How on earth did this song NOT win the Oscars??? I can't even remember the song that actually won. I love this song and Molly is just awesome! OMG! Her voice! She's amazing!

Yes, this is filmed in the actual town of Husavik Iceland. Backup singers are the local girl choir.

Molly has NEVER had trouble with her lower register - I mean she can still belt some really high notes but her lower register is so SOLID & WARM 🤩 What I absolutely LOVE about her! Note the smile in Molly’s voice in the second verse when she sings the word “neon” 😂 Also, in the last chorus when she sings “Husavik ved Skjalvanda”, there’re tears in her eyes & her voice is shaking 😭 This performance meant EVERYTHING to her! Having followed this girl for so many years, I know she’s singing here as if her life depended on it. To mention a few things about her life: when her parents divorced when she was nine, she found out that she had a half brother, she was bullied for her body type in her teens, she got diabetes at 20, was told to lose 10kgs when she was trying to get a break in LA & a few years ago she had a painful & public breakup from her then fiancé. In 2020, she’d just started a tour (in Sweden) when the pandemic hit. This girl’s a fighter! Honestly, there’re SO few singers who move me as she does! She was born with a very emotive vocal quality & she uses it here to PERFECTION but at the same time the emotions are REAL. She’s real! There’s nothing fake about this girl - she was so grateful about this Oscars experience (all of Husavik helping out) that she was lost for words. And she managed to channel all her gratitude into the song & it’s ABSOLUTE MAGIC!!! 🤩

This song always gives me goosebumps! The Oscar performance was magical, complete with the Northern Lights!

Someone should call the police- this was robbed of the Oscar for best original song.

The first time I heard this song I cried my eyes out! I come from the same town as Molly and listening to it made me think of the many many years I have been away from my beautiful hometown! It is such a beautiful song and everybody who is far away from home can identify with it. The song and Molly's voice go right into your heart ❤️

Such a beautiful song makes me think about my daughters 😢 love it

The Oscar performance is simply amazing. From her awesome vocals to the local children as the chorus and the northern lights in the background. Amazing..

I love how Molly got overwhelmed at 3:53, you can see her teary eyes, and then at 4:03 she kinda braces herself to continue singing. What a great song and perfomer!

Molly is from Sweden and her voice is superb. the song is so good and i cant stop listen to it. and sure it makes you home sick. Molly du är bäst!

Another stunning Swedish singer is Helen Sjöholm, here with Gabriella’s song from the movie ‘Så som i Himmelen’ (‘As in Heaven’), where Helen plays a woman married to a wife beater. This is her ‘Liberty song’ in the end of the movie ❤️ (I’m sharing this link as it is practical with the lyrics being translated into English in it 😊) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aaxzg7xhtOCYgpc.html

The context of the song from the movie really launches it to a new level too. Small town folk with huge love and pride in their home submitting their entry into an international competition and knocking it out of the park because of the incredible sincerity of the song. Making a competition winning entry, but falling short due to a technicality of it not being the song that was submitted for the competition, but everyone knows that it's the greatest song of them all. Then to have them not get the Oscar even though we all know it was the best, due to Oscar politics or whatever it is. It's all so poignant!

15 years in the states, born and raised in Sweden. Haven’t been home in three years. 😢 Thanks for doing a reaction to Molly, and her awesome performance. ❤️

Dont think ive listened to it without crying yet, such a pure song

Proud sweds ❤️

I'm not crying, you're crying. OK, I'm also crying. Wonderful song and a breathtakingly beautiful performance.

OMG the northern lights in the background top this performance as AAAAAA++++++++++!

What a beautiful reaction, thank you for sharing!

As a proud Swede I love that you reacted to this ❤️

What a beautiful sincere reaction. ❤️❤️❤️🙏

This is the best version of this fantastic song. For us Icelanders. Molly's Icelandic is finally correct - though there are some "grammatical" errors in the text. But that is not Mollys fault, she didn't write it ;) Why this didn't win the Oscars is totally weird, this was not only the best song but also the only song that was an actual part of the movie. Perhaps they didn't give it the "label" since it was a Netflix movie?

This is the sweetest reaction.❤️ Thank you and hugs from Sweden.

You're not alone Zoe, I'm an expat living in the south of Europe, but originally from Sweden (home of Molly), and haven't been back for many years, there's no way to watch this without crying. It doesn't get any better in the Acoustic Live Video with Molly, recorded on Öland (an island at the Swedish east coast) with its amazing landscape and the sea as backdrop to the video... Molly, we love you!

