- Justin Timberlake gives Eurovision Song Contest which it never had – VG

Tonight broadcast yesterday for the first time directly on American television – one of the nation’s biggest stars who break entertainment.

After 60 years on European screens sent the show also in the US.

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Justin Timberlake performed the new material during the break, the new single “Can ‘t Stop The Feeling. ” According to Telegraph Americans must indeed resort to other channels than the TV broadcast to see exactly that part of the show.

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Nevertheless:

– Justin’s presence makes the Eurovision gets something it never had before – a touch of credibility, says VG’s music critic Stein Østbø.

– We’re not talking about a former , faded winner of Eurovision which stands for break program, but one of the biggest stars. Sure it is perceived as positive also beyond Europe’s borders. Then there are also Swedes who made his new single, Max Martin and Shellback.

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Globe: Justin Timberlake and presenter Måns Zelmerlöw. Photo: AFP

– Smart maneuver, says Bjørn Rogstad, Head of Nordic repertoire in the record company Universal (which publishes Timberlake).

Audun Vinger , music critic for Dagens Næringsliv, says Timberlake career need some help right now.

– It’s no wonder that he he seeks a show with really broad coverage in a new globalized music reality. And in Crossover and Spotify homeland, Sweden. Many viewers are many viewers.

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Stig Karlsen, NRK delegation leader in Eurovision, believe Timberlake behavior can contribute to the show will be even bigger globally.

– We see that the popularity keeps increasing. And with Australia already in place in the competition and broadcasts in both China and the United States, so one can wonder whether we are seeing the start of “World Vision”.

VG Stein Østbø is in Globen in Stockholm, where this year’s Eurovision final takes place right now.

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And he has the most faith in the Russian 33-year-old Sergey Lazarev.

– Not only Russia has been odds favorite down here, but in the final the whole half of the countries either Eastern bloc countries or states formerly under the Soviet Union, says Østbø.

– When we already know that the countries of this axis has a long tradition of giving each other liberally with points, it is not difficult to arrive at a conclusion that Russia must get a big favorite stamp.

Music the reviewer thinks the host country Sweden can benefit of being only Nordic finalist, in the form of buddy executable neighboring countries themselves. He notes, however, that Russia has considerably more friends who can give impetus.

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Favorite or not: Østbø not hold the Russian contribution that today’s musical highlights.

– Russia does not have the best track in the evening, so I cheer still most in France and Australia. Outsiders will be Malta, Ukraine and Israel. The latter Hovi Star has a powerful ballad and he has also done a good figure also offstage in Eurovision week.

Norway broke notoriously out of this year’s Eurovision in other semifinal. In a way, we are still represented by a guy who has represented his country before Alexander Rybak.

According to Dagbladet, he appears with his violin at halftime, in a parody of the Eurovision concept.