Krista Siegrids - 'Ding Dong'

I have discovered the future of pop music and she is from Finland - the lovely Krista Siegfrids.

Krista represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend with the catchy and hook-laden 'Marry Me' and she wuz robbed. She should have won if anyone in Europe knows anything about pop music. I fell in love with her by the second chorus and realised I could sing along in Finnish - "uh oh, uh oh a ding dong!". I love it!

Her performance on Eurovision is reported to be the reason why the show wasn't shown in Turkey because she kisses one of her female backing singers at the end of the song. This was explained by Graham Norton in his commentary of the show to say that if the sight of two women kissing offends you then you "should grow up". Well done Graham.

Here's her video for 'Marry Me':



On the basis of this one song I downloaded her album, 'Ding Dong', that was released last week. It's full of pop-dance gems and deserves to go global. In an odd way it reminds me of hearing Cyndi Lauper's 'She's So Unusual' for the first time in the sense of 'where on earth has this exotic creature come from?'. And don't worry, all the songs are in English so go on and download it now.

Move over Britney, there's a new girl in town and her name is Krista. If she's not a massive star by the end of the year then I'll eat, um, something...

As she says at the end of 'Stupid Love', the closer to her album, 'Auf Wiedersehen Party People!'