I can't wait to lie awake on weekday nights with my windows vibrating from the 30 km/h song when I'm getting up for work in four hours. The genre is for teenagers with high quality sound systems in their cars with BASS, often leading to conflicts in the local Facebook group here when people are trying to sleep, and mostly in the summer when the car people who DJ for the whole village don't have school, but other people still have work.
Swedish people are deathly afraid of embarrassing themselves, it’s a huge part of our culture, and I can kind of feel that in the voting at MF. We’ve found a niche where no one comes to hate us, and we’re very afraid of going outside that, so we push away some of the “weirder” entries because we don’t want to leave our guarantee. This is why, alongside the very genuine love of Mello, there’s an equally genuine hate/apathy for it in Sweden, because it’s so similar year after year.
It seems like this should be the one year they send something different because they automatically qualify, so there's not really much embarrassment that could happen.
15:10 No, the "Epa-traktor" aren't like farm tractors. They look pretty similar to normal cars (image google "a-traktor" or "epa-traktor"). 16:38 I agree, I thought that Lasse Stefanz would for sure get the 12p from the 75+ and perhaps the 60-74 too, these ages loving Albin Tingwall so much came a bit out of the blue for me. But I guess those generations watch Idol a lot, idk. Fun fact about Lasse Stefanz, the singer (then drummer), started the band with his friends when he was only 12! He's the only original member left now 57 years later. That's pretty impressive. It's not my kind of music, but I still like that Melodifestivalen pay homage to some of our old-time artists, and let them compete in the contest. It's just gives a feeling of familiarity and coziness, it's just run-of-the-mills dansband song about remembering a summer long ago.
You see it exactly like I do on all the songs in Melodifestivalen (that is kind of surprising, possible only differense is that I think Smash In To Pieces is better than you think). . I am surprised by your knowledge as well. Scarlet is great and I found it really really weird that this Albin guy came 3:d instead. I thought it was a given that Scarlet would have that place and then qualify to the big final. With that said Scarlet song could have been even better. The ending is just so good. But some of the song is kind of repetetive. Ifthey had something similar to the ening inthe midpart of the song it would be amazing.
I was sooo disappointed Scarlet came 4th. It's weird to think how insanely well this could've gone over in a national final like MGP versus the poor placement in Melfest.
Danny should win. Is his song dated? yes, does that make it bad? not at all! I think he executed it flawlessly, the staging was effective and impactful, and the song has a nostalgic feeling that I think will resonate with many people, it is also extremely catchy at first listen. I think Scarlet has a very good performance but I don't think the song is memorable or catchy enough at first listen, and Sweden should send a complete package, which Danny has, Scarlet is 70% there (I didn't think their makeup was cool, I thought it looks a little childish tbh, if they wanted to go dark they should've gone all the way with it).
Danny's song was the blandest thing ever for me. So generic.The staging was kinda empty too, it doesn't give me anything. Hope M&M will come with a sleek performance and win, because it's most likely between them and Danny. Dotter has no chance of winning, but her and Scarlet were miles ahead of everyone yesterday.
Hopefully the swedish people will wake up and choose Scarlet to the finals as they deserved. Better than both Danny and Dotter this year. And that is said by a pop fan😅🤩🤩🤩🤩
Totally agree! My favorite. I think unless something shocking happens next week, it's gonna be Jacqueline. I thought she was good, but I feel like we've heard it before.
@@aekelly we still have M&M left and also Medina and Jay Smith. But something tells me that neither of them will have a song that matches up to Liamoo. Well that's of course if we would be brave enough to send something new and different as Scarlet. This year we have that choice, we have nothing to loose by trying sending something different and unusual. We won't win twice anyways so why don't give it a try and see where it leads. As a Swede myself I'm hoping for that and keeping my fingers crossed 😅🙏
@@melina7202 you're wise! I thought Liamoo sounded so phoned in. I mean his expressions and mannerisms were all dramatic, I just thought the song was really boring. I probably won't make any Swedish friends by saying this but M&M's song was lame last year. Or I'm old. 😂 If S&T wrote one of their more fabulous songs for Jay - that could be beautiful!
