Melodifestivalen 2013 - The first artist is revealed!

Photo: Johan Ljungström/Sveriges Radio

Haven't posted anything in months and I feel like the blog is abandoned but it still looks the same. I was supposed to fix the layout and add some more things while I was in Greece but this never happened... Now I wonder when I'll find time to fix it before the start of the ESC season.

Anyway back to the point. The girl in the picture is Terese Fredenwall and she's the first out of 32 artists who will compete in Melodifestivalen 2013! She's the winner of a swedish contest called "Svensktoppen nästa". A contest that was created for this exact purpose; finding an artist to compete in mello '13. There are more details here (in swedish).

Well I know one thing for sure and I can bet a million euros on that; Terese is not the winner! And she'd rather not keep her hopes high. I mean let's face it, no one knows her and we all know that in Melodifestivalen the popular ones make it to the final. Of course you can give me a bunch of famous Swedes who didn't make it to the final but still. Or tell me that, how many webjoker artists made it to the final? To andra chansen? It also depends on the song but really I don't see Terese going too far. It will be a great experience for her though. That's for sure!

ESC 2013 - Malmö

I won't say a lot about it... Just read all the details here. I am so disappointed about this! They had Friends Arena and they chose Malmö Arena instead. They could host the contest in Stockholm (which is the right thing to do) but no. It's Malmö. Now things are not easy for me. I need MUCH MORE money now coz I had a place to stay in Stockholm! There is a small chance that I might miss ESC 2013. My first ESC ever! I'm devastated right now. If I don't find a job when I get back to Sweden I might as well say goodbye to the contest...

Loreen - "Euphoria" video release

Photo: Ruben Broman

So the video of "Euphoria" is out! I have to say that I'm disappointed... I was expecting something really good but all we got is Loreen taking a walk in the woods... I really don't like the concept and it's not something I will watch over and over again. I totally prefer the live performances of MF/ESC.We have some really great shots and the feeling is amazing but the concept is really bad IMO. What I like in the video is the second verse. I wish Ausben was there too...

Annikafiore - "Recovered" EP released!

Well to tell you the truth the EP was released yesterday! I saw it on my fb but I decided to blog about it today. First of all, you can BUY "Recovered" by clicking here.

The tracklist:

1. Crying At the Discoteque (Antti Original) 4:10

2. Don't Wanna C U 2nite (Piol Remix) 3:48

3. Crying At the Discoteque (Piol Remix) 4:04

4. Love 2 Live (Johan Åberg Ha2f Radio Mix) 2:56  

5. Don't Wanna C U 2nite (Radio Cut) 3:59

6. Love 2 Live (Piol Funk Remix) 3:39

7. Love 2 Live (Johan Åberg Ha2f Club Mix) 5:24

8. Love 2 Live (Piol Sos Remix) 3:31

9. Love 2 Live (Johan Åberg Ha2f Club Instrumental) 5:24

10. Don't Wanna C U 2nite (Piol Piano Remix) 3:09

And as I promised the videos from August 2011 are now available! 

Shut Up And Dance (love the choreo!)

Don't Wanna C U 2nite (SoundFactory remix) 

Crying At The Discoteque (Antti Original) 

Enjoy! ;D

 

Annikafiore - Don't Wanna C U 2nite (Piol Remix) video release

Loaned from Dave

Sooo what do we have here? New remix and new video for Annikafiore's "Don't Wanna C U 2nite"! We loved (don't tell me you didn't!) the SoundFactory remix but now we have the Piol remix which is a more summer night/lounge version. Personally I love both! Keep the SoundFactory remix for dancing and keep the Piol remix for relaxing at nights!

The new video is just awesome! Watched it quite a few times and I had it on repeat for many more. There are two parts (so far) that I totally love and I have to say that I rewinded the video a few times just to rewatch those parts. xD The first one is at 1:02-1:05 and the second is at 2:49 and at 2:51 (you get it right? two WOW frames!). Gaah I just LOVE the video! Those scenes while Annikafiore is sitting on the bench are probably my favourite. I know, not much happening over there but I love the colors and the feeling. Oh and those drama-looks on the camera are so only-Annikafiore-can-do-it-like-this! Yeah you get it, I LOVE everything on that video! :D


This remix will be included on her new EP called "RECOVERED"! It's gonna be an EP with new remixes and listen to this: there will be two new versions of Alcazar's "Crying At The Discoteque"! I watched her performing CATD last August and recorded that performance (don't go searching on youtube, the video is still unlisted but when the EP comes out I'll make it public)! I have no idea if that version she performed back then is one of the two on the EP. What I know is that one of them will be the version she performed in May at the Alcazar reunion (still don't have that performance guys. I got no reply from the uploader). Anyway, read more about the EP here. It's Annikafiore's official blog!

