Norway – This year’s Melodi Grand Prix will feature 5 semi-finals in order to celebrate the 60 years of Norway’s participation in Eurovision. The national final resumes tonight with the second semi-final taking place in the H3 Arena of Fornebu. 4 participants will battle televote’s ticket for the final.
The 4 acts taking part tonight are:
- Raylee – “Hero“
- Maria Solheim – “Nordlyset“
- Daniel Owen – “Psycho“
- Ketil Stokkan – “My life is OK“
The hosts Kåre Magnus Bergh, Ingrid Gjessing Linhave and Ronny Brede Aase will first draw the two duels. The two winners of the duels will then face one another for televote’s tickets for the final. A jury already looked at the 5 semi-finalists of each semi-final and picked a winner to qualify directly to the final. Tonight’s jury qualifier is:
- Stavangerkameratene – “Barndomsgater”
You can listen to the songs here. The show starts at 19:50 CET and you can watch it here.
One song in Norwegian… I am rooting for that one even without having heard any of these songs. :) Good luck to these hopefuls.
And the direct finalist which will perform in this heat is also in Norwegian..
Raylee has indisputably the best song this semi for me, and would probably be my #2 or #3 of MGP so far, so I’m rooting for her. Even though I did like Out of Air, Stavangerkameratene is the Emil & Didrik of this year.
I really like Maria Solheim – “Nordlyset“!
I also like direct qualifier Stavangerkameratene – “Barndomsgater”!
I hope they are good lives..
Raylee is a big NO for me.. Last year I loved her entry for fun..I loved that scandi trash…but this is “taking serious path” now and it almost looks ridiculous.. :/
I’ve just listened to Maria’s song. I love the sound of the Norwegian language. I also like the flow of the melody and orchestration. It won’t go anyhwere, because it is not bouncy and flashy, which are major requirements nowadays in ESC.
It is in duel against Raylee, it will be out! :((
Yep. :(
Here we go! Hope everyone enjoys the shows tonight! I’ll be once more following both! Selena is sleeping on the bed and no pictures can be taken yet :o
Ketil vs. Daniel Owen (battle of the generation)
Raylee vs. Maria (battle of the genre)
The two better songs of the semi are competing against each other in second duel.
With Raylee having Q last year, I don’t think the other three stand a chance? But I havent listened to any songs yet :)
No, they actually don’t.
“My life is OK“ is AWFUL! Considering how much I hate Nor 90 no surprises (1986 is bad but not awful)
worst song of the season so far :o
EASILY!
Ketil Stokkan – “My life is OK“: I don’t dislike it. It’s decent but filler material. And he has the grandpa dance moves.
My life is OK : Oh my. . .
Daniel Owen – “Psycho“” Awful chorus. It took people to write this song.
Daniel Owen: how does anyone without any voice or any vocal talent whatsoever win Xfactor?! Very painful to listen to. The song is a very lazy rnb number? more meant for dancers than anything, and it’s not even catchy or memorable! I’m disappointed, he was at least cute :/
Psycho belongs to the 90s but it’s not without charms though heavily lipsynced :o
Well first duel should be won by Psycho for sure!
Daniel won
Raylee: I didn’t like her last year at all so I’m shocked by this? The song’s cool and the “all in your face” with the Flashdance 80s references but I love it ahah!
I hope SVT will have also this ULTRA HD stream for MF, so I can put it on big telly and watch! :D
Did Raylee just flash the toilet on herself? I must be quite lockdown-desperate to be watching this :-D
*flush
Raylee lipsynced through most of her performance. That;s a disgrace. Not even singing over prerecorded JUST lipsynced!
Agreed. There was nothing remotely “live” about this.
Really? She sounded off key for the whole song to me. Not like the recording.
Waiting for her 2nd performance
At some point she sounded painfully off key.
But when she wasnt she just lip synced. You can tell when the microphone moves away from her mouth but the sound is on the same level
Raylee – “Hero“: A disco schlager. Trying to ride Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia wave but it drowns. It’s harmless but if course it will Q and be a favorite.
I’m really surprised they didn’t make Raylee a direct finalist
Raylee, finally someone dressed in a NF exactly like most housewives watching it :p
Okay why this has Anna Bergendahl’s stage?
Okay so I wouldn’t mind seeing Raylee at ESC and she’s probably tied for first in MGP for me so far, but her styling is just too much to the point where it looks like a Halloween costume and that’s kinda cringe.
Maria Solheim – “Nordlyset“: lovely song, and at least very different to Raylee’s! How sad the two awful guys competed against one another! This could really get far in second chance and a shock surprise “superfinalist” in the final I feel! I just didnt like the live/look: the whole fairy in nature is way too cringe for me, and the mushroom?! lol
it had more potential than this live though, when she talks/sings early on, it sends me flashback of Norway 93, one of their best entries ever! However, this one was actually made to look low key too, and not in your fave with new wave imageries :/
Maria Solheim – “Nordlyset“: I prefer this one to Raylee without a doubt, It’s so sweet and low key of course it stands no chance against the boring schlalger.
The Norwegian song is harmless but it’s nowhere near 2006 f.e in its genre. The staging is too much in your face as well. Raylee wins it