#Ari Olafsson

[theres-music-in-you]

Lovely photos of Ari Olafsson as the Phantom and Maria Conneely as Christine in the Middle East/European tour. (x)

[allthefights]

[guysofeurovision]

[papasmistakeria]

Remember when this was a blog dedicated to Melovin, Alekseev, Ari Olafsson, Benjamin Ingrosso, and Mikolas Josef being crackheads?

Those were good times

[xelothen]

Iceland 2018:  One (1) Smiley Boy ™

Iceland 2019:  Ḩ̴̡͙̘̗̜̪̠͙̮͉̼̪̖͚͖̞͗̒͋͂̊͠ͅÁ̴̧̳̝͈͓̄͋̀̚͜T̸̡̛̟͙̰͕̩͕̭̱̰̫̾̓̈́͑͐͛̋͌̓͒͐̋̈̀̊̇̀͝ͅR̴̰͇̖̦̖͉̞̃͊͐̾̀̆̄̎̋̽̀̚͝͠Ḭ̸̧̡̘̯̪̬̹̙̩̹͐̓̑͛̊̾̾͌̿̇͐͒̋̿͐̄́̕ͅÐ̶͚͚̞͙̗̘̻̪̖͖̗͒̉̈́͆̅̍

[eurolifeau]

Episode seventeen: La Forza (Scene 05)

Tuesday 16:48, Bar de Tapas La Venda, Spanish St. Ari, Zena and Kristian are sitting in a table in La Venda. Kristian doesn't say a thing and Zena is texting again. Ari looks at her and sighs. ARI: Talking to your mother again, Zena? ZENA: (without listening) Hmm yes. ARI: And what is she saying? Estonian Friday moved to Estonian Monday? ZENA: Yup. ARI: Ramón called. He wanted to know if you want to hang out with him. ZENA: Yes of course. Ari sighs. ARI: Zena! ZENA: (looking up for the first time) What? ARI: Could you leave your phone alone for a moment and focus on the ones who are present? ZENA: Sorry, just a moment. It is important. My brother... did brother things. Ari sighs. KRISTIAN: I think that was a lie. ARI: (confused) Huh? KRISTIAN: I think that was a lie because the answer is not precise enough and there is a stop in the middle of the sentence. Ari raises one eyebrow, Kristian notices. KRISTIAN: I've been working on my social interactions skills. ARI: Huh, I didn't know. (looking to Zena) See Zena? Even Kristian is hurt by your actions. Zena sighs. ZENA: Fine! I'll pay for another round if that will make you shut up. Ari smiles and Zena leaves the phone in the table. She stands up and goes to the bar in order to ask for more drinks. Ari takes her phone from the table. KRISTIAN: What are you doing? ARI: See if she lies. KRISTIAN: Oh. I want to know too. They gather around her phone. Ari unlocks her phone. Turns out that she hasn't changed the code since that time she asked him to take some photos. When he unlocks it, it isn't her brother's conversation what pops up, but Benjamin's instead. ARI: Benjamin?! KRISTIAN: Who is Benjamin? ARI: Long story short, Blanche's boyfriend who is a douchebag. KRISTIAN: See? She lied. ARI: This is very confusing... Ari sees how Zena comes back with the drinks and he puts the phone back. ZENA: There. Happy now? ARI: (forcedly smiling) Thank you, Zena. KRISTIAN: Do you talk to Benjamin? Zena almost chokes on her drink. ZENA: What? Ari opens his eyes of surprise. KRISTIAN: Ari just told me he is Blanche's boyfriend who is a douchebag. ZENA: Yeah, indeed. I have never meet a more annoying person in my life. Ari looks confusedly at both Kristian and Zena and can't process what happened in the last minutes.

[schneefusslanti]

"Jonas if you don't give Iceland 12 points I'm gonna be really mad"

[tissuepaper4]

Character development is how Iceland went from

"there's always a choice we can make ♥️♥️♥️ ✨✨to help and to heal in different ways ☮️☮️☮️☮️💖💖"

to

"HATE WILL P R E V A I L"

in the span of one year.

[borisbubbles]

2010s Eurovision: 402-399

402. Ari Ólafsson - “Our choice” Iceland 2018

[2018 review here]

This is a fucking garbage song, don’t walk away and play pretend: It might as well be *us* who're suffering RIGHT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although I’m not 100%, I would posit that “Our choice” is possibly... the worst written song on this list. Definitely bottom 5. Most of these painfully awful lines don’t even make sense on their own-

Why can’t we treat each other well?

In every single language there’s a word for “love” and for “blame” 

Inside we’re all the same

Together we could easy the pain

If somehow we could ease the pain

-much less when cobbled together into a flawed narrative by a person who has apparently lost *all* hope in humanity. I am all in favour of good mental healthcare but whoever it was that advised Þórunn Erna Clausen to write off her apparently nonstop mourning through song, should crank the therapy up to eleven. STAY STRONG GIRL!!! 

