Let's React! | Gåte - Ulveham | Norway Eurovision 2024 

Deserving winner of ESC 2024!

no matter how many times I watch this its like im being spellbound! I cant explain it, but this entry DEMANDS attention!

What in the rock ballad just happend?😂😂😂Gåte from Norway did ❤🇳🇴 Thank you so much🥰🙋🏻‍♀️

Such a captivating entry from Norway, I'd be shocked if this fails to qualify

One of my favourites this year !

So Gåte's text is based on and distilled from an ancient ballad about a maiden who lost her mother when she was born, but later got a stepmother. The stepmother was so jealous of the girl that she transformed her first into a sword and placed it in the king's courtyard. However, the girl's inherent goodness also manifested in the sword, even though she had been changed into an object. All the finest knights and soldiers favoured this sword above all other swords, and the envious stepmother then transformed the maiden into a needle. The most skilled tailors loved this needle and sewed the most beautiful clothes with it. The stepmother grew even angrier and turned the girl into a wolf, cursing her to roam the forest forever, unable to rid herself of the wolf form unless she drank her brother's blood. And so it was. The maiden wandered through the woods. For eight years, the stepmother stayed indoors, afraid to venture out because she knew the wolf maiden was out there. But then she became pregnant and wanted to go to church. The wolf pounced on her, seized the stepmother's blue cloak, pulled her off her horse, tore out her heart, and drank her blood and thereby also her brother's blood. With that act, the curse and enchantment were lifted, and the maiden emerged, just as beautiful and kind as before, and returned home to her father.

Thanks from Norway❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

This is my favourite song this year! It gives me chills in a good way and their live performance has soooo much energy. Love them!

We will win! Gunnhild is a national treasure! ❤

Even though you don’t get the lyrics you do sense the darkness and dark magic. This is the story of an orphaned girl that’s cursed by her stepmother to wear a wolf pelt and roam the forest alone until she drinks her brother’s blood. Years later she encounters her stepmother in the forest and kills her. The stepmother is pregnant with a boy so the curse is broken at last.

Love it ❤

Now THAT’s a reaction! Well done, sir

The only reason Gåte didnt win with a landslide was because of the expert jury. They are very popular here in Norway and when i heard they had entered Eurovision i knew they would win Their concerts are amazing and i am so proud we are sending them

Great reaction! Love Gåte. ❤💥💪

Nice reaction! Gåte are outrageously good. This is not a performance, this is a whole experience. I love it so so much.

Thanks for this great reaction🤘 I’m so proud that we’re sending Gåte to Malmö with this amazing song😍😍 Yes, the intro is an old “kulokk”, and the chorus is inspired by this “kulokk” Ulveham (wolfskin) [Sample: Vocalization; Marit Jensen Lillebuen] [Verse 1] I was such a beautiful maiden My stepmother evil, my mother she died She turned me into a sword and a needle And sent me to the king's estate And the anger my stepmother felt the most That all the stately liked me best [Chorus: Vocalization] [Verse 2] Then she gave me skin like a grey wolf She cursed me to walk the forest alone And never will I bе whole and good Before I drink my brothеrs' blood [Chorus: Vocalization] [Outro: Vocalization, Storm] I then tore out her heart So her blood flowed free Then I got to drink my brothers' blood

I love your reaction. Thank you.

G Å T E 🥇❤️

The last time with Norwegian lyrics in ESC was in 2006, the song Alvedansen by Christine Guldbrandsen

Thanks for a great reaction! We really appreciate it.🙏🏼 Fingers crossed for the semifinales tonight. Greetings from Norway.🙋🏻‍♂️🇳🇴😊

Its a pity that ppl does not listen in beforehand, this grows, as Switzerlands song. I did not like them at first but they are both great. Sweden? Very sweet norwegian twins, not bad, but to mainstream. Love your reaction ❤

by far dark horse

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What she is doing is not a lokk, but a kauk. It's a very similar action, but kauking is between people while lokking is between a human and animals. She is not calling animals, but making her presence known, so it's a kauk. It's a bit esoteric though, so it's understandable that they just call it lokk, because that was used until much more recently.

Tusen hjertelig takk ❤❤❤

The violin-like instrument is a "Nyckelharpa" - Epic song!! Greetings from Denmark.

Thank you, Jaryd!

I like that you actually know the tale going in to this. Thanks 🙏

GAATE has been a hidden treasure for many years

We are very proud to deliver to Europe a proper rock band that has been doing this for over 20 years (in fact, I saw them for the first time in 2001!). Mixing folk, rock, electronica and pop in the most spellboundingly genuine way. This is music.

12 points!!!

Nice i.t crowd reference

Yeah, su reaction es mi rection. 😂 I adore this.

Thank you for pinpointing what you appreciated. After getting the least points, it is good to know..

Good react!

That part where you did not see that coming, is the ku-lokk. The rest is the story.

You know how to react, and your norwegian was so good.

Since you liked this, I suggest you look into their back catalogue. They've been around for a while. Look up "Svartebok" or "Kom no Disjka". Or both.

I am from Norway. I understand most of the song but not all

Ireland next they are ninth in the odds to win also great reaction

"Margaret Burger" 😂🍔

Im from Norway but i not understend wat she sey

just listen and talk after jaryd.. sry but I can not get a grip of the song with someone talking all the time and talking more about how it looks then the musik.. This is why the eurovision got boring and died, musik is not in focus anymore...