Sweden SWEDEN 2025 - KAJ - Bara bada bastu

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[Mainshow]

A pity Bjorn finished last. It was the only song I liked from this heat. XD

 

[BorisBubbles]

This result is correct. Greczula and Annika were the best performers in the heat, by a wide margin, and Dolly Style are the best of the others. May they kill Meira Omar forever...x

 

[Sammy]

A pity Bjorn finished last. It was the only song I liked from this heat. XD

Same here!

 

[Mrm]

DOLLY STYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They survived somehow!

Please be the new "You" somehow!

 

[Mrm]

I rank the final for now:

1. John Lundvik 10/10
2. Annika Wickihalder 10/10 - bravoooo Annika , what a special performance...
3. Maja Ivarsson 7/10
4. Greczula 6/10
5. Erik Segerstedt 4/10
6. Klara Hammarström 2/10


I rank the AC:

1. Dolly Style 10/10
2. Meira Omar 10/10
3. Kaliffa 6/10

 

[EscGeek]

Dolly Style were always amazing, but Yihaa is their best song to date. It's my favorite of all the Melfest songs so far

 

[Mrm]

Dolly Style were always amazing, but Yihaa is their best song to date. It's my favorite of all the Melfest songs so far

You are a country man and cowboy in the end..

 

[bstream]

Annika Wickihalder is SO talented and teeming with the potential to become a huge international star. They need to give her catchier songs and better styling.

Her voice on a big gospel-inspired track or an EDM pop hit would do numbers well beyond Eurovision.

 

[Mrm]

Annika Wickihalder is SO talented and teeming with the potential to become a huge international star. They need to give her catchier songs and better styling.

Her voice on a big gospel-inspired track or an EDM pop hit would do numbers well beyond Eurovision.

Exactly!!

 

[Fluke]

I'm happy Greczula was #1, just think the song wasn't that good, still. I don't think he can win the whole thing, really. The production is just too wimpy, for a "rock" song it's so weak and static. Besides the drums being too low in the mix, i figured out one reason is the chord instruments are too sustained, just long notes where they should be more rhythmic, that would give it more of a driving 70s-80s schlager-rock feel like they were aiming for. Now it just sound oddly toned-down and unsatisfying.

The other songs....yeah, not as bad as the horrible previous heat, but still not much. Björn i expected nothing from and he delivered it. Dolly Style came across as a live action My Little Pony, and i don't get why their clothes are so cheap and generic, it's like they chose them at H&M just because they came in the right colors? If you're gonna be a visual concept band, put some effort into it!

Angelino really disappointed me, i thought he had one of the best songs in 2023 but this was a nothing burger. Also, what's with all the spiky jackets, some kinda weird trend this year? The staging is also oddly similar to Norway's and Armenia's entries this year...

I find it funny that Malou Prytz went from conjuring Britney Spears to Jessica Andersson. And then Annika... good performance, barely okay song but still better than the rest, and she comes across as oddly out of place on stage, like an old school teacher with forced and awkward facial expressions. Don't think she has any chance of winning either, i'm still betting on Scarlet for now.

 

[BorisBubbles]

Annika Wickihalder is SO talented and teeming with the potential to become a huge international star. They need to give her catchier songs and better styling.

Her voice on a big gospel-inspired track or an EDM pop hit would do numbers well beyond Eurovision.

Gods yes. Life again is very close to a nothing song but SHE is so charismatic and so pure and sings so well you wish nothing but happiness on her.

SVT really should invest in her. She has a lot of talent, and can definitely win Melodifestivalen the second they give her a strong ballad.

 

[Mrm]

Dolly Style were always amazing, but Yihaa is their best song to date. It's my favorite of all the Melfest songs so far

Hope you are finally sattisfied with my avatar and signature..

 

[EscGeek]

Hope you are finally sattisfied with my avatar and signature..

You thought i wouldn't notice huh?

 

[mercachita]

So far, Greczula has my favorite song of this year Mello. And I still don't love it that much, but it has the groove, and his raspy voice mixed with an instrumental that Elton John could make, and I am a little sucker for Elton John so it makes sense, I guess.

 

[cortinae]

mans ain't going to win mello
x.com/NotSteal2/status/1891609338155880532

 

[cortinae]

No way to delete a post on this forum?
It kept saying "server error, try again later" but it was actually posting them.

 

[Gwendal]

No way to delete a post on this forum?
It kept saying "server error, try again later" but it was actually posting them.

yep, that's a bug moderators try to solve for a moment - but without success till now. F5 is enough if this servor error message appears!

 

[Gwendal]

And btw, the song posted in your media seems AI-generated. I definitely believe more this kind of reviews... which sounds like good news, as "Revolution" doesn't seem THAT impactful. Scarlet for the win in this very weak Mello

>> https://x.com/vDanDesign/status/1891781452846526571

 

[b4ld3r]

Both Tobbe Ek and QX Magazine seem to leave very positive reviews of Måns. QX says his song is better than Heroes and unlike vDanDesign they think it sounds very 2025. The song is compared to John Newman's Love Me Again, the lyrics are supposedly repetitive and meaningless
His stage show will be the most expensive this year, largely self-funded with money from his wine business
Zain Odestål is responsible for his staging, having previously done the Swedish entries between 2017 to 2020. According to Mellopedia Sacha Jean Baptiste will also be involved somehow.

I've been aware of KAJ for years, will be fun to see how far they'll be able to go!

 

[cortinae]

DanDesign posted his view this morning. That clip was released last night. Logical that he's commenting on that clip and he doesn't think it's just AI.