Congratulations Norway, you have a winner. Norway understands Eurovision.

First Norwegian rock/metal Eurovision song in 19 years. First Norwegian Eurovision song in Norwegian in 18 years. My favorite song selected so far this year.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Woaaah!! That’s amazing 😮😮😮 I’m glad to see that because I always enjoy watching performances that showcase their culture 🫶🏼

@PennyAfNorberg

4 ай бұрын

Folkrock

@susannradal9303

4 ай бұрын

Not rock/metal folkrock

I am from Ukraine, live in Germany, but i will vote for the Norway! WOW! 12 points!!! 🇺🇦💛💙

@Luredreier

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, also Slava Ukraine!

@sportmotion334

3 ай бұрын

@@Luredreier Geroyam Slava!

@dmytrodanilov9334

Ай бұрын

Також голосував за них!

@Luredreier

Ай бұрын

​@@dmytrodanilov9334 Thank you. It was humiliating that we ended up dead last in the final like that. :-/ I genuinely thought that we had a decent song this year. I thought that we'd end up in the top 5 at least, not dead last. But apparently most people didn't share our preferences...

@Luredreier

Ай бұрын

​​@@sportmotion334 I have no idea what that means I'm afraid. "Slava Ukraine" means "Glory to Ukraine" or something to that effect.

this is a FULL PACKAGE, amazing vocals, amazing song, amazing staging, I'm surprised no one is considering this as a contender to win eurovision. trondheim 2025 anyone?

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

I love Norway so much as a country that I wouldn’t mind that😁🫶🏼🥰

@The-Vega-Islands

4 ай бұрын

Dont get me wrong, i love Gåte and i love this song. My fear is that is this something Europe will understand? Remeber that 95% of people voting in Eurovision will see this 1 time and have to deside.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean by this which is why I would be interested to see how Europe reacts

I've been a Gåte fan for 20 years, and I was really excited about them going for the ESC. I suppose, it is kind of at the margins, so I don't know how well it will fare, but it certainly stands out, which counts for a lot in ESC. One thing to note is that Gunnhild, the vocalist has a lot of training. She grew up with folk music, was performing publicly at the age of ten, started Gåte with her brother at the age of 12-13, and met huge success with their first record in 2002. They also gained the respect of the local folk musicians and worked with some of the legends there. I was fortunate to finally make it to one of their last concerts of the first period in 2010. Between that, she went to acting school, had more training. She really knows this stuff. But then, she says, Gåte isn't that. Gåte draws from the pure forces of nature, that they aim to channel through their music. And if you ask me, it is very convincing.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

I would be very interested to see how it does in ESC, it’s an interesting one for sure 🥰🥰🥰 thank you for telling me the history of the band and the vocalist. Much love from me 🫶🏼

So happy people are getting the chance to discover this hidden gem of a band. Gåte has been a unique band in the Norwegian music scene since they came on the scene many years ago. So many good songs. This nomination is well deserved!

@Frienea

4 ай бұрын

As a big fan of gåte for many years I've never been this excited for eurovision before. Their music is not for everyone though which might give them worse results internationally sadlt

You are spot on, Folk Metal. We are sending what we know best this year. Also, last year we won, it was with folk music fusion, that time it was Rybak playing Folk-pop, I have full belief in Gåte

@ZironixNO

4 ай бұрын

Isn't it Progressive Folk Rock?

Oh yea! I 100% see this insanely amazing performance as a winner :) Listen to it at least 3 times and you are hooked

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

The more I’m listening to it, the more I’m into it for sure 🫶🏼

@bosspoke

4 ай бұрын

Yeah it didn't immediately grab me, but it grabbed me enough that I knew I had to listen more. It's a song that grows on you which is one of the best kind.

I love it so much, Im from Norway. Its a perfect representation of our culture, which is what Eurovision is about, sharing our culture with others.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

I agree with that, it’s always interesting to see the culture of other countries 🥰🥰🥰🫶🏼

@albinkarlsson9943

3 ай бұрын

It hits home for me as well as a Swede.

