Re: ICELAND || WV 57: Árstíðir - Himinhvel || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have to tell you a message that’s isn’t easy to tell.
After more than one year and 19 editions I noticed it’s time for a change, time for trying something new. I will leave the country of my heart Iceland and move to the
United States. After I realized there is a possibility to become the juror of the USA I immediately knew that I have to take this step. Being US juror is a great challenge and the saying „USA is the land of endless opportunities“ is very true when it comes to music. I won’t stay in USA a long time but in the coming editions I try to send different songs from different genres that I use to love. Old classics as well as newer songs. Mainly Folk and Rock songs. And some instrumentals.
I can look back on a great and surprisingly successful period in Iceland and I have lots of amazing memories. Of course nothing can beat my win in WV 45 which I like to call miracle cause it came out of the blue. I will never forget how thrilled I was during the last scoreboards. That edition was followed by my host edition which is probably the most interesting experience I made and strongest memory I have in my mind. It was actually a stressful time but I only remember on the nice parts of it.
I’m very satisfied with my selections cause I think I represented Iceland in a great way. I’m lucky that I wasn’t in that dilemma in which I gotta decide between being successful and sending the songs I love. It’s great that the songs I love were appreciated a lot in this community.
Some stunning facts:
• I qualified for the grand final 13 times and missed it only 6 times. In the last 14 editions I qualified 12 times
• 7 times I grabbed a place in the Top 10 which is more than every third edition & ofc I won once
I have no influence of how successful I am so basically I have to say thank you to my loyal voters who made all this possible. So this part of this post is rather a part of gratitude than a part of „boasting about successes“.
One could easily think that I leave Iceland because I’ve got a lack of ideas given the fact that my last three artists were returning artist. Actually I still have a long list of artists that I’d like to send to the WV (including a nice „Retro“ national final) but these are plans for the future. Yes, I will return to Iceland. I don’t know the moment I‘ll return, maybe I have to be patient. However I think I will find a way
I thought about a doing a special LL „Iceland party“ on dubtrack in which I play all my Iceland WV songs but I don’t think that many people would be interested and I don’t like to be too egocentric
I’m just one user among of many (great) users and Iceland just one of many great countries taking part in this contest.
Anyway, I will upload an updated version of my WV recap including every song from WV 39 to WV 57. That might take some time since I reset my computer recently so I gotta crack Vegas Pro again and of course all settings and so on are deleted -__- #firstworldproblems Anyway, when it’s online I hope Staewi will put it in the starting post.
I know it’s already outdated and totally uncool but I wanna make a little
SURVEY
1.What was your favorite song?
2.Which song was robbed?
3.Which song was overrated?
4.Why did I send so few female artists?
5.Do you like Game of Thrones?
6.Do you enjoy Metal?
7.Why not? What do I have to do to make you enjoy Metal?
8.Your opinion: How well did I do as Iceland juror from 1-10 (1 = „leave WV or I will nuke your town“ – 10 = „I love your music, let me be your slave“)?
9.Shall I steal some of RainyWoods artists while being in charge of USA?
10.How many fingers am I holding up?
By the way, don't worry. I announced that Iceland's Britney will take part on WV and she will... however, not with me as juror
I think everything is written down. I’m done. Just a last song: