I don't know about that...I'd hardly regard 2004 as a Norway classic (it came last although it wasn't that bad to be honest!) and I didn't like either Wigwam or Guri Schanke or whatever her name was...Maria, Christine and Alexander were all flawless though :wub:

 

as for Iceland, Jonsi and Erikur were terrible, Silvia was annoying but fun with an incredibly catchy song, Yohanna, Euroband and Selma were fantastic

 

Denmark have been incredibly meh since 2004...I really liked Brinck this year but the other five entries were all very average, not bad, not great

 

Sweden for me have been the most consistent...Lena, Carola, Charlotte and Malena were all fantastic and I thought that The Ark were excellent too, even though they weren't everyone's cup of tea...2005 was terrible though, Las Vegas was appalling, they should have sent Alcastar :wacko:

While I've loved all the Swedish songs since 2006, Iceland are far and away my favourite country. Their songs have been in my top ten every year since 1999 without exception, and probably all but a couple would have been in my top five.

 

I do really like Valentine Lost although I think it would be among my favourites retrospectively rather than at the time.

Edited October 28, 200915 yr by Peter30

really? even 2 Tricky and Jonsi? :o

 

Iceland are responsible for two of my all time favourite Eurovision songs, well songs in general actually, All Out Of Luck and Open Your Heart, whilst This Is Your Life and Is It True are in the brilliant category too but I wouldn't call them all time faves...

oh, and I'm having a UK fest at the moment :lol: Love Shine A Light, and now It's My Time :wub: still one of my top 5 of the year!

really? even 2 Tricky and Jonsi? :o

 

Iceland are responsible for two of my all time favourite Eurovision songs, well songs in general actually, All Out Of Luck and Open Your Heart, whilst This Is Your Life and Is It True are in the brilliant category too but I wouldn't call them all time faves...

 

Especially Jonsi, I love that song!! Rips off Come What May from Moulin Rouge a little bit but I heard Heaven before I heard that, so it doesn't matter to me. I'd say it's probably my 3rd favourite behind Open Your Heart and This Is My Life.

 

2 Tricky is alright...I haven't listened to it in ages but it was one of my favourites at the time. Pretty catchy.

Especially Jonsi, I love that song!! Rips off Come What May from Moulin Rouge a little bit but I heard Heaven before I heard that, so it doesn't matter to me. I'd say it's probably my 3rd favourite behind Open Your Heart and This Is My Life.

 

2 Tricky is alright...I haven't listened to it in ages but it was one of my favourites at the time. Pretty catchy.

 

oh it does sound like that now I think about it :lol:

 

Birigitta was the highlight of a very weak top 10 in 2003 (in my opinion)...would have come top 3 had it been sent 3 or 4 years earlier, wouldn't have come top 15 in 2009, was very much caught up in a musical transition period in ESC

 

2 Tricky weren't that bad but 2001 was an absolute classic for me...up against both Michelle's, Friends, Natasha St-Pier, Lindsay D, Antique, Rollo & King and Tanel & Dave (yes I still love them :P), they were far from one of my favourites

Darin's the first wildcard :D

 

I think we can safely assume he'll be in Globen!

my thoughts on the ten finalists of the webjoker competition;

 

Jessica Friberg - Break Free

 

This is very catchy, sounds incredibly amateurish and dated though, not too dissimilar to Ireland's 2009 ESC entry, Et Cetera by Sinead Mulvey. It certainly isn't bad but I don't think it would stand any chance of winning MF so it seems a bit of a pointless waste of a wildcard if it wins the webjoker competition.

 

Song Rating: 8/10

Chances of winning MF: Very small chance

 

Siberia - Hot For The Night

 

A mix of pop, 80's, and air guitar...like a cheaper sounding version of Star Pilots but with a female vocalist. Might appeal to the Alcazar fans if it had some much better production, the ending in particular is a bit of a damp squib compared to say, the triumphant last three seconds of Agnes' Love Love Love. Very catchy and repetitive but no chance of winning...

 

Song Rating: 7/10

Chances of winning MF: Very small chance

 

Johan Skoog - När Vi Har Landat

 

Now this is a bit different after the first two very generic by numbers songs. A sort of upbeat indie-dance-pop offering sung by a very bizarre acting man. The melody of this is really nice, his singing is a bit over the top though. It does feature a key change thank goodness, no MF song would be complete without it. It's a bit odd but it's my favourite so far.

 

Song Rating: 8.5/10

Chances of winning MF: Small chance

 

Genjor McNeil - My Kind Of Love

 

Oh dear...I expect this is a joke. Quite clearly a Melodifestivaloon judging by the video, he's probably ecstatic to have got this far but I sincerely hope it doesn't go any further. Very very cheap song, production, terrible vocals, he can barely sing. Against the big guns in the semi-finals this would come last for sure.

 

Song Rating: 1/10

Chances of winning MF: Non-existant

 

Ingela Hemming - Love For People

 

I'm quite impressed that music videos have been made for a lot of these seeing as even the likes of Caroline Af Ugglas, Alcazar and E.M.D. didn't ever get round to recording videos for their huge MF hits from this year. This song is a pop/light rock offering from an aging lady with a decent-ish voice. It's a bit weak to be honest. The main hook is ok but hardly the sort of thing that would redeem Sweden's poor form in the ESC, plus it sounds as if it stepped off a Corrs reject pile from 1997. It's not offensive, just plain.