Born and raised in Stockholm/ Sweden. Still here haha. Thank you Molly for this beautiful song :)

Amazing song. And the film is absolutely FABULOUS.

My family loves Eurovision, and Melodifestivalen (the Swedish contest that they send the winner of to Eurovision). Molly is amazing.

This song literally gives me the shivers, it’s absolutely amazing. However, the reason for my comments is to commend Zoe Stibi for the way she explained some of the technicalities/techniques.

Beautiful song and her Icelandic parts are so much better than in the original. Husavik is indeed a great town to visit

Get chills every time I hear it

Amazing song!!!! I love Molly’s voice! You may love her song “den finaste någon kan få”. She won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with that song when she was 13 ❤️

Molly has a really warm and "clean" voice that somehow touches the heart.. few are lucky with that, but also add that she is really working with her lyrics as well, trying to understand them before bringing them to us.. but that said- this song and her voice- that is just pure magic..

Yes! Can’t wait to see a proper reaction and analysis of this impeccable performance.

Your emotional response was beautiful 🥰

I am thankful that you share your reaction this makes us all think of and love our homes

your emotional reaction really moved me and i’m … 🥺😭 love this video! molly’s performance is absolutely mind blowing tbh, hard to put words on how amazing it is.

Amazing video, thank you for sharing

My brother was due to visit, but had to cancel, when Covid started (last year) - so I DO miss him, but we video chat with zoom etc, once a week usually. I'm from New Zealand, have been for quite a while (50 years).

Thank you 🎶❤️ Such a good song and Molly sings it so beautiful.

Thank you for letting us into your heart. I hope you’re able to go back home to New Zealand soon.

Your reaction brought me to tears. You are a BEAUTIFUL person! I love Molly so much and this song is just in a league of it's own. ❤

As someone else wrote here in the comments, Helen Sjöholm - Du måste finnas

I think most of us go back to our hometown or wherever our home feeling is when we hear this song. Beautiful! Isn't wonderful to go back to that place in our hearts?

Molly is amazing, she has a lot of good songs in swedish too.(Listen to her song called 'Sand', you can find the english translation in one of the comments below the video.) Also listen to Chris Kläfford with his song 'Cold at the altar' or 'If Not With You, For You', he won the swedish idol 2017 and he also competed in AGT 2019 but did not win. We have a lot of amazing singers here in Sweden, and it's so cool to see some of them getting recognition outside of sweden ! :D

i love this song , Molly is just Amazing

More Reactions to Molly !!! please!! 🥰

I left my home country in 1979. When I hear this song I break down in tears as if I was 9 years old again leaving my hometown. I can never go back as I escaped a horrible dictatorship. I am grateful for the life I have here in USA but but the longing to be home again, to live free there, enjoy the beauty of my home country will never go away.

I'd love to see your reaction to the Swedish contribution to the eurovision song contest 2022. Cornelia Jakobs, hold me closer. Her voice and the lyric it's a magical match!

I've never watched your videos before, and this is the 1st one. I loved how emotional you got cause I too got really emotional listening to her. I've listened to this song more than a hundred times, and it still gets me every time. You are right, it really made me think of my own hometown and how i'm stuck and can't go home... nothing hurts more than being apart from your love ones... nothing sucks more than being away from a place you can call home... I was really upset Molly didn't win the Oscars but... I am very glad she sang this song cause now, it's framed up in the internet for all to see~ This beautiful masterpiece~

Molly är en Superstar i Sverige.hoppas du kan komma hit och se henne på riktigt,!

Please react to another amazing swedish singer. Chris Kläfford he was in AGT with Imagine. His voice.... 🙏

I love this song and her voice is beautiful.❤️ It's my first time on this channel. I subscribe✨

Zoe - beautiful song, amaz vocalist & analysis/insights. But, best part was you exposed part of yourself you keep tucked away. I thx you for letting us in! Born & raised here in USA, but right now seems like we’re living in a world that upside-down at X’s. But today; lived it “with” ya! 🤍2U

Take a note that that final belt she does here, was actually a very piercing and crystal clear head voice note in the movie. She really went for it and kept it a thick TA sound in this performance.

Please, do Molly Sanden “how to sing Hometown “. I need to learn more about this cord closure thing.

Sou do brazil e sou apaixonado por essa canção ❤

Husavik is my hometown (its not im german but this song makes you feel like u miss husavik as if its your home)

Does it being freezing outside have the potential to mess with vocals? She did amazing if so!

beautiful recording. with the northern light at the end there...

