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Melody Grand Prix 2025: Norway is getting ready for Eurovision 2025 with these 9 acts!

24Jan

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Melody Grand Prix 2025: Norway is getting ready for Eurovision 2025 with these 9 acts!

Norway’s Melody Grand Prix 2025: The Scandi Queens Are Back to Snatch Eurovision Glory! 🇳🇴✨ Darlings, pack your skis and prepare for some frosty fierceness, because Norway has dropped the nine fabulous bangers competing in Melodi Grand Prix 2025! These Nordic pop divas, power balladeers, and electro kings are all battling for the ultimate crown: a golden ticket to Basel for Eurovision. Let’s spill the tea, kiki about the acts, and get hyped for this Scandinavian showdown. Spoiler: It’s about to get very fabulous. The 9 MGP 2025 Entries: Who’s Serving What? Bobbysocks – "Joyful" 🎤 The iconic duo that snatched Eurovision victory in 1985 with "La det swinge" is back to make us groove once more. Hanne Krogh and Elisabeth Andreassen are serving us a nostalgic bop that's as bubbly as a fre...

Santa’s Gay Love is what we all need for Christmas

Santa Claus pictured in a gay-love relationship in this heartwarming Norwegian tv spot, and marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Norway (1972). The Norwegians Postal Services this year decided that yes, they wanted to promote their (apparently very reliable and on time) services, but they also wanted to touch the heart of millions of people… and not only in Norway. The clip depicts the developing and always stronger relationship between Santa Claus and another man, who he visits each Christmas over a number of years. https://youtu.be/tyQ6qD-u-J8 The clip is impressive, not only because it pictures Santa Claus in love with a man, but because it also touches themes which are very delicate and too many times left unspoken, such as loneliness and that feelin...

Eurovision 2021 – First Semifinal results and reactions.

The first Semifinal of Eurovision Song Contest 2021 has just ended and we have the first 10 finalists that will join the Big 5 and The Netherlands in the Grand Final of Saturday 22nd May 2021. So many feelings, so many emotions: we spent the whole night watching the event live from the Press Room in Rotterdam Ahoy Arena, and hey, did we have goosebumps the whole night! Two years since the last real Eurovision Song Contest (Tel Aviv 2019) and we finally had the chance to enjoy such a fantastic music show that the whole world enjoyed. Who are the finalists? Do we agree with them all? No! Absolutely not! Norway for example: a very weak staging; a very weak voice and we hope the back singers are paid good enough to save Tix’s voice every time he sings live on that stage; majori...