Lena Meyer-Landrut won the German national final Unser Star Für Oslo and will now be the country’s hope in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.

It’s a story that only pop music could write. Lena Meyer-Landrut from Hanover is actually right in the middle of preparing for her high school exams. She’s doing Biology, Sport and History and she’s got a lot of revising to do. But now she’s going to be representing Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in the Norwegian capital Oslo. On the 29th of May, 2010, just after her 19th birthday, she’ll be up on the big stage performing the song Satellite. “It’s going to be hard going up to the exams in April, but I’ll manage,” she says with a sigh. “Then it will almost be relaxing to head off to the Eurovision final.”

Pretty much out of nowhere – apart from the homemade dance videos and a few attempts with the school band – she conquered the audience’s heart. “I didn’t tell my friends about my first casting, so there wouldn’t be any stupid comments if I got kicked out straight away,” she says, thinking of her terrible stage fright. Even though Lena danced regularly during her childhood – from Ballet to Jazz and Hip Hop – she made her way to music without piano lessons or vocal training. But she got her chance, grabbed it and developed rapidly.

Directly after the German national final, her single Satellite went already to the top of all the most important download portals. Lena even created a new German download record: never before has a song sold so well in such a short time!

source www.eurovision.tv

Performer: maNga
Song title: We Could Be The Same
Song writer(s): Evren Özdemir, maNga, Fiona Movery Akıncı
Song composer(s): maNga

You could be the one in my dreams
You could be much more than you seem
Anything I’ve wanted in life
Do you understand what I mean?
I can see that this could be fate
I can love you more than they hate
Doesn’t matter who they will blame
We can beat them at their own game

I can see it in your eyes
It doesn’t come as a surprise
I’ve seen you dancing like a star
No matter how different we are

For all this time
I’ve been loving you
Don’t even know your name
For just one night
We could be the same
No matter what they say

And I feel I’m turning the page
And I feel the world is a stage
I don’t think the drama will stop
I don’t think they’ll give up the rage
But I know the world could be great
I can love you more then they hate
Doesn’t matter who they will blame
We can beat them at their own game

Performer: Alyosha
Song title: Sweet People
Song writer(s): Olena Kucher
Song composer(s): Olena Kucher, Borys Kukoba & Vadim Lisitsa

Oh, sweet people
What have we done?
Tell me what is happening?
For all that we’ve built
Tumbles and is gone

Oh, sweet people
Have you no love for mankind?
Must you go on killing
Just to pass the time.

The message is so true
The end is really near
All these feelings take me down
It steals the things so dear
Yes, the message is so real.
Don’t turn all the earth to stone
Because, because, because
This is your home

Oh, sweet people
what about our children?
In theaters and video games
They watch what we send to ruin

Oh, sweet people
What senseless game
Have we all been playing?
No one but you to blame?

The message is so true
The end is really near
All these feelings take me down
It steals the things so dear
Yes, the message is so real.
Don’t turn all the earth to stone
Because, because, because
This is your home

This is our home.

Performer: Josh
Song title: That Sounds Good To Me
Song writer(s): Pete Waterman, Mike Stock, Steve Crosby
Song composer(s): Pete Waterman, Mike Stock, Steve Crosby

How do I begin to imagine?
All the happy
Faces I’d like to see
The final destination

With sounds of celebration
If I could find the opportunity

So I wonder who can I turn to?
Who can make these
Wishes and dreams come true?
And with you there beside me

And loving hands to guide me
Anything is possible to do

So if you bring the sunshine
I’ll bring the good times
Just add your laughter
It’s happy ever after
I don’t know about you
But that sounds good to me

I can feel it coming together
All the loving working so very well
Nothing left to do now

Gonna see it through now
And we can let the future write itself

So if you bring the sunshine
I’ll bring the good times
Just add your laughter
It’s happy ever after
I don’t know about you
But that sounds good to me

