Loituma – Ievan Polkka is the Most Finnish Song I have ever heard. Love it a lot!

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1. It’s quite Finnish, but it lacks the downbeat melancholy.

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3. Most left one, Sari Kauranen teached my sisters to play instruments in the past.

4. Hanni Autere (the most right one) has a pretty good YouTube channel.

5. The first time I heard it was from Hatsune Miku until I had a Finnish girlfriend, who confirmed to me that it was Finnish

   it was such a mind-blowing experience lol

6. One of the latest iterations here:

   [youtube.com/watch?v=CAyWN9ba9J8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAyWN9ba9J8)

7. My kids both knew this! :-O

8. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz_uq7ypZnc) is my favorite version. All girl band called Tuuletar

9. I used to listen to this when I was very little now I’m back to listening it thanks to OP yay

10. I like this version from an old film: https://youtu.be/le-GB7byrQA

11. This is somehow Russian sounding, to me it’s only familiar from finnish meme scene in 2008 or so. Definitely strong dialect.

12. I hate it from the number of times ppl I’ve met have been excited about meeting a Finn because of this somg

13. You can hear that the letter “d” is almoust every time spelled as “t”. But the one lady sings all off them in this song. And fun fact. There is only two words in finnish that contains letter “f”: Vilmifaneri and pesufati.

14. Nice catch! This is the version everyone copies these days

15. This is my favourite version of the song/melody.

    [Savitaipaleen Polkka – Cumulus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Sh5XRh83I&list=OLAK5uy_nyx7pDlAfXcDsqukcVlUN2jCZNNSN4jkU&index=14)

16. I take this opportunity to recommend some contemporary Finnish folk:

    Okra Playground:
    [https://open.spotify.com/track/3TPsya3vKEu9CrPorjhMV5](https://open.spotify.com/track/3TPsya3vKEu9CrPorjhMV5)
    [https://open.spotify.com/track/6syWmNAeAREihbKkiF5Jgi](https://open.spotify.com/track/6syWmNAeAREihbKkiF5Jgi) [https://open.spotify.com/track/1ySJd6XwWGKBbiduiqACAt](https://open.spotify.com/track/1ySJd6XwWGKBbiduiqACAt)

    Anne-Mari Kivimäki:
    [https://open.spotify.com/track/0nJ92J2uHdGDbEnvr3jlMd](https://open.spotify.com/track/0nJ92J2uHdGDbEnvr3jlMd)
    [https://open.spotify.com/track/3g8rK1lv3RHgIs6UwOFCfK](https://open.spotify.com/track/3g8rK1lv3RHgIs6UwOFCfK?si=d9e1b0735b4d4d6f)

17. Hatsune Miku introduced me to this in 2007 lol

18. *Looks at Ukkometso*

19. Plus this is the most Finnish looking group I’ve ever seen.