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Eurovision 2023: Second Rehearsal of Sweden!

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Today is the fourth day of rehearsals, the day when the countries participating in the First Semi Final will take over the stage for their second rehearsal at M&S Bank Arena, in Liverpool!

Next up on stage for their second rehearsal is Sweden and Loreen with the song “Tattoo“.

Who is Loreen?

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known as Loreen, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and this year’s winner of Melodifestivalen. Interested in becoming a musician, Loreen took part in the Idol 2004 television competition, finishing fourth. The following year she released her first single, “The Snake“, with the band Rob’n’Raz and became a television presenter on TV400. While working as a segment producer and director for several Swedish reality TV shows, she entered Melodifestivalen 2011 with the song “My Heart Is Refusing Me“, which became a top 10 hit in Sweden. She also had top 20 hits in Sweden with the singles “Crying Out Your Name” (2012) and her Melodifestivalen 2017 entry “Statements“.

Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with her entry “Euphoria“, which topped the charts in numerous European countries. She will represent Sweden in Eurovision for a second time in 2023 with “Tattoo“ which broke into the charts globally in many countries.

The Rehearsal

Loreen and her light box are back on stage – we were really interested to see the big screen version of this, as so much of it is filmed in close-up.

Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

The stage and the LED screen is a sea of swirling smoke, and the whole effect is incredibly intense. It’s WAY more intense and dramatic than it looks in the arena – Loreen is NOT here to play.

Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

It’s Loreen, so obviously this performance is tighter than that catsuit and more polished than those terrifyingly long nails. Sounds incredible, looks incredible – the perfect finish to a brilliant first day of rehearsals.

Source: eurovision.tv
Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU, Corinne Cumming / EBU

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Sweden: Loreen filmed her postcard for Eurovision 2023!

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Loreen, the representative of Sweden, finished filming her postcard for Eurovision 2023 that will be displayed before her performance in the 1st Semifinal on May 9.

https://twitter.com/bbceurovision/status/1653347378345259008

Filming took place in the small island of Enholmen near Gotland in the middle of Baltic sea, Loreen’s favorite place to be as she stated. From what we see in the video, the postcard will have a spiritual character.

The following acts have confirmed the filming of their postcards:

  • Albania – Albina & Familija Kelmendi
  • Austria – Teya & Salena
  • Croatia – Let 3
  • Cyprus – Andrew Lambrou
  • France – La Zarra
  • Germany – Lord of the Lost
  • Ireland – Wild Youth
  • Latvia – Sudden Lights
  • Lithuania – Monika Linkytė
  • Malta – The Busker
  • Moldova – Pasha Parfeni
  • The Netherlands – Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper
  • Poland – Blanka
  • Slovenia – Joker Out
  • Romania – Theodor Andrei
  • Belgium – Gustaph
  • Estonia – Alika
  • Greece – Victor Vernicos
  • Azerbaijan  – TuralTuranx
  • Switzerland – Remo Forre
  • San Marino – Piqued Jacks
  • Israel – Noa Kirel
  • Armenia – Brunette
  • Georgia – Iru
  • Finland – Käärijä
  • Sweden – Loreen

Loreen with her song Tattoo is participating in the 1st Semifinal on May 9, performing 11th.

You can also watch the reaction video of EurovisionFun on Tattoo below:

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Eurovision 2023: First Rehearsal of Sweden!

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Today is the first day of rehearsals, the day when the countries participating in the First Semi Final will take over the stage for their first rehearsal at M&S Bank Arena, in Liverpool!

Next up on stage for their first rehearsal is Sweden and Loreen with the song “Tattoo“.

Who is Loreen?

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known as Loreen, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and this year’s winner of Melodifestivalen. Interested in becoming a musician, Loreen took part in the Idol 2004 television competition, finishing fourth. The following year she released her first single, “The Snake“, with the band Rob’n’Raz and became a television presenter on TV400. While working as a segment producer and director for several Swedish reality TV shows, she entered Melodifestivalen 2011 with the song “My Heart Is Refusing Me“, which became a top 10 hit in Sweden. She also had top 20 hits in Sweden with the singles “Crying Out Your Name” (2012) and her Melodifestivalen 2017 entry “Statements“.

Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with her entry “Euphoria“, which topped the charts in numerous European countries. She will represent Sweden in Eurovision for a second time in 2023 with “Tattoo“ which broke into the charts globally in many countries.

The Rehearsal

So the light box is back, but it’s a smaller version than the one we saw at Melodifestivalen. It’s also raised off the ground, so the bottom section can be wheeled onto the stage. The stage and the LED screen is a sea of swirling smoke, and the whole effect is incredibly intense.

Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU

It’s Loreen, so obviously this performance is tighter than that catsuit and more polished than those terrifyingly long nails. Sounds incredible, looks incredible – the perfect finish to a brilliant first day of rehearsals.

Corinne Cumming / EBU

Below you can watch a small clip from the Swedish first rehearsal, once it’s published on TikTok:

@eurovision Loreen ✅ Lightbox ✅ Liverpool ✅ #Eurovision2023 #Eurovision @Loreen ♬ original sound – Eurovision

Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU

The second Swedish rehearsal will be held on the 3rd of May, when we will know how the performance will look on screen for the Swedish entry.

Source: eurovision.tv
Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU, Corinne Cumming / EBU

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Euro Jury 2023: Sweden is the big winner!

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For the 10th consecutive year, Euro Jury voting is here and includes former Eurostars ranking Eurovision 2023 entries.

The juries’ voting constitutes only the 50% of the final results, with the rest determined from an online vote.

After the jury votes from 43 countries, the results were the following:

Jury’s Top 5:

  1. Sweden – 354 points
  2. France – 237 points
  3. Italy – 186 points
  4. United Kingdom – 124 points
  5. Norway – 117 points

The results of the online vote were the following:

Online voting Top 5:

  1. Finland – 214 points
  2. Austria – 206 points
  3. Sweden – 205 points
  4. France – 165 points
  5. Spain – 145 points

Here are the final results after combining the jury and online vote:

Loreen with Tattoo representing Sweden is crowned as the winner, after topping with a great landslide the Jury vote and being 3rd on the online vote, only 9 points behind Käärijä.

This is the rest of the Top 5:

  • France with La Zarra and Evidemment(402 points)
  • Finland with Käärijä and Cha Cha Cha(307 points)
  • Austria with Teya & Salena and Who The Hell is Edgar(288 βαθμοί)
  • and Italy with Marco Mengoni and Due Vite(270 βαθμοί)

Except Euro Jury, Loreen has also won OGAE Poll 2023 for the 2nd time after being crowned as a winner back in 2012. In fact, Sweden has been topping OGAE Poll and Euro Jury for 2 consecutive years, having won both polls last year with Cornelia Jakobs and Hold Me Closer.

https://youtu.be/b3vJfR81xO0

Will Loreen manage to repeat her success in Liverpool and win Eurovision for the 2nd time? We will soon find out!

Source: Eurovoix.com

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OGAE Poll 2023: The results from Azerbaijan, Finland, Czechia and Latvia | Sweden is the big winner!

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For every year since 2007, OGAE International conducts the OGAE Poll, which includes the votes of its members from 42 different countries. After 38 countries having already submitted their votes, the final four countries giving us their results are Azerbaijan, Finland, Czechia and Latvia.

In detail, the 14 members of OGAE Azerbaijan voted as following:

  • 12 points to Sweden
  • 10 points to Norway
  • 8 points to Austria
  • 7 points to Spain
  • 6 points to the United Kingdom
  • 5 points to Finland
  • 4 points to Italy
  • 3 points to Czechia
  • 2 points to Israel
  • 1 point to France

These are the points from the 204 members of OGAE Finland:

  • 12 points to France
  • 10 points to Norway
  • 8 points to Austria
  • 7 points to Sweden
  • 6 points to Italy
  • 5 points to Czechia
  • 4 points to Serbia
  • 3 points to the United Kingdom
  • 2 points to Moldova
  • 1 point to Australia