Hii! I’m Norwegian, this song was my fav in MGP and it has been 18 years since we last sent a song in Norwegian!! I subscribed to you🫶🏻 Fun fact: this song is based on a 1000 year old Norwegian folklore :)

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

18 years??? Omg!! That’s a long time. I bet many of you are very excited and proud to send this song off to Eurovision this year 🥰🫶🏼

@darcia3089

4 ай бұрын

@@Janaofficialmusic yes we are!!

@Balc0ra

4 ай бұрын

@@Janaofficialmusic Should have been shorter. As Tix won MGP in 2021 siging in Norwegian. But changed it to English when he was sent to represent Norway in Rotterdam

@darcia3089

4 ай бұрын

@@Balc0ra Yes! I don’t know why he changed it

@user-wp9ce1fo7o

4 ай бұрын

Впечатляет 🇺🇦

This is a winning performance. Beautiful.

I'm Norwegian and from the same part of the country that Gåte come from, and I've seen them live about 20 years ago and it was magical. Gunnhild sings like a Norse goddess. It combines folklore and rock and they are amazing ❤

I love this song so much. From the first time I heard it it was my favorite. I will vote for them. Good luck Norway ❤❤❤

The singing in the beginning of the song is "kulokk", tradditionally to call the cows to you. The text is telling a 1000 year old folklore story about an evil stepmother cursing her stepdaugter to be a wolf alone in the forrest. And the only way she can break the curse is to drink her brothers blood. Heia Norge 🇧🇻

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for explaining it to me!!🥰🥰

Gåte is amazing!! I think it has really Good chances of winning😍

Hello! Thank you for a great reaction video! New subscriber here. I'm from Sweden and I think this is the one to beat this year. Great vocals first of all and a nice and powerful melody, but this also has the whole package, great overall production, not a dull second anywhere. I love how she's surrounded by nature combined with the stage and camera moving and the lighting making it feel like it's very dark but still light enough to see everything like a moonlit night or a night with northern lights like you mentioned, the rays of light fit perfect and the videos of forest and waterfalls, not too much, not too little. The stage really feels alive and mystical. The energy from the whole band is also great. It's such a complete package, every second of the song. I also get shivers in a good way, just like you. The singing is always the most important part and she does it so well. She seems to be a force of nature and with a complete package like this I think it'll definitely compete for the top spot. Even if this might not be the music one listens to usually, is it folk metal?, it's almost impossible to not be affected by this song, a huge wow factor here. And being a quite unique entry is usually a good thing in this competition. Nothing too weird going on here. It's also in Norwegian, I love that. I don't think Sweden is ready to send an entry in Swedish for quite some time. There's already several very good ESC songs out and most likely many more to come so I'm sure we'll get a great competition as always but this entry have set the bar very high. Btw both me and my oldest son created NRK accounts so we could vote for Gåte in the final :) The top two were so close! 250 vs 244 points! Overall very high quality in the Norwegian final I must say! It was also very fun to watch the medley of earlier Swedish ESC entries sung by former Norwegian ESC artists and Carola! Thank you Norway and good luck!

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you ever so much for taking your time to write this comment!! What a legend, you are 🫶🏼🫶🏼🥰 I’m always interested to hear what other people think, so I appreciate this comment a lot. It will be very interesting this year for sure. Exciting!!!!

@MissCielle101

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching our MGP final and voting for Gåte! :) I absolutely l o v e everything about this song and I am very excited to see how it will do in Malmö.

@thessy85

4 ай бұрын

Takk🇸🇪

Absolutely amazing song. I was lucky to watch this performance at GMP Trondheim

omg you mentioned northern lights and the stage in Malmo is northern light inspired. imagine what they can do with the staging there?

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

I think it would look very coool!!!

This is very special year for me. Norway compete with a key harp as when they won 1995 with a Swedish artist on the key harp. This year ESC is in Sweden and we send the Norvegian twins compete for Sweden and i love it. I know Norway entry in Malmö we make the audience go completly screaming wild.

Omg Norway, omg omg omggggggg!!!!!!!!!!

