On Friday Netflix’s much-anticipated Eurovision movie finally hit the streaming platform. And as we dove into the various storylines, we also turned to Spotify and other music services where we streamed the film’s soundtrack. With 17 tracks — including Salvador Sobral’s Eurovision 2017 winner “Amar pelos dois” — it’s giving us chills, laughs, tingles and, in the case of “Volcano Man”, the sounds of indigestion!
The film had some very heavy hitters working behind-the-scenes to create all that music. Among them is Atli Orvarsson — the Icelandic film score composer who orchestrated music for the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Music supervisor Becky Bentham has credits including Mamma Mia!, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Les Misérables. And executive music producer Savan Kotecha is behind beloved songs like “What Makes You Beautiful” from One Direction and “No Tears Left to Cry” from Ariana Grande. Yas, king!
Soundtrack to “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”
Choose a producer or composer on the individual tracks and you’ll find a long list of achievements. For instance, Swede Jörgen Elofsson wrote Demi Lovato’s stand-out track “In the Mirror”. You’ll recognise his earlier hits including Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” and Britney’s “Sometimes”, among others, and Melfest songs like Mariette’s “For You”. He’s also worked with Eurovision greats like Alsou, Charlotte Perrelli, Eric Saade and Jessica Andersson.
And then there’s Johan Carlsson, who worked on the Alexander Lemtov song “Lion of Love” alongside Savan. He has credits including Little Mix’s “Glory Days” and Celine Dion’s “Courage”. And Andreas Carlsson, who wrote “Running with the Wolves” (not “Run with the Lions”!), has credits on Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way”, Carrie Underwood’s “Inside Your Heaven” and NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye”. Well, hello! And did we mention Melfest and Eurovision great Thomas G:Son has a track in “Come and Play (Masquerade)”?
For this poll, we are focusing on original songs composed for this movie. That sadly means Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams and Molly Sanden’s cover of Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” is not eligible, nor is Salvador’s Eurovision 2017 winner. We’re also removing the “Eurovision Suite” instrumental, as it’s, well, an instrumental.
What’s your favourite original song on the Eurovision Movie soundtrack?
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The music, both original and licenced, is without a doubt the best thing about this movie for me! I loved almost all the soundtracks! I’m honestly disappointed you didn’t include “Eurovision Suite” in the poll cause it’s my favourite musical piece from the movie by far, especially its last part (with those awesome trumpets), divine music! But ok, as I said most of the rest of the songs are great too. And yes, I do think these songs could easily be legit Eurovision entries, especially because I can totally spot some inspiration by real Eurovision entries in them, even a… Read more »
Sorry, I meant 1-11, I missed 2.
Play Ja Ja Ding Dong!
What’s the original track called at end when they kiss ? It’s bugging me
Hoppipolla – Sigur Ros?
Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós
Can someone help, I’ve been trying to figure out what other song I’ve heard that follows the melody and chord progression of Husavik
Perhaps “Never enough” ?
The more I listen to these songs, the more I like them. I think most of them could function as legit ESC songs. I can see Husavik and In the Mirror actually scoring top 10, as well as seeing Double Trouble and Volcano Man scoring top 5 in televoting. Even songs which wouldn’t go that well could easily pass for semi fillers. Really good job in the songwriting department! 🙂
In The Mirror totally could’ve been a real ESC song. Husavik too!
Coolin with da homies is just American music that doesn’t really make any sense in eurovision
Yeah out of all the songs it was the only one that didn’t seem convincing enough to be a possible esc song
then again the choice could’ve been a jab at the fact that Sweden can really send whatever the hell crap they want and still get support
I think that was te point, I mean the guy name was Johnny John John! I think it was referring precisely to the “Americanization” that Eurovision suffered recently
“Húsavík” is a great song. It was supposed to stand out, since the whole ending would feel flat if the song wasn’t good enough to make it a big moment. But I’ll tell you what, those who wrote the songs did a way better job than those who wrote the screenplay. They had a tough task: write songs that could fit Eurovision as “serious” entries and be light-hearted for a comedy at the same time. And they achieved it. “Lion of Love” is a brilliant spoof (and Dan Stevens sells it completely), “Double Trouble” is exactly what I would expect… Read more »
You’re kind, Una. 🙂
“Lion of Love” and Dan Stevens acting performance are the best things in this weird movie, with the cameos…
Running with the Wolves is a banger, sadly it is just 1 minute long
I’m trying to remember each of the songs by country, so correct me if I’m wrong: Husavik (Hometown)/Double Trouble – Iceland (obviously) Lion of Love – Russia Running with the Wolves – Belarus Coolin’ with da Homies – Sweden Come and Play – Masquerade – Greece Fool Moon – Finland Hit My Itch – San Marino Husavik was beautiful, and the Icelandic was well-incorporated, but as far as songs go Finland, Belarus, and San Marino are my favorites. The award for “most accurate to the songs they typically send to Eurovision” goes to Greece, and once again, I’d call it… Read more »
I don’t know. Iceland themselves have Paul Oscar and he made the Greek act from the movie look tame.
