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Saade? I'm sure Salem al Fakir would pass if he went as Damien Adore...

 

Voters might see it as a spelling mistake on the contest's behalf, just like they spelt "Keating" wrong in the 2nd semi-final last year :kink: "Sade" could be passable as a British surname

 

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Semi 1

Keep On Walking - 47,047 -> Straight Through

I Did It For Love - 45,622

Unstoppable - 44,796

Road Salt - 28,457

You're Making Me Hot Hot Hot - 27,482

The Saviour - 26,044 -> Out

Singel - 13,592 -> Out

A Place To Stay - 6,970 -> Out

 

Unstoppable - 64,601 -> Final

I Did It For Love - 57,629

Road Salt - 46,788

You're Making Me Hot Hot Hot - 34,609 -> Out

 

So "Unstoppable" was in 3rd after the first round, but got more than Jessica in the second round, and so made it straight to the final

 

 

 

 

 

I guess many votes have moved from the bottom 3 voters to mostly Ola.

 

I can't believe such generic song as I Did It For Love is was so liked out there! :o

Semi 2

Manboy - 58,005 -> Straight through

Underbart - 54,912

We Can Work It Out - 43,794

Sucker For Love - 37,478

Manipulated - 22,504

Hippare Hoppare - 18,411 -> Out

Come And Get Me Now - 10,978 -> Out

Innan Alla Ljusen Brunnit Ut - 6,155 -> Out

 

We Can Work It Out - 66,794 -> Final

Underbart - 57,063

Sucker For Love - 53,604

Manipulated - 27,827 ->

 

So "We Can Work It Out" was 3rd in the first round, but did better than "Underbart" in the second round, and so made it to the final

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Semi 3

Kom - 65,762 -> Straight Through [more votes than the other heat winners]

You're Out Of My Life - 63,144

Heaven Or Hell - 51,179

Headlines - 31,978

Hur Kan Jag Tro Pa Karlek - 22,327

Yeba - 16,572 -> Out

Doctor Doctor - 16,491 -> Out

Tonight - 6,201 -> Out

 

You're Out Of My Life - 113,593 -> Final

Heaven Or Hell - 61,923

Headlines - 40,234

Hur Kan Jag Tro Pa Karlek - 28,482 -> Out

 

So the places of the first round and second round were the same in this heat

Semi 4

This Is My Life - 52,838 -> Straight Through

Hollow - 49,464

Jag Vill Om Du Vagar - 36,138

Idiot - 27,504

Human Frontier - 25,772

Thursdays - 25,070 -> Out

Stop - 16,513 -> Out

Magisk Stjarna - 3,822 -> Out

 

Hollow - 61,099 -> Final

Jag Vill Om Du Vagar - 42,439

Human Frontier - 31,110

Idiot - 26,082 -> Out

 

"Idiot" & "Human Frontier" swapped in the second round :D

 

 

Second Chance

Jag Vill Om Du Vagar - 62,677

Road Salt - 52,570 -> Out

 

Heaven Or Hell - 54,139

Sucker For Love - 50,111 -> Out

 

Underbart - 81,619

Human Frontier - 50,700 -> Out

 

I Did It For Love - 94,623

Headlines - 68,618 -> Out

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Jag Vill Om Du Vagar - 79,693

Heaven Or Hell - 74,933 -> Out

 

I Did It For Love - 93,447

Underbart - 90,050 -> Out

A rather shocking development has happened on Sweden's iTunes...

 

Salem Al Fakir has replaced Anna at #1 (also at #10, compared to #2 and #24 for Anna) :cheer:

Heyhey! Finally back and able to post! It was awesome :D

 

Just putting a few things right and responding to a couple of observations first. It's very unfortunate that it didn't come across well on television, but Andreas went down very well with the audience :( And yes everyone had a bag waiting for them on their seat upon arrival containing a programme, a Norwegian flag, a balloon and three glowsticks (a purple one for Darin, a white one for Andreas and an insanely bright yellow one for Anna). They all had little number stickers on them to correspond to the song number, and during the VTs for the artists, a message flashed up on the screen telling us to light the glowsticks. I think Darin's one was a bit pointless though because as far as I could see there weren't that many audience shots during his performance.

 

I watched Casablanca's performance back and as much as I loved seeing Malena mime sing live, I get the feeling her appearance had more impact on screen, as the audience could see her taking about a minute walking on stage in that dress :lol:

 

I was shocked to see Peter Joback so low down as live, it was amazing. In the dress rehearsal when we were right up at the stage it gave me goosebumps, but it obviously wasn't to people's tastes.

 

Some other little snippets are that we met Timoteij, Mans (much to my other half's delight), Eric and (very briefly) Christine. In fact we saw Timoteij a good few times and I think they remembered us because we always exchanged little smiles waves and hellos. They were always together which was sweet, and it was heartbreaking seeing them crying and comforting each other on Saturday night when the cameras went off. Speaking of which, we had quite a good view of the green room on Saturday and it was hilarious watching Pernilla. Every time the cameras were on her she was all light-hearted and smiles and having a laugh with the other singers, but then that just dropped when the cameras were off! Also she had a stylist who came and fixed her hair every time the cameras went off!

