Interview – At last week’s London Eurovision Party we also managed to grab a chat with Sweden’s Robin Bengtsson who won this year’s Melodifestivalen and the right to represent his country at Eurovision. He’ll be singing ‘I can’t go on‘ in Kyiv and is currently 3rd favourite to win the contest.
Listen to what Robin had to say to us…
Thank you to Dimitry for asking the questions.
The Eurovision Times 
Thanks for sharing! I wish him luck and success in his career and life :)
Robin is such a humble,shy and down to earth guy in interviews and then just shines with confidence on stage.
Too much talking about looks and not enough about the song … or those abysmal lyrics. I wish that you had asked what Robin thinks of those.
Good luck anyway!
Excatly what I said on another thread. There is anything else other than conveyors and clothes to talk about.
*Exactly
The swedish song’s lyrics are may not be a piece of art but they do fit this kind of song which is basically all about sexual attraction. I think there are much worse lyrics this year, especially Norway’s “I put my nerves in a coffin” which should be included among the worst ESC lyrics ever in my opinion. Croatia and Lithuania also come to mind for their bad lyrics, among many others.
ESC Mike posted this predcition online (it involves Sweden 17):
Dimitri and Robin talk about the obvious. Good luck to him! :)
Off topic:Guess where Ukraine is….
Need for Geography lessons alert! :)
I am speecless…they were not asked to find New Guinea…it is freakin’ Ukraine 😐
There’s a word for that, but I am not using it here. ;)
ITV’d Good Morning Britain obviously thinks it’s between Italy and Bulgaria. Obvious choice for camp Brits love and appreciate is Slavko, of course.
God I’m so annoyed that they never can pronounce an Italian name without doing mock Italian.
That’s rude…I mean doing heavy Italian accent on purpose on TV :/
They do it in UK all the time. It is borderline racist.
Cultural sterotypes are dumb and reductive and can be a form of racism.
Yes I wrote the same thing but comment is in moderation
I was of course quoting mermaid! :)
My point excatly 🙁
I won’t be surprised to see him winning in May.
Neither will I.
Neither will I … or anyone else. After all, it’s OMG Sweden. *screams* * faints*
What I like about the Sweden fans on PB is that they openly admit that they are biased in favour of Sweden. Nice chaps. :)
Is HRH Princess Engla among them? :D
Luckily, she’s obviously not fluent in German. :)
I see :P
I have very high hopes that his smudgy make up and sleazee hand signs will aliniate enough viewers and jurors.
I don’t have a problem with neither him nor the Swedish entry, tbh.
Yeah, I remember that. I have serious issues with Robin. Song and staging are very polished Swedish fare. Have seen better, have seen worse. I think they chose wrong song, and obviously I can’t get over it. I thought I was ok with whatever outcome from Mello as I didn’t have “my heart starts bleeding and my head explodes if this song doesn’t win” type of favorite this year.
I wasn’t 😃
Of course it’s polished; it’s Sweden after all. But not in an annoying way (for me at least) :)
I don’t have problem with polished ESC brand called Sweden, quite the opposite. It’s easily my all time favorite country in ESC if not in this century. Still Måns, Loreen and Eric have all got no holds barred support from me starting from MF semis, as would have Nanne Grönvall if she wasn’t robbed already in Stockholm.
Like I said before, I was happy to by mediocre Heroes because of the stellar polished packing and sexy hot singer. It was perfect festival entry. With different singer I probably would be writing totally different stories about I can’t go on.
OGAE FINLAND:
1 pt— DENMARK
2 pts—MONTENEGRO
3 -pts—HUNGARY
4 pts—ISRAEL
5 pts—PORTUGAL
6 pts—SWEDEN
7 pts—BELGIUM
8 pts—FRANCE
10 pts—ESTONIA
12 pts—ITALY
I think the top-5 is pretty consistent with all OGAE clubs.
Finland has always been on of the biggest Italy fans on ESC. If I remember correctly it stands as #4.
I see Finland giving 12 to Portugal this year (they were the only ones who gave Sandrine François a 12)
Possibly, it will be very very even race between Portugal and Italy. Top marks are theirs to share, that’s for sure.
I saw Robin being recieved as some kind of a local hero in his hometown Svenljunga after his victory. He sort of came across as the same kind of guy as here; very shy and humble and not really enjoying the spotlight when not singing.
