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Posted by: AdamAloud 21st January 2018, 01:07 PM

Iceland

Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice

Posted by: AdamAloud 21st January 2018, 01:08 PM

The 12 competing songs for this year's Söngvakeppnin are:

Aron Hannes – Golddigger / Gold Digger
Áttan – Hér með þér / Here for You
Ari Ólafsson – Heim / Our Choice
Fókus hópurinn – Aldrei gefast upp / Battleline
Dagur Sigurðarson – Í stormi / Saviour
Stefanía Svavarsdóttir, Agnes Marinósdóttir & Regína Lilja Magnúsdóttir – Svaka stuð / Heart Attack
Þórunn Antonía – Ég mun skína / Shine
Guðmundur Þórarinsson – Litir / Colours
Þórir Geir Guðmundsson & Gyða Margrét Kristjánsdóttir – Brosa / With You
Tómas Helgi Wehmeier & Sólborg Guðbrandsdóttir – Ég og þú / Think It Through
Rakel Pálsdóttir – Óskin mín / My Wish
Heimilistónar – Kúst og fæjó

and they are all on a scale from average to shit! If I HAD to pick a favourite, it would probably be 'Battleline' but even that's a 5/10 mediocre attempt at pop rock. I know Iceland's had a tough time at Eurovision recently but I can't see how any of these will make it to the final.

Posted by: Midge 21st January 2018, 03:02 PM

That's disappointing to hear, I hope it's just your opinion... they've been missing the final with some solid entries so to go downwards from that level of quality seems odd.

Posted by: ScottyEm 21st January 2018, 10:21 PM

I had a brief scan through and I agree, nothing here comes close to their last two entries so I also envisage a 4th consecutive DNQ. A shame, but this is a very disappointing selection.

Posted by: LexC 21st January 2018, 10:34 PM

Gold Digger is...passable at best and what I suspect will get the ticket from this crop but they best hope they don't get drawn in the same Semi as Mikolas Josef because then they'd get blown completely out of the water.

Posted by: jafetsigfinns 10th February 2018, 07:32 PM

Anyone watching tonight? Excited to see if any of these get better once I hear them live lol.

Posted by: jafetsigfinns 10th February 2018, 09:58 PM

So qualifiers of the night..

Ari Ólafsson – Heim / Our Choice
Fókus hópurinn – Aldrei gefast upp / Battleline
Heimilistónar – Kúst og fæjó

Fókus hópurinn were great even if they were just a little bit cringey. Heimilistónar were super random and hilarious but the song is shit lol. Ari Ólafsson was the worst performance of the night imo so I fully expect him to be the top vote getter.

Posted by: gooddelta 18th February 2018, 06:53 PM

I've finally listened to all 12 songs in this, they're overall slightly better than I expected but true that there's no obvious qualifier to the Eurovision final amongst this lot.

Gold Digger is pretty good in a 7/10 sort of way though his 2017 entry was better.

I really like the songs by Fókus hópurinn and Heimilistónar, so I'm glad to see they've both gone further. Also like Rakel Pálsdóttir's song.

Didn't care for the other eight much.

Posted by: jafetsigfinns 19th February 2018, 09:10 AM

I'm hoping we send out Aron Hannes if we expect to qualify for the first time in 4 years lol. Fókus Group and Dagur are also contenders but I'd say their chances of qualifying in the actual contest are slim (especially for Fókus). Everyone else remaining is average at best.

Áttan's performance was SO bad, it's so funny that all their 10 year old fans still voted them through. Can't wait for the juries to all put them dead-last come March 3rd <3 Nice kids and all but I'm not here for a 2/10 performance in Lisbon.

Posted by: jafetsigfinns 19th February 2018, 09:18 AM

For anyone curious this is all the acts who qualified for the final:



Aron Hannes – Golddigger / Gold Digger



Áttan – Hér með þér / Here for You



Ari Ólafsson – Heim / Our Choice



Fókus hópurinn – Aldrei gefast upp / Battleline



Dagur Sigurðarson – Í stormi / Saviour



Heimilistónar – Kúst og fæjó

Posted by: AdamAloud 19th February 2018, 12:58 PM

Mikolas Josef would eat Golddigger alive!