The scores didn't make sense to me this heat. I thought for sure Scarlet was going to go direct to Final with that amazing Circus X performance. But I guess name recognition and a more standard song gets you further in Sweden. 😐 Tbh I didn't care for any of these songs since musically I didn't find any of them as strong as any of the heat 2 winners which are my current tops. But watching the live, Danny did deliver and elevate that song so he and 30km/h were my other picks following Scarlet. Dotter was disappointing to me with a mid song, but I guess she has die-hard fans...
5:41 He's her boyfriend, not husband. Dotter and Dino aren't married. They've been a couple for more than a decade though, and have a daughter. You are totally correct about all of his 10 Melodifestivalen songs going direct to final. That's pretty impressive.
About dotter she sounded much better in the rehersal, because the day befors the heat she completly lost her voice and she was sick the whole weak before aswell but its a grower and i think she Will win you over in the final, and if her voice is better then i can se her winning actually, its kind of a diffrent song for us i think if we send it!
@@ESCTomyes cause i think that se is so much better then the performance she did because of her sickness it was such bad luck for her, but yeah i Am sure that your going to love it in final, and i u havent take a closer look att the lyrics its very emotionell🫶🏻
I personally think Dotter's song this year is the most vocally impressive thing she's ever competed with. I like the vocals she gave even though she was very sick at the time. It really felt like she has evolved as a singer.
@@ESCTom I think lia not making it gives fröken a good chance there’s no other epadunk to compete with, and I think everyone online is giving scarlet massive support so I hope they bring that to the vote for the run offs (what a final it would be)
Wow, Albin was *really* bad. Both Dotter and Danny were super disappointing. Scarlet were the only ones I liked. Kinda sad knowing neither them nor Jacqline have a shot at winning Mello this year.
I love scarlet, they've been one of my top artists for the last few years, so I was very excited when I saw they where gonna compete. And they didn't disappoint. My theory to why metal music has a hard time in Melodifestivalen is that I think the overlap between the swedes that listen to metal and watches Melodifestivalen is very low. Among the people I know, quite a lot of them listen to metal, but besides myself I don't think I know a single person who both listens to metal and watches Melodifestivalen.
My honest opinions: This was best of the semi finals so far (which is not a massive achievement). Scarlet was totally the best one, way superior to every other songs so far this Melodifestivalen year (And obviously Swedes do not realize it and go for big names 🙄). Dotter was okay, but the song was probably the most boring one she has had in Mello. And Danny Saucedo's song is just overhyper boredom and generic pop song, sorry. Staging was good though but thats not really a miracle in Mello. Rest of the songs did not remain in my memory ater the song ended, but i have a faint memory that those were better than the songs in other semi finals aswell. Scarlet would also match the theme of this year of witchery and strange performances 😆. But im totally fine with Danny winning and going to Eurovision, it would make it much easier for my country (Finland) to beat Sweden (in tele score) this year 😎.
Top 2 were very good but Scarlet ware mind blowing when I watched it live online here in the UK, I was head to toe in Goosebumps, they should have won the heat full stop but I am afraid we might have another Statements (not even making the final, god I hope not though)
Scarlet definitely had the most interesting song out of these six. I'm not really interested in epadunk, but I thought 30 km/h was a way better song than Unga och fria. (Btw, you keep saying Shnusk but it should Snusk.) 😋
More then in any other heat, the voters really voted for the big names instead of the songs. I‘m still surprised that Danny still seems to me like this hidden master figure of Melodifestivalen that is popular but not as popular enough to win the whole thing. And I have such a strange feeling with this song because the chorus is so bad and the end felt so cutted, but I‘m absolutely fine with the rest of it. It‘s not the only DTF-song that I like from this year, but actually the only one where I‘m upset about that I still have to wait one more week for the studio-release. I can agree with your Dotter-take. She desperatly wants to seem vulnerable in this performance but it doesn‘t really fit at all. I‘m happy for her that she made it, but in the end she will be more of a filler for the final then a winning-contender. And those 3rd placers in the heats 😰 it won‘t get better. Albin‘s qualification to the run-off was such a strange surprise, especially against Lia, which didn‘t had a masterpiece of a song, but it was definitely more entertaining than his song. And I’m fine with the rest of the results. Looking forward to heat 5.