Spread the news about the new remix people! :D

ESC 2012 - Split results of televoting and jury

I was waiting for this to comment the results. The split votes of the juries and televoting. Of course there are also the split results of each country individually but no country so far (as far as I know) revealed both the jury and televoting points which makes us think that something fishy is going on. Especially since the Cypriot jury said that they gave no points to Azerbaijan and yet, in the final Cyprus gave 8 points to them. It's just impossible even if the televoters gave their 12 points to Azerbaijan. I won't say anything else here. Draw your own conclusions.

Back to the split results from eurovision.tv.

Semi-final 1

Country	Combined		Televote		Jury vote
-	Place	Points	Place	Points	Place	Points
Russia	1	152	1	189	8	75
Albania	2	146	3	131	1	131
Romania	3	120	2	132	5	87
Greece	4	116	5	110	3	103
Moldova	5	100	7	85	2	107
Ireland	6	92	4	116	10	72
Cyprus	7	91	6	99	4	90
Iceland	8	75	8	79	11	70
Denmark	9	63	9	53	6	81
Hungary	10	52	11	39	7	76
Switzerland	11	45	10	49	13	45
Finland	12	41	12	36	12	57
Israel	13	33	16	16	9	72
San Marino	14	31	13	25	14	42
Montenegro	15	20	14	24	16	28
Latvia	16	17	15	18	18	17
Belgium	17	16	18	2	15	38
Austria	18	8	17	15	17	27

Just take a look at Cyprus and Iceland! Cyprus came 6th in the televoting and 4th in the jury vote and Iceland came 8th in the televoting and 11th in the jury vote! Just wow! I was expecting this to be the other way around! I thought Iceland was a jury bait and would have scored higher and Cyprus was the cheesy (?) pop that would have scored a lot higher in the televoting and lower in the jury vote! I'm surprised to see Israel in the top 10 if we only had the juries! And Finland was 12th no matter what. Russia 1st in the televoting and 8th in the jury vote. Quite a difference! Moldova 2nd in the jury vote? Seriously? And Greece 3rd?! I'm really surprised! What happened to the juries this year? And Switzerland would have made it if it was only for the televoting...


Semi-final 2

Country	Combined		Televote		Jury vote
-	Place	Points	Place	Points	Place	Points
Sweden	1	181	1	180	1	145
Serbia	2	159	2	148	2	141
Lithuania	3	104	3	128	10	55
Estonia	4	100	5	88	4	102
Turkey	5	80	4	114	13	42
Bosnia & Herzegovina	6	77	7	70	6	77
Malta	7	70	11	39	5	97
Ukraine	8	64	17	24	3	109
FYROM	9	53	8	63	9	58
Norway	10	45	6	72	18	25
Bulgaria	11	45	9	59	17	27
Croatia	12	42	14	34	7	66
Portugal	13	39	13	37	12	49
Georgia	14	36	18	15	8	62
Belarus	16	35	12	37	11	52
The Netherlands	15	35	10	51	16	31
Slovenia	17	31	16	27	14	40
Slovakia	18	22	15	32	15	40

Hm Sweden and Serbia both came 1st and 2nd respectively both in the jury vote and televoting. Lithuania 3rd in the televoting and 10th in the jury vote?! Turkey 13th in the jury vote! Malta 5th in the jury vote but 11th in the televoting. Never thought that they would have scored higher in the jury vote! Ukraine came 17th in the televoting and 3rd in the jury vote?!?!?!?! This is too hard to believe! It seems as if they made some kind of mistake here and the televoting is actually the jury vote! Norway was 18th in the jury vote! :O Oh my God! And Bulgaria 17th?! But 9th in the televoting! This is shocking! Really!  Ok here comes the biggest shock of the second semi! Georgia was 8th in the jury vote! AH COME ON!!!!!!! Are they on drugs or something? And my lovely Belarus would have stayed out of the final no matter what. :(  Finally Slovenia was 16th in the televoting and 14th in the jury vote... :S


