🇫🇮 Sara Siipola – Paskana REACTION | UMK 2024

We react to "Paskana" – Sara Siipola's song for Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024. The emotional, modern pop ballad was inspired by a friend's experience with death — and the struggle of grieving when everyone tells you it'll be OK. Is this a potential Eurovision winner?

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[matthewmoser]

By far one of the best songs of any national finals this season. The lyrics are so strong and I just hope that she is able to convey them live or even show them in the background in some way. If you had told me that this was internally selected by a country, I would've believed you. So far my #1 of the season

[abic]

The BEST song of this Eurovision season so far

[markusautio]

This is amazing. Proud to be Finn again❤

[reislaya]

TRUST ME: UMK24 WINNER💅💅💅Now all of the pressure is on UMK’s staging team because this just needs THAT working concept for the stage and then, Sara is ready to Malmö💅💅💅

[alxaf]

Completely hooked by this masterpiece!
Potential winner for now and 12 points from Belgium!
Also, am I the only one thinking about "All the things she said" by t.A.T.u. when hearing those fantastic keyboards after the chorus?

[jodieturnerx]

I'm obsessed with this song - it's beautiful!

[Andromeda.]

My favourite so far from all countries! Hope they will choose this! This could win!!! Love from Greece 🇬🇷

[jess_refaceme]

My favourite this year from UMK and this made me cry 😭 Definitely a winner.

[antonkern]

what a great song and message - and how beautiful finnish is 💛💚💙💜🤎 even we are all living in a dark age cause of all that whats happening now... this song gives hope 💛

[harut]

This is my fav so far . So emotional, catchy and overwhelming! I really love the connection between the lyrics and her emotions . So well done ❤️

[mukuya]

What I really like about this entry - besides poetic lyrics, her being so beautiful and having a wonderful voice - the language and music fit each other so well. This is a very important and hard-to-catch thing in general. The consonants, pressures and stops of the words fit the bass and up-and-downs so so well. It even feels like the music was produced first, then lyrics were written. (Normally, you write the lyrics then produce the music on top of it, here being opposite makes it even better in terms of artistic view.)

I think this is the song to choose Finland. I dont want this song to be forgotten so make sure u do your job, thank u 🙏🏼

[emokter]

It's my favorite from Finland this year ❤

[tontchachachaa]

WOW love it! 💕 And William's reaction 😍

[damirdominkovic]

If this wins, Finand will be my favorite for the win! It's probably the best song so far for me.

[zlatkoamericanoNYC]

Whoever wrote those lyrics is a wordsmith, a poet, a lyrical genius! It hits you in the stomach. And then having those lyrics delivered by Sara in that voice? Plus the musical production? Get out. Get out. This is a devastatingly beautiful masterpiece.

[Screamlovehoney]

Sara is so far my absolute fave among UMK artists so far. ❤

[brento]

This is one of my faves of the ESC season so far! Awesome. My fave of UMK, too! 💓

[Sinivalkoseepra-yzke]

This was the first positive surprise for me! I wasn't expecting much from a ballad called Paskana. I did not know anything about Sara before this, I don't really care about ballads, and even knowing the theme of the song I was like "ok do we need to be this melancholic once again". But damn! The sound surprised me straight from the beginning, and I definitely was not expecting the lyrics to hit this hard! I was just listening totally captivated. The lyrics feel so relatable! And it sounds powerful.

I don't know if its place is in Eurovision, but as a song I love it. If we send this, I don't even care how juries or audience like it, but it hit hard for me personally.

[iamdaverodriguez]

🇫🇮💙🤍 WOOOW Finland needs to bring this to the stage in ESC 2024! 🤍💙🇫🇮

[TupperwareFS]

I knew Dean would love the 80's synth vibe in the chorus! This song really brings ballad and pop together, love it