Oooooo woah woah oooooh

So if you bring the sunshine
I’ll bring the good times
Just add your laughter
It’s happy ever after
I don’t know about you
But that sounds good to me

I don’t know about you

But

That

Sounds

Good

To

Me

That sound good to me

Performer: Kristina Pelakova
Song title: Horehronie
Song writer(s): Kamil Peteraj
Song composer(s): Martin Kavulic

When the sun of my life is at its lowest
I go to the land around the Hron river
and I dream there
this land is so beautiful
that suddenly I want to sing
and die and live
and I feel like i am in heaven

I lie in the grass and I am dreaming
I just let my thoughts flow
and the breeze is rocking me

the most beautiful trees I know are in this land
this silent brotherhood is calling me to come back
and I always return whenever i am feeling sad
and I don’t know what else to do
and the trees are telling me to shake it off my shoulders

I lie the grass and I am dreaming
I just let my thoughts flow
and the breeze is rocking me

when the sun of my life is at its lowest
I go to the land around the Hron river
and when in the distance I hear as the bell of our love
tolls for us
I think to myself: if am to be really hurting
then so be it
but this hurt will one day fade among these beautiful trees

I lie the grass and I am dreaming
tears are rolling from my eyes
and the breeze is rocking me
when the sun of my life is at its lowest

Performer: Ansambel Žlindra & Kalamari
Song title: Narodnozabavni Rock
Song writer(s): Leon Oblak
Song composer(s): Marino Legovič

Popular Folk Rock

Let, let there be a change in the scene
Let, let all be taken by this sound, pure and keen
Let it flow through our veins
Let it free our hearts from the chains
Popular Folk Rock

Polka is the Slovene Music Queen
It makes people dance, laugh and sing.

Rock is the King of Fun, uncompromising and true,
Hot as summer, colourful as the autumn leaves

But only a tiny speckle of fantasy is all we need
To make polka rock with harsher rhythms indeed

Let, let there be a shift in our minds
Let, let it be like a positive shock
The feeling is right and good
Let us be taken by this mood
Popular Folk Rock

Home melodies evoke ecstasy,
Patriotic feelings, love and pride.

Rock spreads energy through guitar strings
It engulfs the country like a wild fire

But only a tiny speckle of fantasy is all we need
And rock melts with polka rhythms very well indeed.

Let, let there be a change in the scene
Let, let all be taken by this sound, pure and keen
Let it flow through our veins
Let it free our hearts from the chains
Popular Folk Rock

Let, let there be a shift in our minds
Let, let it be like a positive shock
The feeling is right and good
Let us be taken by this mood
Popular Folk Rock

Performer: Daniel Diges
Song title: Algo Pequeñito (Something Tiny)
Song writer(s): Jesús Cañadilla, Luis Miguel de la Varga, Alberto Jodar, Daniel Diges
Song composer(s): Jesús Cañadilla, Luis Miguel de la Varga, Alberto Jodar, Daniel Diges

“ALGO PEQUEÑITO”
(“SOMETHING TINY”)

Something tiny
Something really little
A white rose, a caress
A sweet kiss and an apology

Something tiny
Something really little
A tender gesture, a look
An embrace, a flower.

Something tiny
Something really little
A simple “I love you” with sweetness,
with affection andwith passion.

That’s all I ask you, my love
My life is falling apart, you’re breaking my heart
Try to change soon
Time is really running out now.

