Would You Love a Monsterman?

Infobox Single
Name = Would You Love A Monsterman?


Artist = Lordi
from Album = Get Heavy
Released = 2002
Format = CD
Recorded = June-July 2002
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 3:02
Label = Sony BMG
Producer = T.T. Oksala
Chart position = #1 (Finland)
Last single =
This single = Would You Love A Monsterman
(2002)
Next single = Devil Is A Loser
(2003)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = German edition cover
Type = Single

Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = 2006 edition cover
Type = Single

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"Would You Love a Monsterman?" is a song recorded by Finnish heavy metal band Lordi which reached number one on the charts in Finland. [ [http://top40-charts.com/song.php?sid=4581 Top40-charts.com] ] [http://www.rockdetector.com/officialbio,35673.sm;jsessionid=73DCEB67B747D29747FB594A9DBF7BCB Rockdetector.com] ] The song was originally released in 2002 on the album, "Get Heavy" and as a single, featuring the band's former bassist Magnum and original keyboardist Enary.

In 2006, the song was re-recorded with the band's current lineup, including bassist OX and keyboardist Awa. This version was released as a limited-print promotional single, as well as a bonus track on the special edition of the album "The Arockalypse". The promotional single also featured as the first prize in a competition for the Finnish "Lordi Cola."

Music Video

There are two music videos for the song. The first one involves a young girl playing with a very dirty doll in a strange woodland. After several seconds the band appears and starts to play the song. As the lead vocalist Mr.Lordi sings, it seems that he is trying to convince her to join him and his band. She eventually approaches him and gives him her doll and he sets it alight, showing her the truth of his monstrous nature.

Towards the end of the song, she seems to consent to joining them and grins manically.

In the 2006 version, the band are cadavers which appear in a morgue. While listening to the radio(in which the DJ announces the song about to be played), an assisting woman notices one of the band members and they make their appearance, killing the two men trying to investigate the bodies. The band then approaches her and the rest of the video goes very much the same way as the first (minus, of course, the woodland and the doll).

Track Listings

Finnish version:
#"Would You Love A Monsterman?"
#"Biomechanic Man"
#"Would You Love A Monsterman?" (radio edit)

German version:
#"Would You Love A Monsterman?"
#"Biomechanic Man" (album version)
#"Would You Love A Monsterman?" (radio edit)

2006 version:
#"Would You Love A Monsterman? (2006)"

References