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She used to be big, way back in 2000 when she was the lead singer of a band called Briskeby. was their biggest hit, which did well in Europe too. It's been so long, and since she is a solo artist now it's almost like starting all over again with the audience. She has a lot of potential to be big again on her own, but Lise Karlsnes hasn't properly introuced herself yet. Participating in MGP will definitely change that, though. I hope people see her decent qualities and like what is surely set to be an amazing song!

I didn't think of that. You're absolutely right, Plumbo is much bigger than Publiners it seems, and with all this discussion going around because of this "Mokkamenn" thing makes a great deal of publicity for them as well. IF they ever managed to win (which would be awful :drama: ) it would be much better in english, in theory, but how someone is ever able to translate "Ola Nordmann" is beyond even me :lol: I don't think it would be the same, though, as they are very norwegian all together and the norwegian language comes with the package. It probably wouldn't feel right.

Ooh wow, this should be something for my tastes :wub: I've read some discussion on a norwegian MGP forum and as there are fans of Plumbo, there are equally as many who feel they shouldn't win at all as they can already tell it would fail badly at Eurovison. Publiners didn't win, but did good - so let's just hope people think more thoroughly before they vote in the final and keep Plumbo from winning. I mean, I do enjoy the song, but sending them to Eurovison? I would rather have The Carburetors winning, tbh :drama:

I'm very excited to hear Lise Karlsnes' song! If it's as good as people say in here, then I'm most definitely in for a treat as I loved Red hot :wub:

Exactly :drama: I'm very afraid of Plumbo in that sense, as they're practically singing "I love Norway" with everything about their sound and lyrics, which is obviously quite appealing to the norwegian people - and most them tend to vote with their heart and usually don't think about what could do well in ESC. What is this Tooji? Is their song really that good? Tell me about it :wub: What makes you say it could win?

Hey! I have never heard of it, and I absolutely LOVE it! So thank you so much for sending it :wub:

Reidun third place, The Carburetors second and Nora first :)

:P Well.. I'm not sure I remember why they choose to do it like that this year, but I don't think transparency is ruining anything in the final, though. In the past; songs can come from Siste sjansen and still go quite good in the final! I'm now trying to get hopeful that Minnie-Oh is chosen as the Wild Card! She must be!

From what she has said herself in interviews, she makes her own clothes and stuff, and has decided close to everything about her own performance! ^_^ I really enjoyed her song, though. It got better and better as it went on, and I thought it stood out. Not only in this years MGP, but MGP in general. She should've qualified :(

They're actually doing it by how well they did. So Malin got 3rd place, Tommy second and plumbo first place.

Didn't knew about that track, so I just listened to it for the first time. It's cool, fun, I like it, but personally I must say I enjoy Mariposas a lot more! It's got much more charm and personality. I also think Mariposas has a nice and clean production and a sort of gorgeous dreamy vibe to it :wub:

Of course I did! ^_^

MP3 packs are up. GO GET THEM! :w00t:

I'm sorry, it has a chance to qualify too, but it's just as likely to be voted for as any of the other songs in there :drama: It's wide open!

