Margerita86
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Am I the only one who wants to give a free invite to Per Gessle with any song of his choice? He would sure make something very catch...
SVERIGE - Sweden 2010 - Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life
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alca
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Sanna has to try her luck in ESC at least once!Margerita86 said:According to Aftonbladet yes.alca said:Sanna tried to get in MF with Devotion???!!!
Edit : http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/debatt ... 7204735.ab
The actualy debate artical in Aftonbladet for anyone interested...
FallenAngelII
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I can't believe so many of you were shocked Sweden didn't make it. Take a look at the song and performance from an objective standpoint:
Imagine for one second that you are the average Eurovision Song Contest viewer.You have barely read or listened to anything connected with the contest beforehand, getting to listen to each entry for the first time the first time it is performed on the ESC stage.
So imagine seeing Anna's entry for the first time.
Random blonde girl from Sweden who's apparently 18 but looks like she could be 30, dressed in a short dress, black stockings (which apparently is a fashion no-no as of late), a randomass quasi-tiara and converse. Yeah, how charming. No, it looks like a fashion disaster. Like she got up in the morning and just put on whatever she had left that was clean.
She's holding a guitar. Anyone who knows how to play the guitar will notice that she's fake-playing it badly. As in not the way Tom Dice, Jon Lillygreen or maNga do it. Knowledgeable viewers will know that all music is playback but at least with those three cases, the artists all know how to play the guitar. The fake-playing they are doing correspond to the music. Anna is just clearly doing random motions with her hand and then the guitar disappears for no reason.
The stage show consists of the random girl swaying to the music a little. Typical Swedish choreography ("A little but of swaying with a touch of fanning"). Exciting!
Random glowsticks in the audience. Lots of them, then the stage lits up in the same color (red), making the effect from the glowsticks minimal!
She's singing now. She has this deep voice that's very niche, that certainly isn't going to be popular among Eastern European televoters. She sounds like she's 40 or a man (or someone who has had gender re-assignment surgery). The song is sung in pretty much a single octave all the way up to the bridge, where it goes slightly higher. So for the vast majority of the song, she sings in one single octave. Couple that with her deep voice and you get something that sounds monotone.
You also can barely tell the refrain from the verse. Couple that with her deep voice, the single-octaveness of the song and you get a song where you can barely tell beginning from end. It just all sounds like a jumble of similar sounds and at the end of the song after the first listen, you can barely remember anything about the song. In other words: An ideal toilet break entry or, as Kayo put, "An entry during which I go into the kitchen to refill my chips (crisps for you Brits) bowl!"
Meanwhile, this year's contest is overrun with ballads (and we were last to choose our entry, so we already knew we'd be yet another ballad among many), the vast majority of which are at least much more memorable than ours. It's never a good thing to drown among other similar entries, most of which are better.
That's what most viewers took away from their first listen of "This Is My life". It wasn't a surprise at all that she didn't make it. Wrong artist (for this contest), wrong song (ever), wrong stage show (come on! Enough swaying!).
Imagine for one second that you are the average Eurovision Song Contest viewer.You have barely read or listened to anything connected with the contest beforehand, getting to listen to each entry for the first time the first time it is performed on the ESC stage.
So imagine seeing Anna's entry for the first time.
Random blonde girl from Sweden who's apparently 18 but looks like she could be 30, dressed in a short dress, black stockings (which apparently is a fashion no-no as of late), a randomass quasi-tiara and converse. Yeah, how charming. No, it looks like a fashion disaster. Like she got up in the morning and just put on whatever she had left that was clean.
She's holding a guitar. Anyone who knows how to play the guitar will notice that she's fake-playing it badly. As in not the way Tom Dice, Jon Lillygreen or maNga do it. Knowledgeable viewers will know that all music is playback but at least with those three cases, the artists all know how to play the guitar. The fake-playing they are doing correspond to the music. Anna is just clearly doing random motions with her hand and then the guitar disappears for no reason.
The stage show consists of the random girl swaying to the music a little. Typical Swedish choreography ("A little but of swaying with a touch of fanning"). Exciting!
Random glowsticks in the audience. Lots of them, then the stage lits up in the same color (red), making the effect from the glowsticks minimal!
She's singing now. She has this deep voice that's very niche, that certainly isn't going to be popular among Eastern European televoters. She sounds like she's 40 or a man (or someone who has had gender re-assignment surgery). The song is sung in pretty much a single octave all the way up to the bridge, where it goes slightly higher. So for the vast majority of the song, she sings in one single octave. Couple that with her deep voice and you get something that sounds monotone.