If only Maruv went to Tel Aviv… That probably would have been similarly explicit lol.
Mita’s staging is totally Lidia Isac + Maruv, with some Mariya Yaremchuk and Elena Risteska sprinkled on.
Husavik hands down. I’m impressed that Molly could sing in Icelandic despite being full Swedish. Thought it was Demi who did it till that part came on. In The Mirror by Demi was good too.
Just watched the movie tonight. Naturally my favorite song is Coolin with Da Homies.
Spent the rest of the night reading interviews with Kotecha. Like with Ferrell, it was Kotecha’s Swedish wife who introduced him to Eurovision in the early 00’s.
He also wrote Huvasik
Loved your cameo in the movie, Willy!
I have to say Coolin with Da Homies was totally hilarious. “People say I talk too fast”, so so funny, one of my highlights of the whole film.
But there were lots of good songs – the montage in the semi showed they had put a lot of effort into having part-respectable, part-funny songs. Job well done!
Husavik is AMAZING!
I don’t care about and won’t watch the movie but someone urged me to listen to ‘Husavik’ because apparently, I wouldn’t be able to dislike it. Well, duh! Molly Sandén sings in Icelandic, of course I like something so beautiful. And so damn convincing. But what’s utterly disgusting to me is that some actress pretends to sing it in the clip I saw on YouTube and not the real artist. I wonder if that’s a precursor for the new Eurovision era. We seem to be halfway there as it is thanks to recent developments. I have always thought Molly Sandén… Read more »
The movie is fiction. Everybody knows this. Molly accepted her payment and did as she was asked. Nothing disgusting about that. Real life would be different, true, but let’s hope that never happens.
As you might have been able to tell, my disapproval is not with Molly. She gives so much life to this song that I’m even able to overlook the cheesy lyrics. To me, there is good and bad fiction. This is bad fiction because it’s not believable when the actress can’t even handle singing the studio version. Also, you just admitted yourself with ‘let’s hope’ that it is an actual possibility. Fiction and fact have a way of mixing together in these times. It’s quite striking that they get to use the official Eurovision logo, so it’s clearly something EBU… Read more »
Right, so I half agree with you. Okay for the movie, horrible for the real-life contest. Most of the viewers of this movie will never even notice, so I guess it is believable. Hollywood has done this for decades, with their classic musicals like West Side Story and My Fair Lady. As for the EBU, they have disappointed me before but I doubt they’d ever go that far. They do seem to have some stake in this movie – they’ve been promoting it on their social media, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was them who insisted on the… Read more »
I got a beautiful studio version by Molly Sandén out of it, so even for me, it wasn’t all for nothing. Though the rest, to me, is a whole lot of nothing. But I suppose this is not even about Eurovision, if it were about anything else, I’d still dismiss it because I’m not into that kind of phony stuff. And when it comes to parodies, I do prefer mockery over tribute. Not that I think Eurovision should be mocked. The EBU on the other hand would be the perfect target for a mockery. 😉
MrVanilla please climb down from up your backside and appreciate that this films is FICTION and made for love of a weird and wonderful competition. Start with all this ‘she cant play this part cos she cant sing and we land up with documentaries not films with ACTORS who look nothing like and are nothing like the parts they play. I loved the whole film and my fav song is Volcano Man, followed closely by Lion of Love partlydue to the ACTING on the video
We don’t care you don’t care…. if it weren’t the playbacks things this “bean” would have found something else to complain or to not like it…..but it’s normal this is vanilla mean the most negative person on wiwibloggs….
I thought I was the only person who couldn’t possibly care less about this movie..
