Iceland ICELAND 2023 - Diljá - Power

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[ollibox]

Watched the final as well and the Elvis dudes were a surprise in the Superfinal. At least, the winner was clear before the final voting started
Personally, I was rooting for Sigga. But her live was quite underwhealming tbh. Probably the problem she was so low in public vote.
About "Power", I like it quite a lot. It was in my playlist since it was released. I prefer Icelandic version, but English is not bad, too.
I'll give it a and keep enjoying

 

[Loindici]

It was a landslide for Diljá in the final.

And Dilja won the jury vote, too.

It's weird that the jury points were like maybe some 100 points scoring wich then being projected in equal amounts to the public vote.

 

[Iker]

WTF, is this real? Are these public vote numbers? Almost ALL of Iceland's population voted?
Damn, they MUST love ESC
And I thought Estonians were crazy about that. 4 times bigger population and 4 times less votes in Superfinal
But yeah, our prices were the biggest of all the other countries, so...

Were they allowed to send more than one vote though? But yeah those voting numbers are crazy, the winner got much more votes than the winner of televoting in Poland (Jann with Gladiator who allegedly received 50k votes) and the population of Iceland is around ... 121 times smaller than that of Poland.

 

[Iker]

What a mess did I just watch? A girl in a 90s outfit sings an 80s songs with a 2010s drum n bass rhythm and a 2000s background behind her.
Oh dear Iceland, I‘ve always had a soft spot for you in Eurovision but this has to be your worst effort for the last 15 years or so.
3 pts.

THIS happened though. By far the worst Icelandic entry. And it finished last in its SF with 0 TV points and I think he wasn't even on the edge of receiving 1pt in the televoting in any country IIRC.

Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice - Iceland - LIVE - First Semi-Final - Eurovision 2018

Ari Ólafsson represented Iceland at the first Semi-Final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Our Choice. Read more about Ari Ólafsson here: htt...

www.youtube.com

 

[MooseShoes]

THIS happened though. By far the worst Icelandic entry. And it finished last in its SF with 0 TV points and I think he wasn't even on the edge of receiving 1pt in the televoting in any country IIRC.

Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice - Iceland - LIVE - First Semi-Final - Eurovision 2018

Ari Ólafsson represented Iceland at the first Semi-Final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Our Choice. Read more about Ari Ólafsson here: htt...

www.youtube.com

If I'm not mistaken, it even finished behind in the televote!

 

[Looren]

THIS happened though. By far the worst Icelandic entry. And it finished last in its SF with 0 TV points and I think he wasn't even on the edge of receiving 1pt in the televoting in any country IIRC.

Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice - Iceland - LIVE - First Semi-Final - Eurovision 2018

Ari Ólafsson represented Iceland at the first Semi-Final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Our Choice. Read more about Ari Ólafsson here: htt...

www.youtube.com

I actually thought it was a lovely entry

 

[Iker]

I actually thought it was a lovely entry

I noticed that slow ballads that strike me as corny you find ... lovely nearly always.

 

[Looren]

I noticed that slow ballads that strike me as corny you find ... lovely nearly always.

Am weak for cheesy ballads

 

[martin]

WTF, is this real? Are these public vote numbers? Almost ALL of Iceland's population voted?
Damn, they MUST love ESC
And I thought Estonians were crazy about that. 4 times bigger population and 4 times less votes in Superfinal
But yeah, our prices were the biggest of all the other countries, so...

Yeah i was also thinking the same. Last year and other year the winner have not getting so many votes. Maybe this going to be much more popular than we think?

 

[ESC94]

This is veeery middle of the road what serves us this year. It´s not unpleasant to listen and I like her voice, but I had some trouble understanding the lyrics because of her slurred pronounciation and one minute after it ended the only thing I remember is the "P-P-Power" thing in the chorus. Is that enough for the final?? I´m not sure.

I give Diljá cause it´s still quite ok for me.

 

[grazy2266]

Not a bad song gets a nice little 6 from me

 

[ollibox]

Were they allowed to send more than one vote though? But yeah those voting numbers are crazy, the winner got much more votes than the winner of televoting in Poland (Jann with Gladiator who allegedly received 50k votes) and the population of Iceland is around ... 121 times smaller than that of Poland.

You mean in Estonia? Yes, we could vote as much we wanted. Only our wallets were the limit
Obviouslly, the same was in Iceland, votes were not limited.

 

[aef]

Am I the only one that thinks that her voice is soo painful? Everyone seems to be like „ohmagad her voice!!!“

 

[Iker]

You mean in Estonia? Yes, we could vote as much we wanted. Only our wallets were the limit
Obviouslly, the same was in Iceland, votes were not limited.

Yup.

In Germany you were allowed to vote only once.

 

[DanielLuis]

If I'm not mistaken, it even finished behind in the televote!

The ultimate certificate for "your entry sucks"

 

[gingerale]

Po Po Po Power makes me feel very confident. It's a for the studio track.

 

[midnightsun]

In Germany you only had the right to send one vote from one number.

When and where? We usually have 20 votes.

 

[EscGeek]

Po Po Po Power makes me feel very confident. It's a for the studio track.

Are we sure we're talking about Iceland?

@1:10

 

[Iker]

When and where? We usually have 20 votes.

Someone confused me by writing that in German thread.

 

[Mrm]

Love this one.. And Im usually for national languages, but here I find a good decision to pick in English.. And Im surprised and sad to see the results in the poll here.. Expected more 12s and 10s tbh...

in the poll from me, with pleasure..