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}} ''Seili'' is the second studio album by Finnish pop singer Jenni Vartiainen. It was released by Warner Music Finland digitally on 31 March 2010, with the official physical release following on 14 April. From 31 March to the official physical release date, the album was sold at €19 in conjunction with ''Ilta-Sanomat''. The album was re-released on 14 January 2011, in a limited vinyl edition. The Finnish-language album, incorporating electro and synthpop elements along with melancholic piano ballads, is named after the island Seili (Själö in Swedish), located off the south-west coast of Finland. The album was produced and co-written by Jukka Immonen with Vartiainen writing also two of the songs. The main lyricists were Teemu Brunila and Mariska who contributed to the thematical dualism of the album—Brunila wrote the happier songs about publicity and finding love while Mariska wrote the lyrics for the songs that deal with darker and more serious themes, such as death. Another lyricist was Paula Vesala (from the pop rock duo PMMP). Vartiainen participated more in the production than with her debut album ''Ihmisten edessä'', by playing for example piano and kantele. Critically acclaimed for its vocals and successful combination of ballads and pop, though criticized for lack of peculiarity and a somewhat inconsistent song selection, ''Seili'' spent 62 non-consecutive weeks on the Finnish Albums Chart since its release—with 15 weeks atop the chart—and sold over 95,000 copies in 2010, becoming the best-selling album of 2010 in Finland. Altogether, ''Seili'' has sold over 150,000 copies since its release and currently ranks 14th in the list of the best-selling albums of all time in Finland. The album received three Emma Awards in February 2011: for Album of the Year, Pop/Rock Album of the Year and Best-Selling Album of the Year. The album included also two Emma-winning songs, the gold-selling singles "En haluu kuolla tänä yönä" and "Missä muruseni on", winning in the categories Song of the Year and Music Video of the Year, respectively.〔 "Nettiin" was released as the third single and the album spawned two promotional singles, "Duran Duran", which sold also gold, and "Eikö kukaan voi meitä pelastaa?". "Missä muruseni on" was the major chart hit, dominating the top-three spots of the Finnish Singles Chart from August 2010 to January 2011 and becoming the third-best-selling single of 2011 in Finland. To promote the album, Vartiainen embarked on a concert tour titled Seili, spanning from April 2010 to August 2011 and consisting of 170 shows. ==Background and composition== Thematically more polarized than its predecessor ''Ihmisten edessä'', ''Seili'' has been described as being based on contrasts as it deals with both darker and happier themes and combines elements of classical music with pop and schlager melodies with rock. Vartiainen has said the overall inspiration for the album came from the imagery of the movie ''Blade Runner'' and songs from the 1980s she used in her programs during her figure skating career. The name of the album symbolizes "a trip to an unknown island, an escape from normal life to the world of music" and the content of the album places "during the dramatical moments between 3 am and 5 am" when a day ends a new one begins and people are, as Vartiainen has put it, "sensitive to new ideas", due to either fatigue or intoxication.〔 Vartiainen attributes the dualistic nature of the album to her professional relation with the lyricists Mariska and Teemu Brunila, who Vartiainen is also friends with, saying "Mariska knows well Vartiainen's darker, more philosophical side". In an interview with ''Dome.fi'' in March 2010, Vartiainen said that while Mariska represents the dark and serious themes such as death,〔 Brunila with his lyrical products "goes towards the light" and that the point in the album is "to reflect on life and death".〔 Along with the two thematical polarities, the album deals also with tricky relationships and hunger for fame, as showcased by the Western-sounding〔 "Nettiin", which starts with a banjo and a bass and is literally about naked pictures, taken and publicized by an ex-boyfriend, and paratextually about the line between privacy and publicity.〔 The album introduces also more instruments than ''Ihmisten edessä''; Vartiainen starts the album by playing piano in the dark introitus "Koti" (''Home'').〔〔 The second song "Seili" is also dark-themed—the song is about the namesake island located in the archipelago off the coast of Turku where leprotic and mentally ill patients were sent from 17th century onwards, along with boards they could build their own coffins with.〔 The third song and the lead single "En haluu kuolla tänä yönä"—in English, ''I Don't Wanna Die Tonight''—goes on with the theme, though with an electronic dance beat that "emphasizes the will to live".〔 The fifth song and the third single "Missä muruseni on" (''Where My Sweetheart Is'') was written by Mariska who got the inspiration for the song while reading Indian erotic literature on her balcony on a hot summer's day.〔 The song is a ballad where the singer talks about being far away from her loved one and asks the wind to blow to the place "where () sweetheart is"—by November 2010, the lyrics had even found their way to Finnish obituaries and gravestones. The sixth, dance-influenced song and first promotional single "Duran Duran" is about discovering one's soulmate as the lyrics wonder whether "this is how it feels like when you find the right one" along with saying "Jenni can't escape this new feeling".〔 Vartiainen entered new musical territories also by playing piano and kantele〔 in the song "Kiittämätön" (''Ungrateful''), which is written by Vartiainen and Paula Vesala and deals with agony Vartiainen suffered from while growing up during high school.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seili (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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