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🇳🇴 Thomas Jenssen Interview: “It has been a lot of work and a dream come true”

We are happily back again with our second interview from this year’s MGP. Thomas Jenssen, who you can see in the third heat of Melodi Grand Prix 2024, took his time to answer some of our questions. Today, we discussed his lifelong dream of competing in MGP, his homage to the local drag community, and what we can expect to …

🇳🇴 MISTRA Interview: “We hope you will feel like time is standing still for 3 minutes.”

The season of the national finals is amongst us and the always-early country of Norway is currently having its Melodi Grand Prix 2024 semi-finals. Thankfully, we have had the pleasure of speaking to some of the artists competing in the upcoming weeks. In this interview, we speak with Benedicte Adrian about teaming up with Andreas Odden, how much the Melodi …

ESC 2024: Will there be a change in the jury system?

It’s been one month now, since Loreen managed to become the second ever artist, to ever win the competition twice, as well as tying Sweden as the most succesful country in the contest, with Ireland. However, as most might even recall, she didn’t quite convince the televote and yesterday, the debate continued, but this time, it happened within a broadcaster. …

Norway: Alessandra releases the Italian Version of ‘Queen of Kings’!

Alessandra, the Norwegian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has today released the Italian version of her entry ‘Queen of Kings’. The release is seen as a signal to her Italian heritage. Alessandra states: ‘I can finally release Queen of Kings in Italian! It was a really fun challenge to translate the song, and I actually had to call …

NRK reveals “Adresse Liverpool” panel and opens applications for public jury

Each year prior to the Eurovision Song Contest, the Norwegian broadcaster NRK organizes “Adresse” to review the competing entries over four, one-hour televised shows. The show features a jury panel, celebrity guest, and public jury who each critique the entries, and then cast their points for that entry. The process is then repeated for the next 8-9 entries, and at …

Norway has decided, Alessandra Mele will head to Liverpool in May!

Tonight concluded the first of the Nordic national finals Melodi Grand Prix, and means we now have the fourteenth artist selected for Liverpool! Tonight’s show kicked off in the Trondheim Spektrum arena in Trondheim, the first time that the MGP final has been held there since 2020. Nine acts qualifier for the final from three semi-final rounds that took place …

Atle Pettersen Interview: “This time I just wrote a song about something I really care about.”

This week we snuck in a last minute interview with Melodi Grand Prix returnee Atle Pettersen thanks to the help of his publicist. Atle first appeared in the Norwegian national final back in 2021 as a pre-qualified act, meaning that he and his song “World on Fire” advanced directly to the MGP Final. This year NRK has removed the pre-qualified …

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