His entry is, yes, very slick and very cocky, which I’m not overly crazy about. But it relies on a goddamn effective and straightforward hook which I like. If they just toned down the “Dressmann commercial” thing in his performance, I think I would enjoy it the more. But hey, it’s still in my Top 15 of the year. Good luck to us! :)
I agree. I don’t mind the song itself but the lyrics and the performance kill it for me.
Another live performance of Bulgaria:
I think we have been assured at this point that Bulgaria won’t suffer from a weak vocal performance this year. Good news for them jury-wise for sure.
Still,it’s not a full live performance.He uses the recorded version plus faa(instead of fire)waa(instead of wire)lol
lol I doubt this will cost him any points :P
I have it at the 27th place at the moment. I have nothing particular against the song, and I can understand its appeal, but it is clearly not a song to leave a lasting impression. That can be said about quite a lot of other songs too.
There is no way it is going to win. A song like “Heroes” f.e. had more colours on its musical palette, f.e. a studio production with more musical details. There was something to analyze which is not really the case here.
yeah it’s being overrated by OGAE, but it’ll be more or less 5th-8th in the end… it might do better in televote than juries actually!
This is interesting: NDR’s official ESC site completely ignores the will Russia participate? issue. They’ve just started their “Who will win?” poll with the line “43 countries will participate in Kyiv in May.”
The first preview show results in Iceland:
http://cdn-img.ruv.is/sites/default/files/styles/1000×563/public/fr_20170410_059767.jpg?itok=0p3ZgMol×tamp=1491834509
Oh,give me a break!They gave Australia a higher score than Belgium… :mad:
Well, we all know that Australia is the new darling of the ESC universe. Watch out Sweden … Good to learn that they liked Portugal best but only 18 points to Finland?
This is the best Australian entry for me😊
As I said before, Isaiah comes across as far too whiny for me. The whole thing reminds me of one of my neighbours who loves moaning and wallowing in self-pity.
I still have their first entry in 1st place on my AUS list. In fact, I have it top 5 for 2015. :)
Second best for me. Their first entry remians the best. The current one is a decent proposal, I guess; his live rendition will most probably be very good.
I hope we won’t see the juries fanwanking over Australia and Bulgaria.I believe they may be their top-2 with Sweden,Portugal and one more country rounding up their top-5.
I think that Italy will be top 5 with the juries too. Or France if Alma nails it live.
I think that if Italy is top-5 with the juries,it will most probably win eurovision.
I think that Italy will win hands down.
Namaste! Allez! For Italy winning hands down 😃
I am actually thinking about ordering the Italy t-shirt from Wiwi. LOL
Now that’s what I call fanboying! I have learnt the moves, but maybe I need the t-shirt too.
The Hungarian one is the best imo. :)
I didn’t find Hungary!
They are all here:
http://wiwibloggs.com/2017/03/29/eurovision-2017-cartoon-t-shirts-and-phone-cases-celebrate-diversity/183153/
I was watching their other product line, the one with Namaste! T-shirt et al.
Hungary is really good and fun.
Our dear Anja is depicted somewhere round 2.10 when she looses her breath again and gets ready to scream 😃
ROFL on Anja. :)
Anja’s eyes are actually basic viewer’s eyes at the very same moment about to pop out.
Have you seen this? They are seriously inside the bubble now …
ROFL “It’s a pop song but it’s packaged as art piece”
Slavko’s shiny personality has started to work miracles. He got on Good Morning Britain along ITA BGR and UK. Quite an achievement. And yes he is very likable. Did he just score some points from OAGE Finland?
The Finnish show is also available.
Do you have the results?
Thanks, Dimitri.
A lot of Finnish love for Portugal <3
Indeed.They may be heading towards a big jury victory.
I agree. It made me think of ITA 11 from the very first moment !
The most surprising thing, imo, are the results of Albania and Poland.
Indeed.It seems that every preview show have theor wtf moment.
They didn’t like Australia? :O
And Albania 3rd???
See my reply to Shevek.
I tried to post a link, but I am not able to.
:(
But then we have Dimi, the official news agency of ET. :)
Indeed we do.:) I am afraid I do not know how to copy and paste that image. lol
I don’t know anything about FB either. LOL
wow no love for Finland here. And Portugal ? lol.
