Since there is so much happening in the ESC world at the same time, I choose to give my opinion on this year’s Swedish songs when I feel like it, but no later than the week after they have been sent, you have to have some progression in this.

Melody 1 – Tone Sekelius 

An artist we got to know last year and the lady has jumped from the hit train to the Latino train and I’m not sure if it was a good idea. Yes, it swings and it’s sung just fine without me being impressed, it seems to lack the swing I think a song like this should have. It will be too pretty and decorative and thus not quite truly Latino if you ask me

 

Melody 2 – Loulou Lamotte 

I would perhaps call this a slightly emotional slow-tempo song. Maybe she’ll fight, I’m fighting the fact that I don’t think the singing is particularly good here. A little surprising since I thought that case should be boxed for this artist. The song grows a little, but too little happens for the song to struggle to too many rolls of the dice.

 

Melody 3 – Rejhan 

I know too little about the Swedish music industry to know how famous artists who are unknown to me are in Sweden. Naturally, I can like a toned-down song that this guy sings, but when it stumbles dangerously close to boring, you’ve probably exaggerated the toning down a bit, I’d say. Vocally, it can sound shaky, but it suits the intensity of the song a bit, so it doesn’t detract too much.

 

Melody 4 – Elov & Beny 

Party music is obviously a thing in Sweden too and these guys are probably big over there on the other side of the border. For my part, they just have to stay on their side of the border, this is something I feel I’ve done before and the party they have on stage just looks so funny. Decent vocals, I can stretch them out a bit, but all in all, tame stuff.

 

Melody 5 – Victor Crone 

This guy probably wants to represent his own home country once in the ESC and this song is his attempt to do so this year. He then does that with the type of song I like least of all, a little bit intense, but still basically quite a boring song. It seems to go nowhere and there is nothing in the song that manages to get me on board with it. Decent and good vocals pull you up and the light show was a bit nice then.

 

Melody 6 – Rydberg & Roos 

Weed does not disappear easily, it is said, and these two well-grown ladies sail quite easily into this category. Weed can actually be great and in this variant I actually get in a good mood. These are artists to the tips of their fingers and the quality of the vocal work is impeccable. Songs like this are a mood pill in all modern pop, with no chance of winning of course, but it’s a victory that songs like this are still included.

 

Melody 7 – Jon Henrik Fjällgren & Arc North 

Here came a ton of KEiiNO vibes sailing across the musical expanse. Yes, this turns out quite well, but for me this is very soulless. Can’t quite figure out what they really want with this song, they just mixed Sami joik with some modern rhythms and hoped for the best. Vocally it is quite unstable at times, here is where there is potential for improvement if you ask me.

 

As you can see, this dolphin final didn’t exactly knock my feet out from under me and I’ll be quite surprised if this year’s Swedish contribution comes from this dolphin final.

Last song out, the first song was announced for the final, then it was Tone Sekelius who got a ticket to the final.

Elov & Benny and Victor Crone still have one hope of the final and that’s nice for them.

All in all, we are betting that the potential for improvement will come to an end in the next few weeks, because I have no doubt that Sweden will send a great song when they finally make up their minds.