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American reacts to Eurovision 2024 | NORWAY | Gåte - Ulveham

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@albinkarlsson9943 9 ай бұрын

Yes Swedes understand Norwegian. This is brilliant song. A winner for me for sure.

@karinssimanis97 10 ай бұрын

So far this has winner quality...... I literally have goosebumps every time that chorus hits...

@ar50000 7 ай бұрын

Err . . .

@dorull83 9 ай бұрын

She sings in a style called "kulokk" or "Kulning", "Laling" it's how they sang to call their livestock (Cows, sheeps or goats) in the old days Norway. The breaking of her voice is very traditional because in that way their voice echoed better in the mountain walls.

@susannradal9303 10 ай бұрын

The breaking in her voice is an old Norwegian type of herd calling/kulokk and have roots back at least 1000 years. Gåte and Gunhild have been doing their own thing for 20 years they mix traditional Norwegian folk music and rock. She sings in a mix of dialects and old Norwegian they never sing in English. Gåte are very popular here in Norway have won several music awards and just speaks to the Norwegian soul

@_masti_ 10 ай бұрын

The song is based on an old medieval ballad, in which a girl is abused by her stepmother who changes her into different items: a needle, a knife and a sword. However, people appreciate the usefullness of the items, so to punish the girl more the stepmother changes her into a wolf instead. The name of the song, Ulveham, can be roughly translated as wolf shape, or wolf skin/clothes. The end of the story is that the stepmother eventually is with child, and on the way to church she comes upon the stepdaughter-turned-wolf. The wolf attacks, tears the stepmother's throat out, and drinks her lifeblood. This reverses the curse, and the wolf becomes human again.

@Painocus 10 ай бұрын

Not quite. The spesifics of the stepmother's curse is that she can't become human again until she drinks her brother's blood spesifically. Either the girl has an older brother that the stepmother also wants to get rid of (to secure her own future children inherting the family line) but the girl refuses and is thus stuck as a wolf in the woods or she has no brother and it's meant to be an impossible task. In the end she attacks her stepmother, tear her side out, her blood "runs widely" and the wolf-girl has "drunk her brother's blood", the implication being that she waited until her stepmother was pregnant with her half-brother, thus fulfilling the condition of the curse.

@mouseclick92 10 ай бұрын

The instrument is called a key harp (Nøkkelharpe) and is a traditional instrument of Norway and Sweden!

@alexandraSarnik 10 ай бұрын

I love love love this! This is one of the best ESC-songs ever in my opinion! Love from Sweden

@ellenkasbohm6069 10 ай бұрын

Thanks from your neighbor 😉🇧🇻

@ispookie1 10 ай бұрын

Well say hallo to the long lost Vikings. This poem is 1000 years old, now put in a modern vibe. I love it. Thanks for review.

@RebekkaDJ 10 ай бұрын

I understand the lyrics, and it’s soooo pretty. Hugs from Denmark 😊

@indreduobaite13 10 ай бұрын

The way I was rooting for this to win MGP oh my god my heart was beating very fast during the result announcement. For me, this is one of my all time favourite Eurovision songs and performances already. I love it so much so I really hope they do very well. I don't think anything will top this one for me this year

@pennybleta2300 10 ай бұрын

Same with me. I was so nervous until it was announced that it won

@susielund1030 9 ай бұрын

They have very bad odds on betting list 12 place or something

@SailingMayhem 10 ай бұрын

no need to grubble - it's a hats off, hands up, socks off - the clearest 10/10 you'll get in my opinion :) Check out the rest of Gåte's songs. Nice reaction - thanks.

@Sieg-bx4lc 9 ай бұрын

12 points de la France 🇫🇷 ! On adore nos frères scandinaves 😍

@tobiastranetellefsen4203 8 ай бұрын

We love you to France! 🇳🇴+🇸🇪+🇩🇰+🇫🇷= ❤❤❤❤

@oleperen 10 ай бұрын

Gåte is pronounced Gaw-teh! This band has played together for 20+ years - they are very well known in Norway! Gunnhilds voice are so powerful and beautiful. Ulveham is the best Norwegian entry for many years! ❤️🥇

@ZakhadWOW 10 ай бұрын

Musically, best since Fairytale. And there were some brilliant songs in there, but this has the chops/uniqueness to jump the queue, so to speak

@elizabeth-janehagen9824 10 ай бұрын

Takk fra the hart of Norway. Thank you so much from Gåte🙏🥰🥰🥰❤️🍀

@grykarlsen5054 10 ай бұрын

Lovelovelove it!!! Go Norway!!🎉❤❤

@AmaanStorm 10 ай бұрын

The best of the bunch from Norway. Such intensity, urgency and power.....its so mystical and empowering. Love this song!