Gotta love a bit of Robin every now and again, especially those piercing blue eyes. <3 I also did a small experiment of this year's songs. Rather than the typical rankings based on popularity and "usual criteria", I used the following criteria: message of the song, personality of the artist, sentimentality, originality and how I felt afterwards. The results, interesting to say the least…
1 Portugal!
2 Sweden
3 Belgium
4 France
5 Australia
6 Bulgaria
7 Armenia
8 FYR Macedonia
9 Italy
10 Netherlands
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11 Azerbaijan
12 Finland
13 Denmark
14 Switzerland
15 Serbia
16 Latvia
17 Belarus
18 Greece
19 Hungary
20 Estonia
21 Moldova
22 Iceland
23 Israel
24 San Marino
25 United Kingdom
26 Romania
27 Norway
28 Austria
29 Cyprus
30 Spain
31 Germany
32 Ireland
33 Poland
34 Czech Republic
35 Albania
36 Montenegro
37 Ukraine
38 Russia
39 Croatia
40 Georgia
41 Lithuania
42 Slovenia
43 Malta
I would have liked to seen Finland and Hungary slightly higher, but I feel happy with my results. I wouldn't mind seeing Sweden win, but I feel Portugal and Italy are more deserving of a win in terms of their musical qualities. :)
oh wow 7 in common in top 10 and two more are your 11th and 12th! we’re very close this year!
Wow that is very close indeed, great minds think alike? ;)
Let’s hope Europe has got great taste on the night as well. I might be the only one, but I find Finland very underrated amongst the fans as well as the public. Watching the music video is just mesmerising, her vocals are very composed and the piano solo in the middle is perfect. This could easily be this year’s “Silent Storm” and be the dark horse of the night with a Top 10 placing. Pure class Finland, kudos!
Yeah I think it’ll be top 10 too (low top 10) with a surprise televote support; on the other hand did you see the live? It’s not as good as the music video, the problem isn’t the voals which were great, but she isnt that charismatic and makes weird faces… I believe it’ll be sorted out by Kyiv!
These are my predictions for the Grand Final – Top 10 for 2017
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1. Italy
2. Belgium
3. Sweden
4. Portugal
5. Bulgaria
6. Armenia
7. France
8. Australia
9. Finland
10. Hungary/The Netherlands
I think Azerbaijan will end up somewhere between 11th-15th on the night (if her vocals are solid), whilst the entry from Romania will be a jury-hater and loved by the tele-vote I can’t see it reaching more than a 11th-15th place in my books. This kid isn’t up for yodelling at all…
It’s too obvious a top 5, even top 10: no one had Poland-Lithuania-Belgium as the lower top 10 last year!
I see what you mean, I did have Belgium as my 9th last year. I think NL is one of the “non-predicted” Top 10 countries this year, alongside Moldova and Belarus possibly? I doubt Montenegro will achieve a Top 10 result, but Top 20 looks very realistic…
I’ve been supportung Finland since the very beginning, It’s my current nº 3.
Our top 10s have 5 songs in common: Portugal, Belgium, Armenia, Italy and the Netherlands. It’s very interesting to see Portugal and Sweden as your top 2 songs.
Yay, I’m glad you like the Dutch entry! :D It’s an interesting contrast, but I’m surprised how “low” Italy is in my ranking as I personally listen to it frequently and the song I believe has most charm.
It’s my nº 10! The Dutch sisters make the song soar live.
it’s our biggest disagreement: i hate the dutch song ;)
We share 6/10 (PRT, BEL, ARM, FRA, MAK, ITA) in the top 10 which is pretty amazing considering our ET/FdlC voting history. :)
I really like the Dutch song too. :)
It’s insane that Sweden can never be neutral: the pro-Sweden is as annoying as the anti-Sweden in the esc world imo. It’s a fine entry, very catchy, not better nor worse musically (as Anders put it better than I could ever do), and the lyrics while totally empty work for what they needed to do: sexualize the usual love song, and I wish they could have used the “fucking” in it! At least, they don’t try to be smart and fail miserably like Croatia or Lithuania (as usual, I prefer something that’s doing what it does on purpose than the supposedly good that’s awful: for instance, in 2010 I thought the Barbara Dex award should have gone to Ireland, not Moldova!) and Robin doesn’t deserve the hatred: he’s obviously a nice guy, a very competent singer (as seen last year, even if the song this year doesn’t try to show that side of him), and insanely charismatic, cute in a NOT “beautiful” way… An easy 8th for me this year…
I haven’t seen anyone “hating” Robin on ET … The song has been criticised, as have the lyrics and the stage performance … and every other entry, but that is simply because of personal taste. I’ve always thought that we all came here to exchange opinions, and as such I am very sad to see you exaggerating and generalising.
