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FINLAND – Ich Komme – Erika Vikman
Well colour me slightly puffy and call me Alice. The genius that’s Erika Vikman, four years removed from the seminal Cicciolina, who would have won the contest in my head in 2020 if we are totally honest, but you can’t cope with that opinion!
Unlike some songs in this contest that have no idea what it is, this knows exactly what game it’s playing. ‘Ich Komme’ is brash, ballsy, sexy, a little bit filthy, and very very not safe for work in its performance. Unlike, say, Olly Alexander, this doesn’t raise awkward questions for your nine-year-old watching the contest. It just raises questions for you watching it, and that being: ‘why the hell am I not voting for this filth?’
When it gets to the final, which it will, it will pose different questions with an alternate answer of Sweden for most of them.
It’s probably coming second… pun intended.
Phil’s score: 12
Sometimes you have a song, where everyone thinks it’s a winner or at least one that is a strong candidate for a win and I just don’t get the hype of the song. Finland this year is one of these cases.
I just don’t get the whole fuss behind the song. It’s vulgar, it’s not sexy, it’s even aggressive in its approach to the point that it doesn’t motivate me to pick up the telephone and vote for this. I miss a coherent tune in this song. It is not as catchy as “Cha Cha Cha” was, which means it doesn’t stay in your head as a song, but what you do remember, is the performance.
It is going to do well with the televoters, but I am not sure the juries will embrace it and give it high marks.
My points: 6 points