Today, December 8th, is the day of Jean Sibelius, Finnish national composer, and the day of Finnish music, so I am finally gonna make this post I've been meaning to do for months:
Finnish music Käärijä fans should know.
Basically this is a collection of some music Käärijä refers to in his music. I'm mostly gonna do the songs on Fantastista and Cha Cha Cha Mixtape and the new singles.
Bomfunk MC's
Bomfunk MC's Freestyler (Viulunkieli) (1999/2019)
One of the biggest songs in Europe in '99/-00. They made a remake in 2019 that made people mad because the lead character in the music video was now a girl.
They had other hit songs you might have heard if you were alive in the early 2000s. The rapper, Raymond Ebanks, was one of if not the first black people to make Finnish rap.
(Darude Sandstorm 2000)
(Quick shoutout to fellow Eurovision participant Darude for this actual banger. Yes this is Finnish. The music video was shot in Helsinki)
Frööbelin Palikat
Frööbelin Palikat- Sutsisatsi satsaa. (1990s-)
Remember when Käärijä bought a shirt of A fan's back during a gig? Yeah, it was a Frööbelin Palikat shirt.
This is a kid's band from the 90s that was a part of all Finnish kids' childhoods. I chose this banger but there are many more.
Känkkäränkkä
Mikko Alatalo- Känkkäränkkä (1981)
This is the 'känkkäränkkä päivä' Käärijä talks about in Hirttää kiinni.
Anssi Kela
Anssi Kela 1972.
Kiertävä sirkus and Menestynyt yksilö refer to this song.
Matti Nykänen
Matti Nykänen Elämä on laiffii (2006)
It's Crazy It's Party.
Fintelligens
Fintelligens Kaikki Peliin (2003)
Today's new song Toiset Samanlaiset is a feature with Elastinen, one half of Fintelligens. One of the early people seriously making rap in Finnish. Käärijä has said he was a fan of them when he was young. This is a hockey song, so I went with that.
Moottoritie on kuuma
Pelle Miljoona Moottoritie on kuuma (1980)
Kinda referred to in Kiertävä sirkus but it's a fun song.
Laiva on lastattu
Huh hah hei starts with 'rakkauden laiva on lastattu' which is a reference to this game of 'ship is loaded with' and you pick a topic and then everyone adds to it. Idk if other people play that game. Anyway someone made a song for the game.
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