DENMARK

The Danish Final was held on January 26th at the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning, hosted by Sofie Lassen-Kahlke, Louise Wolff & Lise Rønne. There were 2 rounds of voting - one to select the top 3 and another to select the winner. The voting was a mixture of televoting (50%) and an "expert" jury (50%). The winner was Emmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops".

The song has a mish-mash of styles - the penny whistle gives it a Celtic feel while the drumming gives it a military edge. She has edges of Ellie Goulding and Dido on her voice and she also has a Toyah-esque lisp which can sound a little distracting. She is joined on stage by 3 backing singers and 2 drummers one of which also dabbles on the penny whistle. She starts on the floor and then gets up and basically does a lot of arm wafting at her fellow musicians. She is dressed very plainly in what can only be described as a half finished diaphanous negligee which she needs to be careful getting up on (or we will see more of Miss de Forest that one would care to). She is also barefoot. The one thing that does confuse me is that the song is called "Only Teardrops" yet the background screen is of fire... 

As for the performance, the first few times I heard this I found it very annoying. Her voice is very memorable but could polarise a lot of people being on the edge of individual/annoying. This said the song is very good. It is well structured it has A LOT of repetition and by the end of the song you have at least one line stuck in your head. I do have a few concerns that the last part of the song could be a little too high for her and she could stumble.

It is still early days but this is one of the few songs I can say will more than likely get themselves in the final, if not a bit further up the scoreboard.

Artist - Emmelie de Forest
Song - Only Teardrops
Music - Lise Cabble, Julia Fabrin Jakobsen, Thomas Stengaard
Lyrics - Lise Cabble, Julia Fabrin Jakobsen, Thomas Stengaard