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TV: It will be a closed “Every Time We Meet” weekend, with programs tonight and tomorrow night. Tshawe and Silya say thank you and Morten Abel and Marion Ravn are the new hosts. Magnus is from the last, while Frida Ånnevik comes to dinner. Chris Holsten, Åse Kleveland and Unni Wilhelmsen will also join as new guests.
Unni Wilhelmsen: «Cry like a baby» (Morten Abel)
This September song from When surprisingly wasn’t “taken” when Morten was on “Every time we meet” in the 2013 season, and Unni enthusiastically takes a chance.
She says she wants to do it in a completely different way, and she keeps her word! Unni has teamed up with Steinar Raknes, who has made it a specialty to do things with the double bass that few or no one have done before him.
The two have collaborated on record and tour before, so this is from the first note. Together they give the song new life, and Raknes also hangs out with complementary vocals as well as creatively playing the strings, with and without a bow. Unni’s voice becomes an instrument as well, and Morten says he has never heard the song so well. It’s a decent certificate to take with you. A creative, and different, start to tonight’s show.
Morten Abel: «Blue, blue my love» (André Charles Jean Popp / Pierre Cour)
It’s a fun song that Morten has chosen, but the “creativity” unfortunately stops there.
“L’amour est bleu” is a 1967 Vicky Leandros Grand Prix song that is also known in instrumental version with Paul Mauriat (who reached the top in the United States with it). Åse published his version in 1968, and it is quite natural for the Norwegian version to be played by Morten. But, like last Friday, he chooses the path of least resistance and despite the throbbing competition, he feels like a surfboard from start to finish. As with parts of the 2013 season, he takes the task lightly when he has to perform, and this slightly “laid back” version only gets a slight shrug from this critic.
Åse Kleveland: «Hippie» (Hans Petter Aaserud / Jørund Fluge Samuelsen)
It’s actually quite absurd, as Hans Petter also says: Åse Kleveland sings Trang Fødsel!
It’s hardly his favorite group. But Åse (71) is not just a 68-year-old woman, but “as much as possible at 60 …”, so in that sense this song should sound good, although I find it a bit difficult to imagine an Åse that “takes a breath or ten ”and sings about nirvana and eternal intoxication.
Åse is a great lady, and she and the band have chosen a ditto arrangement with a clavinet / synthesizer theme to ‘Superstition’ and a touch of jazz, with a slightly terrifying ‘felegnikking’ from Marie Klåpbakken. Åse has a very special voice, but also a slightly affected and too clear way of singing. But that has become his style. At the same time, she puts so much of herself into this song that she still gets some credibility. And the upbeat song really doesn’t deserve better.
Chris Holsten and Frida Ånnevik: «If the world» (Julia Michaels / Jonathan Percy S Saxe)
A little hint this. Frida and Chris don’t perform, they just sing their own song. But what a song!
The two of them translated and sang “If the World Was Ending” on a P3 show, and after a new round in the studio, it became, surprisingly and no less to them, one of the biggest hit songs of this year. It’s not a crown song, although it feels like that, but at least it’s a comforting song for a lot of people.
The two met on the “Every Time We Meet” round that aired just over a year ago, and it turned out to be a stroke of luck. This is Chris’s first time posting anything in Norwegian, and even if he has no plans to do so, there will probably be pressure for him to do more in his mother tongue.
It is the two voices that make this song very special. There’s a bit of Frida and Chris as Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in “Shallow,” this! “If the World” is a sincere duet, with two voices dressing up. It’s not the first time they’ve sung it together on television, it just feels like that. The setting is perfect and the tribute in unison. If the world fell apart, this is the soundtrack.
Marion Ravn: “This means U to me now” (Unni Wilhelmsen)
Marion says that Unni was a big part of the reason she and Marit Larsen wanted to write their own songs, and M2M was born. He has dared to translate one of Unni’s most famous songs into Norwegian: “It’s a mystery to me.”
He makes it very easy, as he often successfully did in the second season of “Every time we meet” in 2013. Marion started very early and has grown as an artist, also in my head (when I was young, it was called now .. .). This is especially true when singing Norwegian songs, often on the piano. A vocalist who makes words like “exhibitionist” sound good deserves credit, even if there is too much emotion in the voice. The event is not very exciting either. And the original is more beautiful!
Hans Petter Aaserud: “Driving” (Marion Ravn / Thomas Meyer Kongshavn / Simone Larsen)
This song came out after Marion was on “Every time we meet”, and it was suddenly believable enough for NRK P3!
Hans Petter has translated it into Norwegian and put a “Stones packaging” on it. It is heard from the first chord. Where’s Keith Richards? This approach becomes too obvious, and it kind of takes some hair out of the song. The text also seems more trivial in Norwegian, so the translation is quite successful. It slackens a bit towards the end, but “Driving” is a better song than this. With Marion!
“Every time we see each other” returns tomorrow night, then with Kurt Nilsen, Bjarne Brøndbo and Sol Heilo as new guests.
