Week 80: Eurovision Week 1! #2 - Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha 

IT‘S CRAZY, IT‘S PARTY! Welcome to the Eurovision Universe guys! 🎉🎉

I was lucky enough to be in the arena for the grand final. The crowd reaction was absolutely wild. Everyone was behind him to win. He won the crowd vote by miles. Absolutely one of the most iconic songs from Eurovision ever. I cannot describe to you how much the crowd was loving him and supporting him. There were points where the presenters of the show couldn’t actually be heard as the crowd was chanting cha cha cha.

I love seeing non-Eurovision fans watching Cha Cha Cha for the first time. Everyone starts out like...WTF is this and within 3 minutes are raving along despite not having a clue what he's singing about. It's a very special performance and I love that it makes people smile.

THE WHOLE AUDIENCE was cheering for Finland, not a single other song got the crowd this hyped💚

He got the second highest televote score ever, under Ukraine, in 2022. Obviously, they won as a show of mass support. Everyone was cheering Käärijä and even during the voting scores, the crowd was chanting his name and the song name. Never heard that response before.

Hands down, the best North American reaction to Finland's entry this year! So enthusiastic from the get-go and you seem genuinely curious to see more. Many people in America and Canada seem to react with, "eew, this is weird" to Käärijä initially, but this is among the performances that make Eurovision so enjoyable - the contest is a veritable cornucopia of assorted oddities. It can be wacky (Käärijä), impressive (Loreen) and sometimes downright moving (Barbara Pravi), but it's always a good time!

If Käärijä ever feels a bit down, I hope he can watch this reaction video. Awsome and so catching.

The key difference between American Idol and Eurovision is American Idol is a singing competition (only about vocals) while Eurovision is a song competition (about composition, lyrics, vocals, stage performance etc.).

You can always rely on Finland to do something crazy at Eurovision even by Eurovision standards.

He is the winner in our hearts 💚🖤

He should have won..he won the public vote. Love to Kaarija from the UK. You should see the audience screaming cha cha cha during the scoring.

as a finn, i love how much you guys loved cha cha cha

This made me so happy, I love seeing people experience the craziness that is Käärijä for the first time 😂 he is the definition of chaotic good, he's such a good, down to earth guy, funny as hell, weird little dude and he makes amazing music, his lyrics are often really funny too. I have no other option but to stan 💚

This is my roman empire. Jury robbed us, käärijä was the best 😭

This was the best song of 2023 Eurovision, the best performance, the nicest guy ever, just EVERYTHING!!!! Käärijä is our hero! He is the true people's winner! LOVE HIM

I travelled across the continent to see him perform in London 2 weeks ago. He was AMAZING.

This was such a delight to watch, the way you were smiling from start to finish is a perfect recreation of how most of europe was feeling seeing this the first time 😄 Käärijä is enjoying himself so much on that stage it crosses over to our side of the screen, it’s infectious ❤. On top of that Käärijä is such a goofy silly sweetheart as a person, he made eurovision 2023 something special! Also check out his new song It’s Crazy It’s Party, the music video just dropped today and it’s fire 🔥🔥

I decided to spend my summer holiday in Finland (from the Netherlands) to be able to see Käärijä in concert and it was absolutely mayhem!

I was so pissed when it just got second place. So good! 💚

Your reaction was exactly why it should’ve won. It’s so contagious!

I absolutely LOVE Eurovision because of performances like this one. It's camp, it's fun, it's pure entertainment. Been a fan for almost 20 years now.

My goodness, revisiting this, it really should have won… so original, creative and constantly surprising! People recognised that and rightly loved it. Still, he will live in Eurovision legend…

that level of confusion you feel is called eurovision 😅 we absolutely love eurovision here in europe. it really is the event of the year. it reaches over 100 million viewers every single year!

cha cha cha forever

IT'S CRAZY IT'S PARTY!!!!!!

Finland should have won for sure.

Best reaction ever😂❤️🇫🇮 Käärijä😍

I love how hyped you got🤣 This is such a genius song and performance, truly a Eurovision legend this guy!

It's crazy, it's party 💚

Your faces while watching this made me so happy

he says at the end it's crazy it's party. it's his catchphrase. he first said it in english interview when he was asked about his song and he's not very good at speaking english and only thing he could think of was saying that.