Now having all songs (though snippets of last heat) SCARLET must go!!! EVERYTHING IS READY THERE, just give them the right to represent SWEDEN PLEAAAAASE
Lia had a good concept but the song was a bit repetitive. It would be nice to see Scarlet in the final: it is something different. It is needed since I find the songs this year a bit generic.
scarlet should absolutely win but i’m guessing we’re getting another sweden moment since they also don’t have to qualify this year maybe it’s evil but i want them to nq next year and maybe try to send something very different cause with 30 songs in selection and 2000+ submitted yeah that is very much possible
Scarlet should have won this Semi, the voting resembles as if AI was asked how Swedish voters vote, and predicted the order we got. And yes, Dotter toucher herself too much, that is not sexy it is creepy.
This heat was the weakest one so far for sure, if Kim Cesarion and Clara Klingenström from last week would be in this heat they would have qualified. Fingers crossed last heat next week will be stronger
At some point the Sweden formula is going to start failing…. They’re the best at generic English-language radio pop, but Eurovision is moving away from that. They need to embrace their Scarlets to avoid becoming the next Ireland.
well i think theyre very far from that tbh, they are currently number 1 in the rankings for the last 10 years, above Italy and Ukraine. they would need 4-5 absolutely disasterous results before there's any movement to chance imo. Realistically, I think it would take the contest evolving heavily away from standard pop
You mention that your melfest winner has never won melfest. Euphoria, Heroes and Tattoo were not your winners? 👀 No judgement btw just honestly curious everyone has their opinions😊
i didnt say my favourites have never won, just that it doest happen that often. Euphoria and Heroes were, but that was 12 and 9 years ago. My favourite last year was M&M
@@ESCTom oh okay sorry I misheard 😂 my only 2 melfest winners that won were both loreen. Hopefully this year Maria or Scarlet win, both are my favourites my miles🥰
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Hi! I’m one of the writers for Circus X 🎪❌ thank you for the incredible review!! Means the world to us 🖤
No problem Jessica. I really really hope that you qualify from the run-off vote 🤞🏻
I totally agree with you about Scarlet!! They were amazing!! I'm gonna vote for them again to hopefully get them to the final!
This Swede will be voting for Scarlet in the run offs!! It would be epic to send them to ESC, no one would see it coming especially from us 🫡🖤❤️
I can't wait to lie awake on weekday nights with my windows vibrating from the 30 km/h song when I'm getting up for work in four hours. The genre is for teenagers with high quality sound systems in their cars with BASS, often leading to conflicts in the local Facebook group here when people are trying to sleep, and mostly in the summer when the car people who DJ for the whole village don't have school, but other people still have work.
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Swedish people are deathly afraid of embarrassing themselves, it’s a huge part of our culture, and I can kind of feel that in the voting at MF. We’ve found a niche where no one comes to hate us, and we’re very afraid of going outside that, so we push away some of the “weirder” entries because we don’t want to leave our guarantee. This is why, alongside the very genuine love of Mello, there’s an equally genuine hate/apathy for it in Sweden, because it’s so similar year after year.
It seems like this should be the one year they send something different because they automatically qualify, so there's not really much embarrassment that could happen.
@@EurovisionExpat you’d think so, wouldn’t you
15:10 No, the "Epa-traktor" aren't like farm tractors. They look pretty similar to normal cars (image google "a-traktor" or "epa-traktor").