You also can barely tell the refrain from the verse. Couple that with her deep voice, the single-octaveness of the song and you get a song where you can barely tell beginning from end. It just all sounds like a jumble of similar sounds and at the end of the song after the first listen, you can barely remember anything about the song. In other words: An ideal toilet break entry or, as Kayo put, "An entry during which I go into the kitchen to refill my chips (crisps for you Brits) bowl!"
Meanwhile, this year's contest is overrun with ballads (and we were last to choose our entry, so we already knew we'd be yet another ballad among many), the vast majority of which are at least much more memorable than ours. It's never a good thing to drown among other similar entries, most of which are better.
That's what most viewers took away from their first listen of "This Is My life". It wasn't a surprise at all that she didn't make it. Wrong artist (for this contest), wrong song (ever), wrong stage show (come on! Enough swaying!).
esctoday article
Although Swedish representative Anna Bergendahl missed out on a place in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest final with the song This Is My Life, Sweden will still be represented in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The songs from Azerbaijan, Denmark, Ireland and Norway were all written by Swedish songwriters.
Sweden's tradition at the Eurovision Song Contest is as rich as any competing nation, with four victories, and until 2010, an ever present competing nation since 1976 and has over 50 Eurovision Song Contest entries. The show has always won high viewing figures and has helped to make Sweden one of the world's leading music nations.
For the first time in history, Sweden did not qualify for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Sweden's entry This Is My Life got eliminated, however three other countries qualified from the second semifinal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with Swedish compositions.
Azerbaijan entry Drip Drop is written by the Swedish team of Anders Bagge, Stefan Örn & Sandra Bjurman for Safura. In A Moment Like This represents Denmark and is written by and is performed by Chanée & N'Evergreen. Irish entry It's For You is written by Niall Mooney and Swedish co-writers, Mårten Eriksson, Jonas Gladnikoff & Lina Eriksson. Former Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh performs the song.
A fifth Swedish connection comes with Norway's representative Didrik Solli-Tangen is directly qualified for the final with My Heart Is Yours, written by Hanne Sørvaag from Norway and Fredrik Kempe from Sweden
Although Swedish representative Anna Bergendahl missed out on a place in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest final with the song This Is My Life, Sweden will still be represented in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The songs from Azerbaijan, Denmark, Ireland and Norway were all written by Swedish songwriters.
Sweden's tradition at the Eurovision Song Contest is as rich as any competing nation, with four victories, and until 2010, an ever present competing nation since 1976 and has over 50 Eurovision Song Contest entries. The show has always won high viewing figures and has helped to make Sweden one of the world's leading music nations.
For the first time in history, Sweden did not qualify for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Sweden's entry This Is My Life got eliminated, however three other countries qualified from the second semifinal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with Swedish compositions.
Azerbaijan entry Drip Drop is written by the Swedish team of Anders Bagge, Stefan Örn & Sandra Bjurman for Safura. In A Moment Like This represents Denmark and is written by and is performed by Chanée & N'Evergreen. Irish entry It's For You is written by Niall Mooney and Swedish co-writers, Mårten Eriksson, Jonas Gladnikoff & Lina Eriksson. Former Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh performs the song.
A fifth Swedish connection comes with Norway's representative Didrik Solli-Tangen is directly qualified for the final with My Heart Is Yours, written by Hanne Sørvaag from Norway and Fredrik Kempe from Sweden
Deltage
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Well, I take back what I said before about the Swedish song (it was based on the music video which I had watched after lots of other this year's ESC ballads and didn't bother to watch past the first chorus since I thought I'll see the song at the show anyway), it actually is quite memorable and the most important part for me is that it definitely sounds different than a typical ESC song or even a typical Swedish song. What was intention anyway? Country? Since ESC has so little of those songs that don't sound like they have been written specifically for that, it's a nice variation (I felt similarly about Belgium).
By the way, is writing songs for other countries a sort of opportunity for those songwriters that aren't satisfied with these apparent problems in Melodifestivalen?
By the way, is writing songs for other countries a sort of opportunity for those songwriters that aren't satisfied with these apparent problems in Melodifestivalen?
Margerita86
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Probably, maybe the UK should go song shoping in Sweden for next year? They could possibly find something niceDeltage said:
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Safura’s reaction on the Second Semifinal:
“I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported me this night,” said Safura after the 2nd Semifinal. “I am sincerely grateful to all my fans! Besides, I would like to give my support to representatives of those countries who could not break through to the Final. To my surprise and disappointment, among those who did not go through was Anna Bergendahl from Sweden, who I met in person just a day before the Semi and whose song I liked very much.”
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“I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported me this night,” said Safura after the 2nd Semifinal. “I am sincerely grateful to all my fans! Besides, I would like to give my support to representatives of those countries who could not break through to the Final. To my surprise and disappointment, among those who did not go through was Anna Bergendahl from Sweden, who I met in person just a day before the Semi and whose song I liked very much.”
