fredagsmix
Jag vet inte vad jag skall blogga om så jag väljer helt enkelt de fem första etiketterna från bloggar.se:
1. Politik - oh well (som Ebba skulle sagt)... jag kilar numera stadigt med en folkpartist - är det månne tillräckligt politiskt?
2. Melodifestivalen - oh yeah! Jag fattar inte varför jag tittar men jag bara måste! Kanske är det för att schlager faktiskt är som livet självt. Mest menlöst trallande men så helt plötsligt, out of nowhere, glimmar det till och så är lyckan (i alla fall i tre minuter).
3. Film - har det inte blivit särskilt mycket av senaste tiden. Min senast sedda film är i allafall Brokeback Mountain, senaste sedda biofilm är Narnia, dessförinnan Flightplan och till filmer jag vill se hör Tusenbröder, A history of violence och North Country.
4. Musik - kan man lyssna på något annat än schlager just nu? ;) Här är i allafall mina musiktopplistor.
5. Carola - melodifestivalens vinnare! Jag skulle bli mycket förvånad om hon inte kammade hem segern imorgon. Carola är liksom schlager. När hon vann 1983 var jag 10 år och det är också den första Melodifestival som jag minns. Om hon representerar Sverige kommer vi ha goda chanser i Athen.
That's scary. A schalger-gene. I think you're right though. It's equally bad in Norway.
Are they worse than us???
I don't know what it is about Sweden's relationship to the Eurovision. It's crazy. Almost worse than in England. The hysteria around tonight's show is almost bigger than last year's actual Eurovision final.
My bet is on Björn Kjellman. He doesn't sing very well but I can see all these old ladies across the country voting for him because he's so charming.
I lived in Austria for one year and when I tried to get their spritits up for the Austrian final... my room mates also thouht I was crazy... ;) I don't know what went wrong in the Swedish gene pool but the schlager-gen must be unproportional big ;)
The Norwegians are upset that a lot of Swedish composers and lyricists have "invaded" the Norwegian Grand Prix. Eurovision Song Contest in general is very international today, meaning that the artist representing the country can be of a different citizenship or not even live in the country - Switzerland in particular have put it into system. Last year they were represented by an Estonian girl rock band, and this year I think it is a combined band of people from a handful countries, including Sweden. From a competitive point of view, it may be a smart thing to do, if it means they are more likely to get good scores from the handful of countries these artists come from.
I haven't been looking for any sound clips from the other countries yet, but I've seen pictures of a few of the competitors. Spain up themselves by one, and instead of sending a group of Las Ketchup wannabee women, they're sending Las Ketchup themselves. Finland have some kind of rockers that make Wig Wam from Norway look like your average schlager artists. Turkey has a (fake?) blond girl, looking not entirely unlike Gwen Stefani but maybe with more cleavage.