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Sweden: Danny Saucedo was forced to scale-down planned Melodifestivalen stage show?

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On a previous article earlier today, you read my comments about this week’s songs, including Danny Saucedo‘s song, “Happy That You Found Me“.

Danny Saucedo should be alone on stage, singing on his own. According to SVT‘s excellent encyclopedia, carefully put-together facts by Mello-expert Gustav Dahlander, Mellopedia, his stage show will consist of an archway and a staircase, a projector and on the LED screens another staircase and two arches. Sun and cosmic patterns.

According to journalist and Mello-expert Tobbe Ek and Aftonbladet, there have been rumours that the original plans for Danny‘s staging were somewhat different. They were said to have been something out of the ordinary in terms of magnificence.

But apparently the cost was far too expensive. Gradually, it has been scaled down, got simplified. landed in a more reasonable budget in times of inflation and savings. But would this cost him less in terms of budget, but at the same time pose a risk to him winning this year’s Melodifestivalen? Could my comment that he could potentially place second again be true?

Someone with a good insight behind the scenes commented:

“If you know what he would have done if he could, it doesn’t feel so impressive anymore.”

Having those rumours in mind, there’s a risk that Danny will once again be a runner-up. There are acts that are strong contenders for the win, like Marcus & Martinus, Medina, Smash Into Pieces, Liamoo and Jacqline.

Maybe it is good that we don’t know what was initially planned. In case we did, it would feel like last year when we got to see Loreen‘s staging in Liverpool, which, due to technical constraints, was very underwhelming. This, however, didn’t cost Loreen her victory.

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

Source: Tobbe Ek/Schlagerbloggen/Aftonbladet

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Sweden: Melodifestivalen Heat 3 peaked on TV lower than last week!

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The third round of Melodifestivalen lost 100.000 viewers compared to the previous two, clocking in at 2.6 million. The second round grossed a bit more than 2.7 million viewers which was almost the same as the premiere of the Swedish national selection process, which was aired beginning of February from Malmö, Sweden. The show was still on top of the TV ratings in all three weeks, as measured by MMS, and it is expected to remain on top for the rest of the remaining three weeks.

The viewing figures for Melodifestivalen heats this year

  • Heat 1 – 2.771.000 viewers
  • Heat 2 – 2.754.000 viewers
  • Heat 3 – 2.638.000 viewers

Melodifestivalen finalists

  • “Heroes Are Calling“ – Smash Into Pieces
  • “Awful Liar“ – Lisa Ajax
  • “Dragon“ – Liamoo
  • “When I’m Gone“ – Maria Sur
  • “Effortless“ – Jacqline
  • “Give My Heart A Break” – Cazzi Opeia

Acts that remain in the competition

  • “Forever Yours“ – Elisa Lindström 
  • “Supernatural“ – Adam Woods 
  • “The Silence After You“ – Dear Sara
  • “Unga & fria“ – Fröken Snusk
  • “I Won’t Shake (La La Gunilla)” – Gunilla Persson
  • “För dig” – Klaudy

The show

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 24th, Melodifestivalen will take place in Eskilstuna, then Karlstad follows and finally the final show in Stockholm on the 9th of March.

The dates of Melodifestivalen 2024

  • 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

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Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/SVT
Source: MMS, TT Nyhetsbyrån

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Sweden: Heat 3 of Melodifestivalen 2024 tonight!

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Tonight marks the continuation of what may be the most anticipated national final of the year, Melodifestivalen 2024. The host of Eurovision 2024 aims for Sweden’s historic eighth victory on home soil in Malmo, and for this reason, SVT’s executives promise one of the strongest Melodifestivalen editions of all time, ensuring that the successor to Loreen achieves the best possible result for the Scandinavian country.

Format

This year’s Melodifestivalen introduces a new format, featuring five heats, each hosting six artists. From each heat, the top two contenders will directly advance to the grand final on March 9th.

However, artists ranking third and fourth in their respective semi-finals will participate in a voting after the fifth semi-final. This voting will determine the two remaining finalists who will “complete the puzzle” of the twelve artists competing in the grand final of Sweden’s national selection.

During the five semi-final rounds, the final results will be determined solely by the votes of Swedish viewers. This, of course, will change in the grand final on March 9th, where Sweden’s representative will be decided by a 50% vote from Swedish viewers and a 50% vote from an international jury, following the Eurovision Song Contest standards.