16:38 I agree, I thought that Lasse Stefanz would for sure get the 12p from the 75+ and perhaps the 60-74 too, these ages loving Albin Tingwall so much came a bit out of the blue for me. But I guess those generations watch Idol a lot, idk. Fun fact about Lasse Stefanz, the singer (then drummer), started the band with his friends when he was only 12! He's the only original member left now 57 years later. That's pretty impressive. It's not my kind of music, but I still like that Melodifestivalen pay homage to some of our old-time artists, and let them compete in the contest. It's just gives a feeling of familiarity and coziness, it's just run-of-the-mills dansband song about remembering a summer long ago.
You see it exactly like I do on all the songs in Melodifestivalen (that is kind of surprising, possible only differense is that I think Smash In To Pieces is better than you think). . I am surprised by your knowledge as well.
Scarlet is great and I found it really really weird that this Albin guy came 3:d instead. I thought it was a given that Scarlet would have that place and then qualify to the big final. With that said Scarlet song could have been even better. The ending is just so good. But some of the song is kind of repetetive. Ifthey had something similar to the ening inthe midpart of the song it would be amazing.
I was sooo disappointed Scarlet came 4th. It's weird to think how insanely well this could've gone over in a national final like MGP versus the poor placement in Melfest.
Oh yes totally. This is the difference between Sweden and Norway
Danny should win. Is his song dated? yes, does that make it bad? not at all! I think he executed it flawlessly, the staging was effective and impactful, and the song has a nostalgic feeling that I think will resonate with many people, it is also extremely catchy at first listen. I think Scarlet has a very good performance but I don't think the song is memorable or catchy enough at first listen, and Sweden should send a complete package, which Danny has, Scarlet is 70% there (I didn't think their makeup was cool, I thought it looks a little childish tbh, if they wanted to go dark they should've gone all the way with it).
Danny's song was the blandest thing ever for me. So generic.The staging was kinda empty too, it doesn't give me anything. Hope M&M will come with a sleek performance and win, because it's most likely between them and Danny. Dotter has no chance of winning, but her and Scarlet were miles ahead of everyone yesterday.
Fröken Snusk should be worried now that Scarlet has entered the house.
Hopefully the swedish people will wake up and choose Scarlet to the finals as they deserved. Better than both Danny and Dotter this year. And that is said by a pop fan😅🤩🤩🤩🤩
Totally agree! My favorite. I think unless something shocking happens next week, it's gonna be Jacqueline. I thought she was good, but I feel like we've heard it before.
@@aekelly we still have M&M left and also Medina and Jay Smith. But something tells me that neither of them will have a song that matches up to Liamoo. Well that's of course if we would be brave enough to send something new and different as Scarlet. This year we have that choice, we have nothing to loose by trying sending something different and unusual. We won't win twice anyways so why don't give it a try and see where it leads. As a Swede myself I'm hoping for that and keeping my fingers crossed 😅🙏
@@melina7202 you're wise! I thought Liamoo sounded so phoned in. I mean his expressions and mannerisms were all dramatic, I just thought the song was really boring. I probably won't make any Swedish friends by saying this but M&M's song was lame last year. Or I'm old. 😂 If S&T wrote one of their more fabulous songs for Jay - that could be beautiful!
The scores didn't make sense to me this heat. I thought for sure Scarlet was going to go direct to Final with that amazing Circus X performance. But I guess name recognition and a more standard song gets you further in Sweden. 😐 Tbh I didn't care for any of these songs since musically I didn't find any of them as strong as any of the heat 2 winners which are my current tops. But watching the live, Danny did deliver and elevate that song so he and 30km/h were my other picks following Scarlet. Dotter was disappointing to me with a mid song, but I guess she has die-hard fans...
I think the problem w Scarlet is that they are pretty unknown, I think a lot of people might show up in the semi for them
5:41 He's her boyfriend, not husband. Dotter and Dino aren't married. They've been a couple for more than a decade though, and have a daughter.
