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).
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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Hyvällä biisillä tietty.
Myös Elisa kierolla tavalla kiinnostaa kappaleen kuvausten perusteella vaikka olenkin vihannut naisen kaikkia Mello biisejä.
Ainakin kirjottajien listalla lukee Debit ym joten oletan joo?
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.