[Chorus]

Something tiny, oh oh oh ooooh
Something really little, oh oh oh ooooh
Simple things that you’re not giving me now
I´m asking you for like crazy, if you don’t want it to end
Something tiny, oh oh oh ooooh
Something really little, oh oh oh ooooh
The choice is in your hands
Today you decide whether to love me
Or to break my heart

Something tiny
something really pretty
Your wind-blown hair entwined in the warmth of my hands
You managed to understand
That it’s the small things that keep this fire alive
Now, try to change,
The rest will sort itself out

[Chorus]

Something tiny, oh oh oh ooooh
Something really little, oh oh oh ooooh
The simple things that now you are giving me
I love you like crazy and will always love you
Something tiny, oh oh oh ooooh
Something really little, oh oh oh ooooh
The choice is in your hands
You decided to love me and not to break my heart,
Not to break my heart

Something tiny, oh oh oh ooooh
Something really little, oh oh oh ooooh
Simple things that you’re not giving me now
I´m asking you for like crazy, if you don’t want it to end
Something tiny, oh oh oh ooooh
Something really little, oh oh oh ooooh
The choice is in your hands
Today you decide whether to love me
Or to break my heart

Performer: Anna Bergendahl
Song title: This Is My Life
Song writer(s): Kristian Lagerström
Song composer(s): Bobby Ljunggren

I’d go
Down the beaten track

Long the river
With an empty bag

At the end
She said to me

Why are you here
With the autumn leaves?

Cause this is my life, my friend
And this is my time to stand

Now this is my life, my friend
And I can’t be
No one else

I’m done
Tipping on my toes

Striking iron
And attack my soul

Misty moon
You’re gonna see

I’ve got your blues
To get on my feet

Cause this is my life, my friend
And this is my time to stand

Now this is my life, my friend
And I can’t be
No one else

I don’t wanna run
I don’t wanna fight

I don’t wanna hide
I just wanna stay free
To be me

I don’t wanna win
I don’t wanna lose

I don’t wanna play
I just wanna remember
My name

Cause this is my life, my friend
And this is my time to stand

Now this is my life, my friend
And I can’t be
No one else

Cause this is my life, my friend
And this is my time to stand

Now this is my life, my friend
And I can’t be
No one else

This is my life, my friend

Performer: Michael von der Heide
Song title: Il Pleut de L’Or
Song writer(s): Michael von der Heide, Heike Kospach, André Grüter
Song composer(s): Michael von der Heide, Pele Loriano

Pampadadam padadam padadadada
pam pada dam pada dam

On the horizon
A touch of silver
Like the clouds parting
After the storm

Summer nights
Sleep’s forgotten
Thanks to your scent
I find my way again

Gold rains down
Whenever you talk to me about love
Gold rains down
Let’s set off together on a big adventure
Under starry skies
Destiny is golden
Gold rains down

Pampadadam padadam padadadad
pampadadam padadam

And in the morning
Shared secrets
Exchanged glances
Are in league with the summer
Daylight chases the magic away
But sparkling eyes remain

Gold rains down
Whenever you talk to me about love
Gold rains down
gold rains down
Let’s set off together on a big adventure
Under starry skies
Destiny is golden
Gold rains down
All night long until the dawn
Gold rains down

Dance with me
Fly with me
Whisper softly
Speak to me

Gold rains down
Gold rains down
Gold rains down
Gold rains down
Let’s set off together on a big adventure
Under starry skies
Destiny is golden
Gold rains down
All night long until the dawn
Gold rains down

Performer: Marcin Mroziński
Song title: Legenda
Song writer(s): Marcin Mroziński
Song composer(s): Marcin Nierubiec

Where forests, where mountains
lived once knight know as a hunter.
Every day I think about tomorrow,
Wanna see my Princess much closer.
I’ve decided never feeling sorrow
I will share my heart when I find her.

I’ll be forever, ever and ever
Feeling this love ’till the day when I die.
Being together even no matter,
you didn’t want me to be by your side.
He took her forever
just to love her more than ever.

Lovely Princess
I am here to save you
Take my hand and say that you love me.
If you ever say it even lying
I will let you fly like a bird – free.

I’ll be forever, ever and ever
Feeling this love ’till the day when I die.
Being together even no matter,
You didn’t want me to be by your side.

I’ll be forever, ever and ever
Feeling this love ’till the day when I die.
Being together even no matter,
You didn’t want me to be by your side.

Every story has got a clue,
it could happen even to you.