Neither have I, but it is as Morgan said. Sweden is very overrated and the counter.reaction is huge. He also uses the word ‘hate’ quite frequently, so one has to take it in stride.
Same with Portugal and Italy. Extremely overrated so the counter reaction is naturally big from those of us opposing those entries.
Opposing?! This is not fight club.
ROFL
oh I meant the hatred on Sweden shouldnt lie on poor Robin (Frans was way more annoying as an “artist” for instance, but I liked the song more; however, I’m sure Frans is a one song thing, when I expect Robin to sing better things in the future, and be able to deliver them)
I certainly hope that Robin will have better songs in the future. :)
Let’s hope then he won’t måns it. Post ESC Zelmerlöw has been serving us pretty awful stuff and so has Loreen. Both have struggled in vain even to reach top 30 in Svensk Toppen.
That is surprising. Especially when it comes to Loreen, who is very talented. MZ is just a decent singer, imo.
MF is so big that it has turned into a bubble of it’s own. I think it’s terrible that they have to struggle on their home market. I also get very sad when I see Måns doing Heroes in NF circuit 2017 with the original choregraphy.
Saade has faired better.
MZ needs to grow as an artist. I may not like Saade’s songs, but he managed to irritate me at least. MZ is just boring.
LOL Eric is highly divisive.
I hope they put next year hairy boy Ingrosso in winning song and staging mode. His warm up round was succesful enough for that.
Anton was even more succesful but it never lead to anything! I still hope for Ulrik to come back with a vengeance soon personally
Anton messed his vocals up, I think that’s why he didn’t return. I would welcome him back anytime.
Robin got his golden ticket. He has tried to ignite his career now for eight years or something. Hope he finds his audience now.
Totally with you re: Ulrik. He must pretty hot young man by now! 😃
Yup yup yup
Mehhh:
adorable, he has something of hottie Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Oh no. He looks like little lesbian about to come out, no offense to lesbians, just a personal taste 😃
Thank you Reuters. No need for MF return really.
lol!That was a very quick change of heart:
all mine then <3
And it’s getting even worse. Ulrik! What happened?
:)
What is insane is that it is considered impossible by the anti-sweden side to actually like the swedish entries without having any pro-Sweden bias.
Yes it is perfectly possible to like the swedish entry because it is a good song in one’s eyes, not because it won MF and thus it is the swedish entry.
I often wonder what is the criminal thing Sweden has done in esc to deserve all that treatment but then I remember their track record and with which entries (generally unfavourable around here) and I get it.
And I prefer straightforward, kind of playful and kind of “dirty” in a slick way lyrics that fit a pop song over kitchen sink “look I am so deep and so philosophical and so intellectually superior” pretentious kind of lyrics.
I don’t even want to think what will happen if Robin wins. Hell will break loose probably.
A lot of fans are thinking way too much about countries. Songs are expected to be a certain way just because of where they are from, and it often leads to prejudice. And there are huge biases both for and against countries.
I always try to abstract from all that and judge the entry for what it is. I don’t care if it comes from Azerbaijan, Sweden, Portugal, Italy or Germany.
Agreed and signed. There I songs I like and songs I don’t like from all countries. Luckily, Belarus has entered the like category this year too. I can see why “Work Your Magic” is loved by many but it simply doesn’t do it for me. :(
I like it as a song. I am pretty annoyed by Dima Koldun as a performer, plus his singing was really bad. But for the composition and orchestration (Bond-like sounds), I like it quite a lot :-)
I think that his English diction puts me off most …
Indeed.
Didn’t Serbia get the Barbara Dex Award in 2010 btw?
yeah it was an example (I think Moldova was top 5)
I think I am done with the forum for a while – I really need a break, I cannot take all this that’s happening anymore. I may be back for the contest itself I’ll see.
Oh bless his shy heart. Robin is quite dull doh, but he might be very new and nervous towards all these interviews and stuff. The song is ofcourse an ok song, but if this gets close to winning or even wins Im gonna lose hope in ESC..
Well im feeling less biased towards my own country each year (sigh) The whole formula MF is creating is tbh quite disgusting towards experimental music or different genres in general and I just am soo freaking tired of it.
Idk like its not ok for me to want our own entry to fail or at least only get a middle table placement.
The overall top-5 of the Finnish preview shows:
Portugal, Italy and Finland are my personal top 3. :) They really liked ‘Time’.