Really nice guitars in the background, love small-shop luthiers! But I digress... I related to a lot of your comments. As a guitarist-first "singer", on a quest to become a passable vocalist, my ears are always perked for helpful techniques to try. Your "sigh to hit low notes" and "puppy wimper" suggestions both fit the bill. Thanks! On a more personal note, I also related directly to your expat comments. As an American who grew up in Europe and lived in Japan for a number of years as an adult, homesickness was no stranger. I'm not ashamed to admit Husavik watered my eyes too... for some reason at the "where the whales can live" part. I'm convinced there's something specific in the actual melody that's the culprit.

As always, great reaction. This song always brings me to tears. Being Hawaiian…I’m a softy when it comes to songs about pride in their homeland…..”Take Me Home Country Roads” type of songs. Aloha. Sister 🎼🔥🫶🏽

This song makes me cry

Hier zeigt es sich wieder wie Musik solche wunderbare emotionale Reaktionen hervorrufen kann... 😊👍

Please react to Anna von Hausswolff live from Nobel Price 2018! Anna is also an amazing swedish artist

I’m from Sweden, living in Denmark ❤️

And Will Ferrell... What do you think about his contribution with part of the lyrics of this song?

Same song coach as Zara Larsson. Allot of the girl Artists in Sweden goes to Johan Jämtberg at Helges and Helges Allstars in Gävle, Sweden. They usually start at the age of 10.

You taking a break, because, you know. That in itself made me subscribe.

Im actually one of the choir girls and I remember this so well and she was so sweet. If you can see me im the girl with long brown braids in the middle

I also cry with this song . Can you react to barbara pravi eurovision grand final performance

How to sing like Molly Sanden? Yes PLEASE.

Maybe you could do some reaction on singers from old Zealand there are many. Like Blof with porcelain or Danny Vera with Rollercoaster or Emma Heesters with Strong or Racoon with Ocean.

🥖 🍷 👑 ⛪ ✝️ 🌞 Salut de France. J’aime beaucoup le film marrant avec des belles musiques ”Le concours de l’eurovision l’histoire de Fire saga” Molly Sandén chante merveilleusement. BRAVO ! Dimanche 14 mai 2023 🇨🇵 Yonne Bourgogne

beautiful all round

no need to judge her .... Molly is just a perfect singer a 30/20 I give her ...

Please do a video about Davina Michelle, Sweet water

So yeah....I can´t stop thinking about the guitar in the background that has the hole at a diffrent place.... :P

It is Húsavík not Husavik

It seems like and I hope that you Sicelanders out there are happy with Mollys Icekandic-ish

❤

I think it's also interesting that she's singing in 2 different languages that aren't her native language

I’m a kiwi living in Sweden

My vocal coach 😁 Pleaseeee Iranian music 😭😭😭😭

Home is where my kid is. But when I dream, I'm on a patch of ground in the middle of nowhere USA.

Molly just released a new album on Spotify (all songs in swedish).

Can you react to Alexandra Rotan in stjernekamp? Its a norwegian singing contest

I’ve never been to Iceland and I am crying… what is she doing to me….😢😢😢

I am struggling to get any high sounds out of me

It’s a total disgrace that this song didn’t win the OSCAR☹️😡😢

Pantera cemetery gates music video! Please zoe!!!

Don't worry about crying...I do it every time I hear it and this performance makes me cry even more :-) It's just something about this song! And Molly is AMAZING!!!!!

This is one of those songs that everytime you hear it you go: Yeah.... I wanna go home.

Lol, puppy sounds from my iPad ;)

I can relate to it, living on a different country and listening to your "cultural" modern songs. I am from Portugal and sometimes listen to Portuguese Fado, like (music with english subtext) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e72TgpWK073TpZc.html

Please react to Demi Lovato songs❤

Vet du att Ferell har en svensk fru och att han ÄLSKAR Melodifestivalen!!!

I don't know were it not for YT and Tiktok etc if we would have ever heard of a VOCAL COACH and their reaction! Music teacher - yes someone who teaches singing sure. Someone obviously worked out "Shock" , "Destroy" and 'Reaction" as power words that attract viewers aka marketing ploy. Works because I just could not hide my irritation to come in and comment nothing else. There - REACT to me now as much as you like LOLLZZZZ

If you like low notes, listen to Angelina Jordan. Then your viewnumbers will rise a lot

Can we just agree that auto tune is bad for music

So this is a proper song, but was NEVER part of any Eurovision? Shame...I would put it on the same level as Springsteen's Hometown song

Just realized that her dress looks like the northern lights. Probably not a coincindence.