Finland.
Hypothesis - is it possible he felt these lyrics are so personal and scary to perform, he had to try them the first time in front of a crowd who would mostly not understand what he's singing about?
Evidence:
He insinuated he would release this song 'maybe next month or maybe never', showing he's unsure and undecided about the future of the song
He hasn't done promotion for this song and made a big deal the same way he did with ICIP
He didn't debut it at a huge stadium gig in Helsinki the way he did with ICIP
In fact, the only clues we received in advance were posted on social media in the middle of the night with no official announcement attached, as if he was late-night-brave and did it on a whim to test the waters
He supposedly doesn't write love songs, but now this