LET'S REACT TO ICELAND'S SONG FOR EUROVISION 2024 // HERA BJÖRK "SCARED OF HEIGHTS" 

The way you pronounced Söngvakeppnin is giving Lynda Woodruff's Aze-ben-jan-jen vibes ❤😂

This was... unexpected. To put it mildly.

Man this is just Embers from 2021 listen to the chorus

I like the song - Go Tiffany, I thought it is veru positive and ''legally blonde'', ''barbie vibes'' - very feninine, girl power, positive energy song and catchy and I'm a. man saying this

Serbia is out now too🥳 its not my cup of tea but i have a feeling it’ll be liked by certain people for sure

looks like iceland wanted stay in semi😅

as an Icelander I'm so disappointed with this entry, a lot of people are saying their votes didn't go through for Bashar and the writer of that song wants a re-vote which is completely fair

Congrats to Hera and she won the national final performance and this is a party disco hit and it’s a booper and I really love the intro and also I’m doing Iceland next week and I’m sending my big hugs and this is my girl that won the final performance and it’s a nice good song Ballard from Geoff and this will do for my party in December on my birthday and maybe to see live for this year on tv in the summer time in may and came this month I might envite her one day some point this year in anytime so I’m interested of her song and country from Geoff

I feel you on the Demi Lovato comment 😂 personally i'm also getting Symphony by Clean Bandit from this.

I think it’s a vibe

I like it, but because of semi-final 1 I think it's a NQ

Personally pissed Sigga Ozk, 1 didn't chose to sing in Icelandic and 2, didn't get selected for Iceland.

Its great to see her back

"Out of the embers" 🎶 but make it Icelandic

I mean, the best songs didn't even qualify to its final, so there weren't even proper choices (maybe Væb were only kinda fun). NQ unfortunatelly for Iceland this year. Good for them for not using political card tho

Well.. im not that mad. It was one of the best songs and Hera is a legend (Icelandic version is allot better though). And i wanted Sigga Ozk to win actually.

Iceland could have sent Tiffany but instead they chose non-qualification. At least I'll applaude this sacrifice if it means that Ireland will manage to scrape into the final

I’ve loved this song since the start - she neeeeds to sing in Icelandic!

It's kinda hilarious that the twi songs with the worst rating on Eurovisionworld got into the superfinal.

Sorry Iceland, but truly, Semifinal 1 is the "death semi", very tough (though Semifinal 2 is also getting tougher by the day), and this just doesn't stand out in any way, so very likely NQ... Sigga or Anita would have been way better choices! Though that said, I'd still be upset if Iceland withdrew, please don't!

A definite NQ in my books. Sad about the confirmed sms voting error that they didn't correct.

I think iceland didnt want the political attention and choosed the most generic song in the competition with no risk at all bcz this is a definite NQ

Poor Noosh, probably had reaction to Bashar prerecorded waiting to be uploaded and had to take extra shift on this Saturday 😭 Love you!

I agree with you. My vote was for Sigga. But Hera was convicing in this performance.

I love Hera Je Ne Sais Quoi is top tier, but this song doesn't quite compare. I think Bashar was a very likely Q, but Hera is almost defs dead in the water in SF1. And thats coming from an Iceland apologist, theyre literally my highest rated country since 2009. Decent song but people will not be jumping out of their seats to vote for this over everything else in a televote only semi.

I Like it but I Think Iceland will be NQ .

NQ

had a similar reaction: after 2 min 30 I looked at my display because it was dragging on and on

Semi finals just got easier for everyone else.

@noosh101: I hope Hera overheard you saying that she still looks the same as she clearly lost loads of weight 😅

Iceland can be really boring if they don't send Hatari or Daði Freyr, and we've seen it once again 🥱

Uk called and want embers back.

This song is so good but because of the sf1 its a NQ unf..

It reminds me to sorry not sorry by Demi Lovatp haha

Here’s a summary of what happened: So, if you didn’t know already, Bashar Murad, who sang “Wild West” is Palestinian. And mainly because of the situation in Gaza, he was the huge favourite to win Söngvakeppnin, I believe he had 49% winning chance in the odds. Hera Björk was second in the odds but with a way lower percentage than Bashar. The superfinal consisted of those two acts. However, apparently, Yogez Segal, an Israeli group manager purposely encouraged Icelanders to vote for Hera instead of Bashar, because of something along the lines of “it would ruin the relationship between Iceland and Israel”. So I believe that definitely contributed to Hera’s win. Unfortunately Sigga was kinda out of the picture. 😭😭

People are sleeping on her. With good staging it could qualify because it’s a banger

The Icelandic televoting proved that the people react when the political games are so in their face.

boo

"Some Eurovision observers have speculated that Icelandic voters did not want to face similar issues with political disqualification, or that some may have been turned off by his dedication of the song to the Palestinians rather than to Iceland, the country he was supposed to represent. Murad’s connection to Iceland was born out of the 2019 Eurovision in Tel Aviv, when he met the country’s representative, the band Hatari, and recorded a joint Icelandic-Arabic song with them. Iceland’s national broadcaster was reprimanded and fined after the band members waved a Palestinian flag during the live grand finale." Accroding to "The Times of Israel"...

This is a sure NQ

😢🥱😮‍💨😓

It's very mid but I'm just happy Bashar didn't win tbh if only to prevent another politically dominated eurovision

Quite pleasant but not special enough.

Oh, it's s definite non-qualified

That song is boring AF

One of the weakest songs of ESC 2024