Comment | A Finnish man is at his comical best when commenting on the Vain läämä series

One the TV program must have garnered more comments from Finnish (male) musicians than any other before it. Just life has been the subject of anxiety, fear and endless jokes, especially from the stars representing Finnish rock, since its first production season. Part of the reason, of course, has been the journalists, who year after year have asked them for a reason to refuse.

The answers have brought out the most comical features of the idiot guard.

Kauko Röhkä once called it a “shit show”, and told me that he didn’t fit in with the tearjerkers and huggers, Martti Syrjä on the other hand, has announced that he cannot watch the program for more than fifteen seconds before he starts “flying Yrjö and freaking out”.

The most violent eruption came at one time From Jouni Hynysewho certainly did not spare his colleagues.

“We in Karelia realize that shit is shit, even if it’s called happy quality entertainment. Grown-up people, these so-called stars, sit at the table sipping red wine and eating sirloin steak, sometimes we open up and talk about the traumas of childhood and adulthood, we sing some crazy song over three-euro backgrounds and then we hug and share little cries as a group”, Hynynen wrote in his column in 2013.

Last year, Hynynen finally agreed to the program. Later, he wrote about his experiences in copious words. After the decision, life had clearly been difficult.

“I slept really badly for a couple of months. I woke up at night with a feeling of vomiting and horror: what the hell has been promised again? I will never get over this. I’m not exaggerating, I really vomited”, Hynynen described his past moods.

The program itself had been “nice”, Hynynen later admitted.

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“I’m not going to do that. I don’t and I don’t.”

Carry have also been taken by ordinary male viewers. Reading some of the comments, it feels as if the artists were forcibly dragged into some sadistic human experiment and not to a mansion hotel in Hirvensalmi to spend quality time.

Very there are probably three artists most passionately drawn to decorate Satulinna’s end table. Samuli Putro, Judge Nurmio and Pate Mustajärvi each have an extensive and high-quality song catalog and each has versatile interpretation skills and life experience. To the disappointment of the creators and viewers, everyone has refused year after year.

“I wonder which is more shameful: to go there to cry or to make money,” Nurmio said To Hesar in 2015.

“Let’s fast forward fifteen years. Then I’ll be in the same situation as Hector now. And in many ways I hope not”, Putro reiterated his position Radio Suomipopin in an interview the following year.

“I’m not going to do that. I don’t and I don’t. I don’t go to the jungle with the stars or cook or dance,” Mustajärvi said last year Voice in the interview.

Now the program is in its 15th production season, and Satulinna would invite the trio again. All of them have recently had exceptionally interesting things to say about being a man.

Samuli Putro said in August for HS that he went to therapy to relieve his pain points. One realization was that the male model that prevailed in my youth had been in strong conflict with my own feelings.

“It certainly says something that I became interested in something like Duran Duran and men who wear make-up, who play with femininity even in appearance”, explained Putro in the interview.

The anxiety was not eased by the fact that the rock culture of the early 2000s in Finland was full of fooling around and offered an easy answer to the male image question: drink a lot of booze, and we’ll like you.

Also Judge Nurmio’s life has been in transition. The prostate cancer he suffered from was mentioned in almost all Finnish media, and his circle of acquaintances became worried. The artist therefore wanted to correct the information about his death. He told HS that, in the long term, the greatest effects may be the estrogen treatment he received, which in some patients leads to a decrease in sexual desire and ability.

“I think that libido is the source of the desire for life, but it doesn’t necessarily always mean concrete sex,” he says. “And on the other hand, the feelings are good at the moment. Let’s see what happens now,” he said in the interview.

Those kinds of things would fit extremely well at the common nodding table of the artists.

I put Pate Mustajärvi has also gone through similar toxic men in the past. At the beginning of the year, some people shuddered when he announced in his biography that he admired Sanna Marinia.

“These qualities – courage, directness and unyieldingness – are traditionally thought of as masculine, and therefore, when they are represented by a young attractive woman, a manly man perceives it as a threat. Or experience? I thought it was great”, the former Popeda pilot defended his words In an interview with IS.

In interviews, Mustajärvi says that he is tired of portraying an eternal adolescent. At the age of 68, it’s apparently starting to get boring to yell “putlat upi” to a man who caressing his hair.

The latest solo album has Janne Rintalan and Aki Tykin lyrics Hey dude –paragraph. It sings:

There’s nothing tougher than a big dude who gets sensitive. As long as he accepts his softness in front of the mirror.

In the Church and City magazine Mustajärvi has another piece of advice.

You should be kind to yourself.

Hynysen should also weigh that idea carefully.

Helsingin Sanomat and Nelonen, which presents Vain elämää, belong to the same Sanoma group.