Lion of Love and Masquarade. I also liked the ballad.
How come they didn’t include any ethnic songs in the soundtrack, most of the Swedish produced tunes sound the same. I’d have loved some ethnic elements.
Off topic (sort of…it’s in conjunction with Netflix): Eurovision Again is keeping it in the EBU-owned range for their last weekly viewing party so we can go to Copenhagen 2014! Good year. It’ll be monthly from here on out but hopefully there’ll be more pre-2004 goodies down the line.
I wish i could’ve watch eurovision again 2018, stupid geoblock.
use vpn
The Song-A-Long with the eurovision artists was my favourite, though Double Trouble was equally great!!
Running With the Wolves!!
Fool Moon is cool too. Love that they got a real indie band for that.
“Husavik” and “Double Trouble” plus the Song A-Long medley are the highlights of the soundtrack and the biggest surprises from this movie. I love it!
Honorable mention to “In The Mirror”. That song’s cool as well.
We need a number two movie! A sequel to this film! With some cameos again and with the revenge of Fire Saga in Rotterdam 2021 😉
The soundtrack was alright overall but “In The Mirror” was a legit, top five level ESC song.
As you said yesterday in the Dan Stevens-Thread: This. 😀
“IN THE MIRROR” with Demi Lovato was amazing. Like damn.
Húsavík is my favourite song of the 2020 season.
Just finished watching the movie on Netflix, and I really enjoyed it 🙂 I have soo many thoughts about it. I feel that it would be different watch for a non-eurovision fan, as they don’t follow the contest as closely (i.e. the jury does not vote like that in the semi finals, and Spain is not in the semi finals). I felt that they left the story of Alexander rather ambiguous at the end. I would have like to know more about him (like is life in Russia) and what happened to him after the end of the contest (did… Read more »
Ngl, I quite liked the end of the movie! The beginning was quite cringe-worthy, but it got better as the story progressed!
My fave songs were Husavik and In The Mirror.
If a physical DVD came out, I would buy it.
Im confused. It looks like all the musical numbers were shot on the 2019 stage, but it wasnt the case. They only shot the crowd during ESC, theres no way the production had time to let them shoot a movie during all the rehearsals etc. And in one of the interviews they mentioned that it was shot on a set. So they recreated the 2019 stage in a studio?
Yep. Many of the stage scenes up close were shot in the UK.
If you love “Double Trouble” and you are sad that they ruined that song because of the story-line I can help you with this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuSCaeeCRc
Personally I enjoyed the movie, I see it three times, I got goosebumps when I see all these eurovisions stars and winners appear and sing one by one, what an iconic scene! For an eurofan it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen! The Switch song and love love peace are overpassed here for me, Congrats Mr Ferrell for that! Even wiwibloggs was represented, too happy to see William appear too! I repeat for an eurofan I loved it, it’s iconic, then I love, Double trouble and Lion of Love. All the clichés of Eurovision are in this movie but with… Read more »
We agree it’s a good movie for esc fans, as a big fan I have recognized each cameos at the first time, I screamed their names when I saw each of them, I was happy! Would love to see the behind the scene of this CULT scene! Ryback Loreen ans Jessy Matador have not changed since so many years, I’m hyped it’s so iconic, Conchita Jamala Anna Bilal Elina John, represents so well the Esc of recent years, well done Will 😉
I love the stagings references too, it was so clever done, yes I can confirm that this movie was made by a pure eurovision fan.
I forgot to mention salvador sobral, good to see him but sad he doesn’t appear in this incredible famous scene 😉
Lion of Love outsold Fuego
I enjoyed the whole soundtrack. Each song is a clear reference to a style of music sometimes featured in Eurovision. Husavik – An emotional ballad with an ethnic touch. It’s really beautiful. Volcano Man – Nordic synth-pop, cross between Think About Things and Spirit in the Sky. Lion of Love – A cross between Running with Lions, You Are the Only One and Wild In the Mirror – A belting diva ballad Double Trouble – It reminded me of This is Love because it starts off as a ballad, but has a catchy and kinda cheesy pop chorus. Come and… Read more »
The movie was fine
I mean, it was not accurate but again, just a movie (Spain had to qualify to the final xD)
Anyway, Jaja Ding Dong is just stuck in my head lol, please send help
I have exactly the same problem lol.
And also, there were 7 people in the Swedish song