The Greeks React to the performance of "Cha Cha Cha" by Käärijä from Finland for Eurovision 2023!

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Käärijä won UMK as expected and we reacted to his live performance of "Cha cha cha" !!
What do you think? Are you obsessed or not ??
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@Pyovali Год назад

As a Finnish, this is _not_ a song about toxic masculinity. This is about Finnish people. We may seem very unemotional, reversed and anti-social while sober, that's just our culture. The same thing applies to women too, it's a stereotype of the Finns (which often applies). But when we hit the booze, we become completely different people. The song is about escapism from the mundane, from the normal, from the annoying, from work, from school, from unemployment, from world's problems. It's about forgetting your problems for a brief moment and going to the dance floor worriless. It encourages people to dance and not worry about the mundane.

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

Thank you for the comment. We had a different interpretation by someone who commented at our first reaction to the music video.. I guess things are quite open for interpretation in art so everyone sees things based on themselves. :)

@Jalecats Год назад

Well explained 😊

@miafyra5149 Год назад

@@Kostis_ESC Well I wrote how this song has a similar construction like the Finnish church hymns. In the beginning your earthly life is hard. Then you go to your place of religious practice like a sauna, church, temple or in this case bar and your sour mind and hard core start to melt down. In the end your heard and mind is open and you are as welcome to dance as the other angels in heaven/paradise/nirvana and you are not afraid of this world or life. We are all some kind imperfect angels, aren’t we? Everybody is welcome to dance and the style is free on the life’s dancefloor.

@tomofasia Год назад

The message for this song is pretty clear if you speak finnish. It’s all about stereotypical finnish male getting brave enough to dance only after getting hammered. It’s also why the song has two different parts/themes. First one is just the guy being kinda of exhausted and wanting forget the worries/work/etc by drinking. The last part is him being drunk and relaxed and finally doesn’t give a flying F anymore so he can even go to dance. Thus the awkward dance moves on the stage. I can relate to this as can my fellow finns really easily but if some other people find a new meaning for the song, then go for it. 😊

@sharkan44 Год назад

I think it can be interpreted as getting free from social oppression in general, including toxic masculinity or being shy. The literal story is about being tired and having drinks but I believe it can be seen from much broader perspective.

@sinikkahaatainen3696 Год назад

Käärijä! You did it!!! Livelpool waiting!!!🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

🥰🥰

@96503412 Год назад

Obsessed. This is super fun, super catchy. Liverpool will LOVE it! 👊🤩🔥On the other hand - something quite deep is being conveyed here on how we perceive ourselves - how we feel we are meant to be and act. It's not until we've had quite a few pina coladas that we throw off that tough or aloof act and just be ourselves or bring out our best dance moves. Kinda sad really.😳 CHACHA CHA!

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

Agreed with everything you said!!!

@mikrologia7455 Год назад

This is exactly why I didn't prefer this song. It's like telling to Europe that after few drinks we Finns are actually nice people. Luckily song is in Finnish lol. This is my opinion, everyone has a different approach and taste. I like Gustaph from Belgium, that is catchy and good fun. But last night when I saw Loreen I was left mouth open. Swedes are simply professional what becomes to music, they know what sells and I am not talking about just eurovision.

@miafyra5149 Год назад

@@mikrologia7455 Swedes know how to make a good staging etc. They are professionals. There is a difference between mentalities in Finland and Sweden when you talk about making music or being a musician: in Finland that is seen just like some kind of hobby but not a profession if you don’t make or play classical music and in Sweden it is seen to be a decent profession if you make music or are a musician. I think Käärijä tries to tell that everybody is welcome and good enough to dance and get wild, leave the pressure for a while - with or without alcohol. Piña colada was not some kind of trend drink in Finland last week. As a guy, who has a scar in his stomach after a sickness and operations, he has to drink more vichy water than alcohol. In Finland you need guts to that one who is sober but tends to take his shirt off and party on gigs. That scar is not so bad handicap in Finland as that you don’t drink alcohol. Thanks God for sober curious phenomenon! It’s easier to say I’m sober curious now than explain how I’ll get instantly headache if I drink alcohol. And yes: many times foreign people think I have to be drunken, because I dance all nights long and even on the streets on my way home.

@Atomisti Год назад

Dianysos.

@HuntedCupCake Год назад

Finnish doesn't have gendered He/She pronouns so when directly translating from Finnish most people use "They" but on the official UMK English pages Käärijä is referred with He/Him pronouns.

@olgahein4384 Год назад

Why is it that whatever problems are polarizing the german citizens in absolutely unnessecary fights over irrelevant stuff, you nordic ppl come along and just... don't HAVE it?

@UseAndGo Год назад

The analytics for the video... the ring of pallets is his "shyness" he wants/needs to break, and when the pallets open comes in the dancing part as lyrics say it too... just a fun fact those Euro pallets are called "eurolava" in Finnish and "lava" translates into stage. little bit humour/irony there.. and the Cha dancers might be his drinks ... it hits the lyrics quite right

@carl-johanfougstedt199 Год назад

I absolutely love all of this artist, song and performance. Of course some small adjustments can be made in the live performance if they want to, but it´s already mindblowing.

