”Too late for love” was born during a låtskrivarläger at the home of Anderz and Johanna Wrethov on Vellingebacken outside Vellinge in the summer. No clear idea of what it would be had låtskrivartrion not really, just that it would be upbeat and suit John’s voice.

Yet it took the foundation in the form of text, the chorus and verse just a few hours to create:

“Yes, it can become so when you have a good chemistry and a common power that I, John and Andreas have, we have worked together before,” says Anderz Wrethov.

– But really clear, we were not. What took time was to get to the end on the chorus. There we got to work on for several weeks.

Just the end of the chorus: in the four, five variants before the one that today seems completely self-evident were selected.

I listened to the other as late as some days ago and they also had their merits, ” says Anderz Wrethov he is on location in Tel Aviv to follow John Lundvik and their common song.

filled with gospelkänsla, a sense which, according to Anderz Wrethov were already there from the beginning. But in the summer of 2018, it was still a long way to The mama’s were in the picture. Instead, the played the first version of ”Too late for love” in with John Lundvik, Andreas Stone Johansson and Johanna Wrethov running. And after a lot of mixande in the studio could cast reusable and allow more than the three they were.

The funny thing is that the version played in the radio or on Spotify right now is not with The Mamas, but with John, Andrew, and my wife. Most can’t hear the difference, ” says Anderz Wrethov and laughing.

Image 1 of 2 Anderz Wrethov and John Lundvik. Photo: Private. the Slide 2 of 2 : Anderz Wrethov, far left, with John Lundvik and a part of the choir early on Sunday morning. Photo: Clas Svahn Slideshow

became a success in the Melodifestvalen with straight a flotilla from the country, and profit when the viewers also had their say. It would be built which was not granted. The song was written to be a part of the John Lundviks repertoire.

But quite soon it became clear that John Lundvik wanted to do a new try after having come third in 2018 with the ”My turn” as written by Anna-Klara Folin and Jonas Thander. Two songwriters who were also on last summer’s låtskrivarläger of Anderz and Johanna Wrethov.

– And where they wrote ”Bigger than us” along with John who was great Britain’s contribution in the final, says Anderz Wrethov.