Posted November 12, 201212 yr From ESC Today: RUV, the Icelandic broadcaster have just announced the titles and the creators of the 12 songs which will be competing for the honour to represent the country in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. The performers will be revealed at a later date. A record number of 240 songs was received this year by RUV, out of those 12 have been selected to compete in this year’s Icelandic preselection which includes two semi finals to be held on Friday and Saturday 25 and 26 January. Τhe Final will take place the following week, on Saturday 2 February at the Harpa Concert Hall. All songs will compete in Icelandic but the language in which the winning song will be performed on Eurovision stage will be decided by the composers. From each semi final, the three most popular songs with the televoters will qualify to the final. The expert jury has the right to award one more song a Wildcard possibly raising the number of finalists to seven. In the final, after a first round of voting, a Super Final phase will determine which of the two songs with the highest scores from the combined televote and jury vote will go to Malmo. The 12 competing songs are as follows: Augnablik Music: Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson Lyrics: Ingibjörg Gunnarsdóttir Ég á líf Music and Lyrics: Örlygur Smári and Pétur Örn Guðmundsson Sá sem lætur hjartað ráða för Music: Þórir Úlfarsson Lyrics: Kristján Hreinsson Þú Music og Lyrics: Davíð Sigurgeirsson Vinátta Music and Lyrics: Haraldur Reynisson Ekki líta undan Music: Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson Lyrics: Ingibjörg Gunnarsdóttir Kem til þín Music and Lyrics: María Björk Sverrisdóttir Lífið Music: Hallgrímur Óskarsson Lyrics: Bragi Valdimar Skúlason Ég syng! Music: Elíza Newman, Gísli Kristjánsson and Ken Rose Lyrics:Elíza Newman, Gísli Kristjánsson and Hulda G. Geirsdóttir Til þín Music: Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson Lyrics: Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson og Ágúst Ibsen Meðal andanna Music: Birgitta Haukdal, Sylvía Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir and Jonas Gladnikoff Lyrics: Birgitta Haukdal, Sylvía Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir, Michael James Down and Primoz Poglajen Hjartað Music: Hallgrímur Óskarsson Lyrics: Hallgrímur Óskarsson and Al Hicklin Edited March 21, 201312 yr by Ryan.
November 12, 201212 yr Good to see the writers of This Is My Life and Someday there, as well as Eliza Newman. Fingers crossed she'll be singing her entry!
November 12, 201212 yr Hallgrímur Óskarsson? OH HI NU Ég trúi á betra líf KILL ME SOMEONE. At least Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson is in this bitch. We need another Leyndarmál to flop on our asses!
November 15, 201212 yr Birgitta Haukdal? I'm all for a return of the caramel bunny! http://www.mbl.is/tncache/frimg/360/5/17/517854.jpg
January 10, 201312 yr Author An article on the Icelandic broadcaster's website has confirmed that the following artists will be in the national selection: Magni Asgeirsson, Johanna Gudrun Jonsdottir, Birgitta Haukdal and Klara desire Elíasdóttir be among performers at this year's song contest. (Translated from Icelandic) Yohanna is back!!!! :cheer:
January 10, 201312 yr THANK HEAVENS. She'll doubtless lose out to some entirely undeserving untimely death but her presence is WELCOME at least.
January 10, 201312 yr Hreindís Ylva Garðarsdóttir Hólm and Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir are entering too! :wub: I'll be interested to hear Unnur Eggertsdóttir's entry as well seeing as it's written by Eliza Newman.
January 10, 201312 yr Author ESC Today has now revealed the full line-up of the two semi finals! RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster, has revealed the names of the twelve artists who will compete in the national selection for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The lineup includes various familiar names such as Yohanna (the country's representative in 2009) and Birgitta Haukdal (the country's representative in 2003). This is what the full lineup of Söngvakeppnin 2013 looks like : Semi final 1 (25 January) 1. Magni Ásgeirsson - Ekki líta undan 2. Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Ég á líf 3. Svavar Knútur Kristinsson and Hreindís Ylva Garðarsdóttir Hólm - Lífið snýst 4. Birgitta Haukdal - Meðal andanna 5. Edda Viðarsdóttir - Sá sem lætur hjartað ráða för 6. Yohanna - Þú Semi final 2 (26 January) 1. Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir - Augnablik 2. Unnur Eggertsdóttir - Ég syng! 3. Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir - Skuggamynd 4. Sylvía Erla Scheving - Stund með þér 5. Jógvan Hansen and Stefanía Svavarsdóttir - Til þín 6. Haraldur Reynisson - Vinátta Three songs will qualify via televoting from each semi final for the national final. The producers retain the right to award a wildcard, if necessary. During the final which will be held on 2 February, the jury and the televoters will jointly decide which two songs will proceed to a Super Final. The winner will then be decided by 100% televoting. All songs will be presented on 14 January on Channel 2 and will also be made available to listen to online.
January 10, 201312 yr Semi 1 looks like a bloodbath! Fantastic to see Yohanna and Birgitta back, in fact I'm probably more excited by the latter :D
January 10, 201312 yr Yohanna?!?!? Oh my good LORD. This year just keeps getting better and better!!! *DIES*
January 11, 201312 yr Yohanna singing a song named... 'You'?! Talk about anti-climax. Great they got rid of the third Semi. It's looking much NEATER now. Magni and Yohanna are going through the first Semi no matter what songs they have really. Birgitta I don't know... she participated in Eurovision literally 10 years ago after all :lol: Jógvan participating for the 3rd time in 4 years... worse for Magni as he's doing the third year in a row :D DESPERATION ISN'T SEXY. It really does feel like Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2011 all over again, doesn't it? :lol: Haraldur, Erna, Yohanna, Jógvan and Magni (a THIRD of the 2011 line-up LOL) ALL participating 2 years later! And they ALL qualified in 2011. Tough luck for all those other bitches. Edited January 11, 201312 yr by パーベル
January 11, 201312 yr Yohanna singing a song named... 'You'?! Talk about anti-climax. ...? Yeah, because Nótt was SUCH an anti-climax. Are we really judging songs by their TITLE?
January 11, 201312 yr ...? Yeah, because Nótt was SUCH an anti-climax. Are we really judging songs by their TITLE? Nótt WAS anti-climatic for me. And it's just PRE-judgement. I would never go around genuinely judging songs by their title JEEZ Tirren.
January 14, 201312 yr 'Þú' is so unbelievably boring and dated. SO I WAS RIGHT TIRREN. The intro and chorus of Magni's song are INCREDIBLE HOLY MOTHER OF CHRIST *.* Birgitta's song has something about it but it's still quite boring structurally being ridiculously safe. The quiet bit towards the end followed by shouting and an big ass finale note? Blah. 'Augnablik'. Stunning. Just fucking stunning. 'Ég á líf' sounds nice but is a bit boring. The singer's voice is soothing and pretty relaxing. The use of traditional sound is dope though. 'Stund með þér'. YEP for the second year in a row. Only this time it's not sung by a crazy wildcard woman in a see-through red blouse with a black bra. Last year's 'Stund með þér' > 'Stund með þér' 2013 though. It's just nothing special really. But could potentially be a grower. 'Ég syng!' is tricky. I can't really say anything so far. It's weird, but a good kind of weird. -- The rest when I get home from work ~
January 14, 201312 yr Birgitta's song has something about it but it's still quite boring structurally being ridiculously safe. The quiet bit towards the end followed by shouting and an big ass finale note? Blah. Love, you're listening to Eurovision. If you're going to start having problems with standard song structure you might as well GO HOME.
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