I was throwing myself around my living room the first time I heard this on Eurovision it's an epic masterpiece imo and Finland were robbed. So glad you guys liked it 👌

The Peoples Prince, winner in our hearts. Its crazy, its party

Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮 Käärijä has been a huge fenomenon here since this song was originally released. I remember back in February I was at a club when this came and the whole club just exploded, everyone went just crazy! The song is about how he feels like he is a tough guy but actually would like to dance but is afraid because he is a badass. Then he drinks few pina coladas and out comes this new persona who doesn’t care what others think, he pours shampagne all over himself and dances his ass off. Käärijä has given so much joy to us this year and I hope he continues to find his way to many more people around the world. You should check out the original music video for Cha Cha Cha, it’s also amazing!

Glad you enjoyed it as much as Europe did! I was grinning ear to ear watching it for the first time, and now again seeing you do the same. The song is bursting with positivity and it was the crowd favorite, though it unfortunately didn't win.

It's an instant eurovision classic. Fantastic video

Best review of Cha Cha Cha. Period.

I'm so glad you are loving Eurovision!!! For week 2, all should be titled "Live at the Grand Final" : 1- Kalush "Stefania" 2- Sam Ryder "Space Man" 3- Chanel "SloMo" 4- Cornelia Jakobs "Hold Me Closer" 5- Konstrakta "In Corpore Sano"

IT'S CRAZY, IT'S PARTY

I had the absolute pleasure of being in the arena (I've been a Eurovision fan my whole life so to actually see it in the arena was a dream come true) watching the final REHEARSAL of the first semi final where he was competing to get into this final when I say the crowd went absolutely BONKERS it would be the understatement of the century! We were singing along and hyped like nobody's business!

Best Cha Cha Cha reaction video EVER. Hands down. 😀🤟

AHAHAHAH Welcome to Eurovison!!! This ended in 2nd place over all this year and was the public favorite. IT'S CRAZY! IT'S PARTY!

What a lovely reaction! If not the best I have seen. Btw. the energy shift you noticed is deliberate and totally what the song is about. It's about having a shit day (e.g. at work), sick of everything and then go out partying and getting drunk.

I was there , in the arena and his performance was amazing - a real crowd pleaser

Doesn't matter if Loreen (who I actually like but still finland should have been the winner that year) wins, Cha Cha Cha will be one of the songs that young people will remember while partying, throughout their lives. Even when they become middle aged people, when they hear this song they will bang. It'll be just like 90's disco songs for milllenials do.

I love how these guys at first have their mics there ready to make comments, but then end up just watching in shock and awe with their eyes glued to the screen 😁 This is exactly the way to watch this! And this, my beloved non-ESC-fans, is what Europe has been absolutely CRAZY about since May 😁 Welcome aboard!

Not only does the song cha cha cha make me happy, but also your both reaction to the song makes me happy too. I enjoy your happiness. Thanks for making this reaction ☺️

The only proof I need to KNOW this should've won the entire competition is watching blind reactions to this. I've not yet seen ONE reaction who wasn't excited about this. Loreen (the winner) has NOTHING on Käärijä. He is the King!!!!! He was a fan favorite. Everyone just loved him.

Aw, that rekindled all my Eurovision feelings of elation and confusion. Now I'm a devoted Kaarija stan - life changing stuff

You are like me first time I saw the performance from UMK 🙂 Love it! Went to Finland to experience this man live!! Best night!

I have to say that Eurovision 2023 was the first one I ever saw and I was "wtf?! People wanted this guy to win? Seriously?", but RU-vid showed me his performance once again a couple days back and I was like "I'M SORRY, FINNISH COOL GUY I CAN'T SPELL THE NAME, THIS IS AMAZING, THIS IS PURE ART". It's such a happy and catchy song I was singing all along, and I can't say a word in finnish hahaha It's for sure in my Spotify playlist now and I'll listen to this on repeat at gym hahaha

I LOVE your reaction! 💖 you so totally got what Cha Cha Cha is all about, fun, craziness and happiness 🎉😅 I still get the blissed out high every time I see this performance, it's utter perfection, so exhilarating 💚🩷

Haha, that was wild!! And amazing! And wild! 😂 Mike’s face was the cherry on the top of this amazing video, don’t think I’ve ever seen him have this much fun. 😆

Hands down the winner of last year’s Eurovision.

