Norway – The Norwegian selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 will come to an end this Saturday. 8 artists will be vying to represent the 201o host country in Germany. According to the bookies, the big favourite to get the ticket to Düsseldorf is Stella Mwangi and her song “Haba haba” with an African feel to it. Only rarely a song is favoured that clearly by the bookies. Unsurprisingly the songs from the Second Chance round are outsiders. Here is the full list:
- Stella Mwangi 1.30
- Babel Fish 11.00
- Helene Bøksle 12.00
- The Blacksheeps 13.00
- Hanne Sørvåg 15.00
- Åste & Rikke 15.00
- The Lucky Bullets 30.00
- Sie Gubba 55.00
Please, NO!
i can’t believe it’s not more tight with Helene, and how come the supposed winner of round 1 Aste/Rikke are not above Helene?
anyway ive seen these before and im quite sure now “Haba Haba” will go to Olso, i guess they really loved Matador and enjoy that kind of music much
Olso? Is that French for Düsseldorf
LOOOOLLL
I agree, literary realism at its best.
The closest to Balzac we have in German literature are Fontane’s novels but he relies much more on symbols. Btw, the adultery novel in European Realist Literature is a standard class at German universities. They always do Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’, Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ and Fontane’s ‘Effi Briest’ but leave out Clarín’s ‘La regenta’, which is a superior text to AK and EB imo. What do you think?
Bonne nuit!
i don’t understand adultery novel, we don’t do themes or motifs studies, we purely do literary stuff so that doesn’t speak to me, it sounds a lot like american “gender studies” which are purely hated in France
but if you ask my opinion, “Le Lys dans la vallée” by Balzac should be honoured in comparison to these
You haven’t answered my question regarding ‘La regenta’. Have you read it? And on gender studies. I was a member of Munich University’s post graduate programme on Gender Studies a couple of years ago … and I hated it (in particular most of the very political members who didn’t even know how to spell aesthetics … I was fighting with them all the time … LOL). Well, the grant we got was ok though …
i can’t tell because i haven’t read Fontane but i still think Tolstoy’s superior… Tolstoy’s huge in France you know…
i was thinking of jessy in oslo, stella in dusseldorf and went too fast lol
it’s in XVIIIth century, and mostly due to Voltaire that they decided to “french” all the names abroad… back then French was the most valuable language in the World (America almost voted to speak French!) and Frederic of Prussia forbid German from his court for French… so that’s why nowadays Beijing is Pékin lol and Oslo is… Oslo now that one’s easy lol
Actually we have the myth that America almost voted for German as the national language…
and why would they have done that, when all XVIIIth century spoke French and France’s Lafayette went to battle against the English for America’s independance?
That’s an urban myth related to German dreams of world domination. (Sort of … we always made it! Like our so-called colonial empire when Germany occupied all the lands nobode elsy was interested in … collecting the leftovers …) In fact, German was the dominant language only in Pennsylvania (but that changed too during WW II for obvious reasons) and parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
well since I lived in Pennsylvania i knew about it, and there was a lot of dutch too, related that Quakers and Amish were welcomed only in that State, open-minded to religion thanks to William Penn. I knew for Minnesota and its strong german-norwegian communities (who doesn’t know of St Olaf thanks to Fitzgerland’s “Great Gatsby” and of hilarious american tv show “Golden Girls) but I didn’t know for Wisconsin…
it’s strange coz France’s urban myth is that we tried to be as strong as the Uk but failed miserably and made a huge mess in our actual colonies, but we keep remembering how Napoleon almost did it but failed too… our myth is that we keep trying to rule the world but fail at it (if people only remembered François Ier and Louis XIV and not just Napoleon and WWII)
Gosh, I really should refrain from multi-tasking. So many typos in one short comment:
* almost made it
* nobody else
Apart from aesthetics, the cultural constitution of collective identities has always been my main interest in literature. The things nations and communities come up with to shape collective identities border on the hilarious or tragic most of the time … (the vanishing Indian, the Victorian lady, the gay community in the AIDS crisis, Portugal and the returning caravels etc … the list goes on without end!)
Balzac?
One of my favourites … because he is not naive. He is the seismograph of the rise of the bourgeoisie and does not present unambiguous solutions when it comes to identity imo.
i love how he starts from the types, the physical, the “reality” and abstracts it, composes it, tells something and brings a perfect depiction of his time
I hope Helene will win:) Haba haba will be a summerhit anyway in Norway..its catchy!
Helene has to win. The other entries aren’t really my cup of tea.
agreed Marshmallow
(i like your name lol)
Haha.. but you know that my username is “Mainshow” not “Marshmallow” xD
too bad ! :p
If Helene wins, I hope she will perform in Norwegian in ESC too for keeping the spirit of the country. Like they did with Alvedansen
i really don’t see Helene changing indeed.. Alvedansen was the only song in Norwegian in MGP 2006 and it won, they kept it so, im quite sure Helene would too
youngers and schlagers will vote for Stella ; i expect all others and older people to prefer Helene and I do think Babel Fish will be the ones making the decision… Will older people vote for it, or will some schlager fans prefer this ballad to stella? whichever will imply the victory to the other one
Ohhhh … Alvedansen … that was soooo beautiful and my runner-up in 2006. (Nothing can beat ‘Lejla’!)
Well, I will say it here too: Åste & Rikke to Düsseldorf.
And … because there aren’t any threads on Andorra anymore: Please, come back Andorra! (I haven’t posted that for quite some time …)
nothing can beat Lejla, that too sould be recalled