You are totally correct about all of his 10 Melodifestivalen songs going direct to final. That's pretty impressive.
My fav was probably Dotter (it's not "Bulletproof" , but I mean it's still Dotter for me) , but Scarlet being 4th is a robbery
Actually preferred Scarlet over Dotter, tbh. Definitely Lia should've gone through over Albin. Cheers, Tom!
Dotter was the only one I voted for. It's the best song so far in Melodifestivalen. 💖
About dotter she sounded much better in the rehersal, because the day befors the heat she completly lost her voice and she was sick the whole weak before aswell but its a grower and i think she Will win you over in the final, and if her voice is better then i can se her winning actually, its kind of a diffrent song for us i think if we send it!
ive got it a bit in my head, so im keeping an open mind towards it. also obviously because i love Dotter as well
@@ESCTomyes cause i think that se is so much better then the performance she did because of her sickness it was such bad luck for her, but yeah i Am sure that your going to love it in final, and i u havent take a closer look att the lyrics its very emotionell🫶🏻
I personally think Dotter's song this year is the most vocally impressive thing she's ever competed with. I like the vocals she gave even though she was very sick at the time. It really felt like she has evolved as a singer.
30kmh had such jedward/lipstick vibes. And i loved it❤😂 circus felt cool but not Swedish.
"I think the song and performance was really boring" is actually an excellent and incredibly accurate summary of what Dansband is 😂
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Scarlet and Froken would be my ideal run offs to make the finals ! Do you have a two you’d like to see make it from run offs?
Oh good question. Right now I’d say fröken and scarlet. But I also liked klaudy
@@ESCTom I think lia not making it gives fröken a good chance there’s no other epadunk to compete with, and I think everyone online is giving scarlet massive support so I hope they bring that to the vote for the run offs (what a final it would be)
Wow, Albin was *really* bad. Both Dotter and Danny were super disappointing. Scarlet were the only ones I liked. Kinda sad knowing neither them nor Jacqline have a shot at winning Mello this year.
I love scarlet, they've been one of my top artists for the last few years, so I was very excited when I saw they where gonna compete. And they didn't disappoint.
My theory to why metal music has a hard time in Melodifestivalen is that I think the overlap between the swedes that listen to metal and watches Melodifestivalen is very low. Among the people I know, quite a lot of them listen to metal, but besides myself I don't think I know a single person who both listens to metal and watches Melodifestivalen.
Yep I agree. I think those who watch melfest is a subsection of the country
My honest opinions: This was best of the semi finals so far (which is not a massive achievement). Scarlet was totally the best one, way superior to every other songs so far this Melodifestivalen year (And obviously Swedes do not realize it and go for big names 🙄). Dotter was okay, but the song was probably the most boring one she has had in Mello. And Danny Saucedo's song is just overhyper boredom and generic pop song, sorry. Staging was good though but thats not really a miracle in Mello. Rest of the songs did not remain in my memory ater the song ended, but i have a faint memory that those were better than the songs in other semi finals aswell.
Scarlet would also match the theme of this year of witchery and strange performances 😆. But im totally fine with Danny winning and going to Eurovision, it would make it much easier for my country (Finland) to beat Sweden (in tele score) this year 😎.
Yea scarlet would fit the theme although it would still feel different sonically and visually it feels more vaudeville circus movies
Top 2 were very good but Scarlet ware mind blowing when I watched it live online here in the UK, I was head to toe in Goosebumps, they should have won the heat full stop but I am afraid we might have another Statements (not even making the final, god I hope not though)
Scarlet were amazing!!
Scarlet definitely had the most interesting song out of these six. I'm not really interested in epadunk, but I thought 30 km/h was a way better song than Unga och fria. (Btw, you keep saying Shnusk but it should Snusk.) 😋
ah yes, ill change that for the next vid
Tom,at this point,who do you think will win this melfest?
