Morten Thomassen now looks at Ulrikke which ended in second place at the 2023 Norwegian Eurovision final. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

I have tried to follow the odds ahead of the national finals that have been and it has turned out that being tipped in first place has not quite managed to make the prediction come to life.

Now, when the odds were closed, Ulrikke ended up leading by one small percentage point over her who won, and in the odds environment I would assume that is called a dead race.

But, just a few days before the final, the lead was quite reassuring, but fortunately Ulrikke is a sensible girl and she realized that if she was to win this battle she would have to fight with all her teeth and claws.

However, the equipment was possibly covered with a little too well-known MGP tricks and so little innovative that it was what meant that she did not pull the longest straw that many had hoped and believed she would do.

She must have lower shoulders during this performance compared to what we saw in the dolphin final she participated in.

And she will definitely want the song “Honestly” to be delivered just as perfectly as only she can do it.

But, when the jury was so measured that they thought she deserved “only” 60 points and was already 44 points behind Allesandra, you started to see the picture and it was the second place with the people that finally gave her the silver place she might have hoped she would escape .

After all, I think that Ulrikke thought it was good that she was beaten as clearly as she was, it would have been much sadder to lose first place by a few poor points.

The lady has promised that she will come back to win one day, she will be more than happy to do that, but then I hope she chooses a song that makes people think. “Jøss sings Ulrikke that song”.

If she chooses another big ballad, I think she will actually be in a wheelchair before she wins an MGP final.