Pop Music of Finland

In the 90s a famous trend was so-called euro-dance music and this pattern also had in Finnish followers, many of which however are today quite forgotten, a number of groups also wrote their lyrics in English, but did not make it on the international music market such as Movetron, Hausmylly and Aikakone.

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Some current pop/rock composers like Jenni Vartianinen, Maija Vikkumaa, Anssi Kela, Anna Eriksson, Irina, Hanna Pakarinen, Chisu, Anna Puu, and Antti Tuisku and also pop rock groups like Scandinavian Music group, PMMP and the Poets of the fall are very famous in Finland and they all mainly sing in Finnish, which may give to their relatively low profile internationally.

Since the late 1990s and the early 2000s the female musicians have taken a more visible role in the Finnish pop music scene, not only as performers but also as songwriters. A talented singer-songwriter Chisu writing Finnish lyrics for example, it is a good development couple of her songs, and can very well be seen as classic beside the songs of Eppu Normaali, Tuomari Nurmio and others in the future.

A series of iskelma, rock and pop songs have attained a status of a classic, the standard for the status being that many have had some connection with the song and this is not a hit of present. Although the difference between the pop rock and the iskelma are remarkable in social signification and is stereotypically iskelma being the music for the tribe of greater age and countryside, rock and pop is for youth and people living in cities, the boundaries between the famous music kinds are in reality rather unclear, it seems to be true especially in a small number of famous songs that are performed over again in the original way, or it is rearranged into a new musical idioms and language.