The 50 members of OGAE Czechia voted as below:

  • 12 points to Sweden
  • 10 points to France
  • 8 points to Norway
  • 7 points to Austria
  • 6 points to Finland
  • 5 points to Italy
  • 4 points to Israel
  • 3 points to the United Kingdom
  • 2 points to Switzerland
  • 1 point to Moldova

Finally, this are the results of the 13 members from OGAE Latvia:

  • 12 points to Sweden
  • 10 points to Norway
  • 8 points to France
  • 7 points to Italy
  • 6 points to Switzerland
  • 5 points to Estonia
  • 4 points to Cyprus
  • 3 points to Finland
  • 2 points to the United Kingdom
  • 1 point to Czechia

The final results of this year’s OGAE Poll are the following:

Sweden won the OGAE Poll for the second consecutive year with 433 points, this time with Loreen and her song Tattoo. It is also the first time in Eurovision history that an artist has won in two editions of the OGAE Poll, bearing in mind that Loreen had also won the OGAE Poll back in 2012 with her song Euphoria.

In the second place and with 394 points, there is Finland and Käärijä followed by France and La Zarra. In the fourth place we meet Norway with Alessandra and 263 points and in the fifth place there is Austria with Teya and Salena and 228 points.

Cyprus finished in 16th place having received 14 points in tie with Portugal. Greece finished in tie with Croatia in the 28th place, after receiving only 1 point from OGAE Cyprus.

Could this be a sign that Loreen will manage to achieve the same thing in 2 weeks from now, winning Eurovision for the 2nd time and being the first woman who has done so? We will find out soon!

https://youtu.be/b3vJfR81xO0

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Source:OGAE International

Loreen: “There are things I had wanted to do in Stockholm that I think we are able to do in Liverpool!”

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Over the last couple of months, uncertainty had emerged regarding the staging of the Swedish participation at the Eurovision Song Contest. Despite the fact that the Swedish national broadcaster SVT had known the EBU staging restrictions for months, there was not a clear answer by the Swedish delegation on whether they will make any changes on the staging of “Tattoo“, in order to comply with the EBU rules.

A few weeks ago, Loreen took part at an AMA event on Reddit, where she revealed that all the staging issues have been resolved, removing any uncertainty about her appearance at M&S Bank Arena. But up to now Loreen had never spoken openly about the Swedish delegation thoughts on the staging.

Loreen has opened up in an interview she had with Expressen today revealing that they had several crisis meetings with SVT regarding the technical specifications of the stage of M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool:

A new stage always comes with other technical prerequisites. I have, together with SVT as a united team, had meetings discussing what is possible and what is not. What can we improve and where do we back off?

As usual, she kept a mystery around her final staging, firing up uncertainty and speculations shadowing her “Tattoo” Liverpool performance once more:

I won’t tell if there is a ceiling or not, you will see that on Sunday. There are things you can do now because of the larger stage. The equipment is different.

Finally, she revealed that there have been many ideas that she backed off for her performance in Stockholm that can be implemented on stage in Liverpool:

There are things I had wanted to do in Stockholm that I think we are able to do in Liverpool that can turn out really powerful.”

Like the number, Loreen is secretive about exactly how her outfit will look on stage in Liverpool, but gave a hint of what to expect:

It is quite an extensive number and there are so many details. Always when you have to create something, you have to “kill your darlings”. Now that we’ve had some time, me and Fadi al Khoury, my designer, have the stuff we didn’t have time to test. It’s a cinematic number so there’s a lot you can do.

This is actually what she has mentioned in one of her TikTok videos, that was published a couple of weeks ago:

@loreenofficial Let’s talk about “The Outfit” A massive thanks to the one and only Fadi el Khoury, who made this happen ❤️🙏🏽 🫶🏽 #FashionTok #loreentattoo #designer #eurovision2023 ♬ Tattoo – Loreen

Even though the resolution is still not public, an answer will be given at Loreen’s stand-in rehearsal, while her first technical rehearsal is scheduled for this Sunday 4/30.

