Viisukuppila

Adam Woods – Supernatural
Låtskrivare: Adam Woods, Calle Hellberg, Jonna Hall, William Segerdahl

Samir & Viktor – Hela världen väntar
Låtskrivare: David Kreuger, Fredrik Kempe, Niklas Carson Matsson

Melina Borglowe – Min melodi
Låtskrivare: Andreas Mattsson, Melina Borglowe, Thomas G:son

Elisa Lindström – Forever yours
Låtskrivare: Elisa Lindström, Erik Bernholm, Henric Axelsson, Henrik Sethsson, Thomas G:son

Lisa Ajax – Awful liar
Låtskrivare: David Lindgren Zacharias, Sebastian Atas, Victor Crone, Victor Sjöström

Smash Into Pieces – Heroes are calling
Låtskrivare: Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh, Benjamin Jennebo, Chris Adam Hedman Sörbye, Jimmy "Joker" Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Per Bergquist

Lisa Ajax on kertonut olevansa raskaana. Laskettu aika on kesäkuussa.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/ ... sta-gangen

Ensimmäinen ajatus oli "kauhean nuorena", mutta onhan hän jo 25-vuotias, eikä enää mikään teini. Sitäpaitsi voisin itse teoriassa olla ikäni puolesta periaatteessa jonkun mummo.

Aika yllättävää, että Smash Into Pieces oli aikaisemmin 15-vuotisella urallaan Ruotsissa kovin tuntematon ja sai hurjan suosion maassa vasta viisukarsintaosallistumisen kautta. Sen takia haluavat nyt takoa, kun rauta on kuumaa. Bändi on ollut Mello-osallistumisen jälkeisillä kotimaan keikoilla aivan, että mitä hittoa täällä tapahtuu.


(viisukeskustelu alkaa kohdassa 21:50)

En tiedä, mutta olisin ikionnellinen, jos Smash Into Pieces edustaisi Ruotsia. Hyvällä biisillä tietty.

Smash Into Pieces julkaisi tänään kolmeminuuttisen kappaleen Trigger, jonka tekijätiimissä on bändin jäsenten lisäksi Dino Medanhodzic ja Dotter. Hyvin mahdollista siis, että on ollut yhtenä vaihtoehtona kisaan.

Lisa Ajax luulen että saa pian tyttövauvan. Ihan varma en vielä ole

Medborgare!

Muistakaa, että pelialueella vikinglottokupongit on laadittava ensi torstaihin mennessä.

Väliaikanumerona A*TEENS!!

^ Ai että. En tiedä, haluanko nähdä, kuinka heistäkin on tullut jo vanhoja.

Nämäkin alkaa jo tällä viikolla! Ihanaa. Heti ekassa erässä kovia nimiä joiden biisejä odotan kovasti. Katsotaan miten toimii tämä vähän uudistettu Mellojen rakenne.

En katso Melloja ainakaan ennen kuin on tullut virallinen tieto siitä, muuttuuko raatisysteemi viisuissa.

^ Olemme tästä jo kaikki kohdallasi tietoisia.

korvaboosti kirjoitti: ↑25 Tammi 2024, 18:51 Väliaikanumerona A*TEENS!!

Eikös näistä ne tytöt oo ainakin yrittänyt Melloissa? Ja toinen taisi juontaakin joskus.

Ja niin se taas alkaa Mello viikko. Mellopediassa on jo julkaistu lyriikat ja tietoa esityksistä. Isoin yllätys oli, että Elisa laulaa Enkuksi.



https://mellopedia.svt.se/index.php/Mel ... valen_2024

Scandipopin arviot tämän viikon lauluista.

Supernatural’ – Adam Woods
(Adam Woods, Calle Hellberg, Jonna Hall, William Segerdahl)

We were introduced to Adam at Melodifestivalen 2023, when he competed with Jon Henrik Fjällgren and Arc North on ‘Where You Are (Sávežan)’ – nabbing a place in the final, no less! Now he gets to showcase what *he* sounds like.

