#iskelmä

[disorqer]

Finnish singer Mona Carita, 1970-80s

[theconstellola]

Ⓜ️uska!

[nomorelolanight]

An art for Kirka’s Birthday, decided to post here apart of my ig because one of my friends is also a fan. 🩷

The photo inside a heart framed picture that i decorated by myself is from Syksyn Sävel -kilpailusta vuodelta 1975 ( The Autumn Sona Contest 1975) ♡

[toimintalaama]

Iskelmää kesäyössä

Eipä oo mittään suomalaisempaa 🎶🎵🕺💃

[kinuskikakku]

Hei suomitumppu!

Haluan tietää teidän iskelmäsuosikit.

Joten kertokaa ja puhutaan iskelmästä!

(P.S. Ja mölyt mahaan jos koet tarpeelliseksi kertoa miten paljon et pidä iskelmästä. Ei semmosia viboja pliis)

[oocmuumit]

[tiikerikani]

So Vesterinen performed at the Emma awards tonight (the equivalent of the Grammys). Jepa and Heini even showed up for it! And a whole choir!

(edit: alt youtube link)

(They also won Vuoden Iskelmä, which was the only Emma nomination I felt they had any chance of actually winning)

Well, I'm not going to ruin it for the fanclub (unless they're reading this), but...

Spoiler under the cut...

You have been warned...

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It's most likely a playback performance - so while the motions are real, you're hearing pre-recorded audio, not actually what they're playing on the stage. I know this because I've been on that stage (different venue but same event).

Yesterday's performance at the Iskelmä Gaala was legit though; you could tell because they actually had all their gear set up. (They got album of the year there, but those awards are by popular vote.)

[raivokasmagma]

Vesterinen Yhtyeineen - Kohti Sydänpeltoja

En kauheana radiota kuuntele. Eräs somessa kirosi tätä säettä ja biisin tarttuvuutta... Kuulemma kauhea renkutus :D

Kun sä pistät ovet kii Jää dallaspulla vitriiniin

Piti mennä masokistina kuuntelemaan XD Alkaakohan aina soimaan päässä, kun näen dallaspullan vitriinissä tai paistopisteellä :D

[frost0wl]

YÖ PIMENEE MUTTA MEITÄ EI NUKUTA, VANNOIN ETTEN AIIO SUHUN RAKASTUA, MUT TULIPALO ONIRTI JA MÄ HALUUNSUA, NIINKU HULLU, TUHLAAN TULITIKKUJA

[toonfinatic]

My mom was wrong about a lot of things but she was VERY right about old Finnish music absolutely SLAPPING and 60s fashion slapping too

[disorqer]

Markku Aro - Hold On, I’m Coming, 1970 x

[cuntstable]

harry du bois WOULD however also listen to the playlist i made for him though. hed weep to it and bust it down old man style

[myrnadalgleish]

ok im done now

[pittoreski]

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[avalaryx]

god I love alan wake ii

as a finn it seems like such a love letter to our culture, like all the tiny bits and pieces that people from other countries might not even get

the setting of watery even tho based in finnish communities in northern united states feels so at home as someone who grew up on more the countryside you could say

the idioms, the accent, the melancholy, even more with the melancholic classic sounding finnish iskelmä, all the tiny references my god it feels so homely

I could write a whole thing about this

[holyprincenerd]

Hi ! Do you have any finnish music recommandations ? Feel free with the genre I'm quite open. I love discovering music in other languages but I'm always worried the lyrics will be saying something really terrible 😆

Hi! I'm all for spreading Finnish music, so of course! Just a fair warning, this ended up quite lengthy... Sorry about that. 😅 Here's a tl;dr version just in case you don't feel like reading about all the genre gushing and lyrical details, I couldn't help myself haha:

Pop, schlager and rock songs:

Ram Pam Pam by BESS

Tinakenkätyttö, Kaunis rietas onnellinen, and Supernaiset by Kaija Koo

Lähtisitkö by Pave Maijanen

Hei Rakas by BEHM

Soutaa Huopaa and Saatilla by Elokuu

Henkilökohtaisesti by PMMP, as well as their albums Leskiäidin Tyttäret and Kovemmat Kädet (content warning on these, if you end up reading translations of the lyrics, some of the songs on these albums deal with some heavy topics!)

