Same here, it's on repeat and it's in my head constantly. I would love to believe it could win but Sweden usually put their 'game face' on in the final and go for what they think will do best at Eurovision and I guess they imagine that will be Måns (not to mention that the international juries usually avoid the Swedish language stuff) but actually, I think Bara Bada Bastu could be top three on the televote and get a strong jury showing too if it went to Eurovision. It's just a much better song than Revolution, where it feels like they put everything into the package but forgot one crucial ingredient - a great song.

This semi final is so good! I have no idea who will qualify. I am thinking Scarlet and Arwin? I adore Saga, hopefully she manages to squeeze in 3rd.

my rating:

Bara Bada Bastu (7.5+/10)

Revolution (6/10)

Bara du är där (6/10)

Vicious (5/10)

Do Good Be Better (5/10)

Yours (4/10)

Sweet N'Psycho is the best melfest song of the year, and their staging clip looks like they're bringing it too!

Clinging to the vain hope that the juries kill KAJ and the public don't go for Mans in a big enough way that it can sneak a win.

Scarlet's song is a great track and far better than their entry last year - doesn't sound like one Sweden would send to Eurovision though. Kind of Gaga does When I Grow Up vibes in the verse.

Think it's still Måns' to lose, assuming juries bury KAJ as expected. Presuming he's got the jury win sewn up and 1st/2nd on the public vote. KAJ will be 1st/2nd on the public vote but probably mid-table with juries, Scarlet I would expect to be top five on the telvote and jury, but can't see it being enough against those two.

Arwin is my other favourite, I loved a song by him last year called För bra för att vara sant so I had relatively high hopes anyway, but definitely not disappointed. Nice schlager chords and urgency.

Vilhelm Buchaus seems to be the other favourite to progress in one way or another, I thought that one was ok.

Victoria's song is a bit of a dated mess, but enjoyable in a Cascada's 2009 album fashion.

Arvingarna's is fine, the worst of their recent trio of entries though, I don't expect it to progress.

And Saga Ludvigsson's is another competent but unremarkable country pop song for this Melodifestivalen season.

Anyway, when all is said and done with the 30 songs, despite all the cries of a weak year, I have at least 5-6 on repeat, with another two additions this week, and that's still a significant amount more than I have on repeat than any other national final, so go Sweden!

Edited February 28Feb 28 by gooddelta

Apologies if I've missed this elsewhere in this thread. How does everyone watch Melodifestivalen and is it in English anywhere or does anywhere offer English subtitles?

I'd love to get up to speed this year and experience even more Eurovision joy.

17 hours ago, Slick said:

Apologies if I've missed this elsewhere in this thread. How does everyone watch Melodifestivalen and is it in English anywhere or does anywhere offer English subtitles?

I'd love to get up to speed this year and experience even more Eurovision joy.

You can just watch on SVT’s website the same as you would BBC iPlayer etc., unfortunately there are no English subtitles or anything

3 hours ago, Liаm said:

You can just watch on SVT’s website the same as you would BBC iPlayer etc., unfortunately there are no English subtitles or anything

Ah thanks! That's what I thought but really hoped it would be in English somewhere.

9 minutes ago, Slick said:

Ah thanks! That's what I thought but really hoped it would be in English somewhere.

Actually I always forget final sometimes does have English commentary, idk if they do it every year and if it will be this year, the semi tonight will have nothing English though although all of the songs competing tonight are in English

Amazing result for all 4 qualifiers tonight!!!

I am glad the final is having some Dolly Style realness.

been quite pleasantly surprised with most of what I've heard from Melfest this year, unfortunately the one piece of crap I have heard is the one that's odds-on favourite to win...

Ooh I now have a problem with Dolly's Yeehaw song. They pronounce yeehaw wrong. They keep singing JEE-HAW. It's a hard JEE sound they do.

come join the dolly style hate train

okayyy trying something out but let's see if you can vote in the poll i just added!