And what he sounds like is pretty damn special. ‘Supernatural’ is a high-energy dance track that has more in common with Swedish Eurovision winner ‘Euphoria’ than it does with his collaboration last year. It sounds like what Danny Saucedo should have come back to the competition with in 2013 to finally earn that Melodifestivalen win. And he would have actually achieved it with this. It’s an incredibly strong start to Melodifestivalen 2024.
‘Hela Världen Väntar’ – Samir & Viktor
(David Kreuger, Fredrik Kempe, Niklas Carson Matsson)

Their fourth time competing in Melodifestivalen, but their first time in six years. Has their sound changed much?

Mercifully not! By the end of Saturday night we’ll know if Sweden still has an appetite for this kind of thing – this very specific kind of thing. But Samir & Viktor are cleverly hedging their bets with this one; the song morphs into what sounds like a completely different tune post-chorus. So really, they’ve given themselves two shots at impressing Swedish voters.

It’s as though ‘Bada Nakna’ never got out of the water to dry itself off and cover itself up. But life is short – let’s enjoy splashing about.

‘Min Melodi’ – Melina Borglowe
(Andreas Mattsson, Melina Borglowe, Thomas G:son)

This artist released her debut EP in 2023, and now takes her first steps onto the Melodifestivalen stage on Saturday night.

She debuts with a sweet songbird number. A ballad that exudes nice warmth via some soft guitar, well-placed strings and a touching lyric. It stands out in this semi for being the only song that doesn’t sound like it isn’t openly campaigning for a vote. Which will – ironically – make it competitive on Saturday night.


‘Forever Yours’ – Elisa Lindström
(Elisa Lindström, Erik Bernholm, Henric Axelsson, Henrik Sethsson, Thomas G:son)

Former front-lady of her own dansband, this is Elisa’s third time competing at Melodifestivalen. Will it be third time lucky at advancing beyond the semi-final stages?

That matters not. What’s important here is that SVT has offered up a gargantuan schlager banger for us all to enjoy. And we’re taking it – and never letting go. ‘Forever Yours’ is an obvious throwback to the classic era of mid-’00s Melodifestivalen, as well as being a love song to all of us who were obsessed with the contest’s output at that time.

Throughout almost two decades, we’ve seen you all enjoying this kind of schlager on the dancefloors everywhere from Euroclub to Eurofest. And we’ll be seeing you there again – absolutely losing it to ‘Forever Yours’.

CAMP!


Awful Liar’ – Lisa Ajax
(David Lindgren Zacharias, Sebastian Atas, Victor Crone, Victor Sjöström)

At 25 years of age, Lisa is already a Melfest veteran – she’s back for a fifth throw of the dice in 2024.

We can see why she’d want to come back again – with a song like this waved in front of her, she’d have been silly to say no. Regardless of what its result might be, ‘Awful Liar’ will be an eternal gem within the artist’s own repertoire, and one she’ll be hired to perform for crowds for years to come.

Of all her Melodifestivalen songs, it sounds most like ‘Torn’ – in that it’s a ballad that goes big on the heart-break melody and lyric combo. Once the first chorus is done with, the song takes on a larger production – building to a satisfyingly climactic final chorus.

‘Heroes Are Calling’ – Smash Into Pieces
(Andreas ”Giri” Lindbergh, Benjamin Jennebo, Chris Adam Hedman Sörbye, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Per Bergquist)

This band made their Melodifestivalen debut in 2023 and finished in third place at the final, with their song ‘Six Feet Under’ going on to become one of the biggest radio hits of the year in Sweden.

With ‘Heroes Are Calling’, it sounds like they’ve come back to improve by a couple of places on that bronze-medal finish last year. This will appeal to anyone who enjoyed its predecessor, but also – crucially – to a few more folk; and that’s anyone who appreciates an ambitiously epic chorus.

