[2] Pollapönk, an Icelandic punk children's band, entered Söngvakeppnin 2014 with the song "Enga fordóma".

[3] In an interview with Eurovision fansite Wiwibloggs, the song was changed to English because "it was necessary that more people could understand what [Pollapönk] are all about.

[5] The music video shows the members of the band using cardboard props to rescue a group of people having a party that are being held hostage by an evil villain who turns everything black.

Pollaponk then uses their instruments to blast the cage holding the party goers open and destroying the villain's weapon.

Söngvakeppnin 2014 was the national final format developed by RÚV in order to select Iceland's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

The top two songs from each semi-final, as determined by public televoting qualified to the final which took place on 15 February 2014.

[10] The ten competing artists and songs were revealed by the broadcaster during the television programme Kastljós on 17 December 2013.

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final.

On 20 January 2014, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in.