#menestynyt yksilö

[kindafooey]

Käärijä - Menestynyt yksilö (eng. successful individual), full English translation (by meeeeee)

Aight here's another one, also requested by @verminetroglodyte! I know someone else got to this one first and a translation already exists, but I really enjoy working with Käärijä's lyrics so I thought, what the heck, two cakes amiright? As with Aikuinen, I took some minor artistic liberties in order to stay as faithful to the original vibes as possible. I also added some annotations this time around, you can find those at the bottom of the post.

musta piti tulla jotain / I was s'posed to be something (x2)

haaveet kaatuu / dreams collapse

27-vuotiaana piti olla omakotitalo / at age 27 I was s'posed to have a house

oma piha, vaimo ja sopivasti kaks lasta koiran kera alla saman katon / my own yard, wife, two kids and a dog all under the same roof

se ei menny nii, ei / didn't work out like that, no

nyt poden etukäteen kolmenkybän kriisii / now I'm going through my 30's crisis in advance

tilaan tuopin ja heitän hynät tiskiin / I order a pint and toss my money at the counter

vittu mikä fiilis / my mood's all fucked

kulkuri laulava, kullan kimalluksesta kaukana / a singing drifter, far from the glint of gold

ei pahemmin naurata / ain't got much to laugh about

nuoren pojan mielikuvitus alko unelmist laukata, jotka voi nyt haudata / guess it's time to bury all those dreams that sent a young boy's imagination galloping

kiristää kaulasta, tuntuu et tukehdun, taisin liian ison palan haukata / my throat closes up, feels like I'm choking, I may have bitten more than I can chew

posin kautta / I try to stay pos

en oo toinen jalka haudassa (viel) / at least I ain't got my other foot in the grave (yet)

Chorus:

ku mä huudan "musta" / when I go "I was"

te huudatte "piti tulla" / you go "s'posed to be"

MUSTA PITI TULLA / I WAS S'POSED TO BE

(x2)

kullanhohtonen menestynyt yksilö / a gold-coated successful individual

eikä mikään hiton kummajainen yksiös / and not some damn freak stuck in a studio apt

taloyhtiön humalainen hylkiö / not a drunk outcast shunned by the housing cooperative

vaan kullanhohtonen menestynyt yksilö / but a gold-coated successful individual

Kela sano meistä tuli muurareita, taksikuskeja ja suutareita / Kela* said we grew up to be masons, taxi drivers and shoemakers

mut osast meist tuli pelkkii tunareita / but some of us grew up to be mere losers

turhakkeita joilla vesi tulee läpi kupareista (nou) / good-for-nothings falling apart from the seams (no)

jos sä tunnistat tästä ittes ni huuda jou / if you're feeling this, holler yo

MITÄ? JOU! okei, hyvä, lets go! / WHAT? YO! Okay, good, let's go!

oli tavotteita jotka piti naulata / had goals I was s'posed to nail

menestyä ja oma taverna aukasta / make it big and open my own tavern

mutta piti omat viikset kaupata / but instead I had to put my stache up for sale**

jotta sais punasta marlia kaupasta / just to afford red marli*** from the store

kiristää kaulasta, tuntuu et tukehdun, taisin liian ison palan haukata / my throat closes up, feels like I'm choking, I may have bitten more than I can chew

posin kautta / I try to stay pos

en ole toinen jalka haudassa (viel) / at least I ain't got my other foot in the grave (yet)

[Chorus]

no menikö sulla hommat niinku luulit? (ei) / so how about you, did things work out just as planned? (no)

oisko tänä vuonna parempi tuuri (ei) / maybe this year you'll luck out? (no)

entäpä ensi vuonna mitä tuumit (ei ei) / how 'bout next year, whadya think? (no no)

no sitä minäki, ollaa samas venees / Yeah that's what I thought, we're in the same boat

tän piti olla mun vuos / this was s'posed to be my year

niinku mä sanon joka hiton vuos / like I say every damn year

uudet kujeet, uus minä / new tricks, new me

mut mä oon edelleen sama hiton minä / and yet I'm still the same freakin' me

[Chorus]

musta piti tulla jotain suurta ja isoo / I was s'posed to be something huge and great

musta piti tulla jotain, mut ei lompakko liho / I was s'posed to be something, but my wallet remains lean

musta piti tulla jotain, piti tulla jotain / I was s'posed to be something, s'posed to be something

ees jotain, ees jotain / at least something, at least something

*This is a reference to a song by Anssi Kela that was popular in the early 2000's. It's generally considered an upbeat (overly so to some) and folksy song that makes fun of social class, but here Käärijä recontextualizes it as a song about privilege, which is interesting considering how poverty, unemployment and severe mental health issues among young adults have reached an all-time high in the past decade. Just throwing in some extra context here because I genuinely think most of Käärijä's lyrics have a subtext of exceptionally sharp-sighted social/societal commentary that deserves more attention.