Last year they went big, this year they’ve gone bigger. And Saturday night might not be the last time they perform on an SVT-owned stage in Malmö before the year is out…


https://scandipop.co.uk/melodifestivale ... i-final-1/

Sitten myös Schlagerprofilernan arviot.

Adam Woods – Supernatural
Adam Woods, Calle Hellberg, Jonna Hall, William Segerdahl

The Schlager profiles begin this year's hearing by presenting the big David Lindgren award to Adam Woods. If you're not a newborn, you've heard this song several times before, mainly in the early 10s when there was always a Danny, an Anton Ewald, an Eddie Razaz or, perhaps mainly then, a David Lindgren who did something like this song. Adam Woods is also queuing up to belong to the category of "pop guys in semi one who usually go on with just speed and then get dropped like a hot potato in the final" along with men like Victor Crone or Robin Bengtsson. Personally, I'm quite tired of this type of production (and hope LIAMOO will come up with something else in a week), but at the same time it always, always works (lex all the names I mentioned above (almost)) and here you've also got into the year's first Tattoo-break ("a slightly strange arty stick") which I guess we'll get more of in the 29 songs to come. What will be absolutely decisive here is how Adam Woods feels as a solo artist? Is he a star in his own right? Well, then it can go straight to the final. Does he feel like a Wallmans artist confusedly looking for Jon-Henrik while trying to serve a plank steak with chili bea? Yes, then someone else will take that place. Also have to remind you what comes to mind when I hear the word Supernatural… THIS!

2 Samir & Viktor – Hela världen väntar
David Kreuger, Fredrik Kempe, Niklas Carson Mattsson

A very direct sequel to the guys' previous Fredrik Kempe entry Bada Nakna. The song is clearly divided into two parts (which hold together more or less seamlessly) and I actually think that the dance break itself (?) with its “The whole world is waiting!” bit is directly taken from the aforementioned Kempe contribution from 2016 (the in any case, it's just as well to sing "Vi ska bathe nakna!" in that stitch). The second (biggest) part of the song is more classic buddy/student luck schlager as it sounded before the EPA thump and russe music took over the charts (and Mello). A student luck song for Komvux, with slightly older students who have stopped partying all night and are now more than a little nostalgic about the fact that they are still friends after too many Negronis in some homecoming bar on Christmas Day. And then an oy oy oy hook somewhere in there too. It's all very… Pleasant? And certainly not bad. But while I always want more Kempe (and S&V for that matter) in Mello, I'm a little disappointed that this isn't a further development of the energy and hit potential the guys had in their final four Shuffle. Or really, I think I'm just not ready for that mossy dance break that may be 100% Samir & Viktor but also feels 100% 2016. But of course it will work, especially in a packed arena, and especially on those that are far, far younger than this sour old man (and then also in the right target group).
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3 Melina Borglowe – Min Melodi
Andreas Mattsson, Melina Borglowe, Thomas G:son

After two rather Mello-styled songs, Melina Borglow's super beautiful Laleh song feels like a shower of something completely different. Of course, if you want to be a MF grandpa, you can always bring up Marie Lindberg here, but it's been 17 years now (that's a fresher reference than if I said Lisa Ekdahl - cheers!) Still lands on Melissa Horn meets the said Laleh and stays there. Beautiful from my old indie idol Andreas Mattsson, with a tonality (I suppose) from my old schlager idol G:son. This is without a doubt one of my two absolute, personal favorite songs this week. Then it's incredibly difficult to tip competitively when you haven't seen it on stage (I don't know anything about Melina) and together with the others. Stripped-down impressions usually have a hard time in Melodifestivalen, not least the first week if your name is not Cornelia, and the easy tip is that the unknown name with the stripped-down song ends up last on the list. However, I want to believe that the Swedish people feel as I do and pick up the voting app even if it lacks a dance break.


