I actually think I'd be perfectly fine with Måns Zelmerlöw; I used to think he seemed like the biggest douche
(probably due to him dating Marie Serneholt - the first time I realized that a couple could look plastic together), but then I saw him make out with Charlotte Perelli and share a cab with her, and suddenly everything about him became extremely funny. That is a completely true story, by the way!
Anyways, he seems nice enough and also he's popular and handsome, knows german/english quite well, and has the experience. I think he'd be great! I'd like for his co-host to be a woman who isn't so... flashy. Like, definitely not Victoria Silvstedt who has a career built around that men wants her as their f***-puppet
(sorry but come on!), but more of a down to earth, funny and confident woman - but still edgy. Because Sweden has loads and loads of intelligent women in the media who are all of these things, I feel like this is what SVT should choose. I'm not even sure I have a name to suggest but maybe, I don't now.. Kitty Jutbring and Elsa Billgren? Haha sounds kind of weird but maybe you guys understand what I'm going after. I guess one could argue Gina Dirawi fits the description but I'm not too fond of her so I'd rather not see her on my screen again!
I for one am definitely going to miss Globen, but still it's exciting that we might hold the biggest party in Europe in a venue that has room for 67.000 people. Amazing! And I prefer Stockholm because, well, it's Stockholm; I love that place to pieces. It's beautiful and it's the capital, I mean it would feel wrong to have it anywhere else. Gothenburg and Malmö are both beautiful cities, but 1) I don't really like Gothenburg: I actually have a theory that in Sweden you're either "westside" or "eastside", it's Gothenburg or Stockholm, you can't love them both hahaha! Also 2) this is going to sound really bad because I know Malmö is great in so many ways... but with all the problems in Malmö at the moment, I'm not sure they should host. I mean, the city which hosts the Eurovision is representing the country and its people - Malmö is having way too much issues with its own citizens right now to commit to such a big event. So here's to Stockholm and Friends Arena in 2013!
When it comes to the interval acts, all I know is that I agree - Sweden should absolutely do something that shows Europe our culture and the swedish heritage. Obviously one can ask themselves why the transformed, more open and multicultural swedish culture isn't "good enough" to showcase, but whatever... Anyway, point is - what is traditionally swedish these days? I mean, ever since it became taboo to be too patriotic in this country, the only tradition that is intact in its incredible swedish-ness to me is Midsummer
(which also is the only time I've ever seen any one wear swedish national costumes.) And we can't have drunk people singing smågrodorna and jumping around a phallus on stage, even if its such a big part of our culture. Umm.. so then what? Someone standing on stage eating falukorv?? Haha obviously I have a poor imagination, but I really can't come up with anything. Hopefully SVT will come up with something that will makes us all proud even if it seems impossible to me to imagine what that would be.
Those were my two cents
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