The dates of Melodifestivalen 2024

  • 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

Finalists

Four artists have secured their spots in the grand final of Melodifestivalen 2024 following the first two heats. These artists are:

Four artists will have another chance to qualify for the grand final of Sweden’s national selection. These artists are:

Third Heat

Six artists will compete in tonight’s third heat of Melodifestivalen 2024, appearing in the following order:

  1. Jacqline – “Effortless“
  2. Clara Klingenström – “Aldrig mer“
  3. Kim Cesarion – “Take My Breath Away“
  4. Klaudy – “För dig“
  5. Gunilla Persson – “I Won’t Shake (La La Gunilla)“
  6. Cazzi Opeia – “Give My Heart A Break“

The host of all six shows of this year’s Melodifestivalen will be Carina Berg.

The third heat of Melodifestivalen 2024 will start at 20:00 CET and will last one and a half hour. You can watch it through the SVT website by clicking HERE.

Τhe winner of Melodifestivalen 2023 and hence the Swedish representative at Eurovision 2023 was Loreen with her song “Tattoo“. Loreen went to become the first female artist in history to win the Eurovision Song Contest twice.

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Sweden: Over 2,7 Million Viewers for Melodifestivalen 2024 Heat Two!

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On Saturday, the second qualifying round of this year’s Melodifestivalen took place, with two artists taking the ticket to the final and two remaining in the competition for a second chance.

Sweden: LIAMOO and Maria Sur are the two direct finalists of the Second Heat of Melodifestivalen 2024!

For Sweden’s major music festival, a total of 2,754,000 viewers (76.71%) tuned in to watch the second heat of the country’s national final.

The second qualifier of the Swedish selection increased by 23,000 viewers compared to the corresponding semi-final in 2023 and marks the fourth worst ever night for a second semi-final after last year’s semi-final, 2006 and 2002!

The two entries that made it to the grand final are Maria Sur and LIAMOO, with Dear Sara and Fröken Snusk advancing to the second chance round of the 5th heat.

Melodifestivalen 2024 continues next Saturday with the Third Heat and six more contestants!

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Maria Sur: “I’m an uptempo girl and we needed to do something like this.” | Exclusive Interview

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Andreas Papayiannakis and EurovisionFun is accredited by SVT to follow the Melodifestivalen tour for a third year in-a-row. In Göteborg we got the chance to meet a few people involved in this year’s Melodifestivalen. Among those was Maria Sur who had us over at Clarion Hotel Post, the appointed artist hotel in Göteborg on an extensive interview, during the Thursday welcome party.

Maria Sur is not somebody you don’t already know. She took part in last year’s Melodifestivalen with the song “Never Give Up“. This year she does a back-t0-back comeback with the song “When I’m Gone“. She feels good to be back. Her rehearsals on Thursday and Friday went quite well and even though she felt a bit overwhelmed, she though that it will be cool and things will be fine-tuned.

“There are some moments to improve, but we will fix it.”

Last year, the song she participated with was not totally her style of music. She was more trying to pass on a message to the audience, given the circumstances with her moving from Ukraine to Sweden, seeking for a better life after the – still ongoing – clash between Ukraine and Russia. She comments on her song this year:

“I definitely feel like in the right place, I think. I was saying to everyone that I’m an uptempo girl, everyone knew, and that we need to do something like this. And I think when we were writing this song, I knew more exactly what I want to do and the songwriters got to know me better. They felt me and they felt what kind of style I want. The whole team and me we just got to know each other better. And we found, my style that I really like and that I think like it’s my natural environment.”

Julie “Kill J” Aagaard, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Anderz Wrethov and the artist herself wrote the song. Maria is the first that she is involved in the song writing process and she is collaborating with Anderz Wrethov for a second time after last year. When and how was the song written?

“It’s actually my first song where I’m also involved in the process and where I’m also a songwriter to. So this feels also like a level up and feels like more my thing, you know. We were in a songwriting camp and it was in August, we wrote the song very fast but again it was because we knew kind of what we want, we had a vision, I had the references and the great songwriters of course helped.”

Last summer she took part in the Digiloo tour with other artists, among which LIAMOO, who is a really really close friend of hers. What are her plans for this year after Melodifestivalen?

“I’m gonna do have gigs 100 percent. And of course, we’re gonna write more music. So I hope we’re gonna work more on my own material and write in this kind of style. Because for my own tour, I have to have a lot of songs to perform with. For now we are focusing on Mello and I’ve also recently signed with Livenation. So I’m gonna have my booking agency for the gigs.”

