Sweden SWEDEN 2019 - John Lundvik - Too Late for Love

[QwaarJet]

10th place in the fan/televote too, brings some hope at least for a good televote result in May

Not concerned about the fan vote, only the jury vote has any relevance to May. I suspect it'll do far better in the televote than any fan vote.

 

[Pawhlen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRH_ZfvK6PI

Too all of you claiming that he and his choir didn´t sound good and had backing tracks in MF

Qwaarjet: I don´t see anything that speaks against that, a good performance, charisma on stage and the choir. That should be enough to sneak into the top 10 in the televoting

 

[Preuss]

What's the name of the woman next to John on his right side?
She's got fire and attitude and grabs my attention whenever she's on camera

 

[Pawhlen]

What's the name of the woman next to John on his right side?
She's got fire and attitude and grabs my attention whenever she's on camera

Good question, I only know that the woman on the very left is Lulu (has participated in swedish Idol a few years ago, she was also one of the backing singers to Behrang Miris Jalla Dansa Sawa in 2013)

 

[NicoRobin]

I really like John's song, better than My Turn. I think he'll do very well with the jury and the public

 

[Preuss]

I had no idea that Malena Ernman is the mother of Greta Thunberg
that's pretty cool

 

[alca]

What's the name of the woman next to John on his right side?
She's got fire and attitude and grabs my attention whenever she's on camera

Her name is Ash Haynes.

 

[QwaarJet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRH_ZfvK6PI

Too all of you claiming that he and his choir didn´t sound good and had backing tracks in MF

Qwaarjet: I don´t see anything that speaks against that, a good performance, charisma on stage and the choir. That should be enough to sneak into the top 10 in the televoting

I think it'll be do better in the televote than sneaking into the top 10.

 

[mauve]

Even after listening to this song after weeks, the song is really boring for me. Might be in the top ten probably, but doubt that it will go for the victory.

 

[Pawhlen]

One thing that differs between John Lundvik and Cesar Sampson (don´t compare the songs, they are not even close to be the same, the same genre doesn´t mean same song) is that John Lundvik shows more charisma on stage compared to what Cesar did last year in Lisbon

especially the performance in the final felt a bit cold, professional and good vocally of course but cold, that could have cost him some votes among the viewers

It will be interesting to see if John with his charisma on stage and the magical "Mamas" will charm viewers across Europe, one issue for John could be if he has too much energy on stage (which could be seen at the MF final, maybe because his in-ear fell out during the performance) because it has to feel real, otherwise it will just look mannered

 

[Sammy]

[MENTION=12855]Pawhlen[/MENTION]: I never understood, why people are comparing these two acts. To say that Austria 2018 equals Sweden 2019 just shows how shallow one's perception of music is. Colored singer / gospel... Oh - it's the same! What a profound analysis.
I sometimes feel it's a trend to try to find ANY random similarity to have something "interesting" to say on discussion boards. (As for the charisma-thing, I love John but I'm too biased to say that he has more charisma than Cesar....

 

[HayashiM]

It really depends on the viewer. I like John's song, but charisma-wise, Cesar is miles ahead in my eyes.

 

[Preuss]

So I feel like when people blame countries for being "safe", which Sweden hears pretty often, it's because the song's really good and has quality and that's why it's being "safe" if that made sense

 

[Pawhlen]

So I feel like when people blame countries for being "safe", which Sweden hears pretty often, it's because the song's really good and has quality and that's why it's being "safe" if that made sense

I´m beginning to think it´s the code word for "This song is good and will be dangerous but I can´t tolerate that so let´s find something desperate to talk it down instead" and this applies to every song that get´s that statement

[MENTION=13155]Sammy[/MENTION] exactly

And what I meant with charisma was more like showing some kind of joy on stage, and I didn´t thought Cesar did that last year in the final, and that could have cost him some votes.

 

[mauve]

Honestly, people say there is nothing to compare about John's and Cesar's song and STILL do it. Personally, I loved Austria's song much, much more, loved Cesar's voice more and think he had much more charisma.

 

[Sammy]

Honestly, people say there is nothing to compare about John's and Cesar's song and STILL do it. Personally, I loved Austria's song much, much more, loved Cesar's voice more and think he had much more charisma.

I'm not sure if you are referring to me, but if so: I'd like to clarify.
Of course you can compare ANY song to ANY song and singer - you'll find differences or similarities. And that's fine.
My post was targeting a special notion of comparison: the one that equals two songs. And that's something you can only do with songs that really are very similar (like Cyprus 2018 and Cyprus 2018 to name the most obvious example), which as I argued in the case of Sweden 2019 and Austria 2018 is really not the case. But nothing hinders you to look for differences or vague similarities in those two either. I should've been more clear on that perhaps.

 

[Pawhlen]

On Monday we will see what the changes in the performance really is and if they are good or bad

 

[SwedishFailurez]

Seems like the odds are about to drift.

 

[Pawhlen]

Seems like the odds are about to drift.

They have been around 9-11.00 for quite some time, so I would say they are steady which was expected since he is not in the winning race but has decent chances of a good score

 

[NikolaiMoller]

I think Sweden will be top 3 in the final this year. Everything else would be a crime.

People should just accept and enjoy that we have a country who has figured Eurovision out. Melodifestivalen is the best National Selection, no doubt.