Pauhaava sydän, Hetkeksi en sulle rupia, and Suudellaan by Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu

Marmoritaivas by Johanna Kurkela

Suru on kunniavieras by Jenni Vartiainen (though her entire discography is phenomenal)

Che Guevara by Happoradio

Kaikki mitä mä annoin by Uniklubi

Samantekevää by Tiktak

Ikuinen Virta by Indica

Joutsenlaulu by Yö

Metal (or heavier) songs:

Hengitä by Turmion Kätilöt (content warning again, some of this band's songs have quite spicy lyrics, though I'd say a good portion of those songs are satirical. This song in particular doesn't have any questionable lyrics haha)

Laiva by Merta

Syvyydet by Vorna

Armo by Apulanta

Hope you find something you like among these!

Now for the longer answer lol:

For modern pop songs, there's no better place to start than Ram Pam Pam by BESS. The song has become a bit of a Eurovision darling despite the fact that it lost in the Finnish Eurovision national final, the UMK, and thus didn't compete in 2022. The song bears influence of Finnish pop and schlager (in Finnish this genre is called "iskelmä") artist Kaija Koo's songs, which tend to have empowering messages. If you want to listen to Kaija Koo's music, I'd recommend the songs Tinakenkätyttö, Kaunis rietas onnellinen, and Supernaiset.

A song that I have a personal soft spot for is the 80's summer banger Lähtisitkö by Pave Maijanen. It's a corny love song, but that's exactly why it's so great. 🥰 While we're on the topic love songs, there's also Hei Rakas by BEHM, which has very sweet and genuine lyrics and absolutely gorgeous instrumentals. (As a side note, this song is somewhat connected to Eurovision as well, as BEHM performed the song live during UMK 2020 as an interval act).

If you're interested in pop songs that use traditional Finnish instruments in them, I'd recommend both Soutaa Huopaa and Saatilla by the band Elokuu. These songs mix traditional Finnish instruments and the traditional Finnish dance music genre humppa (similar to waltz and foxtrot music) with Finnish schlager music and rap. In that sense, these songs are somewhat similar to Käärijä's Cha Cha Cha, as they mix schlager with rap, though the vibes are completely different. 😂 There's also Henkilökohtaisesti by PMMP, which uses a mix of traditional Finnish instruments and modern genres. As a matter of fact, I'd recommend the entirety of PMMP's album Leskiäidin Tyttäret, where Henkilökohtaisesti is included, as well as another album called Kovemmat Kädet. Though as a fair warning, many of the songs on these albums touch on very heavy topics. There's also the band Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu, which blended traditional folk elements with schlager and rock. Their lyrics also utilise the Finnish Pohjanmaa dialect, adding onto the folk -feel of their music. Most of their songs are love songs, my personal favourites from their catalogue are Pauhaava sydän, Hetkeksi en sulle rupia, and Suudellaan. There's also the song Marmoritaivas by Johanna Kurkela, another very beautiful love song with some more traditional sounding elements to it. Fun fact about Johanna, she's also an ex UMK contestant who didn't make it to Eurovision! Moreover, Suru on kunniavieras by Jenni Vartiainen doesn't necessarily use any traditional instruments, but resembles old Finnish music in terms of specific vocals and some of the lyrics.

Of course I also have to bring up Finnish metal and rock music. Some of my personal favourite metal songs in Finnish are Hengitä by Turmion Kätilöt (who tend to have quite... interesting lyrics), Laiva by Merta and Syvyydet by Vorna. Hengitä and Laiva are both songs about mental illness. For less heavy music, there are the likes of Happoradio and Uniklubi, for specifically all-female acts there are Tiktak and Indica. As a starting point for these bands, I'd recommend Che Guevara by Happoradio, Kaikki mitä mä annoin by Uniklubi, Samantekevää by Tiktak (fun fact this was my absolute favourite song as a kid) and Ikuinen Virta by Indica. I feel slightly obligated to also recommend the songs Joutsenlaulu by Yö and Armo by Apulanta, as both are arguably culturally significant songs. Joutsenlaulu is a reflection on mortality and a song about loss (playing into the typical Finnish artist's obsession with death as an artistic motif), while Armo could be interpreted as a song about the Winter War (a war between the Soviet Union and Finland that took place during the World War II and has shaped Finnish culture immensely). There's also a very beautiful choir cover of the song Armo, called Konflikti (Armo). This version was featured in a movie about Apulanta. Sadly, Joutsenlaulu is not available on Spotify anymore (or any other streaming services for that matter). Funnily enough, Joutsenlaulu was originally meant to be a candidate for the Eurovision song contest of 1984, but the idea was scrapped after its composer came to the realisation that he couldn't possibly keep the length of the song under three minutes. Anyway, here's a link to the song on YouTube, just in case the links above don't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URDrfH2Rbbg&ab_channel=FinSongs