"Tell Me!" was the entry in the

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, performed in

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by August & Telma. The song is an up-tempo duet, with the singers confessing their love for one another and planning to leave where they are in order to "be together all the time". "Tell Me!" was performed twelfth in the Eurovision Song Contest, following '

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with " Colgado de un sueño". At the close of voting, it had received 45 points, placing 12th in a field of 24. The song was succeeded as Icelandic representative at the 2001 contest by

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". In Iceland, record label Skífan released "Tell Me!" as a

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in 2000 backed with the

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s "Segðu mér" and "Simple Man" by

Örlygur Smári Örlygur Smári (born ) is an Icelandic producer/composer. Biography Smári was born in Iceland, Europe. Smári wrote Iceland's Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry Tell Me!. He also wrote the song This Is My Life, which was the Icelandic entry ...

(credited as Öggi), who co-wrote "Tell Me!". The song received copious airplay in Iceland, topping the country's singles chart for two weeks in May 2000. It ended the year as Iceland's fifth-most-successful single.

Icelandic version

The Icelandic version, titled "Hvert sem er" (translated as "Anywhere"), won

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2000 with 4318 teveloting votes, over three times more than the runner-up song "Söknuður" performed by Páll Rósinkranz. The Icelandic version was recorded but not released.

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Lyrics of the Icelandic version with translation

Lyrics of the English version
2000 singles 2000 songs Eurovision songs of Iceland Eurovision songs of 2000 Number-one singles in Iceland Male–female vocal duets Songs written by Örlygur Smári {{iceland-stub