All right, so, my three favorites, in order of favorite to third favorite ("favorite" referring to what I like most, not what would do best at Eurovision), based on my first listen (I'm not mentioning last names or song titles, but you can find those here):
Update: links removed.
(These are all web rips, so let me know if there's something wrong with the audio. They'll probably only be up for a limited time only, but then again, I'm sure a bunch of other blogs will have them, too. For the moment, though, I'm still so excited that I needed to do this! This is my first year following Melodifestivalen, so I'm incredibly excited to go through the whole process.)
There are also a couple of nice mid-tempos in the "adult" vein, Stefan & Aleena's song being the best of those, followed by Uno & Irma's.
To listen to all the songs from this semifinal, you can go to the official Melodifestivalen site (click on the pink arrow next to the performer's name); I think they're all up to listen to until tomorrow, when the ones that make it to future rounds will be taken down.
(Full disclosure: I couldn't manage to listen to Anna's song without it starting and stopping a million times, so I got frustrated and stopped trying; it could be very good, but I'm not able to judge it yet.)
7 comments:
Andreas reminded me Darin. Not my cup of tea, though I adore Darin's ballads as well as love Andreas classic numbers.
About Elin's lyrics - exactly what I thought when heard it. Dollar Queen rules.
I'm just foaming at the mouth waiting for the Ark's entry!
Oh, and for the record... my thoughts:
Elin's lyrics are hilarious. The whole thing is pretty stupid, but at least it's catchy.
Meanwhile, that Addis Black Widow song is just bizarre. I like it because of its strangeness.
The other ones by and large bore me.
BTW... on an entirely unrelated (well, mostly) note, I've started to learn Swedish so I can actually read/understand all this stuff!!
I like Andreas a lot, i think his songs have a great appeal. Which means that he will probably never be big as i seem to be a curse. Sigh. Wow, Nick learning Swedish - that's pretty dedicated. And impressive. I shall be ransacking my Magnuss christmas album now and sending you lyrics ;)
I haven't really had time to catch the festival but as always i enjoy living vicariously thru u!
PS - veronica mars was amazing this week
Heya! I've been reading your blog for the past few months and during that time I've noticed that you're a fan of Go:Audio. I am as well which is why I thought I'd let you know (if you hadn't already noticed) that they put a new song, "Change", up on their MySpace. Just thought you might wanna know. :]
x Meg
Soooooooooooo much to catch up on!
I thought that too, about Andreas--like a Darin song, only with some of the bleeps being a bit more retro than what Darin would probably use. Completely agree on "Dollar Queen," though I haven't heard any of his pre-Alcazar work.
Nick, I can't wait (if you want me to not post it next Friday, either because you're going to or whatever, let me know, because I'm quite sure it will be one of my favorites)! The Addis Black Widow song isn't one I feel invested in hoping it does well, but I can see myself listening to it in the future. Learning swedish is a brill idea--if there was a good way I could do so, I'd definitely follow your example! It'd be so much easier to keep up on news and appreciate songs in Swedish that way.
Luckily "Lovegun" did well in Sweden, I think, so hopefully you haven't cursed him yet ;) We'll have to see what happens when he has another major release (I don't think "Dollar Queen" was intended to do really well or be a real single).
That's great--thanks so much for letting me know, Megan! Can't wait to hear it...I've loved what I've heard from them so far.
Robpop is still alive--yay (though I guess if I think about it, your last post on DSTP was last Saturday)! Hope you had a great time celebrating your birthday :)
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