**He actually did this a couple of years ago, he sold his mustache for 52 euros lol. The buyer showed up ag one of his recent gigs with the mustache in a ziplock bag. There's a hilarious video of it somewhere, I'll see if I can find it after posting

***"Red Marli" refers to a specific cheap juice that basically tastes like sweet non-alcoholic mulled wine. It's a popular winter drink and apparently Käärijä's vodka mixer of choice. He's made a super fun song about this weird spiced juice simply called Punainen Marli, I'm actually thinking of translating that one next hehe. (There's another intertextual cross-reference between these two songs, since at the beginning of Punainen Marli the listener is warmly welcomed to Käärijä's tavern, the one he mentions having dreamed of in this song.)

#käärijä #kaarija #lyrics #translation #menestynyt yksilö

[illbringyousolace]

"Musta piti tulla menestynyt yksilö"

Have this over half a year old painted sketch I doodled in class?

#i think it turned out cute #idk why i still haven't posted this #I didn't at the start because i keep thinking nobody wants to see my silly little art #but if you don't then that is your problem #käärijä #jere pöyhönen #menestynyt yksilö #art #mine

[ckb1077]

got too excited listening to menestynyt yksilö and threw my phone across the kitchen

"jos sä tunnistat tästä ittes, ni huuda jou!"

"jou!!!"

"MITÄ?!??!??"

"JOU!!!!!!!!"

then i realize the music has stopped. and my phone is no longer in my hand

#käärijä #as you can see #i like this song a normal amount #menestynyt yksilö

[fornowimwinter]

#käärijä #jere pöyhönen #menestynyt yksilö #im lazy shit so only low quality gifs #is that avatar form unity?

[gyunikum]

I wish I could tattoo käärijä's screaming onto my eardrums

#Z #Online #hirttää kiinni #menestynyt yksilö #God I fucking love his screaming/growling #Käärijä

[technicallycleverdetective]

Käärijä Battle of the Bangers - Round 1

#kaarija #siita viis #menestynyt yksilö #siitä viis #käärijä #jere pöyhönen #jere poyhonen #poll #menestynyt yksilo #battle of the bangers

[its-emimi]

Some Käärijä shirt designs I've made recently (just for fun, these are not to be used/reuploaded anywhere) 💚🦩

#these were nice practise #maybe someday i'll design my own merch lol #:') #käärijä #jere vantaalta #jere pöyhönen #kaarija #my art #emimi #menestynyt yksilö and rock rock are my fav songs #they truly are superior

[dancinghannigram]

jere studies bc he's a cutie :V

#käärijä #käärijä fanart #jere pöyhönen #huhhahgay am i righ- #listen im so happy with these wtf #fucken finally #anyway when the man puts menestynyt yksilö on the setlist u know its Real #is he okay 😭😭😭 #oyster art #fanart

[drugsforaddicts]

25/11/23

#menestynyt yksilö my beloved ❤️ #käärijä #my video

[little-ghosty-ghost]

Why does no one talk about the fact that menestynyt yksilö is such a sad song? Like, Jere, I want to wrap you in a blanket and feed you chocolate cookies to make you feel better, and I'll get Bojan on a plane to visit you just to make sure you're fine

That song sure made me sad

And then we have songs like punainen marli that is basically a love song for glögi... I love his discography

#käärijä #Fr tho menestynyt yksilö is so sad I didn't know that! #jere pöyhönen #I need a glass of glögi now #Too bad that I don't live in Finland

