Fairytale (Alexander Rybak song)
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| Single by Alexander Rybak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Fairytales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 12 January 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | EMI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Alexander Rybak, Kim Bergseth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Fairytale" is a song written and composed by Norwegian violinist/singer Alexander Rybak, and the first single from Rybak's debut album Fairytales. This song was the winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia.
In February 2009, Norwegian media reported that "Fairytale" is about Rybak's ex-girlfriend Ingrid Berg Mehus whom he got to know through the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Rybak has since confirmed this. At a press conference in May 2009 he revealed that the song's inspiration came from the Huldra, a beautiful female creature from Scandinavian folklore, who lures young men to her, and then may curse them for all time. The Russian-language version of the song is entitled "Skazka" (Russian: "Сказка").
The song was elected through the Norwegian festival Melodi Grand Prix 2009 on 21 February, winning in the biggest landslide of the contest's history, and competed against eighteen other Eurovision entries in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009, where it qualified for the final. The final took place on 16 May and the song won with 387 points – a new ESC record. It was Norway's third Eurovision Song Contest win.
The backing dancers for the Eurovision performance, Sigbjørn Rua, Torkjell Lunde Børsheim and Hallgrim Hansegård, are from the Norwegian dance company Frikar, performing the folk dance halling. The backing singers, Jorunn Hauge and Karianne Kjærnes, wore long pink dresses designed by Norwegian designer Leila Hafzi.
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