Category: Melodifestivalen

Time for the first qualification round in the Eurovision Song Contest – this year held in Turin, Italy.

Tonight the first 17 countries are competing for 10 seats in the finale. On Thursday the remaining 18 countries are doing the same. Then the 5 countries that are automatically qualified along with the host country (which this year is one of those 5) adds up to 25 competing acts on Saturday. Hopefully Sweden will be one of them.

Countries that went thru from semi-final 1 ; Lithuania, Switzerland, Ukraine, Netherlands, Moldova, Portugal, Iceland, Greece, Norway and Armenia.

This year they have made a change in the competition and no longer call this particular part of the event 2nd chance anymore. Instead of having all the eight 2nd chance-participants compete two and two they have divided the contestants into two groups of four. Two from each group will go thru to the finale next weekend.

Fun semifinals to enjoy together with my sis/ wi family and parents!

The contestants tonight are;

Semi final 1:
1. Tone Sekelius – My way – finale
2. Alvaro Estrella – Suave
3. Danne Stråhed- Hallabaloo
4. Anna Bergendahl – Higher Power – finale

Semi final 2:
1. Theoz – Som du vill – finale
2. Lisa Miskovsky – Best to come
3. Lillasyster – Till our days are over
4. Cazzi Opeia – I can’t get enough – finale

A beautiful Saturday! We slept in a bit and then we enjoyed the spa before breakfast. Lovely sunshine all day! After our errands and lunch we took a nice walk around the lake. Our oldest son joined us too.

Tonight it is the last part of the Mello before semi- and finals start. Trying a new kind of bubbly tonight – with apple flavor. Not a favorite as it turned out. The peach one last weekend was much better.

The participants tonight are;

Part 4:
1. Anna Bergendahl – Higher power – semi finals
2. Lillasyster – Till our days are over – semi finals
3. Malin Christin – Synd om dig
4. La Stella – Tenori
5. Medina – In i dimman – finale
6. Angelino – The end
7. Klara Hammarström – Run to the hills – finale

Oh – I managed to score 7/7!!! Never happened before.

Weekend again and time for the second part of this years Mello.

Last week the app to vote via was not functioning and the voting disaster was a fact. Again. Fingers crossed it will work better tonight – I guess they loose tons of voters when the app is not working and people have to call or text to vote instead. Which costs money for the voters. Anyway.

One of my friends sister is competing tonight – she is the lead singer in Browsing Collection. Go Mimi!

Tonight the following are competing;

Part 2:
1. Liamo – Bluffin – finale
2. Niello & Lisa Ajax – Tror du jag bryr min
3. Samira Manners – I want to be loved
4. Alvaro Estrella – Suave – semi finals
5. Browsing Collection – Face in the crowd
6. John Lundvik – Änglavakt – finale
7. Tone Sekelius – My Way – semi finals

Time for the first part of the Melodifestivalen. The stupid pandemic is still causing problems even though they just removed the restrictions to gather a lot of people as of Feb 9th. The Mello 1-3-shows will take place in Avicii Arena (former Globe Arena) and the last 3 events (Mello 4, semi and final) will take place in Friends Arena.

Due to the pandemic we will not meet up with our friends (at least for this first weekend when the restrictions are still on) and watch it together either. Maybe we’ll meet up via Zoom, we’ll see.

New host this year is Oscar Zia with Farah Abadi as sidekick.

Part 1:
1. Malou Prytz – Bananas
2. Theoz – Som du vill – semi finals
3. Shirley Clamp – Let there be angels
4. Omar Rudberg – Moving like that Paul Rey
5. Danne Stråhed – Hallabaloo – semi finals
6. Cornelia Jacobs – Hold me closer – finale
7. Robin Bengtsson – Innocent love – finale

Finally – the Eurovision Song Contest finale! Unfortunately we can not watch it together with my sis and our friend w/ our families. Hopefully next year!

This year there is no clear winner – the bookmakers have predicted Italy. I’m not convinced. Have to listen to all the songs again tonight before I’ll know how to vote.

And the contestants are ;

Sweden – Tusse – “Voices” – make us proud!

1. And the winner is: Italy
   Second place: France
   Third place: Switzerland

Sweden: 14

And CE won the challenge price!

Time for the second qualification round in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Tonight we pick the last 10 songs to participate on Saturday. And the contestants are; San Marino, Estonia, Czech Republic, Greece, Austria, Poland, Moldova, Iceland, Serbia, Georgia, Albania, Portugal, Bulgaria, Finland, Latvia, Switzerland and Denmark.

Time for the first qualification round in the Eurovision Song Contest. This year held in Rotterdam – again – since last year was cancelled due to the pandemic.
Tonight we pick the first ten to reach the finale – and the contestants are:

Lithuania, Slovenia, Russia, Sweden, Australia, North Macedonia, Ireland Cyprus, Norway, Croatia, Belgium, Israel, Romania, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Malta.

Go Sweden! Fingers crossed Tusse will make it to the finale!

PS! He made it!