[omppupiiras]

some low quality photos

#käärijä #pakkahuone #my posts #so glad i impulse bought myself a ticket to the tampere gig way back when!! #i did it half as a birthday present for myself and half so i could wave our boy off to his big boy european trip lol #but wheee ee twas so cool to hear menestynyt yksilö siitä viis & morgan live!!! even if we didn't get the new song #i decided beforehand he was not gonna play it so i wouldn't be disappointed if he didn't and happily surprised if he did 🤷‍♀️ #but honestly i wish he would stop playing CCC twice so we could have more variety in the setlists 😭

[nationalnerdsociety]

listening to it isn’t enough anymore, i need menestynyt yksilö to be injected directly into my bloodstream

#menestynyt yksilö supremacy #it goes so hard #24/7 käärijä lockdown continues #käärijä #jere pöyhönen #jere from vantaa

[tuherrus]

once again some song themed stuff, this one for menestynyt yksilö

#käärijä

[formulalakana]

(made a new post because the previous one was really long)

when you see this, post 5 songs you actually listen to and tag 10 of your favorite followers/mutuals!! I was tagged by @kaarijalist, thank you so much! 💚 I hope it's okay I post this on my Käärijä blog instead of @willwallower ~

Joker Out - Demoni

Käärijä - Menestynyt yksilö

Jann - Gladiator

Tuomas Holopainen - The Last Sled

Samuli Edelmann - Juhlat alkakoon

I'll tag @btw-it-also-travels-in-time @inlovewithjere @waitinglistbitch @mournmourn @i-wasnt-ready-for-this

#thank you for tagging me! #about me

[yokyopeli]

Today, December 8th, is the day of Jean Sibelius, Finnish national composer, and the day of Finnish music, so I am finally gonna make this post I've been meaning to do for months:

Finnish music Käärijä fans should know.

Basically this is a collection of some music Käärijä refers to in his music. I'm mostly gonna do the songs on Fantastista and Cha Cha Cha Mixtape and the new singles.

Bomfunk MC's

Bomfunk MC's Freestyler (Viulunkieli) (1999/2019)

One of the biggest songs in Europe in '99/-00. They made a remake in 2019 that made people mad because the lead character in the music video was now a girl.

They had other hit songs you might have heard if you were alive in the early 2000s. The rapper, Raymond Ebanks, was one of if not the first black people to make Finnish rap.

(Darude Sandstorm 2000)

(Quick shoutout to fellow Eurovision participant Darude for this actual banger. Yes this is Finnish. The music video was shot in Helsinki)

Frööbelin Palikat

Frööbelin Palikat- Sutsisatsi satsaa. (1990s-)

Remember when Käärijä bought a shirt of A fan's back during a gig? Yeah, it was a Frööbelin Palikat shirt.

This is a kid's band from the 90s that was a part of all Finnish kids' childhoods. I chose this banger but there are many more.

Känkkäränkkä

Mikko Alatalo- Känkkäränkkä (1981)

This is the 'känkkäränkkä päivä' Käärijä talks about in Hirttää kiinni.

Anssi Kela

Anssi Kela 1972.

Kiertävä sirkus and Menestynyt yksilö refer to this song.

Matti Nykänen

Matti Nykänen Elämä on laiffii (2006)

It's Crazy It's Party.

Fintelligens

Fintelligens Kaikki Peliin (2003)

Today's new song Toiset Samanlaiset is a feature with Elastinen, one half of Fintelligens. One of the early people seriously making rap in Finnish. Käärijä has said he was a fan of them when he was young. This is a hockey song, so I went with that.

Moottoritie on kuuma

Pelle Miljoona Moottoritie on kuuma (1980)

Kinda referred to in Kiertävä sirkus but it's a fun song.

Laiva on lastattu

Huh hah hei starts with 'rakkauden laiva on lastattu' which is a reference to this game of 'ship is loaded with' and you pick a topic and then everyone adds to it. Idk if other people play that game. Anyway someone made a song for the game.

#Youtube #käärijä #finland #finnish #nocticola art #suomi #music #musiikki

[mitamicah]

A bit late, here's some angst for prompt 8 for @kaarija-inktober (Frank Edition); Doubt

Menestynyt Yksilö hits me hard having been in a similar position - I feel so bad for the little guy 🥺😭

Musta piti tulla joitan/ees joitan - I was supposed to be something/just something

#it was a bit of a quicker pompt today since I am a day behind #moving on to something more happy for day 9 :'D #jere pöyhönen #käärijä #käärijätober #käärijätober 2023 #mine #my own art