Valravn - Ólavur Riddararós

Eurovision 2003 - Number 17 - Eivør Pálsdóttir - "Í nótt"

If you want to know what's going to win my national final of the year, I'll spoil it now. Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2003 is seriously strong. Like Malta in 2002, Iceland and RÚV decided to just go for it in a big way. There's one act in the competition who hasn't made my top 48, who I think would have made the top 20 if she hadn't come up against two other Icelandic entries earlier in the bracket...

One of those who has made it through is Eivør Pálsdóttir. In the grand tradition of Icelandic female singers (including Björk) she was already the lead singer in a band at the age of 15. In Eivør's case, she was the singer of Clickhaze. In 2002 she was recruited to be the singer in Yggdrasil, a Faroese art-collective/folk super-group (Eivør is Faroese). 2002 also saw her move to Reykjavik to study music. When RÚV came calling, how she could refuse the opportunity to sing at Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins?

Í nótt (Tonight) is Icelandic bossa nova done just right. Far from the Nordic folk music, this is slow, chill and the whammy bar on the guitar is getting a good twanging throughout. Eivør seduces us with the most relaxed way possible. Her voices glides alongside the guitar in a haze of promises. The mood is languid.

Isn't this just absolutely everything you could want from a national final song? And it's only 18th in my list - craziness.

Unfortunately unlike nearly every other Eivør song, I can't find the lyrics - and that's despite this very song winning several song-writing prizes throughout 2003 and 2004. Given the praise this song has earned, it's only write to credit Fridrik Erlingsson and Ingvi Þór Kormáksson the song-writers. Ingvi has also written four other Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins entries, but this was his first.

Eivør has gone on to have huge success in a variety of musical genres. As well as winning Faroese of the year in 2004, she has a grand total of 18 albums, huge numbers of performances and concerts across Europe and perhaps best know outside her devoted following as the singer and co-composer of the Gods of War soundtrack. Many of her songs on YouTube have more than a million views, and her Faroese throat singing is a viral hit with voice coaches and reaction channels . Her Icelandic language cover of Den Vilda also made the Icelandic Chart

Eurovision missed out on this voice. Here's something from a live performance at the Town Hall in Torshavn - Falling Free.

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height: 5’4

star sign: spicy sagittarius

birthday: November 24th

sexuality: straight 🤢

nationality: american

current time: 4:46 pm

cats or dogs: dogs (aka I would die for daegal 🥺)

lucky number(s): idk

instruments: keyboard, bass (guitar mostly but upright too), violin, morin khuur, harp, vibes (and marimba, glock, etc.), timpani, other misc. orchestral percussion, and i would loooooove to learn the hardingfele

last thing i googled: covid stats new york

favorite bands: perfume, fatm, exo, nct (i honestly can’t decide which unit I like tunes from each), little dragon, wednesday campanella, daft punk, gjallarhorn, and wardruna

favorite soloists: aurora, mø, eivør, björk, solange, the weeknd, and dua lipa

song stuck in my head: ding dong by katya zamolodchikova!!

favorite song: atm maybe where you belong by little dragon 🤔

favorite emojis: 🖤✨ they remind me of that hex girls song that goes like we’re gonna put a spell on all of you!!

amount of sleep: last night 9 hours

dream job: musician

currently wearing: a sweater w/ my college logo on it + black sweats

dream trip: any Nordic country and/or Mongolia

last movie watched: i can’t remember but yesterday I saw a meme of that scene from marriage story 😬

last show watched: can’t remember!! im too dumb for visual media!!!!!!

top 3 fictional universes i’d like to live in: atla, i guess greek mythology??, and fuck it lemme say scooby-doo bc I’m a hex girl and I’m gonna put a spell on you 🤷🏻‍♀️

favorite author: Camus

favorite animal song: what does this mean

favorite food: steamed bun w/ purple sweet potato filling

random: yes i am rawr XD

when i made this blog: dec 2013

why i made this blog: i didn’t have anyone irl to fangirl about exo-m with

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✶ “ Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to! Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people! No skipping!” ✶

@shadeops21 tagged me and I’m doing this because I have a very random assortment of music that I like and I hope to enrich or enlighten (or bewilder) whoever clicks on these songs. 

1. Secunda- Skyrim Soundtrack

2. Slør- Eivør

3. The Bitter End- Placebo

4. Backdrifts- Radiohead

5. Never Goodbye- Max Richter

6. Memory- The Seatbelts

7. Dance of Curse- Escaflowne

8. Fate of the Unknown- Kingdom Hearts (World Tour version)

9. One Winged Angel- Final Fantasy Advent Children

10. Crystalline- Björk

And feel free to do this if you want. I’m not going to tag anyone. :)