I just can't hear this song WITHOUT GETTING THE BIGGEST SMILE ON MY FACE. It just makes me so happy ever. single. time. From the first ever watch with my friends on the couch in our Eurovision-watchparty to seeing you react to it now. Such a great reaction too!

I love how much Joe was into it throughout the whole video with his eyes and smile wide open dancing along in disbelief 😭

The funniest part is how they end up not commenting at all, just watching with the biggest grins all the way trough.😂 Which was my reaction too when I saw it first. Just awesome.

ITS CRAZY, ITS PARTY!! ALL Love from Finland 🇫🇮🇫🇮❤❤❤

Well isn't this your lucky day! He will release new music video today in few hours! Song has been available in Spotify almost 2 hours already and it's as good as Cha Cha Cha! 🔥🔥🔥 The song is called "It's Crazy It's Party", like he said end of this Cha Cha Cha performance 😂

Finland was AMAZING right?

Finland has won Eurovision once with heavy metal monsters. Check out "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi. It is another Eurovision classic!

Käärijä truly is the people’s princess in eurovision

Best reaction I have seen so far, your laughter is infectious ❤😂

And when people could finally vote for him directly in the MTV Europe Music Awards competition, he won over Loreen for best Nordic artist, just tells you who was the winner.

i love it when people get the song and just embrace it to the fullest. the way you guys were talking about the performace made me so happy and i'm sure käärijä would be so happy to see you loving his work so much

Everybody wanted them to win! They got all the point from the people in almost every country, But the jury points fucked it up. People are still bitter and also hate the jury system. Cha cha cha will forever be the true winner of 2023 in the peoples hearts!!!❤️

This was this years runner up - even the they wont the public vote - I'm from Ireland, we cant get into the finals anymore, even though we had the record of the most wins, so we were behind Finland this year. Love the reactions guys, there is so many Eurovision hits you have to see - you may have to do Top 5's of each country.

Best reaction video ever!💚

Best Eurovision reaction ever , welcome to the Eurovision Rabbit Hole . You got do top 10 .

Käärijä made history with this song

Käärijä is so fun and just pure joy!!! This video made me so happy, I could feel all the fantastic joyous feelings I felt last Spring during his performances in Eurovision again because you guys were also so enthusiastic towards it!!!

Real winner! Since I'm from Sweden I'm definitely excited to hopefully see Eurovision live next year. But Finland should have won. My whole family was so disappointed😭 Gonna be wearing green at the grand final!!!💚🇫🇮

I'm so glad you're reacting to this Eurovision madness 🤣 greetings from Belgium

this is my favourite eurovision performance of all time, not sure i'm gonna watch eurovision ever again because i am still pissed he didn't win (i voted for him 20 times, i was so obsessed 💀), but this performance is already legendary. käärijä has a lot of great songs, the latest one "it's crazy it's party" is like cha cha cha part 2, but he has a lot of completely different songs, "kovis" is my favourite but it's not available on youtube or spotify 😢

Best North American reaction I've seen. You really do get it, guys. We'll allow Eurovision to you.

This was the best reaction to CCC ever, thank you so much!! Couldn't agree more, Käärijä is the King 💚 You should check out the official music video for the song as well, it's so much fun 💥

The fact that your reaction video for the act that came 2nd in the competition is getting more views than the one for the winner is more proof that this is the One that should have won

The audience was IN LOVE with Käärijä, you should do a watchparty for all the eurovision of this year, because it was super intense. Even the moment of point count, audience was screaming CHACHACHA even when the points where somewhere else. Recs from Eurovision of other years for more reaction: -Maneskin - zitti e buoni -Go_a - shum -verka serduchka - dancing lasha tumbai (THIS IS THE MOST LOVED EUROVISION SONG) -Lordi - Hard Rock hallelujah - Trenulețul (cu Frati Advahov) - Zdob şi Zdub & Fratti Advahov (I know, the name its a little bit difficult... but you're not going to regret to dance the shit out of it!) -Duncan Laurence - Arcade -Eleni Foureira - Fuego Recs from eurovision from this year: - Voyager - Promise -Pasha - Soarele Si Luna -La Zarra - Évidemment -Lord of the Lost - Blood & Glitter -Mimicat - Ai Coração -Luke Black - Samo Mi Se Spava -Joker Out - Carpe Diem They are all AMAZING