Я впевнена, що цього року Норвегія переможе. Це є просто розрив! Вокал, чудові гармонії, продакшн пісні, ефекти, а головне, що не всіляка фігня, а тема добре представляє Норвегію. Обожнюю такі номери. Це абсолютний переможець, я коли побачила це відео, то одразу зрозуміла, хто переможе ❤❤❤ 100/12

@juliatymoshenko7689

4 ай бұрын

Пісня дійсно чудова, але трохи з Вами не згодна, у вокалі є нюанси трохи, є учасники других країн з сильнішим і мелодійнішим вокалом, та ця пісня дуже нагадує Bring Me The Horizon - Hospital For Souls. В першу п'ятірку дійсно увійде.

As a Norwegian I’m so happy we finally sent a song in Norwegian, and a song that perfectly depicts the Norwegian culture but with a modern twist❤ your video was super fun:)

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you ever so much for watching !! Much love 🥰🥰🫶🏼

It’s actually a very dark story, about death, blood and werewolfs😅 It’s inspired by (and have elements from) a 1000 years old Norwegian folk song used to call at your livestock. Ulveham means werewolf.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Noo way?? It makes sense now!! Hahah I’m so glad you explained it to me🫶🏼🫶🏼 thank you so much. What are the lyrics singing about?

@chaidie7056

4 ай бұрын

@@Janaofficialmusic The original ballad told the story about a girl who has an evil stepmother who turns her into a wolf and curses her to never turn back into a human unless she "drinks her brother's blood". One night the girl who has been turned into a wolf is able to kill the stepmother, which happened to be pregnant with her half-brother (thus drinking her brothers blood and turning human again). The moral of the tale is basically to stand up against evil forces. Not a very well-known folk tale, but quite interesting!

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Woah!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

@kizombahot4u39

4 ай бұрын

Those screams are the breaking free from the pain and suffering from that evil stepmother. So once understanding the song and the lyrics it gives like two more dimensions

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

It makes so much sense now!!!!

WIN 2024 eurowision

W I N N E R

Norway is outstanding, the voice, the nature, the Northern lights which are the staple of Norway, the lyrics of their folk stories… something out of this world. The best presentation of Norway, the dances of the musicians and the voice of the performer, all together is an amazing concoction. Like I’ve been to Norway though I’ve never been there. The jury and the people were so unfair. Applause to Ukraine and Finland who supported an amazing performance!

Takk så hjertens mye fra the spirit and soul of Norway 🙏❤️🌠🍀

This song is a master winning song in ESC because it is so different than other songs. The instrument is called nøkkelharpe in Norwegian, in english Key Harp. Look out for GÅTE this year in Malmø- Welcome to Oslo 2025.

I love your presentation of this - you enciceled up in the corner and the band the stage. Just love it . Great reaction. Love from Norway.

@Janaofficialmusic

3 ай бұрын

Much much love🥰🥰🥰

Thank you for the great reaction❤ Believe this will be epic on that Eurovision stage!

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Are you going to Sweden to watch ? 🥰🥰🥰

They were also told to rewrite the lyrics... the first lyrics were better in my opinion, but the song kept it's essence ! Still my favourite song and my winner for this year. Hats down yo Gåte for everything.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Oh really? Why did they have to rewrite the lyrics?? 😮😮😮

@SaetherOfficial

4 ай бұрын

​@@Janaofficialmusic The original text was lifted off a 1000 year old folk song

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

That’s pretty cool! Norway has such a rich history 🙌🫶🏼

@Balc0ra

4 ай бұрын

@@SaetherOfficial Should be noted Eurovision had no issues with the fact it was taken from a 1000-year-old text after reviewing it. It was the Norwegian broadcasting that hosts MGP that demanded the text be rewritten even with the official decision that it was okay

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Oh was it to do with copyright or something?? 😮😮

The best line you can take from this song is "I will never be holy and good" Its a song about ceeping your female stranght thru all difficuties, the lyrich are briliand, believe me!! :D As her voice!

Enjoyed your reaction video. Gåte is a well established folk rock group in Norway. I understand foreigners think this is very strange. But I think this will do well on the ESC stage. My favorite from Gåte (and Djerv) now, is called Svarteboka. Check out the Official music video. It is more heavy and dark metal. (Great for metal fans at least).