4. Elisa Lindström – Forever Yours
Elisa Lindström, Erik Bernholm, Henric Axelsson, Henrik Sethsson, Thomas G:son

Fear not, dear Schlager lovers. Just because Ronny is no longer at the helm does not mean that this blog will stop making waves when a G:son/Sethsson guy of this caliber appears. People with less knowledge might call this mossy, but we who know, we know! And those of you who know, you also know exactly what I mean when I say this is classic schlager in the same league as Sanna's I'm in Love and Charlotte's Still Young, with a lovely Give Me Your Love syncopation in exactly the right place, but maybe not with the same sex appeal as a Something in Your Eyes or a Party Girl. Simple to understand, right? Elisa has not been around a candy like this before in the competition, so it will be interesting to see how she carries it up and how it is presented. However, carrying this musical tradition on has never been an easy task, and putting a song like this already in the semi-finals is clearly an extra uphill battle (the audience is usually warmed up around semi 3) and perhaps already on paper feels doomed to fail . However, hope is the last thing that abandons the schlager bug, and either way, I know people who will have this song not only on their top lists of this year's Melodifestival songs, but also on their lists of the best songs of 2024. A small victory, one might think.

5 Lisa Ajax – Awful Liar
David Lindgren Zacharias, Sebastian Atas, Victor Crone, Victor Sjöström

I try as much as I can not to be swayed by the word "generic" - Eurovision fans' favorite word about the Swedish Melodifestivalen in recent years of backlash. Most of the time, these fans are mostly a bunch of over-curled little kids who have become so ingrained that everything has to be UNIQUE and SPECIAL that a song that more than five people can appreciate at the same time for them becomes, just that, generic! BUT. Sometimes even I can't keep the facade up, for example like now when I heard Awful Liar. This is a generic song. Point. No, I'm certainly not saying it's therefore automatically a bad song. Absolutely not. Because it isn't. And there are loads of camp-written ballads of the same ilk floating around between European selections - some countries would surely kill for a song like this too - whose common denominator is that they can be sung anywhere by anyone. I'm just saying it's OH so expected and OH (to my ears) so boring! What is required for such a song to be able to lift in any way is an artist with a real personality; either in voice or stage performance, and OK, that sounds harsh but I don't know if Lisa Ajax is that person? Perhaps. Maybe not. With her fifth entry in nine years, the Idol winner is at least back on the ballad ship she steered to the final the first three years, and the wind can certainly fill these sails a fourth time if the Swedes are in that mood. Personally, though, I'll mostly look like that shrug-the-shoulders-emoji if that happens.

6 Smash Into Pieces – Heroes Are Calling
Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh, Benjamin Jennebo, Chris Adam Hedman Sörbye, Jimmy "Joker" Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Per Bergquist

In January, a 2.55 long Smash into Pieces song appeared, written by Dotter and Dino Medanhodzic among others, which I really love. It's called Trigger, I've played it as much as I can, and of course the Mello veteran in me thought this was a viable alternative to Heroes are Calling. So. Is the song they chose better than my winter favorite? Well, I probably wouldn't want to say that. This is much more of the same kind of rockified schlager that they delivered so well last year with Six Feet Under, which makes it feel a little more expected, or as Kaeli Abdis would say, "I've heard it before!". It kind of lacks that extra grit or originality that pushes it up another notch. Then I'm not stupid. The audience that loved Six Feet Under (and it was BIG) WANTS the exact same song - possibly only with a slightly more expensive number - and it goes without saying that the guys will be the first to fly to fr... STRAWBERRY this year. I just personally think it's a shame that that little winning extra is missing, because this year it would have been perfect to send a really good, catchy, gnarly rock song to Eurovision? PS. The first two seconds, for some reason, I think of Bomfunk MC's Freestyler... Unexpected And not entirely welcome.

Yes. It was my first Tuesday here in the blog? Is that enough? So see you here on Thursday when I watch rehearsals and go to Malmö at the same time.
And of course hell. Ronny always guessed already on Tuesday... GAH. okay…

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Lisalta, Smash Into Piecesiltä ja Adamilta odotan eniten.