 

Song Rating: 5/10

Chances of winning MF: Non-existant

 

Alrik Paulsson - Lite Sex Och Lite Spex

 

A middle aged man tries his best to make everyone laugh with the cheapest song I've heard this year with what I presume features hilarious lyrics about sex. Sounds like something you'd walk past an old boy singing on the street begging for money outside a station with his 80's one man band kit. Some Swedish authenticity to the sound, like a very bad Benny Andersson Band song...Terrible.

 

Song Rating: 1/10

Chances of winning MF: Could get a small novelty vote, but no chance

 

MiSt - Come And Get Me Now

 

Now we have what sounds like a mixed pop group with a very lively pop song, although like all of the others so far, it is incredibly cheap sounding, thank goodness it's mostly artists with lots of money and good producers behind them that make it to the MF semi-finals! The song itself is very uneventful after its quite promising start. Better than the last few songs but that's not hard.

 

Song Rating: 5/10

Chances of winning MF: Non-existant

 

Adam Sandahl Grupp - Kärleken Vänder Allt

 

An indie-pop song which is listed as Schlager/Dansband. Doesn't sound a lot like it to me, more like a Britpop type song, in Swedish obviously. It does have a key change though which leans it a bit more over towards Schlager. The hook is a lot more memorable than most of the other songs and with slightly better production, it could get as far as Second Chance, but it's doubtful. It's very happy and could appeal to quite a few people, nothing amazing though.

 

Song Rating: 6/10

Chances of winning MF: Very small chance

 

Halla Vilhjalmsdottir - How

 

With a name like that, it seems like an Icelandic chancer has made her way into the final ten! The slowest song here, but what surprises me is that there are no pure piano ballads here. It's very hard to make a singer and a piano sound cheap, and somebody could have easily gone down the Sarah Dawn Finer - I Remember Love route and produced an excellent simple ballad. This country tinged ballad is good, the hook is nice and I can see it being a huge grower too. Its relative simplicity could help it.

 

Song Rating: 8.5/10

Chances of winning MF: Small

 

Mark - I'll Make You Want Me

 

A very dodgy pop rock song to round off the selection. The singer has quite a deep voice, although not quite Chad Kroeger deep. Not good at all, there are no redeeming features to this, it sounds like something Brian McFadden might sing.

 

Song Rating: 2/10

Chances of winning MF: Non-existant

 

I wonder if the song that wins will get the opportunity/be forced to be given to a better producer as if there's one thing that all of these songs have in common, it's that they all sound incredibly cheap and the winner will sound absolutely awful along with the likes of Darin, Ola, Sibel and Andreas Johnson (if rumours are to be believed) who all have many great songs under their belts. Anyway, if you want to judge for yourself, the songs are up here and you can vote by text if you live in Sweden. None of these songs have any chance whatsoever of winning Melodifestivalen, in fact I'd be hugely surprised if the winner of this even makes it into the final. I'm not sure how much they play up to the sympathy vote on MF but I guess somebody with a back story of coming from nowhere might appeal to the Swedish voters, and of course the winning song will already have an advantage of being heard before all of the other songs, but one things for sure, if any of these ten had been in the 2009 final, it would have been completely shown up, because the production on nearly all of these is terrible and they could all do with a lick of paint before competing with the big guns. If I lived in Sweden, I would vote for either How, När Vi Har Landat or Break Free, but all three can be vastly improved.

Genjor McNeil - My Kind Of Love

 

Oh dear...I expect this is a joke. Quite clearly a Melodifestivaloon judging by the video, he's probably ecstatic to have got this far but I sincerely hope it doesn't go any further. Very very cheap song, production, terrible vocals, he can barely sing. Against the big guns in the semi-finals this would come last for sure.

 

Song Rating: 1/10

Chances of winning MF: Non-existant

 

He added me on Facebook :lol: . I think it's quite a quirky song! Having listened to the 10, my preference is him or Siberia.

Ghosty, glad you came over here seeing as CHC appears to have died!

 

I won't be charting any of these songs, they're all a bit weak or poorly produced...I fully expect one of the awful ones to win seeing as they outweigh the decent ones

I may chart Genjor for the novelty of it :lol: . None of the others will make it unless Siberia were to win the joker and I got into the song more.

I think Genjor plays in on online song contest called "United Song Contest", which I also play in. We use a chatroom called Soulseek to reveal the voting live (votes have already been sent to the manager, to ensure there is no cheating), and he was there during the voting of the last edition, telling us to listen to the song.

like I said, he sounds like a huge Eurovision fan who's got lucky :lol:

 

if the BBC did a similar wildcard thing, I'd probably try my own chances :heehee:

the hosts of MF have been announced! Petra will be a hard act to follow but it will be;

 

singer Måns Zelmerlöw , comedian Christine Meltzer and actor Dolph Lundgren

 

:o at Måns!

Måns :w00t: :wub:

 

I guess it means he won't enter again though :( Shame, I think it could have been his year...

he definitely won't enter again!

 

Hope & Glory and Cara Mia are both brilliant pop songs and his album is one of my favourites of the year actually :D

Come and Get Me Now won the webjoker :wacko: so we know the first of the 32 semi-finalists;

 

 

that will come last in its semi then, super cheap production and average song :( appalling vocals too, Sweden would be laughed out of Eurovision if they sent this

I think it's quite plain that the song will be given a major revamp before the finals. I doubt that the 32 songs each year are submitted to SVT exactly as they sound in the proper competition.

 

I think it could be quite fun in its final version :P

That was crap :wacko:

Terrible :snif: I wanted the cute naked guy with the retro-schlager song... Adam something :kink:

 

Here's the song, no naked video tho :(