I was literally just sat here with UA-cam open thinking 'Is it VERY selfish to wish for another Novympia Eurovision video?' and the notification popped up! Treats galore! Spoiling us rotten, you are! 🤣❤️
I think the staging is great and the proof of that is she doesn't move AT ALL during the performance, but you're not bored once throughout the 3 minutes because of the light show and effects. It's great.
She said in interviews that she were dealing with in-ear issues, which caused some of the shaky vocals, especially in the beginning where nerves also kicked in due to the in-ear. During her superfinal performance she even takes it out early on and had much more confidence there, with less shaky vocals too. For their Eurovision performance they've said that the plans are to keep the same concept, generally improve everything about the staging, especially the lights and lasers. Some people have suggested more on the stage like dancers, but I don't think it would fit the song. And it would be distracting IMO. Saba is THE moment on the stage! As some people have pointed out, a couple of years ago a song like this wouldn't stand out. But this year we have a lot of alternative songs and a "generic" pop song like this might actually stand out in between it all. And you're right, compared to previous years where Denmark has struggled to qualify, people are actually liking this song! Currently number 10 on the overall scoreboard and people do enjoy it!
I know I keep banging on and on about this and in a UA-cam comment may well not be the best place but I don’t have another.. this week in particular your nightly uploads have saved me beyond the words. I could almost have some happy tears now at another one. I won’t but I could. Instead, I will thank you both with truly ALL that I can and ask you very kindly to keep shining your incredibly beautiful,accepting,inspiring and brilliant light. 🙂💜⭐️
I am loving all this Eurovision content!! Denmarks entry has gone to my 3rd place for me. The simple pop will as you say do well the general public as it’s so easy and has that pop base with it.
It is! I've seen people saying the word "sand" is repetitive (which it is not, not compared to a lot of other songs this year) and its a weird thing to say... yet it sounds great whenever she goes SAND! SAAAA-AA-AAA-AA-AAND! and the more you listen to it, the more you wanna sing along to that! Hopefully its something that sticks to people
As a dane, I am SO happy that we chose Saba out of the superfinal, since the other 2 were just very X factor-coded. I really hope we can finally get back in the final after 3 years of Non-Qualification 😭
I keep refreshing the app daily to see if there's a new reaction video out and you do not disappoint! I love hearing your takes on all of the songs, and I'm 110% here for the memes as well 😎
Nova’s Spyro The Dragon shirt has actually got me emotional. My bestie and I used to play, until she had to move to a different school, but it’s kept us together for almost 20 years. Love you Nova, and thanks for the nostalgia ❤
I really like this, nothing groundbreaking but still enjoyable, her voice is great and the light show was on point, the only problem i have is the fact shes standing on an Ikea coffe table, she needs a different Platform to stand on, they could maybe have some dancers on sand idk, its high on my list
Thank you for all the Eurovision uploads!! It’s been a delight! This song is good and I see it qualifying. For me personally, it middle of the pack. My current top 3: 1. Gåte 2. Raiven 3. Nebulossa
Loving all this ESC content from you 😍 I am loving Denmark this year. Cant wait for your Poland reaction. Also are you watching Melodifestivalen and if so im curious as to what you think of Cazzi Opeia. Please god I hope she makes it to the finals, that song is joyously Eurovision ❤
This one feels the most… familiar? of the entries you’ve reviewed so far. Very similar to “Shallow” in places, but it feels like it’ll do well. (PS, thank you for the whole trout sequence.)
I’m from Denmark - born and raised - still here! I haven’t had the chance to watch our songs or our winner. But thanks to you two I now have! I actually stopped watching Danish Melody Grand Prix because of the songs for the past… 8 years. Really bad I think. But maybe I should watch from next year?
I love Denmark's entry this year, it is in my top 5 so far. It is safe but if executed correctly, it could end up pulling a similar result as Estonia last year. The performance could use a few tweaks here and there to get it to this point 💛
Fun fact: Her earpiece malfunctioned during the intro and therefore it was a shaky start. It was also her first time performing in front of a large audience, so I guess nerves is to be expected. I have stage freight, soooooo 🤣 The song is partially "Swedish" as one of the song writers is Swedish lol 🤣 I wasn't to fond of this song to begin with but not gonna lie... it's grown on me since. Catchy and I love all the lighting.
