It’s hilarious to me that people are now describing Robin as “the Finnish Bojan” because his entire career he’s been called “the Finnish Justin Bieber”, and that’s exactly who Bojan gets compared to by Jere
In case you were ever doubting what kind of effect Käärijä had at the release of Cha Cha Cha, just know that Robin knew he was going to lose UMK pretty immediately after hearing it for the first time.
Translations:
"Cha Cha Cha was played second. The situation was recorded on video. At first Packalen's eyes widened from shock and then staryed somewhere towards the floor from confusion.
'I was thinking that well, can't do much more than go to Logomo to jump around.'
It quickly became apparent, that Jere Pöyhönen from Vantaa had managed to raise up a buzz, that would be tough to beat. Everything green from cucumbers to the new buds of willows turned into Käärijä juice."
This is referreing to the first, private listening session of each other's songs that the UMK artists got before any of the songs were officially released. The article proceeds to go on about how Robin had accepted defeat pretty much from this moment.
Anyway, I'm working on a full translation so that'll be done tomorrow.
Okay for some reason in the first moment of this video he looks way too much like Robin to me. Does anyone else see it? Like the most Robin he has ever looked 😅
It's so interesting going back to Käärijä's Instagram comments around the time Cha Cha Cha was released because you can pinpoint the exact moment the other UMK competitors realised the underdog was going to beat them 😅💚