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Well, Eurovision is going back to Sweden in 2013. What do you want from the show? Hosts? City? Stage? Arena? Interval acts? Opening acts? Theme?
- City: Stockholm all the way! It's the biggest city, it's the capital, it's beautiful and it's the city most worthy showcasing to Europe and the world.. it's the most logical choice imho.
- Arena: The new Friends Arena in Solna, Stockholm would be ideal: It's going to be really big, it's totally fresh modern and new.
- I hope that we'll have a great and forward-thinking stage, with a fresh design. I would keep the LCD screens and I hope it'll be big enough for big shows, but not too big (Russia 2009), but not too small either (Helsinki, Oslo) and not boring (Copenhagen, most MF stages).
- I hope SVT thinks a little outside the box when it comes to hosts. I want fun, hot and exciting hosts... but knowing SVT we will have political correct boring hosts and they'll probably give the job to their overhyped sweethearts Ana Gina and Måns Zelmerlöw... EEW! In 2000 they gave the job to two of our most boring-zero personality hosts, so they'll probably continue on that path. In general SVT have quite lame TV-personalities.
I want Dolph Lundgren and Victoria Silvstedt.. BRING it SVT! Surprise us FOR ONCE!! Show that Swedes CAN be fun, sexy and entertaining and not just fugly and boring (because we are NOT)!
- I want the interval act to well... include typical Swedish themes. Folk dances, folk music, national costumes... U NAME IT! Cliché?? Well it would be for many countries, but in Sweden celebrating SWEDEN is totally taboo. But I hope they drop their PC thinking and understand that this is an opportunity to showcase Sweden to Europe. People want to see what they associate with Sweden, people want to see what's Swedish traditions. They don't want to see some HipHop dancers from Swedish suburbs or Iraqi Belly dancers, I am very certain Europe wants to see SWEDEN so PLZ SVT... SPARE US those ideas (because I KNOW you have them!). Since we barely showcase our traditions, language and music culture in ESC, I hope we atleast can do it this way. But of course it's SVT... so it'll most probably be disastrous interval acts like we had in the German edition (sorry Germany !), which would have no connection to Sweden what-so-ever and would just look odd to the general European viewer.
- Opening act in the final : Loreen singing a Swedish language folk-electro version of Euphoria
- As for the host song... well again I want us to FINALLY send something more Swedish! I don't want us to be like the previous years. I want to hear Swedish on that stage again! Sofia Karlsson would be my first pick to represent us with something beautiful Swedish traditional folk ballad!!! If the Balkan countries can do it, so can we! Why couldn't we??
- Postcards : Preferably something fresh like Russia 2009 or Oslo 2010.
So SVT... will you surprise us or will it be some Political Correct hot mess with boring hosts and boring stage?? I HOPE to be happily surprised, but knowing SVT... my hopes starts on almost zero.
- City: Stockholm all the way! It's the biggest city, it's the capital, it's beautiful and it's the city most worthy showcasing to Europe and the world.. it's the most logical choice imho.
- Arena: The new Friends Arena in Solna, Stockholm would be ideal: It's going to be really big, it's totally fresh modern and new.
- I hope that we'll have a great and forward-thinking stage, with a fresh design. I would keep the LCD screens and I hope it'll be big enough for big shows, but not too big (Russia 2009), but not too small either (Helsinki, Oslo) and not boring (Copenhagen, most MF stages).
- I hope SVT thinks a little outside the box when it comes to hosts. I want fun, hot and exciting hosts... but knowing SVT we will have political correct boring hosts and they'll probably give the job to their overhyped sweethearts Ana Gina and Måns Zelmerlöw... EEW! In 2000 they gave the job to two of our most boring-zero personality hosts, so they'll probably continue on that path. In general SVT have quite lame TV-personalities.
I want Dolph Lundgren and Victoria Silvstedt.. BRING it SVT! Surprise us FOR ONCE!! Show that Swedes CAN be fun, sexy and entertaining and not just fugly and boring (because we are NOT)!
- I want the interval act to well... include typical Swedish themes. Folk dances, folk music, national costumes... U NAME IT! Cliché?? Well it would be for many countries, but in Sweden celebrating SWEDEN is totally taboo. But I hope they drop their PC thinking and understand that this is an opportunity to showcase Sweden to Europe. People want to see what they associate with Sweden, people want to see what's Swedish traditions. They don't want to see some HipHop dancers from Swedish suburbs or Iraqi Belly dancers, I am very certain Europe wants to see SWEDEN so PLZ SVT... SPARE US those ideas (because I KNOW you have them!). Since we barely showcase our traditions, language and music culture in ESC, I hope we atleast can do it this way. But of course it's SVT... so it'll most probably be disastrous interval acts like we had in the German edition (sorry Germany !), which would have no connection to Sweden what-so-ever and would just look odd to the general European viewer.
- Opening act in the final : Loreen singing a Swedish language folk-electro version of Euphoria
- As for the host song... well again I want us to FINALLY send something more Swedish! I don't want us to be like the previous years. I want to hear Swedish on that stage again! Sofia Karlsson would be my first pick to represent us with something beautiful Swedish traditional folk ballad!!! If the Balkan countries can do it, so can we! Why couldn't we??
- Postcards : Preferably something fresh like Russia 2009 or Oslo 2010.
So SVT... will you surprise us or will it be some Political Correct hot mess with boring hosts and boring stage?? I HOPE to be happily surprised, but knowing SVT... my hopes starts on almost zero.
This thing is huge here.
