1000 Years of Finnish Pop Music and Fashion
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Professional vocalist sings through the
Professional vocalist sings through the last 1000 years of Finnish pop music!
What we now call traditional music or folk music in Finland used to be the pop music from when humans first started singing and playing instruments until like 100 years ago. But how did we get from 1000 to 3000 years old (we don’t know exactly) rune singing tradition to 2020’s most promising new artist Behm? Watch the video to see the evolution of Finnish pop (and fashion!) over 1000 years!
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About the evolution of pop music in Finland:
Runolaulu (rune song) was the main form of song until ballads came around in the 1600s. Until actually quite recently there wasn’t much to entertain you—no TV, no internet—so song was the way to tell and hear stories. It wasn’t uncommon to sing continuously for hours, improvising new lyrics and variating the melody. Rune singing was like a second language to many. At first popular ballad stories that were known all over Europe were often adopted into rune songs. The metre was the same, only the stories were new. Slowly people started embracing a different metre too and ballad evolved into its rhymed form it had all over Europe. Ballad was hugely popular until the end of 1800s, and lyrics were printed and sold so the songs spread and were known all around Finland.
I included Viena Karelian yoik (not to be confused with Sámi yoik) in the video even though it isn’t and has never been a part of Finland. The tradition and the form of song is just so very unique and cool, I had to include it, and it is just a bit East from the border of Finland and Russia. Viena Karelian dialect of Karelian language is extremely close to Finnish. When I visited Viena, I spoke Finnish (adding a few Karelian words I knew) and the locals spoke Karelian. The yoik language, though, is much harder to understand as almost everything is a metaphor. Alliteration is even a bigger part of Viena Karelian yoik than it is of rune song. The metre isn’t fixed, and there are three different parts; lyric part, lyric refrain and refrain.
In the 1700s in the Western parts of Finland polska came around from Sweden and it was very popular both played and sang for a couple hundred years. Rhymed song was here to stay and rekilaulu became another popular style of rhymed song of young people. Also the songs were now about courting and more shallow and light-hearted topics than ballads that often told stories of tragic love and death. After polska, waltz was huge for a long time—especially played. I included a waltz song on this video because the song is funny and I’ve played, sang and even recorded it with my old duo mammantytöt!. (I linked our version below. Also the rekilaulu Erojaisryyppy is by us.) In the late 1800s polka became one of the most popular dances all around Europe. In Finland polka too was played more than sang, but I couldn’t not include Ieva’s polka, made famous worldwide by Loituma with their amazing a cappella arrangement!
After Finland lost land—mostly a big chunk of Karelia— to Russia in wars in the 1940s, and nearly 0.5 million people lost their homes and had to settle somewhere new, songs about longing home to Karelia started popping up. Schlager had come around in the 1930s and in 1955 it was the pop of the time. Muistatko Monrepos’n (Do You Remember Monrepos), made famous by Annikki Tähti, became such a huge hit, even in 2018 it was the fourth all time most sold single in Finland.
In the 1970s what we now call Suomirock (Finnish rock) started finding it’s form. The song Murheellisten laulujen maa (Land of Sorrowful Songs) from 1982 by Eppu Normaali was an enormous hit and has been ranked at the top of every “Best Finnish Rock Song of All Time” list over the years since.
In the 2000s hip hop truly reached Finland. Artists started rapping in Finnish and a teen rapper Pikku G was the first hip hop artist to sell platinum in Finland with his album Räjähdysvaara (Explosion Hazard), which was the most sold album in Finland in 2003. Hip hop has then become one of the biggest genres of pop music in Finland.
I chose Frida by Behm to represent pop music in Finland now. It represents the new wave of singer-songwriters in pop and the song has been constantly on the radio since it was released in July 2020, also at the top of many Spotify lists for months. And I just think it’s a great and catchy song! The album Draaman kaari viehättää, released in September 2020, was the most sold album in Finland in 2020.
References for the history lesson above: Stuff I’ve learnt over 7 years of studying traditional / folk music at university, and Wikipedia.
