He solosjöng Johnny Logan ”Hold me now”, Ireland’s old Eurovisionvinnare from 1987, the face of his mother on the first bench. Then came, of course, you might say, Logan in his own grånad person on the scene and took over the song. But even before this had Akolor sung (a bit of) James Brown’s ”Get up (like a sex machine)” and most likely got a chin that dropped in front of television sets out in the kingdom. This in öppningsnumrets medley that would be a ”funkfest” with överglada koffeinförgiftade and luftspelande kompmusiker and where the other host of the show Sarah Dawn Finer, understandably, took most of the mikrofonansvaret in its other downloads of newer and older artists such as Stevie Wonder’s ”Fingertips”, ”Tightrope” by Janelle Monáe, ”Shake your body down to the ground” by Jackson 5 and ”Uptown funk” by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars. They did it well.
worked great together in the other – best winning so far – and joked to not break everything, or took too much focus from the performers. Which this chronicle has just made.
But somewhat surprisingly was actually the victors, or what to call them, who goes to the finals from this schlagervariant of football’s Europa League: Not deltävlingsvinnarna, not runners-up. The other two then. Second-chance arrangement with the four pieces of the duels gave an overdose of may not be completely honest the praise of the opponent’s qualities, of the type: ”You are so crazy strong/powerful/skilled, and this will be incredibly difficult”. A myssnällt games for the gallery only. For quite according to plan, Anna Bergendahl first finalklara artist in Nyköping, sweden. Her ”Ashes to Ashes” in front of a display of the full fire was difficult favorittippad in the duel against Andreas Johnson arenapepp-pop. As well as, of course, the Nano’s ”Chasing rivers”, a clear Hozier-loans dueled against the happy amateur Vlad Reiser. Hardly surprising, it was either Lisa Ajax svinstarka röstinsats in the ”Tower” would win over Martin Stenmarck, or to the Heirs – the only pure Swedish dansband and as to the Second chance got home Tommy Carlsson from family holidays and has become a quartet again – made it to the finals on duellanten Rebecka Karlsson’s expense.
Thus, there remains a last chance to represent Sweden at the Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv, 14-18 may final at the Friends Arena about a week.