@NezyVenus 9 ай бұрын

Thank you soo much for your positive reaction! The lyrics are actually in norse, so not even norwegians understand it all. Also.. the singer (Gunnhild) actually sang at my cousins wedding when she was only 14 years old, and my uncle helped the band getting started way back. Naturally me and my family were rooting for them and I'm very happy for them! 🥰

@evak.jansson5498 8 ай бұрын

You guys are the first ones to mention the faint, black metal vocals in the background at the end of the song. I have been waiting for someone to pick up on that in all the other reaction videoes, but no one have until now. Well spotted.

@oh515 10 ай бұрын

Your pronouncement was good. Great reaction 👍

@harriethanssen570 9 ай бұрын

It’s a nøkkelharpe (Key harp) it’s a Swedish/Norwegian type of fiddle

@elizabeth-janehagen9824 9 ай бұрын

Tusen hjertelig takk fra hjertet og sjelen til Norge 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🫠🍀

@smolPjusk 9 ай бұрын

Im Norwegian and i dont even know what all the words means, as shes singing in old nordic, and it's folk rock not opera 😜

@saranissen6210 10 ай бұрын

So far I love this and have a feeling it will stick to the top of my favorites this year. BTW Gåte is the name of the band. It means riddle.

@pezlover1974 10 ай бұрын

Or «enigma»

@villstyringen1096 9 ай бұрын

Gåte means Riddle or Mystery in English.

@yvkon 10 ай бұрын

Not bad, not bad. Certainly in my top 3 for now. There's so much to come yet so I'll be cautious and give it a 9.5.

@chootanf 10 ай бұрын

not bad *gives 9.5*

@pennybleta2300 10 ай бұрын

Alex this is my winner so far. Then it's Ukraine, Latvia and Italy so far. But i am waiting for my country because i am a fan of Marina Satti for years

@escnikchuv8499 10 ай бұрын

YAAAAS

@ESC_ChrisM 9 ай бұрын

Alex...some recs for songs to listen to - this year is so stacked! Ireland - I want to see Katie's reaction (choose the fixed vocal version, or the music video when it comes out tomorrow - 8th March) Croatia - Baby Lasagna Netherlands - Europapa (get deep into the meanings there) Switzerland - The Code Belgium - Before the Party's over All of the above are message songs from completely different genres and apart from NL form part of the former queer quartet (now quintet because Australia just arrived with the queer aspect too) Then: WTF: Finland Estonia Funk Lithuania Spain Nostalgia Austria Spain Traditional/Folk (like Norway but different genres made contemporary, or not) Ukraine Estonia Slovenia Australia (has aboriginal elements) Rock/Rap/Alt/Heavy/Genre Bending Croatia Ireland San Marino Czech Rep (Not the live, it's horrific, the music video) Switzerland

@melliem2401 10 ай бұрын

Nice reaction! They give me winner vibes and that's all I could ask for in a Eurovision entry.

@anirenka 10 ай бұрын

My top 3 are Norway, Ukraina and France 💖

@rolfjamne8922 10 ай бұрын

The build up and dynamics in this song is epic.🤘 Great reation❤

@sveinb.a.hammer1681 10 ай бұрын

! You’l find the same video out there - WITH the LYRIC👍

@MarieJohansenBP1 8 ай бұрын

Iam a norwegian born 1992 and are from a area talking bokmål as its called. I dont understand some of the lyrics cuz its old norwegian language. I do live in sweden now and majority of sweds dont know the lyrics in this song. And the instrument is a keyharp or nyckelharpa in swedish and in norway its nøkkelharpe

@ZironixNO 10 ай бұрын

Lyrics are based on 1000 year old folk tale about a maiden who has an evil stepmother that puts a curse on her and transforms her into a wolf, and the only way to break the curse is to drink her half brothers blood, which the stepmother is pregnant with. I also see this is as a socipolitical statement on what is going on in Europe at the moment. The maiden is Ukraine, being attacked by the stepmother Russia, and the only way to become free again is to fight and drink your halfbrothers blood. War always brings blood and death, and in this case it is the russian army that has to be defeatesd to get back to normal again.

