And it’s this pair – Greta Salóme & Jónsi with ‘Mundu Eftir Mér’.
It’s all very much “best of a bad bunch”. Although calling the rest of the line-up from this year’s Icelandic pre-selections a “bad bunch” is being generous. It was awful. AWFUL! We can’t remember a Nordic national selection process being so low on quality, since we started following them online in the middle of the last decade. So much TRIPE!
Anyway, Greta Salóme & Jónsi won the whole thing in the end, with their sweet performance. We’re not big fans of the song, truth be told. Although we can at least appreciate the drama-laden string production of it. And perhaps it will grow on us.
Anyway – as we try to forget the cesspit of a competition from which hence it came, here is what Iceland will be sending to the Eurovision Song Contest is May;
Haven’t you got anything else to report? Having a slow news day – so you try to invent some crap headline. Keep up to date – this song won their comp over a week ago. Unfortunately your musical taste seems very limited – the sugar pop stuff – and although the competition wasnt as good the Scandinavian countries – and they aren’t very often ( can you remember last years? ) there were some good songs. This one is BRILLIANT! Glad it won – and I think it will do well in Baku. Greta Salome seems like a really good musical talent. So go find out about her – and write something intelligent for a change!
I quite like the song. I don’t think it will win because its in icelandic but thats actually what makes the song sound so good. I can see a top 15 finish for this song quite easily. Oh and yes u had to pick tjis song. The others i heard were not up to standard in my opinion
Hm… a bit late with the “news” i see. This song is though fantastic! And the icelandic selection was not THAT bad! the song “Hugarro” was even better than this one! I do believe that a top10 position is very possible for this song! This song is a grower for sure and the juries will love it!
Not impressed..where’s Yohanna when you need her
Usually, I don’t comment on this website. However, this time I’ll coment, because my impression of Iceland’s “Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins”, was completely different from the one stated here. The song quality is way better than some other years (I usually have 5 songs from this contest on my iPod, and I even bought their mp3′s), and all the songs going to the final were the best ones I heard since I followed this contest in 2008. I agree that television quality is not spectacular, but what can you expect from a country in crisis. Instead, considering that, I think they are also sending a really good song; that could have a chance to get, at least, a top 10 place.
I agree. This year kind of sucked. Although I was rooting for Regína Ósk Óskarsdóttir with Hjartað brennur. It was mellow happy for me.
Really really surprised that you thought the final was bad, so many people were saying it was the best in years! I personally liked each song, Stattu Upp was my favourite