r/eurovision • u/PhosphorCrystaled Breathe • 3d ago

⏪️ Throwback Thursday Diljá — Power (Iceland 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlTcA0OC5s

She had amazing vocals (and power). No way Poland qualified over this. This really deserved that final spot, and probably the most underrated song that Iceland sent in recent years. I think it would’ve qualified if they had a different draw, but it’s still what it is. Iceland 2023 for the bot

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u/a-potato-named-rin Veronika 3d ago

I agree. This was one of my favorites from 2023. I thought the song was nice and her vocals superb.

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u/skanyone Gaja 3d ago

my third place of 2023, absolutely phenomenal vocals staging and song, totally robbed of a final

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u/setmefree333 Cha Cha Cha 2d ago

My third place of 2023 too… and maybe my number one if it was entered in 2025.

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u/skanyone Gaja 2d ago

thats a nice coincidence! just for fun, who are your top 2 in 2023? for me its Austria and Finland 😊

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u/setmefree333 Cha Cha Cha 2d ago

Finland and France! Austria was great too.

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u/eurovisionfanGA 3d ago

Iceland didn't qualify because the staging was completely non-existent.

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u/mxrajxvii 3d ago

It's an entry that works on paper for me, but everything just sort of went wrong. The vocals were a little too much, the instrumental was weirdly mixed and (ironically) not really powerful and the stage looked so empty. Also (this is a niche concern but still) personally I think this is one of the entries that were most screwed over by the higher framerate of the camera used in 2023, it looked SO uneasy on the eye to me.

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u/Weekly-Diet-5081 3d ago

Love its NF performance though

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u/lukelhg 3d ago

God I miss 2023. The last year I could actually enjoy. Liverpool was incredible, the atmosphere.

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u/WaterfishyPL Blackbird 3d ago

I regret not voting for her :(

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u/MikeMoritz_Writer Snap 2d ago

I liked this one. Her performance really sold the emotion of the song

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u/DashieProDX Leto svet 3d ago

I feel like I'd like this song more if I listened to the studio first. Something about the song live felt really empty, and I think it was just bad mixing. The staging had nothing going on either, but honestly I didn't really notice is that much. The problem was I couldn't help but feel like something was off, likely due to how quiet the instrumental was.

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u/eunrovision 2d ago

I'm ngl this was actually a mess the choreography was over the top and Diljá was oversinging and I think she's rlly talented but this wasn't it

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u/jackjackaj 22 3d ago

Criminally underrated. Although I must admit that the whole package of Bridges was better. But Power still should have qualified over Poland