Eurovision's Finnish breakout star Käärijä: 'I wanted to win, you know? So I was sad'

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Eurovision's Finnish breakout star Käärijä: 'I wanted to win, you know? So I was sad'
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🎙️ “It’s not Loreen’s fault. It’s the system!” Käärijä tells alimkheraj “She has a big soul and a big mind. She’s professional. She’s won Eurovision, but she sent me a message saying congratulations and wished me all the best. We’re friends now”

, is sat at a small table in a black sequined matching tracksuit set. He’s just finished the soundcheck for his first show back in Finland after spending two weeks in Liverpool, where, in front of a global audience of 160 million“I have to say, I don’t believe that yet,” Pöyhönen says. “Of course, it feels great, but my mind is so full. I have to think about what happened. We’ve worked so hard and I haven’t absorbed anything that’s happened.

Selling it all was Pöyhönen: dressed in an inflated neon green bolero jacket with nothing underneath, spiky trousers reminiscent of something from Camden Market circa 1997, and sporting a severe bowl cut, he moshed about the stage like a cartoon character, headbanging, jigging around like a pirate and riding four neon-pink clad dancers. He won the competition with over 50 per cent of the public vote.

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