M & M
I actually think they Will flop and that we Will send Maria
More then in any other heat, the voters really voted for the big names instead of the songs. I‘m still surprised that Danny still seems to me like this hidden master figure of Melodifestivalen that is popular but not as popular enough to win the whole thing. And I have such a strange feeling with this song because the chorus is so bad and the end felt so cutted, but I‘m absolutely fine with the rest of it. It‘s not the only DTF-song that I like from this year, but actually the only one where I‘m upset about that I still have to wait one more week for the studio-release.
I can agree with your Dotter-take. She desperatly wants to seem vulnerable in this performance but it doesn‘t really fit at all. I‘m happy for her that she made it, but in the end she will be more of a filler for the final then a winning-contender.
And those 3rd placers in the heats 😰 it won‘t get better. Albin‘s qualification to the run-off was such a strange surprise, especially against Lia, which didn‘t had a masterpiece of a song, but it was definitely more entertaining than his song.
And I’m fine with the rest of the results. Looking forward to heat 5.
Yea if dotters song was called “I wanna bang” or “seduction”, then I could understand the staging. But with a romantic theme it’s just so off
Now having all songs (though snippets of last heat)
SCARLET must go!!! EVERYTHING IS READY THERE, just give them the right to represent SWEDEN
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Dotter is amazing 🎉
Lia was my favorite of the night 😔
7:42 everyone's gone direkt till final, yes ; )
That’s really impressive
Lia had a good concept but the song was a bit repetitive. It would be nice to see Scarlet in the final: it is something different. It is needed since I find the songs this year a bit generic.
To let you know: Albin is the singer, his brother is the dancer.
Tbh i can stop listening and watching Dotter's performance, it felt emotional and authentic
Scarlet was the best I heard in Melfest in the last years and it's a robbery that they didn't even make the final.
scarlet should absolutely win but i’m guessing we’re getting another sweden moment since they also don’t have to qualify this year
maybe it’s evil but i want them to nq next year and maybe try to send something very different cause with 30 songs in selection and 2000+ submitted yeah that is very much possible
I don’t even think a NQ would make them change. They are number 1 in the last 10 years, there’s no incentive to change even with 1 bad result
Danny should wear an ugly bridesmaid’s dress in his next interview.
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If he does that, he becomes my new number 1 for this years Melfest
Scarlet should have won this Semi, the voting resembles as if AI was asked how Swedish voters vote, and predicted the order we got. And yes, Dotter toucher herself too much, that is not sexy it is creepy.
I thought Scarlet dancers look a bit like Bamby Thug dancers...
Yea there was a similarity but scarlet’s looked more inspired by Swedish medieval doctors, similar to those referenced by The Knife
This heat was the weakest one so far for sure, if Kim Cesarion and Clara Klingenström from last week would be in this heat they would have qualified. Fingers crossed last heat next week will be stronger
At some point the Sweden formula is going to start failing…. They’re the best at generic English-language radio pop, but Eurovision is moving away from that. They need to embrace their Scarlets to avoid becoming the next Ireland.
well i think theyre very far from that tbh, they are currently number 1 in the rankings for the last 10 years, above Italy and Ukraine. they would need 4-5 absolutely disasterous results before there's any movement to chance imo.
Realistically, I think it would take the contest evolving heavily away from standard pop
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You mention that your melfest winner has never won melfest. Euphoria, Heroes and Tattoo were not your winners? 👀
No judgement btw just honestly curious everyone has their opinions😊
i didnt say my favourites have never won, just that it doest happen that often.
Euphoria and Heroes were, but that was 12 and 9 years ago. My favourite last year was M&M
@@ESCTom oh okay sorry I misheard 😂 my only 2 melfest winners that won were both loreen. Hopefully this year Maria or Scarlet win, both are my favourites my miles🥰
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I thought Danny and Dotter were both really bland. 🙄
dotter? i hardly even know her...
Danny is so basic 😭 if he wins, i hope he comes last at eurovision.
Danny's song is mediocre at best.