Post by M-Dawg! :D on May 1, 2007 17:04:15 GMT -5
I was looking around google for some coconut girl stuff, and I found a PDF file with some info.
ethesis.siba.fi/ethesis/files/nbnfife20052013.pdf
Article:
In the end of the 1990’s Kari Hynninen and Pekka Nieminen decided to try how a
Finnish equivalent of Doctor Bombay or Aqua would do in the Finnish market. They
found a roma girl who could sing and dance. They also found a songwriter from the
girl’s circle of friends. The girl was named the “Coconut Girl”. A fictional story was
developed around her. The “Coconut Girl” was born 19 years ago in Hawaii as the
result of a holiday romance of a Finnish nurse and a Hawaiian DJ. The promotion
photos were taken in the botanical gardens. The girl also learned some Hawaiian. The
record label managed to gain the first interviews in which the girl told her story. The
tabloid Seitsemän Päivää (also known as Seiska) wanted to take the girl to Hawaii to
meet her father. The promoter Pekka Nieminen managed to postpone the offer by
claiming that the “Coconut Girl” was busy. Unfortunately the girl’s real relatives
started to call the press and uncovered the record label’s activities. The revelation led to a scandal. Magazines were angry. “This is the difference between Finland and
Sweden!” Nieminen notes. He reminds that when Doctor Bombay was introduced to
the Swedish and Finnish audiences everybody understood that he was a part of the
“pop cartoon”. Nieminen gives another example from Russia. The Finnish press
bought the whole story of T.A.T.U. even though in their case the press was misled to
believe that the girls were lesbians and much younger than they were. With The Spice
Girls there were no problems in accepting that the girls were ten years younger than they really were. “They can do it, but Finnish artists can’t! In the case of PMMP when
the girls lied about their age in the Iltasanomat fact file, the chief editor called the
record company claiming that the girls were questioning the status of the publication
as a credible news medium. “In Finland everything must be real and true. People here
don’t understand the Pop Cartoon. (Nieminen 2005).
ethesis.siba.fi/ethesis/files/nbnfife20052013.pdf
Article:
In the end of the 1990’s Kari Hynninen and Pekka Nieminen decided to try how a
Finnish equivalent of Doctor Bombay or Aqua would do in the Finnish market. They
found a roma girl who could sing and dance. They also found a songwriter from the
girl’s circle of friends. The girl was named the “Coconut Girl”. A fictional story was
developed around her. The “Coconut Girl” was born 19 years ago in Hawaii as the
result of a holiday romance of a Finnish nurse and a Hawaiian DJ. The promotion
photos were taken in the botanical gardens. The girl also learned some Hawaiian. The
record label managed to gain the first interviews in which the girl told her story. The
tabloid Seitsemän Päivää (also known as Seiska) wanted to take the girl to Hawaii to
meet her father. The promoter Pekka Nieminen managed to postpone the offer by
claiming that the “Coconut Girl” was busy. Unfortunately the girl’s real relatives
started to call the press and uncovered the record label’s activities. The revelation led to a scandal. Magazines were angry. “This is the difference between Finland and
Sweden!” Nieminen notes. He reminds that when Doctor Bombay was introduced to
the Swedish and Finnish audiences everybody understood that he was a part of the
“pop cartoon”. Nieminen gives another example from Russia. The Finnish press
bought the whole story of T.A.T.U. even though in their case the press was misled to
believe that the girls were lesbians and much younger than they were. With The Spice
Girls there were no problems in accepting that the girls were ten years younger than they really were. “They can do it, but Finnish artists can’t! In the case of PMMP when
the girls lied about their age in the Iltasanomat fact file, the chief editor called the
record company claiming that the girls were questioning the status of the publication
as a credible news medium. “In Finland everything must be real and true. People here
don’t understand the Pop Cartoon. (Nieminen 2005).
Very strange.
im sad!
But if you want to have a 
