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Posted: **Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:07 am**

From our friend Anne in Norway:

On Norwegian TV there som time a go a show; comedian awards. Four comedians made a parody of the Norwegian version of Hallelujah. The quartet who song the Norwegian version was Kurt Nilsen (who won World Idol a couple of years ago), Allejandro Fuentes (known in Norway from Idol), Askil Holm (not so well known) and Espen Lind (quite known musician in Norway, but also known from a hot romance with another well known Norwegian girl, Elin Tvedt, TV host and more). The share the same manager (and or record company) and that's why where formed as a band. Enjoy!

Here's the link to this great parody http://www.start.no/filter/embed_click. ... nk_id=1871

This so you can understand some om the lyrics. It goes like this:

Ja du har kanskje hørt det før
nå gjør vi som de andre gjør
vi hadde nesten begynt å miste tru
Men hele gjengen fikk en trang
til å synge en gammel Cohen sang
og platesalget stiger - Hallelujah!
Hallelujah....

Nå står jeg i en svett kvartett
med ex-kjæresten til Elin Tvedt
men det er ikke noe å bli sjalu av
Er det rart man blir litt sår
når en snørrunge på 18 år
står og lirer av seg Hallelujah?
Hallelujah....

Kurt Nilsen bør jekkes ned litte grann
han tror vi er et backingband
Når han presser stemmen bør dere gå å skru av
Publikum bør tas med storm
men hvem faen er egentlig Askil Holm,
og hva drev han med før han sang Hallelujah?
Hallelujah....

Idéen er ikke original
men det er en ganske grei moral:
For drømmen vår var å bli intervjua!
Her står vi med en svett gitar,
like konstruert som Spce Girls var
med en klissete versjon av Hallelujah!
Hallelujah
Halle Berry
Helle dussen
Halleluah!

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:20 pm**

Forgive my amateur attempts at translation. There are probably a lot of behind-the-scenes jokes that I am not getting....

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Yes you have maybe heard it before
Now make we as another makes
We have almost began to lose faith
But totally thread the get a need
Until to sing an old Cohen song
And sell a record rise/go up(?)..Hallelujah!

Now I stand in a sweaty quartet
With ex-girlfriend/beloved Elin Tvedt
But it isn’t anything to become jealous of
Its strange they/you become a little heartsick
Now a brat at 18 years
Stands and lire of herself Hallelujah?

Kurt Nilsen should rise among little whit
He believes we are the backing-band
When he pushes his voice above theirs go to screw off
The audience should get with storm (storm the stage?)
But who (faen?) really Askil Holm
And what (drev) he with before he sang Hallelujah?

The idea is not original
But it is a rather straightforward moral:
For our dreams to be becoming interviewed!
Here we stand with a sweaty guitar
Like making as Spice Girls do
With a clichéd version of Hallelujah!

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