interest to know the year songs from this year’s Danish Melodi Grand Prix is massive. Therefore, the DR together with the record company decided to send them out one day earlier than originally planned.
All tracks can be purchased at various music sites already, and Wednesday is the CD on the shelves in stores across the country.
Which of the nine songs that run away with the victory and gets honor to represent the Danish colors in the Eurovision Song Contest in May, you can see in the big Grand Prix finals on Saturday.
Energetic, gaga and high ceilings
This year’s youngest participant, 17-year-old Jesper “X Factor” Nohrsted, opens the show with Hampenberg wildcard-song ‘Take Our Hearts’.
- We have the atmosphere of Coldplay and the energy of house music – and we do it as fat as humanly possible, says Jesper about the track.
So Aya sings ‘Best Thing I Got’, written by the duo behind the Eurovision winner ‘Satellite’, John Gordon and Julie Frost.
- It’s a quirky pop song with a good melody in the center. It is a little gaga like me, says Aya.
The former lead singer of Aarhus band Neeva, Kenneth Potempa, then takes over with ‘Reach for the Sky’, which include written by Peter Bjørnskov from his old band.
- It is very uplifting number with high ceilings, as the title says, he says.
Flying, romantic and strong
The only box that has previously gone on a Danish Grand Prix scene, Ditte Marie, who last year performing with disco band Le Freak and now going solo.
- It’s delicate and whimsical and flying – and great and evocative, she says of her Swedish-written hit ‘Overflow’.
The Danish songwriter Philip Halloun and Finnish songbird Emilia appear together with their own piano duet ‘Baby Love Me’.
- It’s a good old-fashioned romantic love song that encourages people to live in the moment, seize the day and feel the love around them and express it before it’s too late, says Emilia.
Heidi Sørensen from 90′erpopduoen S.O.A.P. is back in the limelight. Now under the name of Suriya, with the electronic dansehit ‘Forever Young, IB’, which she helped to write.
- It’s dubstep – and this is the first time you hear it in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix. The text is about being a strong, independent woman who can fend for themselves. And if you can not behave properly, then you have to slip, says Suriya.
About youth, longing and insight
The field’s second youngest participant, Karen Viuf at 17, takes over with ‘Universe’ which is a songwriter Lise Cabbles contribution No. 11 to the Danish Melodi Grand Prix.
- It’s a really catchy. I have taken the text a lot to me. It’s about love and about being young and having the whole world in itself, says Karen.
The former busker Soluna Samay singing ‘Should’ve Known Better’, as the trio Remee, Chief 1 and Isam B. behind.
- It’s a song about loss and lessons to miss. It’s about appreciating what you have explained Soluna.
The last song is the only in Danish, ‘Waiting’, and with Christian Brøns and Swedish Patrik Isaksson.
- ‘Waiting’ is about love, understanding and insight, says Christian bridge, while Patrik Isaksson describes the song with these keywords:
- Powerful, sensual and sand!
