Where are such quality songs, vocals and stage? A crystal clear voice, backing vocals, support, choreography, costume straight out of a fairy tale, I want the old Eurovision.
This is my favourite Eurovision song ever - and not just the song, but the musicality of both the soloist and the backing group, the costumes, and the wonderful staging. After last night's 2024 display of raucous shouting, writhing, thrashing about, and general shock tactics, I don't think the event deserves the title "Song Contest" any more - and I deeply regret it. It used to be one of my favourite events of the year.
Yay, I'm not alone! :D No, but really: I've found his song irritating from day one. It's annoying because it feels like a song I _should_ like, but there's something about the way he sings that just gets on my nerves. It's eight years later and I'm still sad that this song didn't win.
One of the best Nordic entries ever. Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark have all gotten their fame. I really hope Iceland gets it in the coming years.
This is the absolute example of how a perfect live performance sounds. Perfect leading vocals, perfect backing vocals, perfect sound mix, the result is even better than the studio version. Pure excellence! And the song is so sweet and Johanna is so unbelievably charming! This would have made such a great winner! Too bad that 4 winner entries crashed into each other in the same year. Iceland, Norway, France and Estonia all deserved to win. 2009 was such a unique year!
So true. Australia here - and still remember getting goosebumps watching her performance. I could not believe what a FLAWLESS live performance it was - like beyond perfection. Even better than the studio version, which is still amazing. Rare for a live performance to actually be that good. I so wanted this to win, but like you said, it was such a rare year.
I remember I was a kid and was so amazed looking at her... Felt like falling in love by watching her... Many years passed since then and I still remember her entry
She also could have won in 2010. This is far superior than Satellite both in terms of song and vocal performance. I don't know if I am in the minority, but I am of the opinion that Satellite is quite a mediocre song, Lena can't sing to save her life and her accent, enunciation, or whatever is very annoying.
One of greatest eurovision songs and singers. And her follow up song "slow down" should have respresented Iceland a few years later. Please Yohanna come back to eurovision again.
I have been watching EUrovision since 2008. As to me it is the best song. I loved it in 2009 and still loving. Warm greetings to Iceland from Azerbaijan😊
We have to admit that the stage design really helped the song to be even more romantic and beautiful, it is a great song, Russians put to much money in organising the Eurovision and building this stage, at the time it was on a very high level compared to other contests
One of our best entries ever, and so above the standard of what we usually send. Very special, and Yohanna nailed the performance (both times!). We were unlucky to go up against Rybak that year, but I will always be proud of this effort.
Yohanna is so beautiful. I think that will be very difficult to the icelandic singers to reach an amazing and beautiful song like this. I'm in love forever with this girl peformance and song... for my the real winner of 2009 :) Greetings to Reykjavik from Mexico :)
I loved this song and wanted her to win. Just watched the Eurovision movie on Netflix and thought of the song. Iceland is also one of my most favourite countries I visited while I lived in London.
Sorry, Alexander. But this is the only song in the ESC hisotry that made me cry, this is the most beutiful ballad in the history of ESC. Definetly the right winner of 2009
I am absolutely delighted that this song popped up while I was browsing TH-cam. I used to play this song over and over again, as Yohanna was my choice for #1 at Eurovision 2009. It was a beautiful song, sung by a beautiful young woman with an amazing voice. She is still #1 to me.
@@arnibararson I know in Iceland it is spelt with a J. In Ukraine, there is no J, so Julia is Юлія which is pronounced in Ukraine as Ulia. In Ukraine, again as there is no J, Johanna is spelt Йоганна and pronounced as Yohanna. If you look up Johanna on google search, you get the meaning of the name, Johanna, on wikipedia, and as a baby name and people named Johanna, but nowhere does it show an Icelandic singer. However, if you look up Yohanna, it comes with picture of her, a wikipedia site, a list of TH-cam videos and various sites all of which are about Yohanna. So pardon me for spelling it the same as the rest of the world.
@@jakethehud and also I am on the icelandic verision of google and you are your verision of google . I googled her with a j and she pood upp but it could be difrent in your contry and the rest of eouope. If I looking for her on spotify she poopt as both just try it.
@@arnibararson There is definitely a difference. I looked up Yohanna on Spotify and Yohanna Seifu comes up as the top result, with her picture and 4 songs, 2 by Seifu and 2 by different artist. Yohanna shows up on the artist line with her picture and just says "artist." If I didn't know what she looked like, I would have passed it by. When I looked her up under Johanna, Johann Sebastian Bach comes up , with his picture, and underneath, it features 4 of his songs. Beside his picture are 4 songs, that are by 4 different artist, whose song titles were Johanna. Johanna does not come up at all. WOW! My apology.