You can go to 1:26:15 and see the full results of the 2nd preview show.
http://areena.yle.fi/1-3798193?autoplay=true
Thanks.
Bad news for Romania, Slovenia and Netherlands!
Polarising effect for Hungary and Austria
And for the 3rd preview show results at 1:27:56
http://areena.yle.fi/1-3798192
San Marino : Ouch!
Reasonably “weak” results for ESP, DEU, CHE, HRV, LTU, GBR!
They didn’t like Verona :P
good
Finland and rock sounds. A love affair. :)
If this is a sign of how the juries will behave, Italy will win by a landslide, because the televoters will support the Italian entry most probably.
I wouldn’take all these results at face value.They may be indicative of some trends but nothing more.
Indeed. I still think that the televoters will support Italy and the juries will go for someone else: Azerbaijan? Sweden? Denmark? Belgium? It’s a conundrum. :)
Juries will go for Portugal,Bulgaria,Sweden,Italy and maybe Australia,imo.
We’ll see. :)
a reasonable top 5 except, it features no female singers and juries would never be that ignorant to female vocals!
What female vocals could those be?There are no female songs which are that jury-friendly this year.Maybe,the Netherlands(yawn),or Denmark.Serbia 2017 sort of reminds me of MLT 2016 but i don’t think it’s gonna repeat Malta’s jury showing.Belgium(mostly)or Azerbaijan could do it but not because of the vocals.On the other hand,i can see Armenia finishing in the top-10 again.
I agree with Morgan. One or more of the screaming ladies will be very successful.
Go Blanche :D !
This top 5 makes totally sense.
Btw. I am working on a top 100 of my favourite Eurovision songs between 1956 and 2016. Think it will be finished in a few days.
I’ve done mine a few years back but I ought to redo it!
Can’t wait. :) I have given up because my list changes everytime I rework it. LOL
I think you said once that “Alle mine tankar” is your absolute ESC favourite song?
It’s certainly one of them. But it is struggling with 5-6 other songs.
Swedish ESC songs in my pantheon:
1967 + 1996: 12/12
1995 + 2012: 10/12
1963 + 1993: 9/12
There are still severakl ESC countries that don’t have a single 12/12 on my list (highest score in brackets): Andorra (9/12), Armenia (3 times 10/12), Australia (8/12), Austria (10/12), Bulgaria (10/12), Belarus (8/12), Czech Rep. (8/12), Estonia (3 times 10/12), Georgia (twice 9/12), Greece (3 times 10/12), Croatia (10/12), Hungary (3 times 10/12), Lithuania (9/12), Moldova (10/12), Macedonia (4 times 9/12), Malta (3 times 9/12), Montenegro (9/12), Romania (twice 8/12), Russia (10/12), San Marino (9/12), Slovakia (8/12), Switzerland (twice 10/12) and Ukraine (10/12).
I don’t think why some people still think that I have an anti-Sweden bias, and the fact that they do saddens me a lot. I judge songs, not flags.
I truly love Sweden 63 and 67. I listen to both very frequently while driving.
I prefer singalong songs when driving but listen to those 2 a lot when I am at home. :)
:)
The thing is that we don’t have a speed limit on the Autobahn, and I love travelling at 200 km/h … which is more easily done when sth like BEL04 is on. LOL We need a spit limit asap because I know that what I am doing is wrong …
LOL
Sweden 98 was the last Swedish entry I loved.
I liked 2007, 2010 and 2012, 2010 one minus the live performance though.
I sort of liked Frans too … *blush*
:) I like the idea behind Sweden 16, but I could not stand the koochie koo approach, so to speak.
I have to go now. Good night, Togravus, and everyone else.
Boa noite. I am already in Easter holidays. :)
I am as well (sort of at least).
As you don’t give Jan Johanssen and Se på mig 13/12, I think you are very biased 😃
I’m still gutted that One More Time and Den Vilda didn’t win. I think it has taken way too long to get over it. Same goes with robbed Jan 😃
My winners:
1996 PRT
1995 DNK
But I dearly love the Swedish entries too. :)
Ok, borderline biased then 😃
Those two songs have remained unbelievably dear for me all these years. Se på mig has been a reliable safety blanket few times on a rougher patches 😃
I agree. It is a very soothing song.
And I can live with borderline biased. :)
Borderline is where things get interesting 😃
so I SHOULDNT mention “The Voice” as my all time #1 then?
No. Don’t! LOL <3
No. You really shouldn’t as quite many others round here shouldn’t either.
