Tag Archives: Daði og Gagnamagnið
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REWIND: An American judges the Eurovision 2021 finalists
Daði og Gagnamagnið from Iceland perform during a rehearsal of the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands on May 13, 2021. Photo by Patrick van Emst/ANP/ AFP. And we’re back. Yesterday we covered the 13 songs knocked out of the “Eurovision” semifinals, and now we’re…
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RIFF REWIND 2020: Run the Jewels, Taylor Swift and Poppy
Taylor Swift, courtesy: Beth Garrabrant. Way, way back in 2018, long before the sickness came, I had the crazy idea to list my five (or so) songs of every year from 1967 to the then-present day of 2018. Amazingly, I actually did it. It was a lot of years…
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REWIND: An American reviews the would-be Eurovision 2020 entries, Part 2
Daði og Gagnamagnið. Courtesy. It’s time for Part 2 of an epic American analysis of the would-be contestants in the canceled Eurovision 2020 competition! The good news is there’s nobody as profoundly bad as Russia in this set. And in fact, Iceland is in here, and it always brings…