HOME of the Bold and Brave: The Unstoppable Journey of Windows95man

At the crossroads of retro longing and post-modern invention, there stands his successor, ready to take heart and screen by storm; a Nordic demon of Danish decent that sprung fully formed from the head of the Finnish artist Teemu Keisteri, bearing in his cluttered settlement an Oracle PC running Windows 95, his hallmark Windows 95 T-shirt and jeans cut to indecently short lengths. Windows95man in 1995. Photo by GettyWhile Microsoft may no longer be providing support for Windows 95, the platform Windows95man is soon stepping onto to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is once again in the heart of the living room. We have returned, roundtrip. We have come to our own place. But why Eurovision? Why has Windows95man been granted such a platform, and why are fans all over Europe flocking to buy his merchandise?

The Making of a Cultural Icon

A Unique Origin Story

At the centre of Windows95man’s appeal is his creator, the artist Teemu Keisteri, who has made an entire career out of blending humour, nostalgia and critique. Windows95man is no exception. Dressed in full 90s regalia, his character is a love letter to the moment in time when technology was on the verge of altering reality. Windows95man doesn’t wear nostalgia, he IS nostalgia. He channels the possibilities and playfulness of the mid-90s.

The Eurovision Adventure

After all, Eurovision has always showcased flamboyantly fabulous and whimsically weird talents. What more could it want than Windows95man singing No Rules, complete with denim egg and fork and knife and lights shooting out of his crotch and gasps and boos and cheers from the audience? What Win95 does is enact for us a kind of practice of Eurovision’s celebrated profusion of differences, bringing part of his home to the international stage. Teemu Keisteri and his creation are not mere spectators in Umeå.

The Heart of the Contest

In an era when Eurovision is, in so many ways, more cultural phenomenon than talent competition, niche and avant-garde and downright weird, Windows95man is not an outlier, but a contender par excellence. His act, all cleanlines and shimmering charm, took the cleverness of the original, but substituted the woefully absent Clippy for enough sheer energy to light up a stadium. That’s Eurovision. That’s what it’s all about.

The Competition and Beyond

Though his competition for the top spot in the European gay chatrooms of gay Eurovision glory includes such luminaries as Ireland’s Bambie Thug and Baby Lasagna’s ‘Rim Tim Tagi Dim’, his competition just so happened to be the victory itself. Eurovision is famous as the place where charisma and staging regularly beat conventional advantage, and Windows95man is delivering much more than just a song – a story, in fact, this one about having the confidence to be oneself.

Marching to the Beat of His Own Drum

It is the embracing of self-expression that makes Windows95man himself so at home in Eurovision, an arena where trashy excess and costume constructions reach their zenith, and the freedom of creative self-expression has – aside from contest conditions – no boundaries. From his clothes to his body language, Windows95man is a living infomercial for the powerful effects of being yourself.

A Cultural Moment

Windows95man has become a mascot for our 90s fashion and media resurgence. But he’s more than just a character. He’s a cultural event. His Eurovision 2024 journey is a compilation of 90s nostalgia romantics, crowned with the dreamy vision of where we’re headed.

The Essence of HOME

Home, for Windows95man, is an era as much as a locale, an aesthetic as well as an address, a tender warm swaddling as much as a freight train of bold expression. This family of associations made ‘Open Windows95’ as impossible to resist as the nostalgic whirlwind it was. His rendition of Eurovision 2024, then, seeks to bring home to the rest of the planet; a version of ‘home’, nonetheless, that’s in the exclusive possession of nobody.

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However far you fans and amateurs – Windows95man and Gizmogo – take us, into the crazy cultural mix and competitions-of-all-sorts that endure, the lessons of home might still be a reminder, regardless of whether you fancy fishing from a dining table, your move involves relocation across countries, or you happen to require, as an artist, the most impressive podium in performance history. At the close of the day, it is in mastery of self, in honouring your innate gift of an identity, that true success lies – to adapt to the occasion and infuse life with an effervescence of your own.