I haven’t had time to watch the whole show cos I’m away in Ireland, but my friend just put My System on for me because he knew I’d be obsessed and well…

I AM *.*

What a banger! I knew she’d come with something undeniable. D-d-dynamite ❤️

‘my system’ is everythinggg

Oh I LIVEEEEE for My System!!!

Felicia is up to #1 on Spotify Sweden today.

In at #1 with 360k (Brandsta City Slackers at #2 with 236k) and Black Widow, Sugar High and Hard - all of FELICIA’s previous releases - all re-entering or entering the top 200 for the first time. For comparisons sake, A*Teens were #1 last week with 162k so Felicia has topped that by over double.

Feels like a massive massive moment, I'm afraid I'll be waaaaay too invested in Eurovision again if this makes it but it HAS TO.

I came straight home my trip away and watched the whole show and My System was SO far leagues ahead of everyone else, it almost seemed unfair.

But then, she did the reprise without the staging, and there was a moment when she joined all of the dancers and they were jumping about screaming with joy and then she just suddenly LOCKED IN and strutted forward and I screamed. Song of the year so far, with or without Eurovision.

Certainly feels like hers to lose. That is KAJ style public appeal.

It’s a great song and the staging is so good.

Just now, gooddelta said:

Certainly feels like hers to lose. That is KAJ style public appeal.

It’s a great song and the staging is so good.

Yeah, to also compare it to KAJ, they hit 388k on the Monday after their semi final last year, so only 28k less than them. More than anyone received after their heat in 2024 etc.

Obviously it's NOT a done deal yet - there's plenty of hyped acts still to come and we don't know how great their songs are. And in the Melfest set up where the final televote points are decided by age groups, I'm not sure how she'll perform with the older age groups against your Sanna's and Smash Into Pieces etc. Or a jury. But it's certainly a very promising start and I hope the fact it's got 4 weeks now to build hype will only work in her favour, in a kind of Ace Wilder underdog type way.

I'm also so grateful that A*Teens were placed in the first heat so they could get that amazing comeback story of a No.1 single before the bigger hitters came through. In previous years where all the finalists went on streaming at the same time that never would have happened either so the timing all fell into place for them. As always I'm in awe of how big a deal it is in Sweden - 10 of the current Spotify top 12. But this is shaping up to be a strong year already - I can tell already that Iconic and My System will be among my top songs of this year (loving the Klara song too) and we still have three semis to come with some great names and a lot of promise.

I think Melodifestivalen this year more than ever is a bit of solace for me in this chaotic and sad year for Eurovision as a whole and I will be sad when it's over as it continues to bring such joy and so much great pop. I haven't even started to listen to the entries confirmed for Eurovision so far, and unlike other years I'm not going to be devastated if my favourite songs don't make it out of their national finals (at least they can avoid the sh*tshow that is bound to be).

I think AleXa could be competition for Felicia and potentially split votes. However, Felicia has the reputation, name recognition and story in Sweden after the robbery of 2024. I’ve seen people argue it’s the song and being famous didn’t matter for Måns vs KAJ but they had the whole of Swedish-speaking Finland allegedly using VPN… I wonder if she can rally any k-pop fans. It’ll be interesting anyway.

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Heat 3 is definitely the weakest so far, I'm not particularly loving any of the songs yet. Medina, Saga and Patrick Jean are all decent though, Saga probably my favourite of the heat as it's more of the same from Medina (but not as good as Que Sera for me). Eva is decent pop, I found Emilia a bit dull and Korslagda is my least favourite of the year so far, awful.

Agree that it was the weakest heat thus far. I love Saga's track, it's not that different to Hate You So Much but that's no bad thing for me, she sells it really well. Medina's song is fun as you'd expect and a totally expected heat winner, can't complain. Eva surprised me, a lovely track and really pleased it squeezed an AC slot!

Patrik's song was good but was missing something, I'm not sure it translated quite so well live. Emilia was inoffensive, didn't excite me at all. Truly thankful I never have to hear that Korslagda thing again, that vocal was terrible.

I think heat 1 is still the weakest for me so far, the three songs that didn't progress aren't anything that I feel the need to go back and listen to again, then you had Greczula and Jacqline which for me, whilst both decent enough, both suffer from not being as good as their debut entries. A*Teens were by far and away the best.

Heat 2, "My System" is obviously brilliant and what I think I'm going to be rooting for to win the contest (though I've recently had a horrible thought that we might get a 2014 situation, where Felicia ends up as the Ace Wilder of this year), and I'm happy to go back to both "Oxygen" and "Glitter" (which is such a step up on Arwin's entry from last year, very annoyed it couldn't get an AC spot). Brandsta City Slackers deliver a fun performance, but I don't think I'll be seeking out the studio version often.

As for the latest heat, I think Korslagda were the worst so far, but I liked everything else. I've had "Selfish" on repeat, so glad that got to AC despite zero budget being put into the staging, would love if it somehow got through to the final. Medina's song is my least favourite from them so far, but still a bop. Out of the repeat entrants, Saga feels the most consistent so far in that it's hard to pick a preference out of her entries. Patrik Jean was much better than his 2021 entry and it was just funny to watch the early reviewers compare it to "The Code" and "Wasted Love", then it got released and those of us with better judgement realised it was more....."Dizzy"

"My System" is the ultimate BOP at the moment - hope it will make it all the way to Vienna.