My eurovision noob is showing but....Will we ever get another genre? I know its possible cause last year but........I can only handle so much poppatronic la la songs...HA! 😂
Top 3 songs for me so far, I agree that it’s nothing particularly challenging especially with songs like Ireland in the pack, but for me the chorus just grabs me and I will find myself humming the oohs subconsciously. I’m slightly apprehensive of it’s chances, but with a good elevation of the staging presentation, i can see this being something that people in the general viewing audience will vote for, especially people who enjoy the 2010’s throwback. Though I am very willing for it to do well
When I heard the first few seconds of this song, I thought it was Loreen singing. With some arrangements, it could easily be a Loreen song. I think its a safe choice
You say that this was your favorit of the Danish contestants. Fun fact in the Danish melody grand Prix, the points are 50/50 jury/telephone votes. If it had been only the danes telephone votes, Saba would have finished 3td. And Basim would have won 😮
This song sounds like it could be in a Target commercial to me. Something about the "ooh-ooh-o-o" vocal and the bland, yet upbeat piano music makes me half-expect a female voice-over to pop up like "buy our denim jeans 50% off now!"
i brushed this off as being too generic but it is earwormy as all hell, it won't leave my brain. Saba is a great performer, i'm actually a bit pissed that they keep uploading the version with her studio vocals everywhere because despite the issues she sounded great. she was the right (and only) choice for Denmark.
She did sing it all live and the audio we've used in this video is all live. The video uploaded to the official Eurovision channel and linked in the description however replaces the live audio with the studio cut.
I just can’t get on board with this song 🙈 the lyrics are so bad to me, heard it a million times before! Love Saba’s look, love her voice, I wish Denmark the best with it! 🇩🇰❤️
Why has Olympia got #3 and #10 missing on her Eurovision app? And what is Nova's #1? It goes to show the difference in taste as i have Luxembourg at #1. I do like Denmark it's bordering my Top 5 but then when you said it sounded generic and doesn't stand out i dropped it to 6th place. Czechia needs to be higher even though it sounds very Avril Lavigne. There are so many more to come like Sweden, Australia, UK, Austria etc. Maybe the favourites will change
I don't understand why ur saying gonna be a strong year when we don't even have a contender and all the songs so far would struggle to crack to 10 last year, maybe Norway and Lithuania, and the Eurovision sweetheart Ukraine 🤔
Yes apparently so - in fact her live vocals were replaced with studio vocals on the official Eurovision UA-cam upload of this performance because of this.
I wish you would of listened to the national performance on the night because it has definitely been altered on the UA-cam national final performance. Her are live vocals were not this good, she was shaky and very quiet at times. The light on the chest has been done before, Azerbaijan 2019. I don’t care but people keep banging on about Ollie Alexander can’t use a turning stage affect ,because it’s already been done before nonsense. So for that reason you have to criticise them all. Anyhoo, it was easily the best of the night , but the selection was awful tbh. It’s not in my top 10, very uk-esque for me. I think it will qualify because it’s in the weaker semi
The vocals in this video and the ones reacted to are the live vocals from the national final. We were aware the Eurovision upload replaced them and we worked around it 😜
Im from Denmark and i find this song so meh and forgettable. It wasnt the viewers choice, it only won because of the international jury. They werent even danish, they should not be allowed to vote in our national competition.
What has happened to this channel? 😭 No shade, but I keep waiting for you to drop your usual type of content but the last few months have been the same thing. Can anyone explain what the hell are Denmark and Eurovision? From what I can gather, it seems to be some television show? Is it a British thing?
Our usual content still drops on a Sunday exactly like before. Eurovision is an annual international song competition and all of our videos on the subject are supplementary to our regular videos 💕
So this series is gonna become annual riiiight
Would you like it to? 👀
@@Novympia absoLUTELY
YES!
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@@Novympia if so, ablisa
”I meant ablisa”
I was literally just sat here with UA-cam open thinking 'Is it VERY selfish to wish for another Novympia Eurovision video?' and the notification popped up! Treats galore! Spoiling us rotten, you are! 🤣❤️
one of my friends wrote this song! Her name is Melanie wehbe, she makes amazing music. I think you guys would like it! I'm so proud of her ❤
Loved her in mello last year!
I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG and it's my favorite!!! Idgaf about the fan favorites lol
I can appreciate that. It's tons better than most entries so far.
My number one atm!! Love this song
I like the part where she says “sand!”
🎶Saaand, Sa a aand, I can feel it down my crack🎶
I think the staging is great and the proof of that is she doesn't move AT ALL during the performance, but you're not bored once throughout the 3 minutes because of the light show and effects. It's great.