Unfortunately no, not by a long shot. You can't look at a song with 169 fewer points than the first-place song and boldly claim it as "THE REAL WINNER". It just doesn't work that way.
10 years on, this song still sends chills through me.
True, goosebumps every time I hear this song
chills means arabs and balkans correct ?
Where are such quality songs, vocals and stage? A crystal clear voice, backing vocals, support, choreography, costume straight out of a fairy tale, I want the old Eurovision.
I WANT TO SEE HER AGAIN IN ESC.
Me too ! Ahaha
yeah me too, she has a beautiful voice.
+Penelopa Smrček She will #MakeIcelandGreatAgain (They were already great but I mean Iceland should win.)
We had the chance to send her again in 2011 with the amazing "Slow Down", but we blew it.
She has tried sooo many times to return
This is my favourite Eurovision song ever - and not just the song, but the musicality of both the soloist and the backing group, the costumes, and the wonderful staging. After last night's 2024 display of raucous shouting, writhing, thrashing about, and general shock tactics, I don't think the event deserves the title "Song Contest" any more - and I deeply regret it. It used to be one of my favourite events of the year.
The best Icelandic entry ever. The real winner
That's true! The fiddler was and is just irritating!
Yay, I'm not alone! :D No, but really: I've found his song irritating from day one. It's annoying because it feels like a song I _should_ like, but there's something about the way he sings that just gets on my nerves. It's eight years later and I'm still sad that this song didn't win.
but let's be real.. Iceland wouldnt have been able to host the competition in 2010. they should have won in 2012 or 2016 though.
Iceland was the best 💙💙💙
One of the best Nordic entries ever. Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark have all gotten their fame. I really hope Iceland gets it in the coming years.
One of the best songs in the history of Eurovision!
Agreed
Its this and Euphoria for me! The best
This is the absolute example of how a perfect live performance sounds. Perfect leading vocals, perfect backing vocals, perfect sound mix, the result is even better than the studio version. Pure excellence!
And the song is so sweet and Johanna is so unbelievably charming! This would have made such a great winner!
Too bad that 4 winner entries crashed into each other in the same year. Iceland, Norway, France and Estonia all deserved to win. 2009 was such a unique year!
So true. Australia here - and still remember getting goosebumps watching her performance. I could not believe what a FLAWLESS live performance it was - like beyond perfection. Even better than the studio version, which is still amazing. Rare for a live performance to actually be that good. I so wanted this to win, but like you said, it was such a rare year.
Tbh half the entries deserved to win in 2009
I think the best year is 2009. Look at these; fairytale, İs it true, always, düm tek tek. They are masterpieces. I wanna go back 2009 😭😭
You forgot to mention Patricia Kass
same
I'm from Russia and I remember in 2009 this song was played everywhere here for at least a year after the ESC. We loved it so much
Thank you - We here in Iceland knew how much you loved it.
I WANTED HER TO WIN SO MUCH!!! One of the best entries in Eurovision history. Love from Greece
Συμφωνώ.
christinaa mpa to axize o rybak
imoun gurw sta 8 xronwn tote ithela poli na nikisei ekeini xD alla marese para poly kai o rybak
I remember I was a kid and was so amazed looking at her... Felt like falling in love by watching her... Many years passed since then and I still remember her entry
Random fact: Her dress is now located in the Eurovision Museum in Iceland!
Wow
Is it true?
sadly she participated in the wrong year
MrAbuyoyoman in 2011 she had won
Jan Stalleicken you're totally right!
Yeah 2011 was such a weak year this would've won in a landslide. But of course she participated in one of the strongest ESC year in recent history :((
rollX yes, 2009 Norway's, Azerbaijan's, Turkey's, United Kingdom's and Estonia's entries were very strong on that year.
She also could have won in 2010. This is far superior than Satellite both in terms of song and vocal performance. I don't know if I am in the minority, but I am of the opinion that Satellite is quite a mediocre song, Lena can't sing to save her life and her accent, enunciation, or whatever is very annoying.
For me it is the most beautiful ESC song ever
Fairytale was better but this song is also perfect, 2009 was the best year ever
The best stage of all years! Amazing screens AND lights.
One of greatest eurovision songs and singers. And her follow up song "slow down" should have respresented Iceland a few years later. Please Yohanna come back to eurovision again.
