As you have noticed, the Finns prefer to cover European songs, but every now and then we widen our perspectives and pick up something completely different. Let's go to the 80's for awhile and listen to a song made by Finnish comedian, actor, singer, screen writer and director Pirkka-Pekka Petelius. He had a quite successful recording career in the 80's, and one of the most popular songs was "Tra la la" released in 1985. It tells a story of a boy that vehemently denies being a gay, although everybody else think he is one. The word "gay" or similar other expressions are not explicitly said in the lyrics but replaced with "Tra la la". The original came all the way from Argentina. A very popular rock group called Los Twist, famous for playing satirical songs, recorded it in their "Cachetazo al vicio" -album in 1984 and for some reason found its way to Finland. The original title of the song was "Acuarela Homosexual" (Homosexual Watercolor).
Here's the pair:
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Actually P-P P's lyrics might tell more truth than 'those other people' may ever understand for some persons.
World is full of variety and classifications are commonly misused - like here for example both lyrics have been written to laugh about clearly differing people.
Why? Perhaps because it is so trendy to mock others.
I think mocking is a sign of immature self-awareness in a mocker person.
Br.
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