Her song reminds me a bit of the style of Becky Hill, but her actual icon and inspiration is someone else. She tells us more about that:

“My inspiration was Rihanna, I just I feel I like her vibe and her kind of songs and they can give a lot of self-confidence. Which is which is I think great. I really wanted to have this kind of song this year to just represent myself more on stage as an artist because last year it was like more storytelling about me and presentation of me as an artist for the audience and this year I want people to see myself on stage and I think this song can really show what I can do.”

She is really good friends with LIAMOO and she tells what she thinks about his song too:

“I like LIAMOO’s song as well and we have the same songwriters and it was the same songwriting camp when his song was written. We’re really good friends with Liam and he’s such a nice guy and I really like him and his song this year. We are really supportive for each other and I hope it will go well for us.”

Lastly, she gives a heartwarming message to all her fans in Sweden and Internationally:

“I hope you like my song this year and it’s message about self-respect. Hope it can give you a boost of confidence as I was struggling this year with some insecurities and I felt like I really needed this song to boost my confidence and energy. And I hope people when they’re gonna listen to this they can also  feel this kind of powerful attitude they can feel their power they can they can be boosted by confidence. This is very important. And to stay humble.”

You can watch our exclusive interview with Maria Sur at the video down below:

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Sweden: Heat 2 of Melodifestivalen 2024 tonight!

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Tonight marks the continuation of what may be the most anticipated national final of the year, Melodifestivalen 2024. The host of Eurovision 2024 aims for Sweden’s historic eighth victory on home soil in Malmo, and for this reason, SVT’s executives promise one of the strongest Melodifestivalen editions of all time, ensuring that the successor to Loreen achieves the best possible result for the Scandinavian country.

Format

This year’s Melodifestivalen introduces a new format, featuring five heats, each hosting six artists. From each heat, the top two contenders will directly advance to the grand final on March 9th.

However, artists ranking third and fourth in their respective semi-finals will participate in a voting after the fifth semi-final. This voting will determine the two remaining finalists who will “complete the puzzle” of the twelve artists competing in the grand final of Sweden’s national selection.

During the five semi-final rounds, the final results will be determined solely by the votes of Swedish viewers. This, of course, will change in the grand final on March 9th, where Sweden’s representative will be decided by a 50% vote from Swedish viewers and a 50% vote from an international jury, following the Eurovision Song Contest standards.

The dates of Melodifestivalen 2024

  • 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

Finalists

Two artists have secured their spots in the grand final of Melodifestivalen 2024 following the first semi-final. These artists are:

Two artists will have another chance to qualify for the grand final of Sweden’s national selection. These artists are:

Second Heat

Six artists will compete in tonight’s second heat of Melodifestivalen 2024, appearing in the following order:

  1. Maria Sur – “When I’m Gone“
  2. Engmans Kapell – “Norrland“
  3. Dear Sara – “The Silence After You“
  4. C-Joe – “Ahumma“
  5. Liamoo – “Dragon“
  6. Fröken Snusk – “Unga & fria“

The host of all six shows of this year’s Melodifestivalen will be Carina Berg.

The second heat of Melodifestivalen 2024 will start at 20:00 CET and will last one and a half hour. You can watch it through the SVT website by clicking HERE.

Τhe winner of Melodifestivalen 2023 and hence the Swedish representative at Eurovision 2023 was Loreen with her song “Tattoo“. Loreen went to become the first female artist in history to win the Eurovision Song Contest twice.

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

LIAMOO: “I am my strongest version of myself. I’m going to try to challenge the top.” | Exclusive Interview

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Andreas Papayiannakis and EurovisionFun is accredited by SVT to follow the Melodifestivalen tour for a third year in-a-row. In Göteborg we got the chance to meet a few people involved in this year’s Melodifestivalen. Among those was LIAMOO who had us over at Clarion Hotel Post, the appointed artist hotel in Göteborg on an extensive interview.

Liam or also known by his stage-name, LIAMOO, is one of the favourites of this heat but also of the entire Melfest tour this year. He had his first rehearsal yesterday at noon and he said it felt really good.

“It’s a lot of work to do, but it’s not big stuff to do. It’s more of the bits and pieces, the details that we got to work on. You know, this camera here and there and put this light on me on that part. And maybe I have some stuff and some personal stuff to work with, like the pitch and blah, blah, blah. But yeah, it feels nice. It’s really like explosive, the feeling. It’s really hot on stage.”

The arena indeed gets extremely hot, as LIAMOO’s performance is full of pyro! If I could describe it with a phrase, that would be “Yeah, yeah, fire!”. LIAMOO as an artist uses dragon a lot in his performances, two years ago on the backdrop LED screen he had a dragon, this year his song is called “Dragon“. But what does the dragon mean for him?