Very good reaction - sensitive and honest.

bro im from norway an i love this song it is so good i love it so much

I’ve been a huge fan of Gåte for about twenty years, so I’m possibly slightly biased - but I absolutely adore this song, and I think it will do very well at Eurovision. It’s quite similar in feel and background to the Ukrainian entry _Шум_ (from 2019, I think it was?), which came second. That one was electronic instead of rock, but I see them as very similar entries.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Oh wow!! They’ve been around for this long? Thats amazing!! They must be legends in Norway?🥰🥰🥰

@worsttaste.3464

4 ай бұрын

Shum is from 2021 and it came only 5th, unfortunately. (2nd in televote, I think, but the juries placed them lower so it ended in 5th(

@sugarinmywounds

4 ай бұрын

​@@Janaofficialmusic They are! They became a band in 1999, and got really popular in the early 2000s, with songs like "Bendik og Årolilja" and "Sjå attende". In 2006 they went on a long hiatus, briefly reuniting in 2009/2010, but only properly coming back in 2017. Which is around the time I discovered them. I'm so glad this MGP participation now gives them the chance to not only be introduced to a new generation, but also to Europe!

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

@@sugarinmywounds aww thank you ever so much for sharing with me this information, I appreciate it

@MissLoonasSpeech

4 ай бұрын

@@sugarinmywounds They did a small club tour in Germany in 2005, where I saw them in Cologne, and they also played at the Nordic Roots festival in the US the same year, thus if Gunnhild (who was just 20 years old then) hadn't decided she wanted to try something different and become an actress, I think they would have set out for an international career back then. Here in Germany, there are some bands mixing medieval music with Metal and they are doing quite well, so I'd say there's definitely a market for the music Gåte play. In spite of being German, those German bands don't do much for me, whereas I absolutely love Gåte! Gåte sound much rawer/more untamed and darker than those German bands and Gunnhild is one of my favourite vocalists. For the same reasons, I also like the Norwegian band Bergtatt very much, which is the band of the guy playing nøkkelharpe (English: keyed fiddle) with Gåte in their MGP-performance.

Nobody can seem to explain the lack of votes. - The crowd loved it. - The commentators loved it. - The fans loved it. - The world loved it - And it's clearly the best quality song of the top 20. But, uh, no votes apparently 🤔

@ju3054

20 күн бұрын

Top 3 of I could say so

The beginning of the song is a thousand years old to lure to get the cows to come home for the evening.

Gåte was the right winner.

This song not winning would say a lot about the general lack of taste in music throughout Europe.

@EclipseHighroller

4 ай бұрын

Take out “not” and your comment would be accurate.

@user-vr6qf7vg9j

4 ай бұрын

@@EclipseHighroller sure, furry...

Takk så mye fra hjertet av Norges GÅTE❤❤❤

Her voice gives me goosebumps....

❤🎉🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻👏👏👏👏

3:45 not the dude with the guitar. Listen to what's missing in the sound at that time. That's the bassist, he wouldn't spin his bass if he was supposed to be playing

They Are singing a song from 1000 years ago. So you Are right on The spot. They sing about something that Hollywood would eat alive. A young maiden being shunned and captured in a Wolf skin, her stepmorher hates her, therefore The shun,tries to show of The needles and stiches to The king. Fails. Meets her stepbrother and drinks his blood and no more evil stepmother. So maybe a nordic take on Cinderella. You know, We like it dark 😉

@ahkkariq7406

4 ай бұрын

The story exists in different versions in the Nordic countries, as such old stories often do. Presumably it also has relatives outside the Nordic countries. I have seen it claimed that this story (possibly in a related variation) is actually the origin of Cinderella. Such ancient stories were usually far bloodier than their current remains.

Gåte can definitely play their instruments live, but they are not doing it here as it's against the MGP and ESC rules (for logistical reasons).