Tag 15 followers you’d like to get to know better! I was tagged by @rithesse Name :: Elizabeth. I don’t like it and it’s all you’re getting Nicknames :: Lizzie, Liz. Guess what? I don’t like them either ^^ Gender :: female Star Sign :: Aries Sexual Orientation :: I’ll let you know when I do Hogwarts House :: Hufflepuff Favorite Color :: it depends on so many things tho! Favorite Animal :: again you expect me to choose one? Erm, cats, deer, squirrels, idek Favorite Fictional Character(s) :: how long have you got? I will list some non-Tolkien ones though: Siguður Óli & Eva Lind (Arnaldur Indriðason); Patsy Stone (Ab fab); Vincent Nightray (Jun Mochizuki); Rand Al’Thor (Robert Jordan. I’m only on book 5 so I could still end up hating his guts idk) Number of Blankets you Sleep With :: one, but it's a medium duvet not a blanket Favorite Band/Artist :: Jónsi, Sigur Rós, Eivør, Rökkurró, Björk, Faun, The Moon & The Nightspirit (that’ll do) Dream Job :: teaching English as a Foreign/Additional Language, or something backstage in news/radio When was your blog created? :: October 2013 I think??? Follower Count :: 280 Reason for making your blog :: I saw other people rping and back then there wasn’t an active Saeros that I knew of and I said I wanna do a thing and people said do the thing so I did the thing Tagging (no obligation to do this though): @turambar-masterofdoom @askrossiel @oropherrrrr @hasty-riser @mikhailvalhidris @tearfulmaiden @gildorsonofinglor @dunnalad @daeron-the-flautist @oceansode @thegreatstrongbow okay my brain’s gone

a list of musicians i like that nobody asked me for

a. armada, afenginn, agnes obel, ajj, the album leaf, amandine, american football, amiina, among the oak & ash, amy winehouse, analogik, andrew bird, angus & julia stone, anna ternheim, antoine dufour, aphex twin, arcade fire, art in manila, asobi seksu, the asteroids galaxy tour, atomic square, au revoir simone, azure ray, ásgeir, baby fire, bad books, badly drawn boy, balmorhea, balstyrko, band of horses, bang gang, beck, ben folds, ben howard, benjamin francis leftwich, beyoncé, the bird & the bee, bitter:sweet, björk, the black heart procession, the blake robinson synthetic orchestra, blind pilot, blondfire, blouse, the blow, blue foundation, bombazine black, bon iver, boris, brand new, bright eyes, brika, british sea power, britney spears, the burns unit, car seat headrest, cat be damned, cat power, cbmc, chairlift, charlotte sometimes, choir of young believers, the chrysler, city & colour, clogs, coconut records, cocorosie, cœur de pirate, colleen, corrine bailey rae, crystal castles, crywank, cults, dads, damien jurado, dan black, dandelion hands, dark dark dark, daughter, david robbins, dawn landes, days n daze, dead man’s bones, death cab for cutie, decoder ring, denzel curry, devendra banhart, devotchka, diet cig, diners, donora, dosh, drive me home please, the duke spirit, edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros, eerie summer, efterklang, eivør, el perro del mar, electric guest, electric president, eleisha eagle, elephant revival, eliza rickman, elliott smith, elvis depressedly, emilie-claire barlow, emilíana torrini, emily jane white, emmy moll, erin mccarley, explosions in the sky, faded paper figures, fallulah, feist, a fine frenzy, first aid kit, the flaming lips, flatsound, florence + the machine, florist, fog lake, the format, foster the people, fox, fox academy, frankie cosmos, the frights, ghost orchard, ghostronaut, gin wigmore, glen hansard & marketa irglova, gobbinjr, grandaddy, great lake swimmers, green day, gregory alan isakov, grimes, haim, hammock, helena, hello saferide, high sunn, hilmar örn hilmarsson, hope sandoval & the warm inventions, the hotelier, huma, hurray for the riff raff, ichiko aoba, in love with a ghost, indigo girls, infinity crush, ingrid michaelson, iron & wine, islands, jared mees, jaymay, jeffrey lewis, jem, jesca hoop, joanna newsom, johnny cash, jolie holland, josé gonzález, joshua radin, jóhann jóhannsson, jónsi, julianna barwick, jurassic shark, kate nash, the kills, kimya dawson, la roux, lady gaga, lana del rey, lenka, lily allen, lion detective club, lisa mitchell, lorde, lotte kestner, lulu & the lampshades, lykke li, lymbyc systym, m.i.a., mac demarco, manchester orchestra, margot & the nuclear so & so’s, marian hill, mariee sioux, marina & the diamonds, marla hansen, martina topley-bird, massive attack, mazzy star, melody gardot, metric, mgmt, the microphones, the middle east, the milk carton kids, mirah, moa, modest mouse, mogwai, molly drake, morcheeba, mount eerie, mountain man, mugison, múm, mø, natalie imbruglia, nephew, neutral milk hotel, nicole dollanganger, nitin sawhney, no vacation, nouela, nouvelle vague, of monsters & men, oh!hello, old gray, orchid mantis, ólafur arnalds, panucci’s pizza, the paper kites, passion pit, patrick park, penguin cafe orchestra, people eating people, phantogram, phildel, piano magic, the pierces, pill friends, pinstripe sunny, pity sex, plushgun, portishead, protest hill, purity ring, queens of the stone age, quiet giant, rachel yamagata, radiator hospital, radical face, radiohead, regina spektor, retsin, reykjavíkurdætur, richie woods, rihanna, rocky votolato, ryan stewart, ryuichi sakamoto, santigold, sea of bees, sea wolf, seabear, seahaven, sia, sibylle baier, sigur rós, simone white, slow hollows, sneaker pimps, soccer mommy, sohodolls, sóley, spleen, stafrænn hákon, starry cat, stateless, strfkr, sufjan stevens, sundae crush, supreme beings of leisure, the taxpayers, teen suicide, télépopmusik, this will destroy you, the tiny, tiny ruins, tonals, trentemøller, troels abrahamsen, ulige numre, vampire weekend, walter mitty & his makeshift orchestra, waxahatchee, the weepies, the white stripes, whitley, wild child, wishing, the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo, young the giant, zola jesus