You can watch the EurovisionFun team’s reaction to Sweden’s entry below:

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Photo: Andreas Papayiannakis
Source: Expressen

Sweden: Loreen reveals resolution of staging issues, at the Eurovision Reddit AMA!

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Over the last month, uncertainty had emerged regarding the staging of the Swedish participation at the Eurovision Song Contest. Despite the fact that the Swedish national broadcaster SVT had known the EBU staging restrictions for months, there was not a clear answer by the Swedish delegation on whether they will make any changes on the staging of “Tattoo“, in order to comply with the EBU rules.

Until Loreen took part at an AMA event on Reddit, where she revealed that all the staging issues have been resolved, removing any uncertainty about her appearance at M&S Bank Arena.

During the event, she had been asked about whether her delegation had sorted out the issue with 1.800 kg LED screen hanging from the ceiling of the arena and she responded that if all got sorted out:

“Yes and I hope it inspires you!”

However, it is still a mystery about how the delegation and creative team will resolve the issue. Being asked about if she will keep her LED screen “sandwich” staging that we awed us at Melodifestivalen she replied:

“I will do my best for you guys!”

Among others, Loreen mentioned releasing new music within the year and also she is in the talks for a possible European tour.

Even though the resolution is still not public, an answer will be given at Loreen’s stand-in rehearsal in mid-April, while her first technical rehearsal is scheduled for Sunday 4/30.

You can watch the EurovisionFun team’s reaction to Sweden’s entry below:

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Photo: Andreas Papayiannakis
Source: Loreen

Cyprus: Andrew Lambrou sings Loreen’s “Tattoo”!

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A while ago, the representative of Cyprus in this year’s Eurovision, Andrew Lambrou, uploaded a short video on his personal Tik Tok account, on which he performs Tattoo of Loreen!

Tattoo is one of the favorites to win Eurovision 2023 in May.

You can listen to Andrew Lambrou’s beautiful version of Tattoo below:

@andrewlambrou Replying to @ზურა Theres so many amazing songs this year, im very excited to meet @Loreen 🇸🇪❤️ #eurovision #loreen #tattoo #foryou ♬ original sound – Andrew Lambrou

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy us in a Reaction video with detailed commentary on the participation of Cyprus, for 2023!

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Sweden: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2023 Entry “Tattoo”!

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Last Saturday, Melodifestivalen ended for another year, with Loreen and “Tattoo” as the big winner. The Eurovision 2012 winner returns to the competition for the second time as the big favourite to win and Sweden look set to claim their 7th victory in the competition.

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the official video clip of the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Paschalis, Apostolis and Stella in a delightful Reaction video with detailed commentary on Sweden’s participation, for 2023!

Video editing: @filipposgaitis

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Sweden: These are the detailed results of all the shows of Melodifestivalen 2023!

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The Final of Melodifestivalen 2023, was broadcast by SVT and SVT Play last Saturday and we now know that Loreen will represent Sweden at Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, with the song “Tattoo“, placing first in both the International Jury and the public vote!

Today SVT released the detail results of all the Melodifestivalen 2023 shows and as it seems Loreen won by a landslide! There was also a significant difference in votes between Loreen and the runner-ups of the show in Malmö, Smash Into Pieces!

But let’s see how the results were in each of the shows:

  • Heat 1: Göteborg – Saturday 4 February 2023 (Scandinavium)

  • Heat 2: Linköping – Saturday 11 February 2023 (Saab Arena)

  • Heat 3: Lidköping – Saturday 18 February 2023 (Sparbanken Arena)

  • Heat 4: Malmö – Saturday 25 February 2023 (Malmö Arena)

  • Semi-Final: Örnsköldsvik – Saturday 4 March 2023 (Hägglunds Arena)

  • Final: Stockholm – Satuday 11 March 2023 (Friends Arena)

Don’t miss out on Loreen’s first words, at the press conference after her victory at the Melodifestivalen 2023, that took place at Friends Arena! Check out our YouTube channel for more interviews, reactions videos and Melodifestivalen material!

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Photo: Andreas Papayiannakis