@villstyringen1096 10 ай бұрын

Å-å is pronounced like the first A in Awful, Allready, (Gaw-te / Go-te) Gåte play folk-music. Music that are a few hundred years old.

@alfsalte9493 10 ай бұрын

Probably also explain that "Gåte" means "Riddle" in English.

@villstyringen1096 9 ай бұрын

Will do. @@alfsalte9493

@villstyringen1096 9 ай бұрын

Gåte means Riddle or Mystery in English.

@escmadeira 10 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@ingjerdloevas-sandvik2032 8 ай бұрын

It's nothing to do with witches, but Norwegian folk tradition - nature, young girls calling their heard in the mountains etc

@Vinterloft 10 ай бұрын

Welcome baaaaack Edit: Gåte = Gaw-teh. And the dialect this is in is so heavy most Norwegians wouldn't understand it first or even second listen

@lillm6874 10 ай бұрын

Actually, after they changed the lyrics I understand quite well what she’s singing 👍

@Vinterloft 10 ай бұрын

@@lillm6874 true, especially the last line of each verse was vastly improved in the rework and I could make out the lyrics first time as a Northerner. But some words are just not used in any other dialect, like "brysjin" (?) = brother (in place of "bror" or "broder") that's borderline Icelandic

@lillm6874 10 ай бұрын

@@Vinterloft She sings: “Før eg fær drukkje min broder blod", and that is very easy to understand😊

@evaalvareznaturopata 7 ай бұрын

Qué es esta obra de arte haya quedado la última en el festival de Eurovisión 2024 me hace pensar que este festival está apañado como siempre apañado por la política europea!😢

@angelaburrow8114 8 ай бұрын

It's folk metal, not my favourite sort of metal but metal none the less. I'm impressed that a Eurovision fan has even heard of Cradle of Filth. I thought I was the only one. Lol Going into the Norwegian NF I wanted Gothminister to win, as I'm a sucker for goth metal, however once I heard Gåte perform, I knew they had to win. They're one of those acts who always sound better live. It's perfect for Eurovision, a lively song with a distinct personality & strong folk elements. It's my winner this year.

@evahelen3511 9 ай бұрын

Norway Gåte ,Many people are not aware of what she actually sings, which in my opinion is a cruel text from the old days. And i am from Norway ! The text copied from newspaper: She summarizes "Ulveham", based on an old medieval ballad, as the story of an evil stepmother who casts a curse on her stepdaughter - who turns into a wolf running in the forest forever. She only loses her wolf's hide if she drinks her own brother's blood. "There will be a kind of happy - but cruel - ending when she meets the stepmother on horseback in the forest, throws herself at her, rips out her heart and drinks the blood. Because the stepmother is pregnant with her brother - thereby the curse is lifted

@emil6669 8 ай бұрын

12 points from Israel (Palestine). Best and most powerful song this year.

@torgeirmolaug196 8 ай бұрын

The vowel å in Gåte is pronounced like you would pronounce o in more and a in war.

@xxcris20xx 10 ай бұрын

I miss the eurovision reaction series. I need you all to start reacting to Junior Eurovision, pls do those reactions with your friends! 😭

@lenariuse 10 ай бұрын

my top 3 :) poland

@lillm6874 10 ай бұрын

Nice reaction👍😍 The genre is folk/rock😊 I love this song and performance🤘 The song is inspired by a medieval folklore, and the chorus is inspired by an old “kulokk” (intro) Kulokk is how the women call the cows in from the mountains so they can milk them 😊 English lyrics: [Sample: Vocalization; Marit Jensen Lillebuen] [Verse 1] I was such a beautiful maiden My stepmother evil, my mother she died She turned me into a sword and a needle And sent me to the king's estate And the anger my stepmother felt the most That all the stately liked me best [Chorus: Vocalization] [Verse 2] Then she gave me skin like a grey wolf She cursed me to walk the forest alone And never will I bе whole and good Before I drink my brothеrs' blood [Chorus: Vocalization]