Eero and Ilkka’s Personality Test:

What Does the Sound In Your Pocket Tell Us?

Celebrity citation of the week:
Riitta Väisänen: ”There are more important things in life than mobile ringing tones.”
(Eero and Ilkka’s evening show October 30th, Radio Moreeni)

A man has a natural need to express himself. The mobile phone generation, lost in a faceless urbane environment, expresses its feelings through bleeps; the ringing tones of mobile phones are direct indicators of inner feelings.

Our investigators, Eero and Ilkka, downloaded a bunch of most popular ringing tones (popular hit songs adapted for phones) from the Internet. To top this survey these celebrities from Tampere tested some age old classic tones also.

So read on, now we well tell you what it means if there is a hymn bleeping in your pocket.

The trendy mobile rebel

”Käännä se pois” (translates ”Turn It Off”) by Apulanta

Eero: Behind this punk rock tone lurks a young and trend-conscious type. I’m a bit baffled though, what is this person trying to say? Turn what off? Ilkka?

Ilkka: Yeah, this is a dude smack in the middle of pre-pubescent crisis, who is trying his best to rebel against the capitalist society by telling everyone to turn off their mobiles...even if just for a moment!

Eero: Dumb little bastard. This guy makes a statement only when someone calls. What a rebel.

Classic old git

”Grande Valse” / That excruciating tone from Mäkitorppa’s Nokia-commercials

Ilkka: Three years ago this tone hid a person hopelessly out of time, but now this dirge is a sign that you have what it takes to appreciate old classics. This is a bit like ”Paranoid”.

The righteous hectic speedster

Hymn 332

Eero: The guy who chose this tone has absolutely no time for retreats or silent contemplation anytime anywhere.

Ilkka: This is a great idea. The more you talk, the more serene and pious you feel! For this urbanite every call is a prayer, an escape from the modern highspeed rat race.

The indolent recalcitrant

Ring Ring / The most normal ringing tone

lkka: The user of this tone is rebelling against the day’s ringing tone rhumba. He wants to keep his both feet to the ground and stay in the basics. He was the last in line to buy a mobile – he bought it after it became a necessity. His a mobile phone is a battle cry in the fight against mobile phones.

Eero: Based on this line of thinking some activist might try to turn Hämeenkatu into a pedestrian street by driving up and down the street with an eighteen wheeler, which has the text ”Car-free city centre” written on its side. Come on!

Eero and Ilkka are talk show hosts from Tampere. In co-operation with Aviisi they will test anything. Send a testing suggestion to eerojailkka@hotmail.com, and you can win some brand new cd’s. Eero and Ilkka’s evening show every monday at 18 to 19 at Radio Moreeni 98,4 Mhz.