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OT, but quite impressed with the winner of Sami Grand Prix, Bycecilia - Mannem åajaldahtem. The voice is quite cool and song decent too. The Sámi Grand Prix, often abbreviated as SGP, is a Sámi yoik and song competition organized annually by the Sámi Music Festival organization (Northern...

The juries usually want to root out Europeanness, but there's been a shift where at least national language is accepted now. Ethnic music and thematics is probably too far, and we saw it in the national final when the international juries voted it down.

Well that was different.. :whistle:

Ah Ok thx

Wasn't this song in Serbian and Marija half Serbian? How was that received?

Can I just say 2007 Marija Sestic - Rijeka Bez Imena regularly pops up in the head unlike few others and has over the years turned out to be one of my absolute favorites? Beautifully sung too.

:12: .. from me. Right up my alley with heavy and ethnic. I'm also taken with Gunhild's performance. A very good MGP this. One of the best IMO.

IMO mistake by Gåte with that official video. Doesn't fit at all, and just 'demystifies' things. Yes they have a nice studio, but the video from the semi-final would have been much better to promote with.

Downvoting anything European and upvoting anything remotely Billboard has always been the jury way. (although recently improved to allow national language) Stars have to align for that to happen as juries wil undoubtedly vote it down. I lol'ed :ROFLMAO:

Listened to all now Still can't get over how many good voices and songmakers there are in tiny Iceland Clear favorite is Blankiflúr - Sjá þig I can understand Iceland considering to drop out because of the Gaza genocide, but IMO they shouldn't. No politics in Eurovision and the booing on the...

Damdiggida is not a venereal disease. It's when you pull out early.

But not sure it's really just up to us. And I don't just mean juries either. With Erika Norwich having 100K + followers on TikTok it's likely some of the diehards will manage to register as voters. I don't think the registration process is that strict at all. Just install an app and send off...

They do rig. That the last 3 songs in each semi went through to the final is of course no coincidence. The best songs were deliberately put there. KEiiNO last in the last final with the worst group says who they most wanted to go through. The recipe is clear: A fast act to start the show, then...

Absolutely they have favorites. The level of influence from articles on their web page, to the ordering of songs and semis, to selecting juries, and now even having 'judges' judging the songs during the show, is really astounding. I can understand it as Norwegians have weird tastes and are...

Surely means KEiiNO is lost and that My AI is going to take it as all the semis were the top 3 last. They just put KEiiNO first to be a party starter. Either a lot of Erika Norwich's international Tik-Tok followers managed to register to vote (using VPN or whatever), or that's just what the...