She said in interviews that she were dealing with in-ear issues, which caused some of the shaky vocals, especially in the beginning where nerves also kicked in due to the in-ear. During her superfinal performance she even takes it out early on and had much more confidence there, with less shaky vocals too. For their Eurovision performance they've said that the plans are to keep the same concept, generally improve everything about the staging, especially the lights and lasers. Some people have suggested more on the stage like dancers, but I don't think it would fit the song. And it would be distracting IMO. Saba is THE moment on the stage!
As some people have pointed out, a couple of years ago a song like this wouldn't stand out. But this year we have a lot of alternative songs and a "generic" pop song like this might actually stand out in between it all.
And you're right, compared to previous years where Denmark has struggled to qualify, people are actually liking this song! Currently number 10 on the overall scoreboard and people do enjoy it!
Loving these reaction videos, definitely keep going with these
I know I keep banging on and on about this and in a UA-cam comment may well not be the best place but I don’t have another.. this week in particular your nightly uploads have saved me beyond the words. I could almost have some happy tears now at another one. I won’t but I could. Instead, I will thank you both with truly ALL that I can and ask you very kindly to keep shining your incredibly beautiful,accepting,inspiring and brilliant light. 🙂💜⭐️
You’re making the juicy comment whilst nobody likes you? Ok
I can’t get this song out of my head. Sand! Saaaand!!!!
I am loving all this Eurovision content!! Denmarks entry has gone to my 3rd place for me. The simple pop will as you say do well the general public as it’s so easy and has that pop base with it.
Fully agree with you on this one. Love it.
It is the kind of song you want to play loudly and attempt to sing along with.
It is!
I've seen people saying the word "sand" is repetitive (which it is not, not compared to a lot of other songs this year) and its a weird thing to say... yet it sounds great whenever she goes SAND! SAAAA-AA-AAA-AA-AAND! and the more you listen to it, the more you wanna sing along to that! Hopefully its something that sticks to people
As a dane, I am SO happy that we chose Saba out of the superfinal, since the other 2 were just very X factor-coded. I really hope we can finally get back in the final after 3 years of Non-Qualification 😭
Jeg har det præcis lige sådan!
“Fucking trout.
Don’t leave! Don’t leave!”
A lovely insight into couple dynamics there 😄
That cutaway to the 'guy loving sand a bit too much' made me laugh so hard I almost coughed my lungs out. Thanks for that!
This is genuinely one of the better entries of this year. Wouldn't mind it taking number 1, I hope they keep this lighting situation
I keep refreshing the app daily to see if there's a new reaction video out and you do not disappoint! I love hearing your takes on all of the songs, and I'm 110% here for the memes as well 😎
Love this, and your newest video. Thank you for being one of the ones to do and say something. ❤
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Nova’s Spyro The Dragon shirt has actually got me emotional. My bestie and I used to play, until she had to move to a different school, but it’s kept us together for almost 20 years. Love you Nova, and thanks for the nostalgia ❤
It's one of my favourite games! 🐉🥚💜
Yesssss you girls are the best. Thank you for another treat.
I really like this, nothing groundbreaking but still enjoyable, her voice is great and the light show was on point, the only problem i have is the fact shes standing on an Ikea coffe table, she needs a different Platform to stand on, they could maybe have some dancers on sand idk, its high on my list
I'm afraid our entry is a bit too safe. But happy you loved it! Love from Denmark
I love your reactions to these. So great and hilarious.
Omg nova I love you for the Spyro shirt ♥
Thank you for all the Eurovision uploads!! It’s been a delight!
This song is good and I see it qualifying. For me personally, it middle of the pack. My current top 3: 1. Gåte 2. Raiven 3. Nebulossa
Loving all this ESC content from you 😍 I am loving Denmark this year. Cant wait for your Poland reaction. Also are you watching Melodifestivalen and if so im curious as to what you think of Cazzi Opeia. Please god I hope she makes it to the finals, that song is joyously Eurovision ❤
These videos are the reason that I’m gonna start watching Eurovision again
This one feels the most… familiar? of the entries you’ve reviewed so far. Very similar to “Shallow” in places, but it feels like it’ll do well. (PS, thank you for the whole trout sequence.)