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

❤️

@jussimertanen5451 Год назад

This is great! I´ve listened to this soo many times. Genuine, strong, different. It is a story about a man after a hard work week, and now it is time to demolish, break the dull surface, take some pina colada, dance, and party, and a new man is born! It is funny and very catchy!

@KersanttiKari Год назад

just say käärijä win!! KÄÄRIJÄ TO THE TOP!!!

@TheRetrospective Год назад

I LOVE this song and the DANCERS. ❤🇫🇮 I take that the ring and "evil dancers" represent fight with alcohol as the lyrics are about drinking and then feeling free.

@digitomkku9848 Год назад

The dancers in my understanding represent his free self that he is afraid to let loose when sober/in the everyday mundane life. See how he is holding and controlling the dancers=his willing to be freer and wilder, in the beginning, then he lets them loose, and with that allows himself to feel and behave diffetently.

@kirsieitakari-kuikka5502 Год назад

They are not evil dancers but aggressive and intense.😂🎉😂🎉❤

@heinoushiccup5609 Год назад

As a nonbinary finnish person, this has become one of my anthems. The song and the performance is so playful with masculinity and femininity, and Käärijä _owns it_ so well. We need more masculine presenting artists being playful like this.

@suupuhtaaksi-podi Год назад

great analysis.

@Aquelll Год назад

Jere Pöyhönen, or Käärijä is a cis male as far as I know. But Finnish language does not have gendered pronouns so for us everyone are "they" unless specifically states for some reason.😅

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

Thank you for your comment! We only learned that Finish is a genderless language from the comments! That's so cool!!

@Aquelll Год назад

@@Kostis_ESC Yeah in Finland we have a word for man and a woman if it is absolutely necessary for some reason to indicate someone's gender. But generally is is irrelevant so no need to do so.

@kairiandsora925 Год назад

She= hän, he=hän

@JustSaying001 Год назад

2018 Israel won Esc with "Toy". I think 2023 Finland will do well with "Cha Cha Cha"! 💚🇫🇮

@hauskalainen Год назад

see the shy man in his shell (green cocoon) transforms to the Caterpillar stage as he consumes beer and Pina Colada before pouring champagne over himself and leaping to the dance floor. The dull beat at the start is his dull working life (industrial crates). The rest is a complete contrast. It is all very meaningful visually even if you don't understand Finnish.

@iloinenleski2593 11 месяцев назад

And we didalmost win. ❤

@nervanderi Год назад

Was it Anastasi who sing That dont impress me much? 2006 Athens again and yes I Subscribe your channel because its free.

@annnnnnberg Год назад

Käärijä is a guy, so He's a he. People can put on wigs and experiment with style without it having to do with re-labeling one's gender :)

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

Thanks for the information. We just saw in the internet people saying "they" so we wanted to be sure we don't use the wrong pronouns.

@Sgublaka94 Год назад

I think ”they” is ok since there is no Finnish gendered ”he” or ”she” pronoun 😆

@misssargasm286 Год назад

I haven't actually seen if Käärijä has said which pronouns they prefer. As long as we only assume it's safer and more appropriate to use they instead of he/him. Assumption of the gender identity doesn't mean same as knowing it for sure. Don't assume, ask. :)

@florenna Год назад

@@misssargasm286 Well he's obviously male, no doubts about that ;), so I do not get this "they" thing...

@misssargasm286 Год назад

@@florenna Non-binary people don't owe you androgynity. What you assume of someone's gender based on how they look doesn't mean your assumption is automatically correct. Using they/them pronouns as long as you know for sure is not an insult, it's just common courtesy.

@kpt002 Год назад

Käärijä is a he! He has never said anything about not being a man aka he. Who addressed him as a they/them??

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

I saw comments at other videos addressing Käärijä as they so I just asked to be sure.

@hauskalainen Год назад

it's not toxic masculinity, but about transformation lubricated with alcohol. Everyone understands this.

@sandman383 Год назад

Kostis, We love you also

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

Awww 🥰

@Jygsy Год назад

Anastasia looks very much like Anya Taylor-Joy

@sotiriskoukios Год назад

If you arre obsessed with any of Eurovision songs you need a therapist... that's a general principle.. Now the song is very strong ! Along with Loreen, Vesna, Let3 are leading the race. Let's see if we will listen to something more interesting among the 14 songs missing..(Loreen it's definitely the winner of Melodiefestivalen for me)

@toinenosoite3173 Год назад

Why? I saw Loreen's performance, and I have to say that it was visually very stunning. However, the song in itself does not really go anywhere, imho. Not that the song is bad - it is just nothing special. She can sing though!

@sotiriskoukios Год назад

@@toinenosoite3173 I would answet that all the songs that I had mention above are very convincing on stage. In my opinion Eurovision's huge stage is tricky for songs with weak live performances or sometimes a great performer help a not so special song to score high.