Noo, I still love it and ir would be an absolute bresth of fresh air for Sweden, but they need to change the pronunciation, or get someone who can pronounce it ro record vocals for that bit.

SO impressed at Saga winning the heat, I really like the song (and her previous single Country Boy) but did not expect that at all. Scarlet were great too and a deserved qualifier, and hard to argue with those AC results, two more great songs in the final there.

I also liked Arwin, Vilhelm and Victoria tonight so it was by far the strongest heat overall. Arvingarna can get in the bin x

One of the most surprising heat winners since I've been watching. Good track and tbf she gave a great performance, and I enjoyed the staging, and I guess it's not dissimilar to Wiktoria's stuff that was popular. I didn't notice the app heart going off much during her performance though. Presumably Scarlet got the most votes, while Saga did the best with the age group split to win the heat in as much as the way that they work it out.

My two favourite songs from second chance through to the final I think, although I wouldn't have minded Arwin or Ella either tbf.

But with how well they've done on the Swedish charts, Meira and Dolly Style deserve it.

All making up the numbers anyway, it's obviously Måns vs KAJ next week. Think it's in the hands of the international juries to decide.

2 hours ago, gooddelta said:

it's obviously Måns vs KAJ next week. Think it's in the hands of the international juries to decide.

these are the frontrunners and I'm not feeling EITHER of them 🫠 think my ranking goes something like this

01 | Klara Hammarström

02 | Dolly Style

03 | Saga Ludvigsson

04 | Meira Omar

05 | SCARLET

06 | Måns Zelmerlöw

07 | Maja Ivarsson

08 | KAJ

09 | Greczula

10 | John Lundvik

11 | Annika Wickihalder

12 | Erik Segerstedt

pop country crossovers doing their thing here

My ranking after the last deltävling

01 KAJ

02 Klara Hammarström

03 Greczula

04 Maja Ivarsson

05 Dolly Style

06 SCARLET

07 Meira Omar

08 Måns Zelmerlöw

09 Erik Segerstedt

10 Saga Ludvigsson

11 Annika Wickihalder

12 John Lundvik

I want to see KAJ winning, but will be pleased with Klara and Greczula taking sångfåglen.

Amazing

01 KAJ

02 Klara Hammarström

03 SCARLET

Great

04 Maja Ivarsson

05 Måns Zelmerlöw

06 Dolly Style

Good

07 Meira Omar

08 Saga Ludvigsson
09 Greczula

Average

10 Annika Wickihalder

11 John Lundvik

12 Erik Segerstedt

Pretty even split into four groups for me. But please pull through KAJ. The juries need to not tank this. Klara's is her best entry yet for me though, obsessed with it. And I was so into the Scarlet song too, I didn't really care that much for Circus X.

Maja was a great find, would love to see her surprise with a good result. Måns' song is all about the final 45 seconds - if the rest of the song was like that it would be up in the 'Amazing' category, the outro is so good.

For all the bile many Eurovision fans throw at Melodifestivalen, nine songs in this final are happily on repeat in my playlist, along with several that didn't reach the final.

Prediction:

1. Måns (they won't let him lose, surely, the juries will be briefed, Sweden seem to think this is a Eurovision winner, and the bookies' odds appear to agree)
2. KAJ (could see it winning the public vote but not in a landslide fashion)
3. Greczula (just outpaced by that top two but he'll be back with a bigger song another time - classic Melfest strong top five debut with some winner vibes but better to come in future)
4. Klara (I hope for higher!)
5. SCARLET
6. Meira (seems to be a very popular song for one that took a long route into the final - its landslide in the second part last night was impressive)
7. Erik
8. Saga
9. Dolly Style
10. Annika
11. Maja (would love to see it a little higher)
12. John (controversial last place prediction but I think it could go all wrong for this, there are better male pop options and it just falls so flat in its attempt to sound big)