Seriously? Wow. I’m a bit surprised, but not gob smacked 😃
I love both Sweden and Ireland in 1996, but my winner is Portugal.
I don’t really like Portugal 96 it’s around 8th-12th for me (but I do hate Croatia and Estonia more).
At least we agree on EST96. I sort of like HRV96 because Maja looked beautiful and had great live vocals … plus my beloved sister loves the song. :) I have the 2 P-countries on top in 1996.
Poland was my 4th (Ireland, France, Finland)
France 9th
Ireland 12th
Finland 17th
But it was a very strong year, perhaps the strongest ever and I like all 3 songs. I even managed to make my peace with IRE96. :) I really like BiH in studio version btw, but Amila probably was the weakest live singer that night. :(
Love: “Euphoria” (despite the genre), “Den vilda”, “En gång i Stockholm”, “Se på mig”
Like a lot: “Just nu”, “Fångad i en dröm”, “Som en dröm”, “I morgon är en annan dag”, “Se på mig”, “Kärleken är”, “The Worrying Kind”
Other fine songs: “Absent Friend”, “Det börjar verka kärlek, banna mig”, “You’re Summer”, “Waterloo” (mostly in the studio version though), “Jennie Jennie”, “Satellit”, “Främling”, “It Hurts”
And I always thought that I was the only one who liked “Jennie Jennie”. I like all songs you mention (they are mostly 8/12s on my list) except “Främling”. It might be a fine song but it’s too schlagerish for me …
I just think it’s a really good melody :-)
Might be. :)
Sweden is my winner in 67 and 81! the two “dröm” songs lol, it’s also my winner in 99 but I hate that year, it’s the only acceptable song that year lol… Sweden is my second in 2007 too and has been in my top 5 or top 10 many other times as well. I simply HATE 75 and 79 though!
You don’t like Bosnia 1999?
It’s my second. I like it but don’t love it. Something about it bothers me (the fact I understand the meaningless lyrics I guess). Dino is my 2011 winner though.
SWE86 is in last place on my list of all entries. Yes, it managed to beat “Flying the Flag” and that Tereza thing …
Sweden 77 is their worst imo
I have it in 16th place with 3/12 which is way above the 0/12 86 has on my list. That live performance makes me cringe …
The party which Robin’s hometown Svenljunga arranged for him, which i mentioned earlier, included a provisional stage with a giant disco ball hanging from a crane. I always expected it to just fall down on poor Robin.
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/17360902_1869356090020773_163303428_n.jpg?oh=f0664eea7f55f1873fe68673b2370b68&oe=58EE3D4D
And “Den vilda” is the best Swedish entry ever. Hands down. No contest. Everything about it is perfect; the composition, the lyrics, the arrangement, the mood, the singing, the performance… Some other Swedish entries are great in one or two of the categories but “Den vilda” is the only one to get a top score for all of them.
I believe that’s 1967!
Sweden 67 is their best entry, I agree; here it is once again:
it was in my all time top 20 last time I did my all time top 100 I mentioned to Anders earlier!
1967 is great in its composition and mood, but the lyrics are just ok. Plus that it was a fight between SVT and songwriters about the arrangement. SVT wanted it to have the more gentle guitar intro while the songwriters wanted the more bombastic arrangement of the studio version, believing the other one would sink their chances in Vienna. But SVT got, the final word, as always. I like the studio version better.
I love ‘Den vilda’. Everyone who enters and stays in my car for while ends up listening to it. LOL
Perfect!
Sweden hater! LOL
You are even worse than me who has 2 12/12s. :)
Lol, yeah, but on the other hand, I don’t have any 0/12. The weakest Swedish entries are 1969, 1977 and 2009, all at 2/12.
I would probably say “En gång i Stockholm”. It is very poetic both musically and lyrically. The chords are excellent. One of the least deserved nul pointers.
yeah, the “non-esc” song by excellence (though its only existence proves that it IS an esc song)! however, 63, what a load of masterpieces! of course “Dansevise” is my winner above Monaco and Switzerland
One of my all-time favourites, such a classic and the lyrics are very simple yet touching. “En gång i Stockholm” is one of those songs I’ll never get tired of listening to, especially if I’m in a more sad mood.
RIP Monica Zetterlund
BoNF Finalists revealed here (and semifinals 16th-30th as well later): https://eurovisiontimes.wordpress.com/about-5/morgans-stuff/bonf/bonf-2017/
Btw, is it… that Dimitri asking the questions?