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The general rehearsal of the 5th and last Heat of Melodifestivalen 2024 has just started. It is sad but true, this is the last heat of the year and takes place at Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad, Sweden. We will be covering this rehearsal from within the arena, describing in detail what is happening during the show, for you to follow the entire process.

This article is being updated in real-time, all you need to do is hit the refresh button on your browser and all the rest is on us!

We will keep you up to date with all the latest information and images off this semi-final rehearsal, allowing you to get a glimpse of what you will get to see tomorrow March 2nd, at 20:00 CET, when you watch the actual show of the heat, on SVT and SVT Play.

The experts

New in Melodifestivalen this year is the participation of a couple of really knowledgeable music and Mello-experts – radio and TV profile Tina Mehrafzoon and Mello-oracle Ronny Larsson. During both the races and the final, they analyze the evening’s line-up and give their opinion on how they are doing.

The show

• “Unforgettable” – Marcus & Martinus

Two side walls for the twins, giving me vibes of the Loreen Smörgåsgrillen (toaster) but in vertical mode. In the beginning it is narrow, then they are moved further apart. Our favourite twins, Marcus and Martinus, are always super professionals and great vocally, however they kept their voice for tomorrow evening and didn’t even sing the high note of the “so good it hurts” part. Does this give me winner vibes? Hell yeah!

• “Controlla” – Chelsea Muco

I am in the humid Karlstad at the moment, but this song gives me sunbed, cocktail, beach, swimming trunk vibes. I wanna dance to the beat. Palm trees and warm colours in the background, six completely new dancers one of which has a rather familiar surname (D’Mello). Chelsea is quite good for a debutant, good vocally, nice energy. However, I don’t this going anywhere. NQ for me, but let’s see what happens tomorrow.

• “Back To My Roots” – Jay Smith

Large prop with the title of the song twice, his band behind him faking playing on a live gig and then it’s Jay with his amazing voice. The song reminds me a bit of Nickelback, a bit of the 00s, but as people say here this is a very familiar sound to Swedish people and in combination with Jay‘s amazing voice, this might go somewhere. The crowd is clapping along. Maybe this one goes to the finalkvalet (final qualifier) round.

• “Banne maj” – Elecktra

She was at Drag Race Sverige and the people love her. She is fabulous, very much a Verka Serduchka style song, but not in the sense of giving me winning vibes. She just stands there, doing the bare minimum and then there are dancers that look how the best men on my wedding could look like. What I am seeing though, don’t understand, she is not a qualifier for me.

• “Light” – Annika Wickihalder

Her song and aura gives me Faith Kakembo vibes. She has an amazing voice but she seems like the stage swallows her. She has two big deformed mirror props that don’t seem to add up to the whole staging. Typical Melodifestivalen or Eurovision ballad.  FQ round most likely for Annika.

• “Que Sera” – Medina

Large speakers prop, bicycles, too many colours and too much going on, on stage, dancers are included. However they manage to make it somehow work. Their vocals are not the best in this run, but I am sure they will fix everything tomorrow. This is a football anthem, the crowd does move during their performance and they hum. Mission accomplished. Direct finalists for sure.

These were the six numbers of this week, a recap follows to show the voting numbers for the contestants of the heat.

The Intervals

When the fifth and final round of Melodifestivalen 2024 kicks off on Saturday, March 2, it will do so with a vengeance. It will be Värmland with an extra big V when Karlstad‘s son, actor and musician Johan Östling opens the broadcast with Sven-Ingvar‘s classic Torparrock. Carina is now at the arena and everything is ready to begin! It’s time to face the music!

Fredrik Kempe is also inducted into the Melodifestivalen Hall of Fame and since 2004 he has delivered 35 songs, including four winners: “Hero“, “La Voix“, “Popular” and “Undo“. The genre breadth of his song treasure is hard to beat.

From danceable pop via powerful ballads and rockabilly to opera, disco and dance bands. A song catalogue with Mello classics such as “Cara Mia“, “Manboy“, “Moving On” and “Bada Nakna” speaks for itself: Fredrik Kempe is one of Melodifestivalen‘s foremost hitmakers.

Actual Kristin Amparo performs “I See You” and Sanna Nielsen performs “Undo” and “Du och Jag mot Världen“, with Sanna Nielsen closing the interval.

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The final qualifiers

The entries that came 3rd and 4th in the five rounds compete in the final qualifiers. Two of the ten competing in the final qualifiers will advance to the final. All of the competing artists are on the show, but they will not be performing again. Instead, a quick replay of their previous performances is shown.