@greendream1908 Год назад

καλησπέρα πατριωτάκια. Συγχαρητήρια για την προσπάθεια, μακάρι να πάτε καλά και να κάνετε πολλά reactions. Βλέπω οτι έχετε ασχοληθεί πολύ με την eurovision, αν όμως δεν κάνετε reaction σε τραγούδι του Dimash, δεν έχετε δει τίποτα. Είναι αυτή τη στιγμή ο καλύτερος τραγουδιστής/performer όχι μόνο στη Γη, σε όλο τον γαλαξία. Στο κάτω κάτω είχε κι αυτός υποψήφιο τραγούδι στην Eurovision το 2019 για την χώρα του, το Καζακστάν, όμως ακυρώθηκε η διοργάνωση λόγω covid. Άσε που θα δείτε τους subscribers να αυξάνονται σε εκθετικό βαθμό. Εμείς οι fans του είμαστε πολύ υποστηρικτικοί. Δοκιμάστε να ξεκινήσετε με το SOS και θα δείτε οτι δεν θα θέλετε να σταματήσετε. Φιλικά, Dreamer...

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

ευχαριστούμε πολύ για το σχόλιο και τις ευχες !! Για την ώρα κάνουμε Eurovision, αλλά θα του ρίξουμε μια ματιά 😉

@kirsieitakari-kuikka5502 Год назад

❤ Hän. ❤ ❤ In Finnish, there is no gender in He/She. ❤ Wanting to be "plural" is absurd. It is NOT about toxic masculinity. It is letting go of fear of the world, stress and love life. 🎉❤😂

@hazelsalminen1448 11 месяцев назад

"They" has grammatically been used also in the singular for hundreds of years, so it's not really about wanting to be plural. It's just about referring to someone without placing them into an either male or female gender. 👍🏻

@johncrwarner 11 месяцев назад

Finnish as a non-Indo-European language they have only one third person singular pronoun hän So Jere Pöyhönen a.k.a. Käärijä has the interesting problem that pronouns are not an issue in Finnish (nor Estonian which is related).

@johncrwarner 11 месяцев назад

Sometimes Finns make mistakes with the Indo-European gendered third person pronouns which can be quite amusing in certain contexts.

@Kostis_ESC 11 месяцев назад

Yes, we've learned that about the pronouns in Finnish and we think that's great!!! ❤️

@johncrwarner 11 месяцев назад

@@Kostis_ESC Finnish is a fascinating language which I learnt when I was regularly working there. It and Estonian (plus very distantly Hungarian) are the big Finno-Urgaric languages in Europe. The first time I traveled to Helsinki it was ESC weekend so I watched it on YLE with Finnish subtitles LOL.

@FlubFlubber Год назад

Not bad but not wow. Chachahaha blablablabla, njah, not good enough for the win for me. To much chahahahahaha, to much for me. Loreen is from another planet, she is the winner. Also Norway is good.

@hlloret Год назад

First impression... I do not get it.

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

That's fair. Everyone has different taste in music !!

@FlubFlubber Год назад

Indeed, so weird that song and to much chachacha, I don't think the song is high quality, if you compare it to Loreen, what a difference. Loreen's song is simply the best. I think I've heard all the songs and there really is no competition for Loreen (if everything is fair, then Loreen wins). Also towards the end of the song it's too much the same, Loreen's is much much better and more constructive and different.

@mikrologia7455 Год назад

Wasn't my favourite last night to be honest but this the one now going to Liverpool. However Sweden and their Loreen with song 'Tattoo' is super amazing. And forecasted to win the whole eurovision 2023.

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

Our reaction to Loreen's performance is coming soon :) But Kaarija has a chance too !!

@Prafik614 Год назад

I think Loreen’s song repeats itseft too much, you will grow out of it very soon. But great voice and staging.

@florenna Год назад

@Mikrologia Well TBH I have only seen Käärijä predicted to win the whole Eurovision; Loreen hasn't even been chosen yet, and her song is nothing extraordinary (like Käärijä's is).

@mikrologia7455 Год назад

@@florenna matter of taste I suppose. Today in news I read that Sweden took over Ukraine for being favourite to win whole eurovision after Loreen's performance. I am pretty confident it will be chosen to represent Sweden, swedes would be crazy not to.

@mikrologia7455 Год назад

@@florenna and furthermore I haven't seen anywhere Käärijä as number one.

@juholaitakari1305 Год назад

I’m Sorry but i really hope English speaking people find another pronoun instead of using a prular pronoun. It’s so confusing 😂

@Kostis_ESC Год назад

If non binary people like it then they don't need to find anything else !!

@ellem8990 Год назад

Well "they" has been used in a singular way for a very long time, before most people had even heard of non binary people. I understand that for non native english speakers might be confused by it tho (I do sometimes kinda get frustrated that other languages can't have a simple gender neutral gender pronoun, like finnish does. Gendered grammar is a whole other mess that I don't understand the point of)