Italian rockers Maneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest last night, but another competing group has captured the hearts of viewers and dominated social media conversation: Finnish nu-metal sextet Blind Channel.
Hailing from Oulu, Finland, Blind Channel describe themselves as “violent pop.” It’s a fitting description, based on their pyrotechnic-filled performance of their popular song “Dark Side.” The melodic hard rock track combines aggressively rapped verses, massive sing-along choruses, beefy guitar riffs and breakdowns and electronic flourishes.
Meanwhile, the band’s all-black ensemble including baggy shorts, studded wristbands and eyeliner would not have been out of place on the Family Values Tour.
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Maria San Filippo is an associate professor of media studies at Emerson College and editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (2013) and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), both published by Indiana University Press, and edited the collection After ‘Happily Ever After’: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age (Wayne State University Press, 2021). She is currently at work on a Queer Film Classics volume on Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior (2014) to be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is a 2021-22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
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