 

That's all I can remember right now, except for Paradise being the best club I've ever been to! 90% of the music on Friday was schlager / ESC / Melfest. They played Kom twice, Jenny Silver did a live set for which we were right up at the stage, and singing (shouting) along to Be My Valentine has to be one of the highlights of the weekend! Oh the nights I've wished that came on in a club! The following night they were having a big afterparty with performances from Neo, Nanne and Linda Pritchard but we'd already seen her in the Globen shopping mall and it cost about £16 quid in so we gave it a miss.

 

Anti-Crisis Bom!

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Heyhey! Finally back and able to post! It was awesome :D

 

Just putting a few things right and responding to a couple of observations first. It's very unfortunate that it didn't come across well on television, but Andreas went down very well with the audience :( And yes everyone had a bag waiting for them on their seat upon arrival containing a programme, a Norwegian flag, a balloon and three glowsticks (a purple one for Darin, a white one for Andreas and an insanely bright yellow one for Anna). They all had little number stickers on them to correspond to the song number, and during the VTs for the artists, a message flashed up on the screen telling us to light the glowsticks. I think Darin's one was a bit pointless though because as far as I could see there weren't that many audience shots during his performance.

 

I watched Casablanca's performance back and as much as I loved seeing Malena mime sing live, I get the feeling her appearance had more impact on screen, as the audience could see her taking about a minute walking on stage in that dress :lol:

 

I was shocked to see Peter Joback so low down as live, it was amazing. In the dress rehearsal when we were right up at the stage it gave me goosebumps, but it obviously wasn't to people's tastes.

 

Some other little snippets are that we met Timoteij, Mans (much to my other half's delight), Eric and (very briefly) Christine. In fact we saw Timoteij a good few times and I think they remembered us because we always exchanged little smiles waves and hellos. They were always together which was sweet, and it was heartbreaking seeing them crying and comforting each other on Saturday night when the cameras went off. Speaking of which, we had quite a good view of the green room on Saturday and it was hilarious watching Pernilla. Every time the cameras were on her she was all light-hearted and smiles and having a laugh with the other singers, but then that just dropped when the cameras were off! Also she had a stylist who came and fixed her hair every time the cameras went off!

 

That's all I can remember right now, except for Paradise being the best club I've ever been to! 90% of the music on Friday was schlager / ESC / Melfest. They played Kom twice, Jenny Silver did a live set for which we were right up at the stage, and singing (shouting) along to Be My Valentine has to be one of the highlights of the weekend! Oh the nights I've wished that came on in a club! The following night they were having a bit afterparty with performances from Neo, Nanne and Linda Pritchard but we'd already seen her in the Globen shopping mall and it cost about £16 quid in so we gave it a miss.

 

Anti-Crisis Bom!

 

Excellent, a true schlager diva then, diva being the operative word! :lol:

 

Glad you had a great time, hope I can go next year, or even better Anna wins it for Sweden and I'll skip MF and just go to ESC in Globen :magic: I really don't fancy going to Jerusalem :(

I believe the album has leaked in its entirety, and is worth getting just for the pick and choose ^_^ Lots of potential future BJSC entries that barely anyone paid attention to!
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Here is my album rate for Salem Al Fakir, with "Ignore This":

 

06 The Song I Never Wrote - [quite nice, but can't give too much as it's short, with no singing]

06 4 O'Clock - [it grew on me while I listened. Very odd]

07 Virgin Mary - [now this is a bit better, but no amazing quality]

03 Red Rock - [certainly different, but at the same time, awful]

10 Keep On Walking - [AMAZING. obviously.]

08 This Is For - [started off weird, that weird got boring, but then the chorus broke out, and that was really good]

07 Part Of It - [quite good, but nothing more]

09 Brooklyn Sun - [very nice. Quite normal when compared to some of the others]

04 Don't Wanna Talk About It - [a very irritating sound for the first minute, but after that it's quite nice]

07 Bloody Breakfast - [something quite charming about it]

08 Split My Personality - [one of about three so far that I'd listen to again]

05 Cowboys & Dinosaurs - [instrumentals tend to bore me]

09 I'm So Happy - [a really nice finish to the album]

 

Average rating: 6.846

Would I recommend this album to a friend? Afraid not

Yeah, it's definitely an acquired taste of an album...Keep On Walking gives off a false impression of what to expect apart from Brooklyn Sun and I'm So Happy I guess...

 

Most of the radio pop lovers in Sweden who have bought the album based on Keep On Walking will be most displeased :heehee: I REALLY like most of it though, although I can live without the instrumentals

Yeah, it's definitely an acquired taste of an album...Keep On Walking gives off a false impression of what to expect apart from Brooklyn Sun and I'm So Happy I guess...

 

Most of the radio pop lovers in Sweden who have bought the album based on Keep On Walking will be most displeased :heehee: I REALLY like most of it though, although I can live without the instrumentals

 

Have you got any "pretty much unknown" albums that you'd recommend, because I really like your taste in music :o

 

Have you got any "pretty much unknown" albums that you'd recommend, because I really like your taste in music :o

 

thanks :wub:

 

Hmm...I could go on forever. Any genre inparticular? In terms of pop music I'd go for;

 

Colbie Caillat - Coco

Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts (slightly country though)

Alcazar - Disco Defenders

Missy Higgins - The Sound of White

Leddra Chapman - Telling Tales

 

all are :wub: x 100

 

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