The viewing age groups that we recognise from the competitions are not included in the final qualifiers. It is therefore the count of the total number of votes that counts in the final qualifier. The contestants take with them the votes they received in their heats, and these are combined with the new number of votes they receive in the final qualifiers. The final qualifiers begin with the entries being awarded points that are calculated based on how many votes they received in their sub-competition, weighted according to how many actually voted in each sub-competition. In other words, the number of votes cast for the entries is divided by the total number of voters in the competition. This is to avoid that those who competed in competitions with more viewers are favored or that those who competed in competitions with superior winners will be disadvantaged.

Based on the calculations we go through above, the artists will receive points. A total of 1,000 points will be distributed among the entries and we will know the status before the new voting opens.  When the new voting in the final qualifier ends, 1000 new points will be distributed among the entries. Just like in the final, viewers will be told who got the lowest score first.

In the end, the two artists with the most points will clinch the last two final spots and each will perform their entry. The remaining eight artists are eliminated.

First Virtual Final Qualifier: “Supernatural” – Adam Woods

Second Virtual Final Qualifier: “Unga & Fria” – Fröken Snusk

 

First Final Qualifier: “Unga & Fria” – Fröken Snusk

Second Final Qualifier: “Back To My Roots” – Jay Smith

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The schedule for the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour

• Heat 1: Saturday 3 February 2024, Malmö Arena, Malmö
• Heat 2: Saturday 10 February 2024, Scandinavium, Göteborg
• Heat 3: Saturday 17 February 2024, Vida Arena, Växjö
• Heat 4: Saturday 24 February 2024, Stiga Sports Arena, Eskilstuna
• Heat 5: Saturday 2 March 2024, Löfbergs Arena, Karlstad
• Final: Saturday 9 March 2024, Friends Arena, Stockholm – Solna

Which two of today’s competing artists do you think will be the direct qualifiers to the finals, on the 9th of March?

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding Melodifestivalen 2024 and the Swedish entry for Eurovision 2024!

Source: SVT
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As usual, a couple of days before each Melodifestivalen heat, SVT publishes snippets of all six competing songs of the heat. A while ago, the song snippets of the fifth heat got released.

The competing songs of the fifth heat:

• “Unforgettable” – Marcus & Martinus CLICK TO LISTEN
• “Controlla” – Chelsea Muco CLICK TO LISTEN
• “Back To My Roots” – Jay Smith CLICK TO LISTEN
• “Banne maj” – Elecktra CLICK TO LISTEN
• “Light” – Annika Wickihalder CLICK TO LISTEN
• “Que Sera” – Medina CLICK TO LISTEN

In the meantime, you can read through the lyrics of all six competing songs of this heat in our previous article.

Carina Berg is the host of all the shows of the tour this year! With the next show of the contest on Saturday February the 3rd, Melodifestivalen will take place in Malmö, then Göteborg follows and finally the final show in Stockholm on the 9th of March.

The schedule for the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour

• Heat 1: Saturday 3 February 2024, Malmö Arena, Malmö
• Heat 2: Saturday 10 February 2024, Scandinavium, Göteborg
• Heat 3: Saturday 17 February 2024, Vida Arena, Växjö
• Heat 4: Saturday 24 February 2024, Stiga Sports Arena, Eskilstuna
• Heat 5: Saturday 2 March 2024, Löfbergs Arena, Karlstad
• Final: Saturday 9 March 2024, Friends Arena, Stockholm – Solna

Which two of the above artists do you think will be the direct qualifiers to the finals?

 

The upcoming heat of Melodifestivalen 2024 will take place next Saturday, March the 2nd and will take place at Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad.

A while ago, SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster released the lyrics of all six competing songs, of this upcoming heat.

You can read the lyrics of the competing songs down below:

• “Unforgettable” – Marcus & Martinus

She comes alive at night

When her prey’s asleep

Make your eyes go blind

And now you’re in too deep

She’s gonna chew you up

And leave you empty, hollow

Then she’ll spit you out

Anyway I follow

She’s gonna hurt you bad

But it feels so good

I don’t care

No I don’t care

You better know she’s dangerous

She is unforgettable

And it feels so good it hurts

She is unforgettable

Whoah

She’s unforgettable

She’s unforgettable

She’s unforgettable

Her love is venomous

It’s getting serious

She’s gonna chew you up

And leave you empty, hollow

Then she’ll spit you out

Anyway I follow

She’s gonna hurt you bad

But it feels so good

I don’t care

No I don’t care

You better know she’s dangerous

She is unforgettable (unforgettable)

And it feels so good it hurts

She is unforgettable

Whoah

She’s unforgettable

She’s unforgettable

She’s unforgettable

Her love

Is dangerous

And know it

It’s venomous

Cause I feel it

Inside of me

She’s unforgettable

Her love

Is dangerous

And know it

It’s venomous

Cause I feel it

Inside of me

She’s unforgettable

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• “Controlla” – Chelsea Muco

