SWEDEN has won the 2023 Eurovision song contest and will host in 2024. That co-inside with the 50th anniversary of them winning in 1974 with ABBA.

For the next 50 days ESC Covers will post one song a day which is a Swedish song, either an actual entry, a selection song, or a song by a Eurovision artist covered in South Arica, either in Afrikaans or English.

Song 16 is IT HURTS. It is sung by LENA PHILIPSSON and was the 2004 Eurovision entry for Sweden.

South African boy band HI 5 covered it in Afrikaans as WEER, SE DIT WEER.