"She has also dubbed cartoons for Disney and she is the official face of Loréal in Norway."

The Spin

When she was young, Guri Schanke wanted to become an interior designer, but thankfully she could not stay away from the stage for very long. Guri has quite an impressive list of merits so far in her career. She's been in over 20 plays, musicals and television shows and has held leading roles in Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors and Chess amongst others. She has also dubbed cartoons for Disney and she is the official face of Loréal in Norway.

Guri is a dancer, a singer and an actor and over the years she has become a cherished part of Norwegian Showbiz. Her Dancing experience came in handy as she secured second place in the Norwegian edition of Strictly Come Dancing. Guri's latest achievment, winning the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix is a lifelong dream come true. The song "Ven A Bailar Conmigo" meaning "Come Dance With Me" is written especially for Guri by Swedish composer Thomas G:son, who also wrote the Spanish entry this year.

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Oh, and then there's the rapidly becoming "Mr Eurovision mark 2", Thomas G:son who...
Has won the Swedish selection for ESC two times:
2001 "Listen to your heartbeat" - Friends, 5th place in ESC, 2006 "Invincible" - Carola, 5th place in ESC
Has won the Norwegian selection for ESC one time: 2007 "Ven a bailar conmigo" - Guri Schanke
Has won the Spanish selection for ESC this year.

21 songs in the Swedish Melodifestivalen (2 songs 2007), 5 songs in Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix (2003, 2006, 2 songs 2007), 4 songs in the Finnish Euroviisut (2002, 2004), 1 song in the Latvian selection (2006), 1 song in the Romanian Selectiei Nationale (2007), 2 songs in the Spanish Misión Eurovisión (2007), 180 songs recorded in Sweden, 70 songs recorded in Denmark

The Singer
 
Gurning Skank as I like to call her (thus besmirching her upstanding character) is a polished entertainment professional. She's not stupid, and with a twirl of a skirt, a flash of thigh, topped off by a cheeky gurn and wink, will be able win over tens of apathetic fans. She has a hotel spa named after her, which is maybe a honour akin to the Nobel prize in Oslo. "Throw off your towel & do some laps in Guri"..."Guri Schanke is attended to every thirty minutes and hosed down at regular intervals to maintain cleanliness".

 

The Past
  
Norway have been labelled the nil pointers of the contest. But they are also fairly successful having won it twice. Bobbysocks gave us all a sniff of mature Norwegian rotten whalemeat (the type they bury in the ground for weeks and then eat), and Secret Garden gave us ethereal wailing. Unlike their Swedish neighbours, Norway refuse to stick to the norm. The superstitious amongst you may have believed that Norway would have pulled it off in 2005. Why? Well, the reason is although they may have excelled themselves by getting no points on four separate occasions, they have won the thing twice. When? 1985 and 1995. But they didn't, glam rock or not.

The Song
 
Mr G:son, the author of this mumbo jumbo, is entrenched as the new bane of Euro anoraks. Taking over when Ralf Siegel hit senility, Thomas is intent on having 42 Latino tainted songs in the competition, thus guaranteeing success but removing any musical credibility. It is very unlikely he will get success this year with "En Var Bailar Conmigo", a catchy slice of pop nonsense, which left Spanish viewers utterly bemused during a pre-contest performance.

Overall

It's old fashioned, good natured fun, and so is ruled out as a matter of course. Norway are more likely to bomb big style, and so I can't recommend it to win I'm afraid. Up just before a break won't help, nor will the copycat Maltese lump that follows it, but I still have a sneaking suspicion that this will be helped by the orc backlash factor. So, with some trepidation I've saying this will qualify, and give the Norwegians an opportunity to name an entire swimming pool complex after her.

In a Nutshell
"Push the right buttons on Guri Schanke, and warm jets will shoot up your nether regions"

the philosopher says

supervenient Belonging to or characteristic of something only in virtue of its having other features. Although a supervenient property cannot be defined in terms of, or reduced to, the properties on which it supervenes, nothing possesses (or can possess) those properties without also having it. In this sense, Hare supposed that moral properties are supervenient with respect to straightforward descriptions of human conduct, and Davidson proposes that mental events supervene on physical events.

Why is Guri's song widely categorised as a Latino-fuelled terpsichord of sound? It has a line of Spanish, it has a constant clap of the hands, it even has a flash of thigh beneath a frilly Hispanic dress. Without these, would it be called a Latino effort? Well, would it? And, more appropriately, should it be anyway?

Ven a Bailar Conmigo

I wanna dance, I wanna feel
Your body next to mine
Feel the touch of your skin
In every move I feel the beat
In every breath I take

I feel the rhythm of your heart
When I hear the music start
All I want is to be here with you

Oh... ven a bailar conmigo
Come dance with me tonight
Let's feel the beat, feel the heat
You and me

Ven a bailar conmigo
Let's dance the night away
Just move your feet to the beat
And dance with me
Ven a bailar conmigo

The way you move, the way you dance
Makes me feel alive
I wanna stay in your arms
It's in your eyes, it's in the look
That you're giving me

I feel the rhythm of your heart
When I hear the music start
All I want is to be here with you

Oh... ven a bailar conmigo
Come dance with me tonight
Let's feel the beat, feel the heat
You and me

Ven a bailar conmigo
Let's dance the night away
Just move your feet to the beat
And dance with me
Ven a bailar conmigo

Ven a bailar conmigo
Let's dance!

Oh... ven a bailar conmigo
Come dance with me tonight
Let's feel the beat, feel the heat
You and me

Ven a bailar conmigo
Let's dance the night away
Just move your feet to the beat
And dance with me

Oh... ven a bailar conmigo
Let's dance the night away
Just move your feet to the beat
And dance with me

Just move your feet to the beat
And dance with me
Ven a bailar conmigo

 
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or is she Guri Schanke w.
Prediction Semi Final 2nd
Final 7th