What we now call traditional music or folk music in Finland used to be the pop music from when humans first started singing and playing instruments until like 100 years ago. But how did we get from 1000 to 3000 years old (we don’t know exactly) rune singing tradition to 2020’s most promising new artist Behm? Watch the video to see the evolution of Finnish pop (and fashion!) over 1000 years!
Follow me:
Instagram: Instagram: vilma.jaa
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Website: https://vilmajaa.fi/
About the evolution of pop music in Finland:
Runolaulu (rune song) was the main form of song until ballads came around in the 1600s. Until actually quite recently there wasn’t much to entertain you—no TV, no internet—so song was the way to tell and hear stories. It wasn’t uncommon to sing continuously for hours, improvising new lyrics and variating the melody. Rune singing was like a second language to many. At first popular ballad stories that were known all over Europe were often adopted into rune songs. The metre was the same, only the stories were new. Slowly people started embracing a different metre too and ballad evolved into its rhymed form it had all over Europe. Ballad was hugely popular until the end of 1800s, and lyrics were printed and sold so the songs spread and were known all around Finland.
I included Viena Karelian yoik (not to be confused with Sámi yoik) in the video even though it isn’t and has never been a part of Finland. The tradition and the form of song is just so very unique and cool, I had to include it, and it is just a bit East from the border of Finland and Russia. Viena Karelian dialect of Karelian language is extremely close to Finnish. When I visited Viena, I spoke Finnish (adding a few Karelian words I knew) and the locals spoke Karelian. The yoik language, though, is much harder to understand as almost everything is a metaphor. Alliteration is even a bigger part of Viena Karelian yoik than it is of rune song. The metre isn’t fixed, and there are three different parts; lyric part, lyric refrain and refrain.
In the 1700s in the Western parts of Finland polska came around from Sweden and it was very popular both played and sang for a couple hundred years. Rhymed song was here to stay and rekilaulu became another popular style of rhymed song of young people. Also the songs were now about courting and more shallow and light-hearted topics than ballads that often told stories of tragic love and death. After polska, waltz was huge for a long time—especially played. I included a waltz song on this video because the song is funny and I’ve played, sang and even recorded it with my old duo mammantytöt!. (I linked our version below. Also the rekilaulu Erojaisryyppy is by us.) In the late 1800s polka became one of the most popular dances all around Europe. In Finland polka too was played more than sang, but I couldn’t not include Ieva’s polka, made famous worldwide by Loituma with their amazing a cappella arrangement!
After Finland lost land—mostly a big chunk of Karelia— to Russia in wars in the 1940s, and nearly 0.5 million people lost their homes and had to settle somewhere new, songs about longing home to Karelia started popping up. Schlager had come around in the 1930s and in 1955 it was the pop of the time. Muistatko Monrepos’n (Do You Remember Monrepos), made famous by Annikki Tähti, became such a huge hit, even in 2018 it was the fourth all time most sold single in Finland.
In the 1970s what we now call Suomirock (Finnish rock) started finding it’s form. The song Murheellisten laulujen maa (Land of Sorrowful Songs) from 1982 by Eppu Normaali was an enormous hit and has been ranked at the top of every “Best Finnish Rock Song of All Time” list over the years since.
In the 2000s hip hop truly reached Finland. Artists started rapping in Finnish and a teen rapper Pikku G was the first hip hop artist to sell platinum in Finland with his album Räjähdysvaara (Explosion Hazard), which was the most sold album in Finland in 2003. Hip hop has then become one of the biggest genres of pop music in Finland.
I chose Frida by Behm to represent pop music in Finland now. It represents the new wave of singer-songwriters in pop and the song has been constantly on the radio since it was released in July 2020, also at the top of many Spotify lists for months. And I just think it’s a great and catchy song! The album Draaman kaari viehättää, released in September 2020, was the most sold album in Finland in 2020.
References for the history lesson above: Stuff I’ve learnt over 7 years of studying traditional / folk music at university, and Wikipedia.
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