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So it’s all kicking off in Iceland this weekend with the start of their selection process which goes thus – three semi-finals with eight songs in each with televoting deciding which three songs process to the grand final on February 17th, where nine songs will battle to represent Iceland in Eurovision 2007. Of course the song will begin in the semi-final due to Europe not voting the brilliant Silvia Night through to the grand final last year… boo!
So this weekend the first Icelandic semi-final will take place. RUV, the Icelandic broadcaster, have been kind enough to place this week’s set of eight songs on their website and let me tell you this – the drama, excitement and flamboyance of Silvia Night’s entry seems long forgotten. These are eight BLAND songs.
Well, they’re mostly all bland. Normally I would give a tiny review of each song, but most of them are so unremarkable that I’d be writing the same comment for each song. Six of the eight songs (that’s 75% folks!) are bland, male guitar ballads that are utterly forgettable – this is no exaggeration. Two songs do stand out though.
The best song of the lot is Blomaborn (Flower Children) which is sung by blond haired beauty Briet Sunna Valdemarsdottir. It’s rather reminiscent of fellow Scandinavian songbird Lene Marlin, and this song is rather sweet. It is by far the best song of the eight and if there’s any justice this will qualify.
The other song of interest is the final song, Enginn Eins Og Thu, which translates as Nobody Likes You. It’s sung by the only other woman in Saturday’s final, Adalheidur Olafsdottir, and is a weird, string orchestral piece that sounds like it’s plucked straight from a musical. It’s not your usual Eurovision song – it’s very strange! – but I bet it will appeal to people, and in such a bland Icelandic semi-final I should think that something as different as this would stand out.
Two other points of merit – the song Afram has a nice chorus, and song seven is sung by a bloke called Snorri Snorrason. Snorri Snorrason! What a comical name.
So the first of the Icelandic semi-finals will take place on Saturday, and the second and third the following Saturdays. After hearing this bunch of songs, I hope they’ve saved the best till last. Good luck to Briet though, it’s the only decent song in there!
So this weekend the first Icelandic semi-final will take place. RUV, the Icelandic broadcaster, have been kind enough to place this week’s set of eight songs on their website and let me tell you this – the drama, excitement and flamboyance of Silvia Night’s entry seems long forgotten. These are eight BLAND songs.
Well, they’re mostly all bland. Normally I would give a tiny review of each song, but most of them are so unremarkable that I’d be writing the same comment for each song. Six of the eight songs (that’s 75% folks!) are bland, male guitar ballads that are utterly forgettable – this is no exaggeration. Two songs do stand out though.
The best song of the lot is Blomaborn (Flower Children) which is sung by blond haired beauty Briet Sunna Valdemarsdottir. It’s rather reminiscent of fellow Scandinavian songbird Lene Marlin, and this song is rather sweet. It is by far the best song of the eight and if there’s any justice this will qualify.
The other song of interest is the final song, Enginn Eins Og Thu, which translates as Nobody Likes You. It’s sung by the only other woman in Saturday’s final, Adalheidur Olafsdottir, and is a weird, string orchestral piece that sounds like it’s plucked straight from a musical. It’s not your usual Eurovision song – it’s very strange! – but I bet it will appeal to people, and in such a bland Icelandic semi-final I should think that something as different as this would stand out.
Two other points of merit – the song Afram has a nice chorus, and song seven is sung by a bloke called Snorri Snorrason. Snorri Snorrason! What a comical name.
So the first of the Icelandic semi-finals will take place on Saturday, and the second and third the following Saturdays. After hearing this bunch of songs, I hope they’ve saved the best till last. Good luck to Briet though, it’s the only decent song in there!
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