This song really connected with the Finnish people. Cha Cha Cha won Finland's national selection competition for Eurovision, called UMK, all the way back on February 25, 2023 and placed 1nd at Eurovision 2023 in May. Now it's halfway through September and Cha Cha Cha is still in the Top 20 in daily Spotify plays in Finland. The song speaks to the feeling of having a long, rough day/week and going to a bar to drink away the tough times. There's a common understanding amongst the Finnish people that they can be pretty reserved and many don't want to be the centre of attention unnecessarily. But after a few drinks, they can really let loose. At the midway point of the song, Käärijä is deciding whether to just go home in sadness or to listen to the voice inside him that tells him to throw caution to the wind, not care about what people think, and just have a blast dancing away. Needless to say, he lets loose and enjoys the moment being authentic to what he wants to do, rather than remaining in his shell and going home not taking advantage of the moment to enjoy life.

The guy on glasses is so amazed just loved your reaction guys. I’m from SouthAmerica first time paying attention to Eurovision and believe me this song is stuck in my mind since I heard for the first time. Love Kaarija and his performance. He deserved to win.

This is the best reaction of Cha Cha Cha

And Finland is the TRUE winner 🥳💚💚💚💚💚🇫🇮 Suomi 🇫🇮

It was the best and most memorable performance this year for sure! Instant ESC royalty!

Eurovision songs to react to: Zitti E Buoni - Måneskin (you should 100% do a Måneskin week!) SloMo - Chanel Dancing Lasha Tumbai - Verka Serduchka Stefania - Kalush Orchestra Shum - Go_A (No specific year or order they’re just some of the most popular and best performances!) And he does say “it’s crazy, it’s party” at the end 😂

Great reaction guys, but now you have to watch the official video... that if anything will blow your mind. The whole arena did sing Cha Cha Cha with him

Well, as a Finn 🇫🇮 here I can say Im really proud we sent him to compete. And you pronounced Käärijä totally wrong but thats ok😂 Public voted him first btw, so👏👏👏

Thank you guys , you made my day , welcome to eurovision , you are welcome to join the party !!! 🎉

I had the joy of seeing it live in that arena and the crowd was so loud you could hardly hear him! No surprise at all that Europe voted for this guy. Cannot wait for Eurovision 2024 - I’m off to Malmö! 🎉

This reaction made my day 😂 wish I could see cha cha cha for the first time again.

Your faces and expressions were exactly mine when I first heard this song in the run-up to Finland's selection. First few notes and I was instantly on board, and every succeeding moment surpassed the one before it. Just epitomizes everything Eurovision can and should be, and I'm honestly bummed it didn't win the whole thing (especially since the final was on my birthday, and I was watching with a group of Finns who also were hoping for a win). Oh well. Cheers from NYC! 4:34 LOL one of the videos that pops up immediately completes the sentence - "IT'S CRAZY, IT'S PARTY!"

Loved this preformance! it is rare for a song to be catchy and interesting the first time you hear it, but I loved this from the start and have had the song on repeat in my mind since eurovision a few months ago.

He actually came 1st by a landslide with 376 televote points compared to the actual winner that got 243 points from the public but was heavy favourited by the juries and won overall.

Käärijä is such a goofy 💚 we all love him 🥹

I loved ypur reaction! I'm glad you loved it!! Käärijä is everything, he's a phenomenal artist and performer!

It's Crazy and Party with him . 💚 LOVED your reaction !!!

What an amazing reaction, I could watch your video again and again, and get in a great mood from it ! Listening to Cha Cha cha always gets me in a great mood as well, never fails ! He's my Winner 100% , I don't care what the judges think. I was in Liverpool for the event, I heard people singing the song so many times, people were talking about him, and the crowd in the arena went crazy for him , it was very clear who the people wanted to win.

I just discovered your channel and this reaction is bringing me so much joy lmao

omg I adore the huge smiles you guys end up having and while doing the dance. I started out not liking this song much the first time it was on the show, but for every time I heard it during the night I ended up really enjoying it

to give a bit of context for the other comments: the points given are 50% given by the public and 50% given by juries. käärijä absolutely dominated the public votes, so you could say he's the peoples' winner, but loreen (who i assume is gonna be the last reaction) dominated the jury votes and ended up winning over all! also he did say it's crazy it's party! he's actually releasing a song with that title tomorrow (sep 15th)

bro soooo iconic, the true essence of eurovision right here-