She has such a stunning voice! One of my favourite entries ever. Bring back Yohanna💓
The best eurovision song ever and forever.
After all these years , still a good one.
Love from Turkey
🤍🇹🇷
Yohanna is beautiful
Still my favorite singer of all Eurovision History. So sweet voice and she's so pretty. Please send her back.
lovley song by a great singer
I have been watching EUrovision since 2008. As to me it is the best song. I loved it in 2009 and still loving. Warm greetings to Iceland from Azerbaijan😊
Always loved this song so much and i still do!❤
Wow, haven't listened to this in 12 years and I still somehow remember ALL the lyrics! One of the best Eurovision songs ever!
The moment of the dolphin is magical
We have to admit that the stage design really helped the song to be even more romantic and beautiful, it is a great song, Russians put to much money in organising the Eurovision and building this stage, at the time it was on a very high level compared to other contests
Yeah. This stage, not a joke, has 1/3rd of the world’s LCD screens existing at the time
After 9 years this masterpiece make me cry again 💋💟
Yohanna i love you , come back please.
That's a really beautiful song!
Only 19 years old! Wow!!!
18
18
Эта песня самый настоящий победитель.
Самая лучшая ❤❤❤
This song is just amazing and so beautiful! To me it´s one of the top 3 from that edition in 2009!
This is my ALL TIME eurovision favourite, absolutely fantastic!! I was gutted that she didn't win, but it is a song that did very well and rightly so
This song unfortunately was far too classy for Eurovision and therefore did not win. Yohanna was robbed!!
I really wish yohanna had competed in a different year! I loved it all iceland! Well done!
this has to win !!!! wonderful !!!
She is like a pure ANGEL !
Love this song. Please, Yohanna, come back with other awesome song like this...
Suddenly I remembered this song omg
One of my favourite songs of Eurovision!
She is the real Cinderella. She is so beautiful, she should be Cinderella in movie from 2015😍
Masterpiece!
I really Love this song from Yohanna💖
Zsolt Majoránt Me too.
One of the best ever!!!!
One of our best entries ever, and so above the standard of what we usually send. Very special, and Yohanna nailed the performance (both times!). We were unlucky to go up against Rybak that year, but I will always be proud of this effort.
I love almost every single Icelandic entry! :D
She should have won
Of the best song eurovision I from Greece 🇮🇸🇬🇷
She's beautiful!
Greatest ballad ever, sweetest voice ever, prettiest singer ever. Simply the best performance in the whole ESC history.
Nothing against Norway and Alex (he was great), but seriously... IS IT TRUE??? YOHANNA CAME 2ND??? THIS IS A REAL WINNER IN MY EYES... MASTERPIECE 💙💙💙
Some people said that Island 2020 had a fantastic song and number. I watched half of it and went straight to this video! Finely I can breath again!
It was my favourite and still listening in 2018. Beautiful voice and beautiful song!
Yohanna is so beautiful. I think that will be very difficult to the icelandic singers to reach an amazing and beautiful song like this. I'm in love forever with this girl peformance and song... for my the real winner of 2009 :) Greetings to Reykjavik from Mexico :)
She was my winner this year ❤️
One of my favs in the eurovision and the stage it was spectacular
10 years after and I keep the faith that Yohanna comes back to save Iceland.YOHANNA COME BACK PLEASE!!!!!!
I'm in love with this song. From Greece
This song deserved to win SERIOUSLY because it had emotions, love, sorrow 😭😭😭
My favourite esc song ever! Love from Portugal
The best of 2009 ..
Omg,everytime i listen to this song i want to cry,so gooodd
Agree so much!
One of my absolute favorite ESC songs. Iceland should have won back then. Hope to hear her again in the future.
She is very beautiful🦋💙
Bu mahnıya şərh yazan son iki nəfər azəridi)
Bow down to queen Yohanna! For me winner of 2009!
perfection....my winner that year!
I loved this song and wanted her to win. Just watched the Eurovision movie on Netflix and thought of the song. Iceland is also one of my most favourite countries I visited while I lived in London.
The best one. I really love this from Portugal!
I love this ❤ ❤ then and now. Beautiful song! Iceland can be proud 👍👍
Even though I love fairytale i still think Yohanna deserved it more - goosebumps after the first word ❤️ mindblowing
Still the best
i loved this song so much now 2018 an im watching again
True winner in my heart, love from Lithuania
Sweetness, beauty, she seems to come out of a fairy tale and I love the song as well. She would have won if she had represented any other country.
