Contact us

Sweden SWEDEN 2024 - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable

How do you rate this entry?

  • 12

    18 10.7%
  • 10

    12 7.1%
  • 8

    19 11.3%
  • 7

    19 11.3%
  • 6

    18 10.7%
  • 5

    22 13.1%
  • 4

    12 7.1%
  • 3

    16 9.5%
  • 2

    12 7.1%
  • 1

    4 2.4%
  • 0

    16 9.5%

  • Total voters
    168

Fluke

Well-known member
Joined
February 5, 2011
Posts
2,562
Location
Sweden
Adam Woods: The most cliche male MF entry ever. Parts of the backing even sounds exactly like "Tattoo", the rest sounds like a mish--mash of other previous entries i don't want to remember. Not gonna rule out a decent success with the weak competition though, but he'd have to deliver beyond what's humanly possible on stage to have a chance to get top 2 with this.

Samir & Viktor: Very weak, insincere and irrelevant. Their original audience has grown away from them and the younger ones won't care. If they wanted to have any chance, they'd do an ultra-uptempo, jokey, stage gimmick-filled entry like Sean Banan used to, i don't get why they keep trying to do this more "general audience pop" when they lack vocal or other skills to do it. #2 POSSIBLE if they have a great staging, come across as likable and everyone else fails.

Melina Borglowe: Obligatory guitar-plunking sacrificial lamb.

Elisa Lindström: Don't count out this straight-on 2005 housewife escapist Schlager. I don't like them, but they almost always seem to make the final, and with a great staging, performance and vocals she could be a top 5 threat.

Lisa Ajax: Very weak, aimless and cliche-filled song. I can't count how many modern radio pop cliches they threw in the first minute, and there's nothing to hold them together. I'm betting on Elisa over this as the 2nd finalist.

Smash Into Pieces: Easily DTF here. They've said their staging is gonna be even better than last year's, and everything's stacked up for them. Song seems a bit flat, like a radio-pop songwriter's idea of boring 80s hard rock with over--processed, synthetic sounding drums and guitars.

And like last time, the vocals are very forced and thin sounding. But maybe it will make more sense in full, with the staging. The only way they could not make top 2 is if they completely wretch the vocals, and two other entries do SUPERBLY well for some reason, but i doubt even that could stop it.

Really weak bunch of songs overall, it's obvious they're setting it up for certain acts to qualify by giving others nothing to work with. At least we can hope for a good winner, still.
 

FabiESC

Well-known member
Joined
April 5, 2010
Posts
3,614
Location
Germany/Roseland
01 Elisa Lindström – Forever Yours 9/10
02 Lisa Ajax – Awful Liar 8/10
03 Adam Woods – Supernatural 8/10
04 Smash Into Pieces – Heroes Are Calling 6/10
05 Samir & Viktor – Hela världen väntar 5/10
06 Melina Borglowe – Min melodi 3/10

I like this year start of Mello, they were worser in the previous years. I'm sure we didn't hear the winner of Mello in this semi. I hope Elisa get through, i love this englisch swedish schlager! Really disappointed by Smash Into Pieces, i hope for a stronger entry and also Samir & Viktor, this is by far they worst entry.

My prediction:

F: Lisa Ajax
F: Adam Woods
-
3th Smash Into Pieces
4th Samir & Viktor
-
5th Elisa Lindström :(
6th Melina Borglowe
 

BorisBubbles

Veteran
Joined
January 21, 2019
Posts
4,091
Location
Tumblr, mostly.
Adam & SiP are easily the qualifiers lol. Lest we forget, Lisa Ajax is a known bearer of the Failure Gene. She is forevever destined to Never Serve. :(
 

b4ld3r

Well-known member
Joined
May 18, 2021
Posts
282
My first reaction is that they need to increase the numbers of songs in each heat back to seven again. Six are too few and it doesn't feel warranted to do five entire heats of this. Especially if the quality of the other content that is supposed to fill the airtime will be on the same poor level as it usually is.

As for the songs: better luck next week!
 

empo21

Veteran
Joined
March 9, 2020
Posts
3,876
Location
Чаршия
Damn this year's mello looks cheap.

Smash into pieces really said copy/paste on everything from last year (or SVT couldn't afford new stuff)

Lisa sounds nice.

Song no4 seems like has the most interesting staging.

Min Melodi girl is trying to out-Klingenström thee Klingenström and it's not working

Samir & Victor and Adam Woods relying too much on back vocals.
 

Franzilein

Well-known member
Joined
March 5, 2015
Posts
1,410
I will wait for the full song, but the snippet of Heroes Are Calling sounds way too soft. Six Feet Under in comparison was such an instant banger and still rocks my workout playlist :(
 

lasse braun

Well-known member
Joined
March 20, 2021
Posts
7,131
meanwhile i have seen also the short stage sequences - i am not impressed.
only the girl with the ballad (melina) can get some attention from me - wish her luck but it seems impossible to reach the final.
the sweds adore their special melo sound. :D
 

HarryUK

Super Moderator
Staff member
Joined
April 12, 2014
Posts
4,307
Location
Canterbury, UK
I definitely feel they’re not pushing for another win if this is the standard we have to look forward to with all songs, which is hardly surprising given this is the 3rd time they’ve hosted in 11 years…
 

esc87fan

Well-known member
Joined
April 21, 2013
Posts
19,839
Location
Canada
Exit poll results for heat 1:

1. Smash Into Pieces (454 votes)
2. Samir & Viktor (204 votes)
3. Lisa Ajax (201 votes)
4. Adam Woods (169 votes)
5. Elisa Lindström (95 votes)
6. Melina Borglowe (17 votes)
 

Realest

Well-known member
Joined
May 23, 2017
Posts
7,826
Location
Germany

Stargazer

Mod of All Things
Staff member
Joined
January 13, 2010
Posts
21,009
Location
Trollheimr / Westrobothnia
I'd honestly have two more songs per semi, like we had in the 2000s, than have a several minutes long postcard/intro before every artist. It kind of feels like they're just padding the runtime at this point.
 

Realest

Well-known member
Joined
May 23, 2017
Posts
7,826
Location
Germany
Adam Woods with one of my Top3 NF Songs until now.
 

empo21

Veteran
Joined
March 9, 2020
Posts
3,876
Location
Чаршия
I'm afraid S&V are getting too old for this type of nickelodeon ass songs

Also the small stage is so distracting. Everything is so cramped and seeing the edges of the led background is just so 💀

I'm assuming svt is gonna be using the leds coz the image is crisp.
 

Etanna

Well-known member
Joined
May 29, 2018
Posts
1,134
I hate being always so nasty towards Sweden but with its legacy and hype it's difficult not to have higher expectations than this. So far it all feels so... childish and inauthentic.
 

TB98

Well-known member
Joined
May 4, 2022
Posts
206
That was very sweet and lovely. Definitely the best one so far (not saying much tho).
 

empo21

Veteran
Joined
March 9, 2020
Posts
3,876
Location
Чаршия
I like joking about broke svt though

SVT so broke they're making the host and artists do work in the arena and call it a "postcard"
 
Top Bottom