It’s a risky business

Tell me only you can fix this

Can we fall in love

Cause you got all I need and I want it

Oh

He got me like

Oh

Got my body like

Oh

Oh

Let me see your body rolla

Wanna feel that heat all over

Turn it up let me take controlla

Let me take controlla

Let me see your body rolla

I got all this waiting for ya

Turn it up let me take controlla

Controlla, controlla

Let me see your body

I wanna vibe like this forever

We can do, we can do whatever

We can do whatever

I know you want some more

You and me in slowmo

Don’t wanna let it go

Let’s keep it nice and slow

Energy steady grow

Don’t wanna let go

Let me see your body rolla

Wanna feel that heat all over

Turn it up let me take controlla

Let me take controlla

Let me see your body rolla

I got all this waiting for ya

Turn it up let me take controlla

Controlla, controlla

Let me see your body

Keep working it

Keep working it

Keep working it

Take controlla

Keep working it

Keep working it

Keep working it

Take controlla

Keep working it

Keep working it

Keep working it

Take controlla

Keep working it

Keep working it

Keep working it

It ain’t over till it’s

Done done

Done done

Done done

It ain’t over till it’s

Done done

Done done

Done done

It ain’t over till it’s (take controlla)

Done done

Done done

Done done

It ain’t over till it’s

Done done

Done done

Done done

Ohh yeah

Controlla

Let me see your body rolla

Wanna feel that heat all over

Turn it up let me take controlla

Let me take controlla

Let me see your body rolla

Wanna feel that heat all over

Turn it up let me take controlla

Let me take controlla

Let me see your body rolla

I got all this waiting for ya

Turn it up let me take controlla

Controlla, controlla

Let me see your body

Keep working it

Keep working it

Keep working it

Take controlla

Keep working it

Keep working it

Keep working it

It ain’t over till it’s

Done done

Done done

Done done

It ain’t over till it’s

Done done

Done done

Done done

It ain’t over till it’s

Done done

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• “Back To My Roots” – Jay Smith

Been hiding in blind sight

A ghost in the bar light

Heavy hearted with regret

This life, it taught me step by step

Been good with the bad lies

And bad with the goodbyes

Slowly waking from the dead

Now there’s a new road just ahead

And I’ve learnt ´bout luck

And a lot about love

And how to pick up the pieces

It’s been tough

But if I got us

I ain’t gonna break that easy

Oh, I’ve taken so many turns

Been lonely out in the dark

Now I’m heading back to the start

I’m back to my roots now baby

Oh, you think that I’ll crash and burn

But I’m lucky I fell apart

Got a fire and a country heart

I’m back to my roots now baby

A song for the broken

And forgotten

Here’s to all you walking dead

And I’m here to hold your heavy heads

And I’ve learnt ´bout luck

And a lot about love

And how to pick up the pieces

It’s been tough

But if I got us

I ain’t gonna break that easy

Oh, I’ve taken so many turns

Been lonely out in the dark

Now I’m heading back to the start

I’m back to my roots now baby

Oh, you think that I’ll crash and burn

But I’m lucky I fell apart

Got a fire and a country heart

I’m back to my roots now baby

I’m back playing with fire

Thanks for all that I’ve learnt

This time I´ll reach higher

Spite the bridges I’ve burnt

I’m back playing with fire

Ain’t afraid to get burnt

I ain’t gonna break that easy

Oh, I’ve taken so many turns

Been lonely out in the dark

Now I’m heading back to the start

I’m back to my roots now baby

Oh, you think that I’ll crash and burn

But I’m lucky I fell apart

Got a fire and a country heart

I’m back to my roots now baby

(I’m back to my roots now)

Back to my roots now baby

(I’m back to my roots now)

I’m back to my roots now baby

(I’m back to my roots now)

(I’m back to my roots now)