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Whaaaaaat??? They didn’t play it live??😩😩😩😩😩

@kennet7837

4 ай бұрын

@@Janaofficialmusic Only vocals are live. Imagine how long the soundchecks would be if every 37 countries played live instruments on the stage.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

You’re actually so right here. But it sounded like they pre recorded live performance track and then played it in the background. 🫶🏼 it felt very real

@MissLoonasSpeech

4 ай бұрын

@@Janaofficialmusic I can confirm that they are an excellent live band, since I attended their concert in Oslo in October last year (and have also seen them live 3 times before). If you want to hear what they do sound live, I recommend to check out the live videoclips of "Rideboll & Gullborg" and "Knut liten" on their official youtube-channel and/or the liveclip of "Margit Hjukse" on the YT-channel Den Norske Kanon.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Ohh awesome!! Thank you so much. I will check it out 🥰🥰

Hi. The "å" is pronounced as the "oa" in "boar" or "oar". But you figured out that yourself😊 And Gåte literally means "Riddle". And finally we send a good entry to the eurovision. I saw this bandnlive back in 2001-2002ish. All we talked about was the fact that the singer wasn't really old enough to enter the venue😂

@lindakristinekjrlibraten5759

3 ай бұрын

Or "hall ", "ball" , "all" etc.

Gåte is pronounced «Gaw-teh»! 😊

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

Got you!🥰🥰

I call this Viking folk rock. / Valkyrie Rock

I love the reaction! Did you see Gåte new video for Ulveham that they released yesterday? It's is incredible! Can you please react to it too?? ❤️

I don't know if I'd call it "metal guitars", but yeah it's a good song with some good rock elements! But hey, let me know if you're checking out some actual metal music as well. Would be fun to hear a reaction to something Lorna Shore or Slaughter to Prevail, though Spiritbox may be a better entry level lol

5:37 Yeah, that's not the message at all. It's a story about a family conflict. The main character of the story is a young woman, her father marries someone who isn't her mother (presumably he's a widow), and her stepmum is horrible and uses magic to turn her into all sort of things (it's a fairytale from the time when we where still Catholics). In the end she casts a curse making her a wolf and a outlaw till she can taste her brothers blood (she doesn't have a brother), then her stepmum gets pregnant, and after attacking her and tasting her beothers blood inside her stepmoms womb her curse is lifted. Something along those lines. I haven't ever heard the original story, just the retold versions in comment fields about this song.

Don't talk over the chorus. Just enjoy!

Hi i am norweagian, but i liked keiino better

@havtor007

4 ай бұрын

Keiino this year sounded like generic electro pop. Gåte is better musically.

Keiino would finish higher than this for sure, but this will still be top 15. Norway picked their traditional song rather than something that is really good for ESC 😐

@pederstrmKollenborg

4 ай бұрын

I know ESC loves their europop, but I'm happy that we Norwegians opted for what I consider to be the better song.

@Janaofficialmusic

4 ай бұрын

I guess it was important for Norway to showcase their culture and language this year, I’m quite happy to see the diversity but it would be interesting to see how Europe reacts to it 🫶🏼

@Freakyfish42

4 ай бұрын

If Gåte did not win I would prefer the Robot song over Keiino's song. It was a more authentic attempt at the genre, and catchier to boot.

@lenamyhre3109

4 ай бұрын

No Gåte is better the Keiino

@user-vr6qf7vg9j

4 ай бұрын

Why does everyone like keiino's song so much? It's so bland and annoying. Gåte's song is a masterpiece. You can keep all the other eurotrash imo

Can’t wait for his to flop. Almost any other song in the final would do better at ESC, but instead norway wanted to be different and send theirs screaming screeching mess of a song that isn’t even original.

@vahrg8906

4 ай бұрын

This got the 2nd most votes from the jury, and the most amount of votes from the people? so its clear that people enjoy it. If all you care about in mgp is sending songs that will get recieved well and gain a high amount of votes, you are watching it for the wrong reasons. And like, this was the most original song in the norwegian contest, probaly in the entire mgp this year.

@josefine7095

4 ай бұрын

how is it not original?

@torkild8483

4 ай бұрын

No song is everybody's taste. If Norwegian folk music combined with rock that includes a lot of history and deeper meaning isn't your taste, I'll bet there will be a lot of songs you have heard 100 times before in better versions you can vote for.

@peacefulminimalist2028

4 ай бұрын

I have a feeling you'll have to wait forever

@t2k259

4 ай бұрын

Your comment will age like bad milk. Mark my words in May.