“The Dragon is inner strength. And I have Asian blood and the Dragon is Asian. So it started with me being very nervous during my previous performances. “Last Breath”, “Hold You”, “Bluffin”. Not so much “Bluffin”. I was pretty much secure on that. But I was very nervous. I started to cough all the time just to clear my throat. She’s one of the jury members in Idol, also a song coach, very spiritual. She said to me, you know what? It reminds me of a baby dragon who just like starts to get their fire going. And I was like, hey, I like that. I like that very much because the dragon is cool.”

LIAMOO has been to Melodifestivalen five times. Four as an artist and five in total. Now this is the time he feels he is more himself.

“For the first songs, someone else thought that I would do them good in Mello.Dragon, though, it didn’t happen on purpose. It just happened. The song just happened. But I knew that I wanted to write about the dragon because it has been with me since Bluffin. As soon as I finished the song, I was like, this needs to be in Mello. It feels so true and honest to myself. There’s not a song out that’s more LIAMOO to me than Dragon because it got the mysterious darkness and then the power.”

What is his expectation of this year’s participation though? He feels like he is the strongest version of himself this year. Not only on stage, but as a person. He feels very secure with himself. He adds:

“I feel like I found myself and I feel like before 2018 and 2019 and 2022, I was in the middle of my journey finding myself. Now I feel like I know who I am and I know what I want to do now. So I feel like I’m my strongest. I am my strongest version of myself and I feel like I’m going to try to challenge the top.”

He doesn’t have a clear favourite this year though. He explains a bit:

“Last year, I really loved air. And that was to me, that was a clear favorite. I love Tattoo also. Two hit songs. Very good songs. But now I don’t know. I haven’t heard all of them, so I don’t know yet. But and I try to not focus on everybody else. I’m just trying to focus on my number, my pitch, my clothes.”

Finally, a message to all LIAMOO’s fans in Sweden but internationally as well from the artist himself:

“What’s really important to me is that the dragon is not only for me but it’s also for you. It’s a message from me to you that you need to find your inner strength. You need to. See who you really are. Don’t be too hard on yourself. I am a professional on being too hard on myself. You just got to enjoy the moment and appreciate yourself a lot more. Appreciate the moment. Enjoy the moment.”

You can watch our exclusive interview with LIAMOO at the video down below:

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C-Joe: “What I like about Melodifestivalen is that we are together, united by music, and it’s amazing!” | Exclusive Interview

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Andreas Papayiannakis and EurovisionFun is accredited by SVT to follow the Melodifestivalen tour for a third year in-a-row. In Göteborg we got the chance to meet a few people involved in this year’s Melodifestivalen. Among those was C-Joe who had us over at Clarion Hotel Post, the appointed artist hotel in Göteborg on an extensive interview.

C-Joe is another debutant at Melodifestivalen 2024, an afrobeat/afropop artist with the song “Ahumma” that is definitely gonna keep the audience up and dancing. His rehearsals yesterday went well and he felt good, he thinks that it will look good on screen and live at the venue. He described his song for those that haven’t listened to the snippet yet:

“My song is a very, very feel-good song. And it’s about actually working on your inner peace, you know. And “Ahumma” itself, it’s inspired from the word Ahum. When you do yoga or meditation, a lot of people sit there and go -Ahum- you know. So that’s where it gets the inspiration from.”

As I previously mentioned, C-Joe is expected to be engaging the crowd in the arena. He comments on this:

“Yeah, I think my presence and the song itself and also the whole setting is going to engage the crowd, you know. And also from my previous tours and performances, for me it’s important to engage the crowd.”

As a debutant, many people in other countries will see C-Joe for the first time, from the platform of Melodifestivalen, not only Sweden but also internationally. What does he think about this?

“I want my music, my sound to make people happy and just getting a good vibe you know whether you want to relax you can play my song because I have those type of vibes as well you know. Whether you want to dance, you want to move I have those type of songs as well. And also for me I can I’m actually like versatile meaning I can do different styles and I like to fuse music. So my background it is Afrobeat, Afropop but from my previous work and my upcoming work I will definitely be doing like fusions.”

He has been around, experimenting with music, for a long time since around 2005.

“I started experimenting with music like around 2005-2006. At that time I was just doing hip-hop, just experimenting but then around 2007-2008 that’s when it got serious because that’s when I started to perform at schools and leisure centers and then at bigger stages. Melodifestivalen and Eurovision is the biggest thing I’ve done in music.”

How has he developed as an artist throughout the years, since he first started doing music a bit less than 20 years ago?