I’m back to my roots now baby

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• “Banne Maj” – Elecktra

Upp med ridån

Dansa i neon

Här är det fest

Låt oss glittra som mest

Så öppna dörren, åh äntligen

Här kan du va den du vill va igen

Oh la la

Comme ci comme ci comme ça

Inget lagom här

Nu är det premiär

Oh la la

Comme ci comme ci comme ça

Låt oss synas

Nu tar vi vår plats

Banne maj

Kom vi skapar historia

Banne maj

Som nästa drottning Victoria

Banne maj

Åh lev nu så märker du att nu finns inga tabun

Ja, banne maj

Vi har all rätt att finnas

Banne maj

Ja en kväll som ska minnas

Banne maj

Åh lev nu det ordnar sig

Okej

Jadå banne maj

Hehehehe

Nu tänder vi ljusen

För så många tusen

Vi glöder i natten

Och vrider upp ratten

Så lossa korsetten, gud så skönt

Herre min je, en primadonna är krönt

Oh la la

Comme ci comme ci comme ça

Inget lagom här

Nu är det premiär

Oh la la

Comme ci comme ci comme ça

Åh, detta glitter

Nu tar vi vår plats

Banne maj

Kom vi skapar historia

Banne maj

Som nästa drottning Victoria

Banne maj

Åh lev nu så märker du att nu finns inga tabun

Ja, banne maj

Vi har all rätt att finnas

Banne maj

Ja en kväll som ska minnas

Banne maj

Åh lev nu det ordnar sig

Okej

Jadå banne maj

Nu måste vi unna oss

Ställ er upp allihopa

Synd å sitta ju!

Banne maj

Kom vi skapar historia

Banne maj

Som nästa drottning Victoria

Banne maj

Åh lev nu så märker du att nu finns inga tabun

Ja, banne maj

Vi har all rätt att finnas

Banne maj

Ja en kväll som ska minnas

Banne maj

Åh, lev nu det ordnar sig

Okej

Jadå banne maj

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• “Light” – Annika Wickihalder

Light, light

Oh oooh

Always in between

Like a crossroads of how to be

It’s getting hard to breath

When you hold tight

Lost in emotions

There’s so many voices

Give me a moment

To find my own

I can’t give you all of me

Don’t you know

I’ve gotta keep

Something for myself

Before there’s nothing left

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

I’ll find the light, light

In the darkest night

Even if I will crash and burn

Even if I will end up hurt

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

The haze starts to clear out

While I start to heal now

All of my tears have dried

I can’t give you all of me

Don’t you know

I’ve gotta keep

Something for myself

Before there’s nothing left

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

I’ll find the light, light

In the darkest night

Even if I will crash and burn

Even if I will end up hurt

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

Oooooooh ooooooh

Oooooooh ooooh

Even if I will crash and burn

Even if I will end up hurt

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

Losing sight of what I need

Every time I try to please

Everybody else

Now it’s for myself

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

I’ll find the light, light

In the darkest night

Even if I will crash and burn

Even if I will end up hurt

I’ll find the light, light

Hidden deep inside

Light

Light

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• Que Sera” – Medina

Mamma frågar hur jag mår

Det är la vida, mi amor

Men allting kommer bli okej

Mamma, det kan jag lova dig

Vi tar kommando

Vi går loco loco

Är ni med

Bailando

Vi går prrropopop

Vårt nya motto är

Danse danse

Allé allé allé

Det går upp och det går ner

Que sera sera

Danse

La viva la vida

Oooh

Que sera sera

Chante

La viva la vida

Vi tänker leva la vida

Sen får det bli va det blir va

Oh oh oh

Que sera sera

Jag ser mitt liv i panorama

Vi är inte lovade mañana

Det gamla, vill inte va kvar i det

Skiner som hundra solarier

Låt oss få leva som barn igen

Vi tar kommando

Vi går loco loco

Är ni med

Bailando

Vi går prrropopop

Vårt nya motto är

Danse danse

Allé allé allé

Det går upp och det går ner

Que sera sera

Danse

La viva la vida

Oooh

Que sera sera

Chante

La viva la vida

Vi tänker leva la vida

Sen får det bli va det blir va

Oh oh oh

Que sera sera

Que sera sera

Danse

La viva la vida

Vi kommer leva la vida

Que sera sera

Chante

La viva la vida

Vi tänker leva la vida

Sen får det bli va det blir va

Oh oh oh

Que sera sera

Vi tänker leva la vida

Sen får det bli va det blir va

Oh oh oh

Que sera sera

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Carina Berg is the host of all the shows of the tour this year! With the final heat of the contest on Saturday March the 2nd, Melodifestivalen will take place in Karlstad and then finally the final show will take place in Stockholm on the 9th of March.

The schedule for the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour

• Heat 1: Saturday 3 February 2024, Malmö Arena, Malmö
• Heat 2: Saturday 10 February 2024, Scandinavium, Göteborg
• Heat 3: Saturday 17 February 2024, Vida Arena, Växjö
• Heat 4: Saturday 24 February 2024, Stiga Sports Arena, Eskilstuna
• Heat 5: Saturday 2 March 2024, Löfbergs Arena, Karlstad
• Final: Saturday 9 March 2024, Friends Arena, Stockholm – Solna

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding Sweden’s entry for Eurovision 2024!

Source: SVT