Fri?

Fri?

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Finland Fri?


caption =
year = 1990
country = Finland
artist = Janne Engblom,
Kim Engblom,
Tina Petersson,
Tina Krause
as = Beat
with =
language = Swedish
languages =
composer = Kim Engblom,
Tina Krause,
Janne Engblom
lyricist = Stina Engblom
conductor = Olli Ahvenlaht]
place = 21st
points = 8
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1990fi from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ilsP0a6Sg from YouTube]
prev = La Dolce Vita
prev_link = La Dolce Vita (song)
next = Hullu yö
next_link = Hullu yö

"Fri?" (English translation: "Free?") was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, performed in Swedish (the first occasion that this language had been used in preference to Finnish) by Beat.

The song was performed twenty-second on the night (following Cyprus' Haris Anastasiou with "Milas Poli"). At the close of voting, it had received 8 points, placing 21st in a field of 22.

The song consists of the band asking the question "which of us are free?" and defining this freedom as "free to think for ourselves". While no answer is ever given, the lyrics strongly imply that nobody experiences this freedom.

It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 1991 Contest by Kaija with "Hullu yö".


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