Great commentary l am now a Eurovision Stan. 💕
about ireland, im so excited to see bambies staging, i feel like we havent seen their full potential yet
We are so proud of her, here in Denmark. Love her and the song ❤❤❤😂😂
Are you danish?
tal for dig selv. Den er dødsyg og kedelig, man har glemt den lige så snart den er slut.
“I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”
I'm afraid it's nul points from Darth Vader.
I do wanna mention that right now 2nd semi final's 1st half have ALL solo women. So standing out will be basically... impossible.
What is sand if not Mother Nature's gentlest lubricant? Well done to Saba.
Imo there are too many circus entries this year. Im happy to finally see a radiofriendly pop song!
I’m from Denmark - born and raised - still here! I haven’t had the chance to watch our songs or our winner. But thanks to you two I now have! I actually stopped watching Danish Melody Grand Prix because of the songs for the past… 8 years. Really bad I think. But maybe I should watch from next year?
Donna Reed smashing that record was perfect! I died! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would love love love to hear your reactions to Estonia!!!! 🇪🇪
It’s dropping today!
Not the sand guy cameo 💀🤣
Kinda gives me flashbacks to Take My Breath Away by Berlin. I like it more than most so far.
I feel bad saying this but sand kind of sounds like so many other previous eurovision entries
Love it, but I’m also the kind of person that loves a song you can belt out at the top of your lungs so maybe I’m a bit biased 😅
That's in my top 10 Patreon freezeframes
i share olympia's love of sand. i have it fourth behind norway, ireland and italy
I love Denmark's entry this year, it is in my top 5 so far. It is safe but if executed correctly, it could end up pulling a similar result as Estonia last year. The performance could use a few tweaks here and there to get it to this point 💛
Fun fact: Her earpiece malfunctioned during the intro and therefore it was a shaky start. It was also her first time performing in front of a large audience, so I guess nerves is to be expected. I have stage freight, soooooo 🤣
The song is partially "Swedish" as one of the song writers is Swedish lol 🤣
I wasn't to fond of this song to begin with but not gonna lie... it's grown on me since. Catchy and I love all the lighting.
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the ligthing desing looks very "inspired" by the Woodkid, Volcano Live ligth show....
"Sand! Sand! Who will come and buy this ruddy sand?"
I enjoy the song, catchy and boppy. However its incredibly derivative and i think its gonna be forgotten
100% this, i think the light show is lifting it a lot. I can see it at the final but idk if its even left side of the board
Oh, no. Novympia References Version 4 just got de-monitised because of 2:01 :(
If they really took it to the front door with the staging i could see this doing well BUT...we thought the same thing about Lucie Jones 😬
Right now Denmark’s gone to the top for me. It’s not revolutionary at all but it’s such a stunning song
Qualification is slipping through her hands.
The sand twink was a jumpscare omg
My eurovision noob is showing but....Will we ever get another genre? I know its possible cause last year but........I can only handle so much poppatronic la la songs...HA! 😂
2:03 noooo 🥲
Top 3 songs for me so far, I agree that it’s nothing particularly challenging especially with songs like Ireland in the pack, but for me the chorus just grabs me and I will find myself humming the oohs subconsciously. I’m slightly apprehensive of it’s chances, but with a good elevation of the staging presentation, i can see this being something that people in the general viewing audience will vote for, especially people who enjoy the 2010’s throwback. Though I am very willing for it to do well
When I heard the first few seconds of this song, I thought it was Loreen singing. With some arrangements, it could easily be a Loreen song. I think its a safe choice
I think this song is pretty and if she can nail the vocals, it will be great!
There’s no such thing as a “too long” video from you two.
Can't wait for the Hay den Christensen memes
The spyro shirt made me realize that Nova kinda looks like Bianca lol
You say that this was your favorit of the Danish contestants.
Fun fact in the Danish melody grand Prix, the points are 50/50 jury/telephone votes. If it had been only the danes telephone votes, Saba would have finished 3td.
And Basim would have won 😮
Okay, but the split was 50/50 and Saba did win.
This song is 7th for me just ahead of Ireland, same as Nova. I really like it but I agree, she needs to distinguish it more from Loreen
I do luck this one a lot. Not sure where it will stand in the end honestly
I have zero interest or exposure to Eurovision… however your takes on this event is compelling and I thank u
Between this and germanys always on the run, what would be the better song for a car commercial?
