Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Norway looks and sounds the same as it always did. it's purple, Alexander sings well, JOWST's mask looks effective and a bit scary and the song flows and you are humming along.Nothing much happens but JOWST coming out behind his keyboard to the stage in the end to beat the huge drum. This is one of the hardest ones to predict I think. Everytime I hear it I like it a lot, but then... do I remember it? Not really. But the televoters react to the first impression and it worked in Norway, why shouldn't it work here? It's a cool act.

Norway follows suit of several countries this year just updating and adapting their national final performance to the stage of Kyiv. It's still purple, the positions are pretty much the same and like Finland had pimped the piano, Norway has pimped JOWST's mask. The burning question though is the prerecorded voices as according the rules they are not allowed. Call it sampling or whatever but.... EBU still hasn't said a thing about it and here they are rehearsing with the backing track so this might open doors for the future.... But this said I'm enjoying this more and more every time I hear it. 

Pictured is Norway's national flower purple heather Norway dropped the semifinals again and aimed all for a one big final. The international juries were brought back to judge the ten songs, handpicked from the recordbreaking 1.035 submissions and directly invited composers. The result was a very non-Eurovision like showing clearly NRK was aiming for something else than the standard Eurovision tune. Four of the ten international juries gave their full marks to JOWST while the other top marks were spread among three ther entries. The top-4 went to a superfinal where most of the televoters also bacled the duo and their Grab the moment , written by Joakim With Steen and Jonas McDonnell. JOWST aka Joakim With Steen (27) is songwriter and producer. He has released a couple of singles, and remixed other artists singles. Alexander Wahlmann (31) is singer and songwriter. He's claim to fame is a runner up place in The Voice of Norway in 2012. Now they are grabbing the moment to...