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Playboys (song)
"Playboys" is a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus (then named just "Rasmus"), originally released on the band's second album with the same name, '' Playboys'' on 29 August 1997. The single was released in 1997 by the record label Warner Music Finland. It is the third single from the album ''Playboys'', and features only the track "Playboys". "Playboys" is a fairly happy, upbeat song and shows what the album is all about. The song is about playboys, and not "playing boys". The lyrics boast that because the singer is rich, he does not need to get a job and can do whatever he likes. Track listing # "Playboys" – 2:45 Music video "Playboys" is the only song from the album that was released as a music video. The video shows a room with celebrities' faces on the wall and the band playing their instruments. Other appearances "Playboys" is also available on the band's compilation album '' Hell of a Collection'' which was released in 2001. External links The Rasmus' officia ...
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The Rasmus
The Rasmus is a Finnish Pop music, rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.Main source of the band's history: The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (founder, frontman, lead singer-songwriter), Eero Heinonen (bass), Pauli Rantasalmi (guitar) and Jarno Lahti (drums). Jarno Lahti left the year after and was replaced by Janne Heiskanen in 1995. Heiskanen quit the band in 1999 and was soon replaced by Aki Hakala. Pauli Rantasalmi left the band and was replaced by guitarist Emilia "Emppu" Suhonen in 2022. Best known for their 2003 hit single "In the Shadows (song), In the Shadows", the band has sold over 5 million albums worldwide and 350,000 albums in Finland alone, and has won numerous awards, both domestic and international. The band represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Jezebel (The Rasmus song), Jezebel". History 1994–1997: Formation and first albums While still in high schoo ...
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Playboys (1997 Album)
''Playboys'' is the second studio album by Finnish rock band The Rasmus (formerly known as "Rasmus") which was released on 29 August 1997 on Warner Music Finland. It was certified Gold in Finland, and the single "Blue" also went Gold when it was released in May the same year. Track listing Personnel The Rasmus * Lauri Ylönen – vocals * Pauli Rantasalmi – guitar * Eero Heinonen – bass * Janne Heiskanen – drums Additional musicians * Ilkka Hämäläinen – turntables, saxophones, panda 49, backing vocals * Axel F. – trumpet * Aleksi Ahoniemi – saxophone * Matti Lappalainen – trombone * Mamba Abdissa Assefa – percussion * Timo Lavanko – alto saxophone, clarinet on "Panda" * Tuukka Helminen – cello on "Blue" * Tuomo Prättälä – Wurlitzer on "Sold" * Mara Salminen – moog synth on "Wicked Moments", "Panda" and "Well Well" * Hannu Pikkarainen – panda 49 on "Blue" * Hanna Viitanen – steel pans on "Carousel" * Essi Grönberg – backing vocals on "Ra ...
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Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipality, with  million in the Helsinki capital region, capital region and  million in the Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan area. As the most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has significant History of Helsinki, historical connections with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen—and surrounding commuter towns, including the neighbouring municipality of Sipoo to the east—Helsinki forms a Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan are ...
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Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ...
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Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ...
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Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "Record label#Major labels, big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly owned by Time Warner (later called WarnerMedia and its successor is Warner Bros. Discovery), the company sold WMG in 2004 to a group of private investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., in a move to alleviate Time Warner's debt load related to its merger with AOL. WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. As of 2025, Access Industries remains the company's largest shareholder, owning 72% ...
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Illka Herkman
The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.Main source of the band's history: The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (founder, frontman, lead singer-songwriter), Eero Heinonen (bass), Pauli Rantasalmi (guitar) and Jarno Lahti (drums). Jarno Lahti left the year after and was replaced by Janne Heiskanen in 1995. Heiskanen quit the band in 1999 and was soon replaced by Aki Hakala. Pauli Rantasalmi left the band and was replaced by guitarist Emilia "Emppu" Suhonen in 2022. Best known for their 2003 hit single " In the Shadows", the band has sold over 5 million albums worldwide and 350,000 albums in Finland alone, and has won numerous awards, both domestic and international. The band represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Jezebel". History 1994–1997: Formation and first albums While still in high school, Lauri Ylönen, Eero Heinonen, Pauli Rantasalmi and Jarno ...
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Kola (song)
''Playboys'' is the second studio album by Finnish rock band The Rasmus (formerly known as "Rasmus") which was released on 29 August 1997 on Warner Music Finland. It was certified Gold in Finland, and the single "Blue" also went Gold when it was released in May the same year. Track listing Personnel The Rasmus * Lauri Ylönen – vocals * Pauli Rantasalmi – guitar * Eero Heinonen – bass * Janne Heiskanen – drums Additional musicians * Ilkka Hämäläinen – turntables, saxophones, panda 49, backing vocals * Axel F. – trumpet * Aleksi Ahoniemi – saxophone * Matti Lappalainen – trombone * Mamba Abdissa Assefa – percussion * Timo Lavanko – alto saxophone, clarinet on "Panda" * Tuukka Helminen – cello on "Blue" * Tuomo Prättälä – Wurlitzer on "Sold" * Mara Salminen – moog synth on "Wicked Moments", "Panda" and "Well Well" * Hannu Pikkarainen – panda 49 on "Blue" * Hanna Viitanen – steel pans on "Carousel" * Essi Grönberg – backing vocals on "Ra ...
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Music Video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. These videos are typically shown on music television and on streaming video sites like YouTube, or more rarely shown theatrically. They can be commercially issued on home video, either as video albums or video singles. The format has been described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip", "video clip", or simply "video". While musical short, musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Mus ...
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Hell Of A Collection
''Hell of a Collection'' (stylized ''Hellofacollection'', as one word) is the first compilation album by the Finland, Finnish band The Rasmus, released in 2001 by Warner Music Group, Warner Music Finland. The band recorded it when they still were "Rasmus" (later they changed their name from "Rasmus" to "The Rasmus"). It is the first album that they made since Janne Heiskanen, the previous drummer who left the band, was replaced by Aki Hakala in 1999. It is composed of eighteen songs, nearly all of which are revamped versions of songs from their previous three albums. The exceptions are the final track, "Liquid" (Demo), which is a demo tape of their hit song "Liquid (The Rasmus song), Liquid", and the songs "F-F-F-Falling" and "Chill (The Rasmus song), Chill" which were the first new songs released after Aki replaced Janne. "Rakkauslaulu" (Lovesong) is a B-Side of the single ''1st (The Rasmus EP), 1st'' (1995), and a non-album song. "Life 705" was originally released on the band's ...
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YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ...
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The Rasmus Songs
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ...
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