I loved it...
Bravo Yohanna....you, Selma and Birgitta the best of Iceland
Sorry, Alexander. But this is the only song in the ESC hisotry that made me cry, this is the most beutiful ballad in the history of ESC. Definetly the right winner of 2009
no one cares
WorldVision Serbia great great song...I agree
First...I can't believe this was 10 years ago! OMG! Time fucking flies! Second , the performance and staging was ON POINT! What an EPIC moment!
For sure is the best song ever! Greetinhs from Romania!
Yohana please came back to win Eurovision
Please Iceland send her to Eurovision 2017 🙏
You forgot what happened when Iceland sent the same artists as before? Jonsi (18th -> 20th) and Greta (20th -> 14th in the semi)?
+Collision SC- but she is amazing and have great vocals so i think she will do good
Same can be applied for greta.... I still feel bad for her
+Collision SC- yeah I know
Selma can also be mentioned (2nd -> 16th in semi-final)
Magical and flawless love from the Philippines :) one of the best entries of Iceland
Please come back Yohanna Eurovision need u 💕💕
This one million times better than the studio version!!!! Love it!!!
This is the cause I fell in love with Iceland !
Magic....i want to cry.....
My winner of 2009. She should've won! Nothing against Norway, but this song is much better
Agree.
I am absolutely delighted that this song popped up while I was browsing TH-cam. I used to play this song over and over again, as Yohanna was my choice for #1 at Eurovision 2009. It was a beautiful song, sung by a beautiful young woman with an amazing voice. She is still #1 to me.
Her name is Jóhanna or Johanna not yohanna. I am from iceland
@@arnibararson I know in Iceland it is spelt with a J. In Ukraine, there is no J, so Julia is Юлія which is pronounced in Ukraine as Ulia. In Ukraine, again as there is no J, Johanna is spelt Йоганна and pronounced as Yohanna. If you look up Johanna on google search, you get the meaning of the name, Johanna, on wikipedia, and as a baby name and people named Johanna, but nowhere does it show an Icelandic singer. However, if you look up Yohanna, it comes with picture of her, a wikipedia site, a list of TH-cam videos and various sites all of which are about Yohanna. So pardon me for spelling it the same as the rest of the world.
@@jakethehud but the world is wrong she is icelandic
@@jakethehud and also I am on the icelandic verision of google and you are your verision of google . I googled her with a j and she pood upp but it could be difrent in your contry and the rest of eouope. If I looking for her on spotify she poopt as both just try it.
@@arnibararson There is definitely a difference. I looked up Yohanna on Spotify and Yohanna Seifu comes up as the top result, with her picture and 4 songs, 2 by Seifu and 2 by different artist. Yohanna shows up on the artist line with her picture and just says "artist." If I didn't know what she looked like, I would have passed it by. When I looked her up under Johanna, Johann Sebastian Bach comes up , with his picture, and underneath, it features 4 of his songs. Beside his picture are 4 songs, that are by 4 different artist, whose song titles were Johanna. Johanna does not come up at all. WOW! My apology.
Simply the sweetest voice and the prettiest girl of the eurovision history. I would like Iceland to send her every year until she wins.
It’s December 2020, still love this song 💙 and Iceland 🇮🇸
SHE WAS ONLY 18 HERE????!?!?!
She was a child star in Iceland, so she got an early start with her career.
Wait what🤤🤤🤤
And Now She Was 27?!!
I thought 25 years old ..
She was 19 :)
Best entry ever from Iceland ❤️
im surprised that Iceland has not won yet
David Arnold Me too.
At 2020 could win with "think about things" but the ESC was cancelled
such a beautiful voice! like an angel!
Winner!!!!
ThHer vocal and song are so perfect! Like it!
Iceland should send her again and then she should be the winner!
A beautiful performance
She is so beautiful! 💕😊
My winner !
Iceland have BEST musics in Eurovision❣❣❣Love from Slovakia
The real winner of ESC 2009!
Real winner was the winner of Europe.... which was Norway !!!
Norway was trash
Rhonda Bustingfield No way, I was proud of Norway, but Iceland deserved to win.
We all know that Norway was the winner. Clearly delusional people here... Iceland was a strong runner-up
Unfortunately no, not by a long shot. You can't look at a song with 169 fewer points than the first-place song and boldly claim it as "THE REAL WINNER". It just doesn't work that way.
Beautiful.