With the intention of taking him at his word – VG

That’s how Dagbladet music critic Anders Grønneberg put it when he reviewed the song on January 15, which peaked at the Melodi Grand Prix finale on Saturday night.

– I guess I just have to contact my GP and tell him that there will be an imminent hospitalization with bleeding stomach ulcers, Grønneberg jokingly tells VG on Saturday night.

TIX tells VG this Saturday night about Grønneberg’s review:

– I think it’s completely fair that they give me a low roll of the dice if they don’t like my songs, as long as they behave in public. But there is a critic who has promised that he will eat a TIX headband on a bed of broken glass shards from my glasses, I intend to take him at his word, he will. And all of Norway will see it.

Grønneberg says he was very surprised that Andreas “TIX” Haukeland won.

– I had no doubt that he would get a lot of votes, because he has a very large fan base and audience. But just because a million flies like shit doesn’t mean shit is good.

Grønneberg believes that the vast majority of the other artists in the final were better than TIX.

– When there is a voting system, you just have to accept the result, be it political or artist.

Grønneberg says he had the expression “I’ll eat my hat” in mind when he wrote the review. This term is often used when a person is absolutely certain that something will not happen.

– I can’t just rip off the headband. I wrote this nonsense, it was a play on words, based on the expression about eating his hat.

Grønneberg didn’t skimp on sweets when he reviewed TIX’s contribution in the final.

– Sing about a woman; of longings and light, tears and loss. Okay, the theme is familiar in pop. But Tix stumbles across clichés and the tune hangs around his neck like a lottery ticket. This one ends in the finale for a reason: Tix is ​​directly rated, but he should never have been there with such a helpless song.

Grønneberg gave TIX a roll of 1.