Well, where do I start? After a fantastic final by NRK, they choose the worst song of the lot to represent them in Latvia. I don't understand how a final with such superb songs can giveway to, well, a song that shouldn't have even been there in the first place. The overall winner was 'Jostein Hasselgård' with 'I'm not afraid to move on'. Another relegation for 2004 from Norway I'm afraid
Here are the songs that will take part in the 2003 Norwegian Final:
Title :You got a hold on me
Title: Han kom som ein vind (He came like a wind)
Title :Good evening, Europe
Title: I'm not afraid to move on
Title: Wonderful girl
Title: Anyway you want it
Title: So you say
Title :Don't stop
Title: One
Title: Put another hand in your hand
Title:Fool in love
Title:Perfect tragedy
Singer: Linda Kvam
Singer: Åse Karin Hjelen
Singer: Birgitte Einarsen
Singer: Jostein Hasselgård
Singer: Monopole
Singer: Ingvild Pedersen
Singer: Erik Jacobsen
Singer: Daddy Cool
Singer: Alfie
Singers: Bettan, Lotta & Kikki
Singer:Soda
Singer:Don
NRK have recieved 450 songs for MGP 2003. There are not many entrants that are well known within Norway but there some famous musicians hading in songs. The songs have been handed in in both Norwegian AND English and are of supposedly 'high quality'. They have recieved less ballads this year than any other year . The songs will be chosen by a secret jury on a date yet to be known. All the entrants who sent in songs to NRK will get a letter from NRK explaining if they have made it through to the next stage.
"Do you have a winning song inside of you?", with that slogan, the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK is having a promotion to find songs for the 42nd Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix, the national final for the Eurovision song contest. For the first time in a long while NRK are calling on the public to enter songs for MGP 2003. In recent years, NRK very often used an internal selection to find songs which would get into the final, but the last place in 2001, has probably meant the end to that system. The rules for Melodi Grand Prix 2003 contain the usual rules: a song can't last longer than 3 minutes, maximum 6 people shall be on stage, and the song shall be one that isn't released yet. Apart from that, the choice of language is free again. Noticeable is the fact that the Norwegian TV doesn't have any rule concerning the nationality of the artists, composers or lyricists. A proof of a lack of confidence in their own talent and possibilities? NRK expects all entries at latest before 15 November. The Melodi Grand Prix itself will take place 3 months later, on Saturday 15 February.