401. Trackshittaz - “Woki mit deim Popo” Austria 2012

Even in 2012 this textbook display of female objectification (featuring: poledancing, twerking in its larval form and blacklight accentuated ladybits) was fucking socially regressive and uncomfortable to sit through; You’ll be pleased to find out that the misogyny has aged really well in the 7 years between then and now. 🙃 Is this supposed to be ‘funny’? because it isn’t.  Also, although this year has Earth Angel/Top 5 human JON JOSEP SNÆBJÖRNSSON in it, the chimp-in-a-suit looking dude was considered ~the most SCORCHING HOT GUY EVERRRR~ by this website... somehow. 😬

Small lol @ this though:

400. Zdob şi Zdub - “So lucky” Moldova 2011

Let’s see, in addition to being a loud, screechy turd of a song, “So lucky” is NOT funny, NOT entertaining and  NOT even remotely clever: ”lolol gnome girl on a unicycle is pretending to play the trumpet to parody the fact that the music isn’t live” HA HA HAH HAA H I CANNOT BREATHE (because I just lost all my fucking will to live.🙃)  

However since it’s stuck in the musical HELLHOLE that is Düsseldorf 2011 (um, spoiler), of course it qualified and finished on the left-handside of the scoreboard. 🙃 *gunshot blast*

399. Axel Hirsoux - “Mother” Belgium 2014

This is the song which inspired this gif:

There you have it. The one good contribution “Mother” made to life. Otherwise, fuck this discomforting display of both musical *and* visual schmaltz. Sending an oversized baby to Eurovision singing about his DEAD MOTHER (or whatever it was, Axel’s diction isn’t very good, lol) is something you’d expect as the plot of a B horror movie, not a Eurovision entrant.

Now, I love Ruslana and it’s so her to imprint her grief for Ukraine onto “Mother” (kickstarting the tradition of Ukraine using other countries as their horcrux), but for some godforsaken reason the first impulse Flanders had to this was “wow Ruslana is overwhelmed with emotion that means we can WIN Eurovision with this!!!!” and not “um Ruslana is fucking batshit crazy and in serious need of a therapist”, resulting in “Mother” soaring to the top of the betting odds, being praised to death by the assembled Belgian press as if it weren’t the worst entry -by far- of Godly ESC Year 2014, only for it to beach / strand / bellyflop in the semifinal as anyone with a modicum of taste would’ve correctly predicted. That said, bonus points to Axel for HATING his song (i mean, journalists were constantly asking him about his dead mother, who was 1) alive 2) not the mother refered to by the song, which was assigned TO Axel by a separate jury of Music Industry Professionals #JustBelgianThings) and also for having generally impeccable Eurovision taste. So while the song is toxic refuse, he sure as hell isn’t all that bad and I sincerely hope his time out here helped his current file-sorting career 🤗

And that concludes my bottom 10 :). We’ve swept through the worst of the worst, but there’s plenty of other awful shit left to uncover!

[rottenvicious]

GUYSSSS, Ari Ólafsson aka the cute icelandic guy from last year’s eurovision liked my comment on instagram and this literally made my dayyy

[eurovisionder]

So nordic Rasmussen (Denmark), Benjamin Ingrosso (Sweden), Ari Ólafsson (Iceland), Alexander Rybak (Norway) and Saara Aalto (Finland) on the Blue Carpet in Lisbon, 2018.

(x), (x)

[guysofeurovision]

[papasmistakeria]

Ah yes, I love all of the Eurovision 2018 contestants; Ari Ólafsson, Benjamin Ingrosso, Mikolas Josef, Alekseev, and *reads smudged writing on palm* Melon

[feel-the-lyrics]

Different voices, cultures, and people, and places Inside we’re all the same

Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice

[eurolifeau]

Episode seventeen: La Forza (Summary)

Alexander tries to surprise his wife Elina with a romantic dinner, but his plans get cancelled when Elina comes home late from work. Elina, to make it up for him, decides to have a romantic date, like the ones Alexander likes and the ones they used to go to when they were younger. The date goes fine, until it gets interrumpted by work calls for Elina. Alexander gets frustrated at her and her workaholic lifestyle.

Tamara finds a temporal job for the weekend outside of town, as she is struggling to pay rent and keep a good quiality of life. But she has a problem: someone has to take care of Anja. Eventually, she asks the neigbours (Albert, Jeroným and Antonín) for help. Anja hates being babysitted at first, but with time and very bad jokes, the Lake Malawi household make Anja laugh.

Ari notices that Zena is on her phone too much. Using the pretext of befriending the new kid, Ari, Zena and Kristian go to La Venda to have a drink. They discover that Zena is actually texting Benjamin Ingrosso, Blanche’s boyfriend. Later on, Benjamin calls Zena worried, saying that they need to talk. Benjamin tells her that he and Blanche have broken up and that, in reality, he has feelings for Zena.

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2018 vs 2019