Final

Country	Combined		Televote		Jury vote
-	Place	Points	Place	Points	Place	Points
Sweden	1	372	1	343	1	296
Russia	2	259	2	332	11	94
Serbia	3	214	3	211	2	173
Azerbaijan	4	150	5	151	8	118
Albania	5	146	8	106	3	157
Estonia	6	120	12	78	6	152
Turkey	7	112	4	176	22	50
Germany	8	110	6	125	10	98
Italy	9	101	17	56	4	157
Spain	10	97	18	45	5	154
Moldova	11	81	13	75	9	104
Romania	12	71	7	117	20	53
FYROM	13	71	11	79	17	69
Lithuania	14	70	14	68	14	82
Cyprus	15	65	15	63	12	85
Ukraine	16	65	20	37	7	125
Greece	17	64	9	89	18	60
Bosnia & Herzegovina	18	55	16	57	15	71
Iceland	19	46	19	39	19	53
Ireland	20	46	10	89	25	14
Malta	21	41	25	10	16	70
Denmark	22	21	23	18	21	51
France	23	21	26	0	13	85
Hungary	24	19	22	20	23	30
United Kingdom	25	12	21	36	26	11
Norway	26	7	24	16	24	24

:( I don't know what's wrong with you people... Spain came 18th in televoting but 5th in the jury vote... *sigh* Russia 11th in the jury vote but still 2nd in the televoting. Turkey 4th in the televoting (oh God!) and 22nd in the jury vote (yeah that). And Italy 17th in the televoting but 4th in the jury vote! Wow! Romania 7th in the televoting (they should have finished in the top 10!!) and 20th in the jury vote so I guess the 12th place was ok for them. Cyprus was 15th in the televoting and 12th in the jury vote. That's interesting... Now I really don't get this about Ukraine! 20th in the televoting but 7th in the jury vote! What's wrong with the juries?! Greece would have kept the record of being in the top 10 every year since 2004 if we had only the televoting! Iceland 19th no matter what and that's surprising since everyone thought this would have finished in the top 3! Ireland 10th in the televoting but 25th in the jury vote!! France came last in the televoting with 0 points!! But 13th in the jury vote! United Kingdom 21st in the televoting but last in the jury vote and finally Norway came 24th both in the televoting and the jury vote...

I really don't know what to say about the juries! They did excellent job in some of the songs and terrible job in some others... And for the first time since their introduction I don't know if I want them out! :O

Eurovision Song Contest: 2011 VS 2012

Ok I already know the result this year! 2012 is definitely the winner but let's see the difference!

If a country didn't compete in one of these 2 years, there will be no points given to any of them.

1	Albania	0
-	Armenia	-
0	Austria	1
0	Azerbaijan	1
0	Belarus	1
1	Belgium	0
0	Bosnia & Herzegovina	1
0	Bulgaria	1
0	Croatia	1
0	Cyprus	1
0	Denmark	1
1	Estonia	0
0	Finland	1
0	France	1
1	FYROM	0
1	Georgia	0
1	Germany	0
0	Greece	1
1	Hungary	0
0	Iceland	1
1	Ireland	0
1	Israel	0
0	Italy	1
1	Latvia	0
0	Lithuania	1
0	Malta	1
0 -	Moldova Montenegro	1 -
0	The Netherlands	1
0	Norway	1
-	Poland	-
0	Portugal	1
0	Romania	1
0	Russia	1
1	San Marino	0
1	Serbia	0
1	Slovakia	0
0	Slovenia	1
0	Spain	1
0	Sweden	1
0	Switzerland	1
1	Turkey	0
1	Ukraine	0
1	United Kingdom	0
16	TOTAL	25

So 2012 is the winner with 25 points! To be honest I was expecting to give more points to 2012... Well 9 points are quite a few... Let's see if 2013 will be a better year...

ESC 2012 - Barbara Dex Award

And we have a winner! Congratulations to Rona Nishliu from Albania for the Barbara Dex Award 2012! I voted for her even though it was a tough choice this year. Many bad outfits but Rona got my vote. The top 10 is here if you wanna see it. I was expecting Joan Franka to be second but she's 4th! Jedward are 2nd and Sofi Marinova is 3rd! Loreen is also in the top 10... Haters? ;)