Norway NORWAY 2025 - Kyle Alessandro - Lighter

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[Navn Navnes]

My guess is a pop song in english. Probably written by someone from Sweden, or at least someone inspired by Swedish pop music.

I hope i am wrong and that we send something risky again like joik without instrumentals, or a folk song in a remote dialect. But I would be extremely surprised.

 

[gigi_copp3]

Please, stick on the Norwegian/Nordic culture.
I loved Spirit in the Sky, Queen of Kings and Ulveham: all three matched with that folkloristic vibe, in a way or another.

 

[b4ld3r]

"The EBU needs to stop blaming the delegations and artists" — Norway's HoD Stig Karlsen addresses Eurovision 2024 scandals

"The EBU need to be more humble and take responsibility." That's the message from Norway's long-time Head of Delegation for Eurovision.

wiwibloggs.com

HoD Stig Karlsen says lots of interesting things in this article, but most relevant to this thread:

"Right now, it’s a tough task to get artists, songwriters, partners, and team members to engage and commit to the project."

 

[jatojo]

Ulrikke gets married today! There goes my dream.

Vg.no

 

[I bims]

"Right now, it’s a tough task to get artists, songwriters, partners, and team members to engage and commit to the project."

And that is the case in a lot of countries. 2025 will be garbage and I'm not looking forward to it.

 

[jatojo]

"The EBU needs to stop blaming the delegations and artists" — Norway's HoD Stig Karlsen addresses Eurovision 2024 scandals

"The EBU need to be more humble and take responsibility." That's the message from Norway's long-time Head of Delegation for Eurovision.

wiwibloggs.com

HoD Stig Karlsen says lots of interesting things in this article, but most relevant to this thread:

"Right now, it’s a tough task to get artists, songwriters, partners, and team members to engage and commit to the project."

Interesting? I find it very vague. Doesn't name one single example of what was wrong according to him. There has been a lot of vague criticism of the EBU this year. Probably because those who criticize don't want to commit to an opinion. It would be easier if people said: "We didn't want Israel to participate, and EBU should have banned them." Or: "The Netherlands should not have been disqualified."

 

[esc87fan]

Norway is in!

 

[Yoozek]

Can we, just once, get that Keino girl on her own?

 

[Neo]

For sure they would want Marcus and Martinus but that's too soon.

I trust there will be several good to choose from in MGP again.

Shame with the Gåte bombing. I was really hoping for folklore to do well now that Europe is getting more and more proud of itself singing more often in native languages, and judges not always going for the Billboard sounding and looking stuff. I guess too soon with that as well.

 

[SAYAY]

For sure they would want Marcus and Martinus but that's too soon.

I trust there will be several good to choose from in MGP again.

Shame with the Gåte bombing. I was really hoping for folklore to do well now that Europe is getting more and more proud of itself singing more often in native languages, and judges not always going for the Billboard sounding and looking stuff. I guess too soon with that as well.

The world was not ready

 

[SAYAY]

I wonder who will be in MGP2025 though.

 

[rasmuslights]

I wonder who will be in MGP2025 though.

tbh, I'm worried. A lot of Norwegians are pro-palestine (as they should be)

 

[Neo]

All we know for sure is it will be < 50% females and 25% DEI, 1 act for the older generation and 1 for the younger + maybe 1 'fun' act. Maybe even 1 LGBTQ act is obligatory as well these days. This before any song quality considerations.

 

[SAYAY]

tbh, I'm worried. A lot of Norwegians are pro-palestine (as they should be)

I could at least see that it would be difficult to get those who signed various petitions regarding participation/boycott of Eurovision 2024 in MGP2025. There was many big names who signed like Aurora, Dagny and Karpe. I dont think any of these 3 would be likely to turn up in MGP in the first place. But we also had some former MGP/Eurovision participants signing, like Ulrikke, Julie Bergan, Malin Pettersen, Silya, Ida Maria, Eirik Næss, Maria Haukaas Mittet, Gothminister, Elisabeth (Bobbysocks) etc. You get the idea.

Stig, our HoD/MGP boss is also officially leaving to pursue the stars (literally), sooo yeah, the new HoD/MGP Boss will have quite a job ahead of them. But if I understood correctly the line-up of MGP2025 will still be Stigs doing.

 

[njdevils94]

Officially confirmed that Stig Karlsen will be leaving the Norway HoD job starting in October.

Ferdig i Melodi Grand Prix

Etter 10 år som musikkansvarlig og prosjektleder for Melodi Grand Prix forlater Stig Karlsen jobben.

www.nrk.no

 

[SAYAY]

Officially confirmed that Stig Karlsen will be leaving the Norway HoD job starting in October.

Ferdig i Melodi Grand Prix

Etter 10 år som musikkansvarlig og prosjektleder for Melodi Grand Prix forlater Stig Karlsen jobben.

www.nrk.no

It is a pretty cool job opportunity he has gotten, so as much as I will miss him and his genuine passion for MGP/Eurovision I am also happy for him that he has gotten this opportunity As for now I can't really see who will ever be able to fill his shoes, but I think that's also because I still have not really recovered from this years Eurovision. Not really sure if I will follow 2025 season as close as before either tbh.... time will show.

 

[Mainshow]

He will be deeply missed.
We need more people like him questioning the impact of juries.

might not have been super successful most of the time, but he did them proud. I mean, went Top 5 last year, they won the televoting back in 2019, we got a folk metal song in Norwegian and a quality ballad in 2015.

The only "misfire" was that absolutely utterly horrendous entry by Alexander Rybak - but that abysmal song even won its semi.. so kudos to :no and Stig Karlsen who did a fabulous job - Melodi Grand Prix have become one of the most interesting and diverse and varied and incredible national finals as well.

Let's hope that the new head of delegation will continue that path!

 

[SAYAY]

He will be deeply missed.
We need more people like him questioning the impact of juries.

might not have been super successful most of the time, but he did them proud. I mean, went Top 5 last year, they won the televoting back in 2019, we got a folk metal song in Norwegian and a quality ballad in 2015.

The only "misfire" was that absolutely utterly horrendous entry by Alexander Rybak - but that abysmal song even won its semi.. so kudos to :no and Stig Karlsen who did a fabulous job - Melodi Grand Prix have become one of the most interesting and diverse and varied and incredible national finals as well.

Let's hope that the new head of delegation will continue that path!

I hope so too. I am kinda hoping the successor is Mona Berntsen or maybe Christine Dancke, but I sadly suspect its somebody else that I already dont really have faith in in terms of musical diversity :/ I hope I am wrong though.

 

[Neo]

Kudos to Karlsen. He lifted the quality a few notches.

Now it's time for a new one to make it even more refined. Dropping the TV-entertainment side of MGP, and just focusing on song quality, but knowing NRK I fear it will go the other way.