“I think every step that I’ve been taking has just prepared me for moments like this and I feel like I’ve evolved and I feel like I’m developing every day musically. It’s a constant evolvement, I never stop developing and I never feel like I’m well developed.”

But how did he decide to take part in Melodifestivalen? He explains how the process was:

“When I did the song, this is crazy, when I did the song “Ahumma”, I had the base of it already. When I was doing the song, something just told me, my intuitions were just telling me this is a song for Melodifestivalen. It sounds crazy, but it’s like I had a vision. And then just getting contact with my team and then we worked it out.”

Is there any of his songs that he has released up to now that is close to what his participating song sounds like?

“I think the closest to this sound that I have, is my song Friendzone. I think that is very close to the sound of “Ahumma”, so check it out. “

Finally C-Joe gave a message to all those that will get the chance to see him perform for the first time this Saturday:

“I just want to say shout out to you guys all for watching and traveling all over the world to come and be with us on this special day. We are together, united by music, and it’s amazing. So, shout out to you guys for doing what you do and listening and participating to create this special moment for us, the artists, and go check my stuff out.”

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Dear Sara: “I hope that people will find some comfort in my song!” | Exclusive Interview

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Andreas Papayiannakis and EurovisionFun is accredited by SVT to follow the Melodifestivalen tour for a third year in-a-row. In Göteborg we got the chance to meet a few people involved in this year’s Melodifestivalen. Among those was Dear Sara who had us over at Clarion Hotel Post, the appointed artist hotel in Göteborg on an extensive interview.

Sara Nutti or as she is known by her stage name Dear Sara, is a Sámi artist that made her breakthrough back in 2012 when she took part in the Swedish version of XFactor. She is debuting this year at Melodifestivalen with her song “The Silence After You“. She sometimes includes Sámi elements in her music, but what about this time?

“Sometimes, but not this time. This time it’s more of a pop song with a lot of power. It has some soft parts, but also a lot of power, it’s like a pop ballad”

Regarding her staging she confessed that she will be standing alone on stage and there aren’t any props or other dancers around her:

“I’m going to stand there alone on the stage. And that’s a little bit scary to be depending on myself but also I think that it suits the song, that it’s just me there trying to like tell you guys a story.”

Compared to herself back in 2012 when she got known by participating in X-Factor, she now thinks she is more mature, she knows what she wants.

“I think it’s good that I got the chance to grow up before I came to this Melodifestivalen world. So I think that I’m more confident now, maybe, and that I have more to tell.”

She doesn’t think too much about the outcome, she tries to live in the moment:

“Right now I’m just trying to be in the moment, just be like happy that I’m here and be, I’m very thankful about that. And yeah, but I hope that the people will find some, you know, comfort in my song, that they will feel like it can maybe, you know, give them something.”

As for her expectations about her participation in Melodifestivalen, she expects that people will get to know her and her music better and that it would be a boost to her career.

“I hope I can reach out to more people and to do this thing that I love. To Stand on stage, to write songs. So that’s what I’m hoping for right now, that more people find me and more people will want to listen to me”

A song that her new fans should listen to, in order to get to know Dear Sara better as an artist, is “Something You Should Know“.

“I think that song it really Describes me somehow and it’s also about my home village. So It means a lot to me. And there’s also a music video to that that I recorded at my hometown. My dad is a very good joiker and he recorded a joik and sent it to me. So you can actually hear him joik at the beginning and the end of the song.”

Finally she gave a heartwarming message to all her fans in Sweden and her future fans internationally:

“I hope they like the song that I’m going to perform with and by listening to it feel that even if something can be hard right now that, you can rise up and believe in yourself.”

You can watch our exclusive interview with Dear Sara at the video down below:

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Sweden: 2.7 million viewers for Melodifestivalen 2024!

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The first Heat of Melodifestivalen, took place last Saturday in Malmö, the host city of Eurovision 2024, with two artists getting the ticket for the Grand Final, and two more advancing to a qualifying round for a second chance.

The great Swedish music festival, was watched once again, by a great number of viewers, being the most watched TV show in Sweden in the last week. In detail, 2.7 million viewers tuned, in order to watch the beginning of the country’s national final.

Sweden: Smash Into Pieces and Lisa Ajax are the two direct finalists of the First Heat of Melodifestivalen 2024!

The two artists that the public voted to advance directly to the final are Smash Into Pieces and Lisa Ajax, while on the same time Elisa Lindström and Adam Woods, will take part in the second chance round, in order to qualify to the final.

Melodifestivalen, continues next Saturday, with the Second Heat and six more artists!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Swedish participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in Malmö!

Source: aftonbladet.se