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In an interview with competition producer of Melodi Grand Prix, Norway's national selection showPer Sundnes, he revealed his thoughts about the Eurovision Song Contest and the big story of today: Sweden's elimination from the competition last night and differences between Melodi Grand Prix and Melodifestivalen.
I think the main problem with Melodifestivalen is the juries that pick the 28 songs that goes through to the semi finals. People have different opinions, and there are too many mediocre songs, that recieves 4-6 points from each jury member. This results in a low range of variety in the songs going through, and although it's the peoples decision who reaches the final, it makes it difficult to vote. There are too many similar songs to vote for, and the votes split between two or more acts. For example this year we had the battle between Ola and Eric Saade, none of them could win because the songs appealed to the same kind of voters.
In Norway the production team has a lot more to say when selecting the songs. It is less democratic, but then we can secure that 'niche' songs like the ones from Keep of Kalessin and Didrik Sollie-Tangen actually get a chance to reach the people who are voting. This way Norway's entries the past years have been successful becouse they are something special. All of the latest winners in Norway have been invited especially by NRK to compete in the competition. It is not for sure that they would have gone through to the final if a jury was to decide.
So actually, Christer Björkman should have more to say in Melodifestivalen instead of beeing too democratic, Per Sundnes states. But he adds that he is sure that Sweden will raise again, and produce lots of good Eurovision songs in the future.
I think the main problem with Melodifestivalen is the juries that pick the 28 songs that goes through to the semi finals. People have different opinions, and there are too many mediocre songs, that recieves 4-6 points from each jury member. This results in a low range of variety in the songs going through, and although it's the peoples decision who reaches the final, it makes it difficult to vote. There are too many similar songs to vote for, and the votes split between two or more acts. For example this year we had the battle between Ola and Eric Saade, none of them could win because the songs appealed to the same kind of voters.
In Norway the production team has a lot more to say when selecting the songs. It is less democratic, but then we can secure that 'niche' songs like the ones from Keep of Kalessin and Didrik Sollie-Tangen actually get a chance to reach the people who are voting. This way Norway's entries the past years have been successful becouse they are something special. All of the latest winners in Norway have been invited especially by NRK to compete in the competition. It is not for sure that they would have gone through to the final if a jury was to decide.
So actually, Christer Björkman should have more to say in Melodifestivalen instead of beeing too democratic, Per Sundnes states. But he adds that he is sure that Sweden will raise again, and produce lots of good Eurovision songs in the future.
Margerita86
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Although it reads more like a last chance effort, if they won't fire Christer let him have the selection to himself maybe, we sure can't do any worse
Morty
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I was actually cheering when I realized Sweden wouldn't be in the final. Not because it was a bad song, because it wasn't, but it was boring, as most of the entries in Melodifestivalen this year were. I agree with Per Sundnes (something I don't do very often), the people behind MF should start from scratch, and give different genres a chance. It might not result in an interesting winner, because I have my doubts about the musical taste of the MF viewers, but at least it's a start. But I kinda expected it would be a rather boring song this year, Sweden tried something new last year, unfortunately it didn't work out, so they thought they'd play it "safe" this year. Which failed harder. Last year was the first time since 2000 that I've actually liked the Swedish entry tho, so I'm not really expecting anything good again for the next 10 years or so. But I hope I'm wrong.
Anna decided last night to leave Norway the next morning. She left Oslo in the afternoon with her parents. The rest of the swedish delegation are likely to stay until sunday to watch the final.
apparently the norwegian and swedish press have been pretty hard on her so she had some rough hours.
apparently the norwegian and swedish press have been pretty hard on her so she had some rough hours.
She sure looks exhausted
alca
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At least she's smiling...
rjb99
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Enough with the Anna-bashing: I thought she gave a solid (though not great) performance, and she certainly didn't mess up her vocals like Isreal and Azerbaijan did.
It's not her fault she was chosen to represent her country, so please back off with the personal comments, especially when they are made from behind an anonyomous username......
Peace.
It's not her fault she was chosen to represent her country, so please back off with the personal comments, especially when they are made from behind an anonyomous username......
Peace.
DIFF
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I didn't blame her. sorry. I wrote ^She could do much better^ I meant that she was talented and she could get a much better position. I strongly believe that all these boys and girls that are 17-18 years old should wait a little bit, they are talented but they just don't have enough experience, and it is a case with Anna.
94ayd
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This made me recall her dreadful outfit. I mean there wasn't anyhting mathcing...
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This made me recall her dreadful outfit. I mean there wasn't anyhting mathcing...
Morty
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I don't blame Anna, I blame the song. She did good, but the song was pretty boring. Didn't stand out, at least not to me.