Came here to find the Danes kicking off that you compared Denmark to Sweden !! Lol
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This song sounds like it could be in a Target commercial to me. Something about the "ooh-ooh-o-o" vocal and the bland, yet upbeat piano music makes me half-expect a female voice-over to pop up like "buy our denim jeans 50% off now!"
i brushed this off as being too generic but it is earwormy as all hell, it won't leave my brain. Saba is a great performer, i'm actually a bit pissed that they keep uploading the version with her studio vocals everywhere because despite the issues she sounded great. she was the right (and only) choice for Denmark.
I know this is NOT the general consensus but Spain is still my personal no. 1 🇪🇸🦊
I’m not hating I’m curious. Did she sing it all live? Something looked a little suspish but could just be me seeing it wrong
She did sing it all live and the audio we've used in this video is all live. The video uploaded to the official Eurovision channel and linked in the description however replaces the live audio with the studio cut.
@@Novympia ahh that’s why! thanks gals
You should do a Welsh twins parody, pretty please
the emma muscat cutaways. i live for 😂
I just can’t get on board with this song 🙈 the lyrics are so bad to me, heard it a million times before!
Love Saba’s look, love her voice, I wish Denmark the best with it! 🇩🇰❤️
Not the sand gay clip omg 💀
Why has Olympia got #3 and #10 missing on her Eurovision app? And what is Nova's #1? It goes to show the difference in taste as i have Luxembourg at #1. I do like Denmark it's bordering my Top 5 but then when you said it sounded generic and doesn't stand out i dropped it to 6th place. Czechia needs to be higher even though it sounds very Avril Lavigne. There are so many more to come like Sweden, Australia, UK, Austria etc. Maybe the favourites will change
We blur out the entries we are yet to react to and reveal them as we go along 💕
@@Novympia Ah ok thank you for rectifying
🩷🩵💜💚🖤
Please do a parody of Grace Randolph from Beyond the Trailer!
Very Swede?! How very dare you Nova!!!!! 😂
Her voice is insane. I just can’t get over the cliche lyrics about building sand castles and all that. It cheapens it for me
How dare you show the video of Sand Gay!? 😂
Bring me reaction to Poland's entry!!! I beg ya!! I beg ya on my knees!!
We're getting to it - there's several entries we need to catch up with!
I don't understand why ur saying gonna be a strong year when we don't even have a contender and all the songs so far would struggle to crack to 10 last year, maybe Norway and Lithuania, and the Eurovision sweetheart Ukraine 🤔
Matter of taste and opinion 🤷🏼♀️
2:01 NO YOU DID NOT
Not that HATEFUL sand gay cutaway 😭😭😭
I find her vocally very weak, but I heard she had problems with her in-ear-piece?
Yes apparently so - in fact her live vocals were replaced with studio vocals on the official Eurovision UA-cam upload of this performance because of this.
Major Alicia Keys vibes
I wish you would of listened to the national performance on the night because it has definitely been altered on the UA-cam national final performance. Her are live vocals were not this good, she was shaky and very quiet at times.
The light on the chest has been done before, Azerbaijan 2019. I don’t care but people keep banging on about Ollie Alexander can’t use a turning stage affect ,because it’s already been done before nonsense. So for that reason you have to criticise them all.
Anyhoo, it was easily the best of the night , but the selection was awful tbh. It’s not in my top 10, very uk-esque for me. I think it will qualify because it’s in the weaker semi
The vocals in this video and the ones reacted to are the live vocals from the national final. We were aware the Eurovision upload replaced them and we worked around it 😜
@@Novympia ok fair enough 👍🏼
Great vocals but the staging and lyrics aren't it for me 🙈
way too generic, I kinda assumed this would be high up in Nova's ranking but Olympia I expected better of you!
Im from Denmark and i find this song so meh and forgettable. It wasnt the viewers choice, it only won because of the international jury. They werent even danish, they should not be allowed to vote in our national competition.
I'm not into it. She doesn't sing it well, the song's hardly innovative and there are too many lighting effects. Lots they can improve! 😅
written by swedes.
AND Pil who is danish.
please not the sand gay 💀
This song is so boring to me, its very much like a yoghurt ad song
What has happened to this channel? 😭 No shade, but I keep waiting for you to drop your usual type of content but the last few months have been the same thing.
Can anyone explain what the hell are Denmark and Eurovision? From what I can gather, it seems to be some television show? Is it a British thing?
Our usual content still drops on a Sunday exactly like before. Eurovision is an annual international song competition and all of our videos on the subject are supplementary to our regular videos 💕
Also Denmark is a country 😭