May 27, 2006

Lordi Lordi Lordi

200,000 Finns have signed a petition expressing their outrage at the fact that members from Lordi were photographed without their masks on after two tabloids managed to get pictures and published them in their magazines.

Lordi shot to fame after winning this year's Eurovision music contest with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" and they had asked media not to run pictures of them out of character, but the two Finnish tabloid magazines went ahead anyway and while band leader Mr Lordi is recognizable to millions around the world since achieving victory in a silver monster suit, with horns and blazing red eyes, Tomi Putaansuu, as he is also known, with long brown hair and a goatee, is not.

Anyone wishing to express their similar disgust about this horrid and invasive to the stars turn of events can say so here and after you've done that, you can swing past here and get yourself one of these, absolutely free.

"It's so wrong," said 15-year-old Milla Luoto, dressed in black and walking with two similarly clad friends in the center of the Finnish capital. "Lordi didn't want his face shown and they just did it anyway. I am really angry."

Welcome to the real world, kid.

KISS managed to keep their faces sans makeup out of the limelight for years, so obviously it's not that hard to do and KISS were way more popular than Lordi will ever be.

Still, I can see why all the little goth wannabe's would be so thoroughly pissed.