WildDance kirjoitti: ↑30 Tammi 2024, 18:32 Lisalta, Smash Into Piecesiltä ja Adamilta odotan eniten.

Minä kyllä kans Myös Elisa kierolla tavalla kiinnostaa kappaleen kuvausten perusteella vaikka olenkin vihannut naisen kaikkia Mello biisejä.

https://www.svtplay.se/lista/svtId_jLJZ ... lobidragen

Pätkää.

Samir & Viktor ja Smashed Into Pieces olivat huikeita, samoin ”hieman” Stepsistä ammentava Elisa.

Elisa ja Smash Into Pieces kuulosti parhailta

Ekat ajatukseni biiseistä:

Adam Woods – Supernatural

Kuulostipa muoviselta. Tulen olemaan todennäköisesti osa vähemmistöä, joka ei tästä juuri piittaa – tai sitten tämä nousee minullakin liven myötä.

Samir & Viktor – Hela världen väntar

Heti mielenkiintoisempi biisi, vaikka perus radiopoppis onkin. Loppuupa tämä ikävästi, tahtoo kuulla lisää!

Melina Borglowe – Min melodi

Nätti biisi. Lavaesitykseltä en odota liikoja.

Elisa Lindström – Forever yours

Perus radiobiisi tämäkin. Eipä juuri kummoinen G:sonin käsialaksi.

Lisa Ajax – Awful liar

Vähän samankaltaisella reseptillä tehty kuin ensimmäinen. Pidän silti enemmän Lisan tulkinnasta.

Smash Into Pieces – Heroes are calling

Ei yhtä hyvä kuin edellinen mellotyrkkynsä. Radiosoittoa saavat aivan varmasti. Sanoisin, että kattauksen paras.

Lisa ja SIP Muut oli sit

Tekeekö Smash Into Pieces normaalistikin näin ylituotettua Mellotapettia vai vaihtavatko he tyyliään täysin Melloja varten? Ainakin kirjottajien listalla lukee Debit ym joten oletan joo?

Paras Mello-taso koskaan? Kaikki kuulostivat jossakin määrin hyviltä! "Supernatural" ja "Heroes are calling" olivat ehkä parhaat.

Elisa päätti ottaa muutaman askeleen kohti tietyn UFOPOLI-bändin suuntaa. Ei huono, mutta Smash Into Pieces selkeästi haluttavin näistä. Lisa taisi olla epäkiinnostavin.

Huikeita! Vain Samir&Viktor ja tuo Melina olivat heikkoja. Elisan biisi kuulosti lapsuudelta ja joltain mitä Jessica Andersson olisi esittänyt 2000-luvulla. Ylivoimaisesti Elisan paras biisi Melloissa. Myös Lisa oli upea! Kuulosti juuri Lisalta ja tekijätiimiltä. Smash Into Pieces ja Adam myös todella lupaavia. Suomalaiset polkee rumia siansorkkiaan, että Mellot eivät vieläkään floppaa.

Aleksi kirjoitti: ↑01 Helmi 2024, 09:26 Elisa päätti ottaa muutaman askeleen kohti tietyn UFOPOLI-bändin suuntaa. Ei huono, mutta Smash Into Pieces selkeästi haluttavin näistä. Lisa taisi olla epäkiinnostavin.

Askeleita on otettu, khyllä. Vähän kuitenkin petyin, tekemällä tehdyn kuuloinen melodia ("jos tää meniskin nyt tälleen vähän eri tavalla tässä").

Muutoinkin samaa mieltä, SIP on helppo vitonen

WildDance kirjoitti: ↑01 Helmi 2024, 10:20 Elisan biisi kuulosti lapsuudelta ja joltain mitä Jessica Andersson olisi esittänyt 2000-luvulla.

Minullakin tuli juuri hän verrokkina mieleen.

UFOPOLI kirjoitti: ↑01 Helmi 2024, 11:00 "jos tää meniskin nyt tälleen vähän eri tavalla tässä"

Täydellinen kuvaus!