I better do my predictions before I get any votes in! :cheer: SEMI FINAL 1: 01. Republic of Sass : DJ Snake feat. Eva Simons - Pressure in the club 02. Ashton : Tone Damli - Look back 03. Numayania : The Storm - My crown 04. People's Republic of Jester : Twintapes - Pluto 05. N-Lazone : Ian Carey & Rosette feat. Timbaland & Brasco - Amnesia 06. Dalisska : New Look - The ballad 07. Hendinia : Tatana feat. Natalia Kills - You can't get in my head (If you don't get in my bed) 08. Daehun : moumoon - Sunshine girl 09. Allecian : Mercedes and I - Wintersnow 10. Aquafina : War Of Words - Battleground 11. Botanikka : Ria Ritchie - Only one 12. Armenijan : The Sounds - Tony the Beat 13. Juranabaijan : The 2 Bears - Work 14. Hogan-Burg Republic : Emily Osment - All the way up 15. Budtar : Marvin Priest feat. Wynter Gordon - Take me away 16. Sangria : Moonlight Breakfast - Still 17. Tinnmark : Andremo feat. Coco - Music is turning me on 18. Elëdan : Pyramids + Horseback - A throne without a king pt. 2 19. ChrIseland : Donkeyboy - City boy 20. Isconia : Escort - Makeover 21. Batidas : Studio Killers - Ode to the bouncer 22. B.a.N.G : Lydia Caesar - Lottery 23. Unovia : Dia Frampton - Billy the Kid SEMI FINAL 2 01. New Caprica : B.A.P - Warrior 02. FYR Vojvodina-On-The-Wold : Le Kid - Human behaviour 03. Syndare : SoSo - Who's gonna love me 04. Kluminican Republic : Paulina Rubio - Heat of the night 05. Fljótavík : Foxes - Youth 06. Danaelanda : Radio Killer - Don't let the music end 07. Persephonia : The Wonder Villains - Zola 08. FSR Rontvia : Prance Faris - Flares 09. Lievant : Mullyhaus feat. Little Neve White & The Snoopy Lads - Liar liar! 10. Caerfyrddia : Marigold - You and I know 11. Bignia-Zaragovina : Britt Daley - One and only 12. Zechonia : Meg Myers - Monster 13. Usfland : Jonas Alaska - October 14. Séyetana : Nightwish - Turn loose the mermaids 15. Scherzland : Vox Halo feat. LaDolla - Criminal 16. UnoShake : Skylar Grey - Words 17. Mdiče : MNDR - #1 in heaven 18. Kylienips : School of Seven Bells - The night 19. Farahtyn : Marirose - I want love 20. Espen : Moa Lignell - When I held ya 21. Ramrynia : Carly Rae Jepsen - Call me maybe 22. Kopečka : Lena Philipsson - Live tomorrow (Sthlm Mix) 23. Ojnoj : Christina Grimmie - Advice I don't know! Like I said I enjoy almost every song in both semi finals. It's way too difficult to predict! :drama:

It's about 13 minutes long :kink:

Don't you guys see, it's pushing boundaries :o It's revolutionary!

I like both of your entries too, so they are a part of why I'm going to struggle to vote :drama:

Does the mods want me to send my votes to the first person who sends me their votes? I can't remember if previous hosts ever did that, I just noticed Dandy doing it over at UP and wondered if I should do it too.

You know, when you say it like that :o Hmm.. you may be right :thinking: :kink: I wrote every nation on a piece of paper and drew them out of a hat :heehee: Thank you! :D

I'm using Maxthon, and the only reason I am is because I can swap every button around on the interface just the way I like it. Also, it has a VERY cool green themed skin :heart: Maybe I should download the latest version of Internet Explorer and give it a try with this. Never to use it again, that is.

I think the semis are balanced enough in accordance to what's possible in here. Were you thinking when it comes to songs or countries? Most people send pop, so I guess there will always be more pop overall. And glad you liked your part! I didn't listen to the whole ting, but I skimmed through a lot of it, and found that part to be the best part ^_^ I'm using Pinnacle Studio 12, it is a rather decent video editing software, it just takes a while to process on my computer :drama: Well, I could always make the link private, to hide it from everyone but us. Mediafire is my preferred uploading website as well, but it didn't work for this :drama: Although I did manage to upload it to 2shared. It just takes a while to download from there as the file is 180MB AFTER zipping! That must be wrong right? :(

Rules and information, voting list and host nation Greenfroze added to the opening post. Also, I managed to finish the music video recap of semi final 1, so please go check it out if you like :wub:

Damnit the recap video for semi final 1 didn't work the way it's supposed to! :( Numayania and Dalisska has no sound, and Hendinia and Daehun are too loud, among others. *sigh* Let's give it some tweaking, and try again! Oh and btw; does anybody know how to zip folders and upload them? I've tried, but it fails to upload everytime :drama:

Good idea! :heehee: No need to worry about anything else. I shall do that.