Posted by: ionderella 19th February 2018, 08:47 PM

Aldrei gefasst upp looks and sounds like the only good song here so hopefully they will win~

Posted by: jafetsigfinns 20th February 2018, 10:08 AM

Gonna go out on a limb and try to predict the results prior to the final. I will most definitely be way off at some parts (mostly Heimilistónar and Fokus Group could surprise me) but for the most part I think I'll be close to the actual results.

RESULTS
06. Ari Ólafsson - "Our Choice" (Jury 4th, Televote 6th)
05. Heimilistónar - "Kúst & Fæjó" (Jury 5th, Televote 5th)
04. Fókus Group - "Battleline" (Jury 3rd, Televote 5th)
03. Áttan - "Here With You" (Jury 6th, Televote 1st)
02. Aron Hannes - "Golddigger" (Jury 2nd, Televote 3rd)
01. Dagur Sigurðsson - "Saviour" (Jury 1st, Televote 2nd)

SUPERFINAL
02. Dagur Sigurðsson - "Saviour" (42%)
01. Aron Hannes - "Golddigger" (58%)

If there's a wildcard things will obviously shift but not by much. The only song I can imagine being added is Thorunn Antonia but that'll still just end up 6th or 7th in the final if that happens.

Posted by: AdamAloud 2nd March 2018, 03:30 PM

TOMORROW'S NATIONAL FINAL...
ICELAND



Söngvakeppnin

3rd March 2018
Begins at 7:45pm in the UK and Iceland.
The show is scheduled to last 2 hours 35 minutes.

Watch the selection via the http://www.ruv.is/songvakeppnin.

Running order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSy9OtgbsGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEoeC7ZqAAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJr39uwoIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWV0mT7Rmec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0zqf9Su83I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35wRaYj2ugk

Posted by: Martyn 3rd March 2018, 08:36 PM

Hello gang

Posted by: Martyn 3rd March 2018, 10:06 PM

Ridiculous voting format

Posted by: Martyn 3rd March 2018, 10:33 PM

Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice some how won

Posted by: AdamAloud 3rd March 2018, 10:36 PM

Iceland, I know you've been done dirty the past few years, but we don't deserve this.

Posted by: Martyn 3rd March 2018, 10:38 PM

This is very tragic reality singing contest winners single isn't it.

Posted by: Cameron 3rd March 2018, 10:39 PM

Another DNQ then

Posted by: Martyn 3rd March 2018, 10:39 PM

QUOTE(Cameron @ Mar 3 2018, 10:39 PM)

Posted by: Liаm 3rd March 2018, 10:46 PM

Christ this is right down there with Montengro's "effort".

Posted by: ScottyEm 4th March 2018, 12:10 AM

I made it to about 20 seconds and couldn’t go on. Even Ireland wouldn’t entertain this.

Posted by: Midge 4th March 2018, 05:28 PM

This sounds like something Embrace might've released in the 2000s lol.

I guess the Icelandic people are feeling a bit miffed about what to send. "Paper" and "Hear Them Calling" were both amazing (particularly the latter) and flopped. Other than Yohanna and Eithor, they've had a good track record with pretty meh entries so maybe this will work :/

Posted by: jafetsigfinns 5th March 2018, 10:52 AM

The nation is literally split in two on this song actually. People are claiming the phone lines for the guy in second place didn't work during the Top 2 battle and others are claiming that Ari cried his way to the final (he started crying after he performed) by invoking some sort of pity vote.

Idk, I personally hate the song but Ari looks like a sweet kid. I just have a very hard time seeing this doing any actual damage in Lisbon. Would have preferred pretty much any other song in the final bar Áttan.

Posted by: Midge 12th March 2018, 01:31 AM

I think I really hate this entry, it's just hideous