Eric Saade snags 2011 Melodifestivalen title
Published: 12 Mar 11 22:37 CET | Print version
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Eric Saade, the 20-year-old heartthrob from Helsingborg in western Sweden, was crowned winner of the 2011 Melodifestivalen song contest on Saturday evening.
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"This is totally indescribable," he said shortly after being named the winner.
"I want to celebrate with the entire population of Sweden."
Saade, who also made it the 2010 Melodifestivalen finals with his performance of "Manboy", triumphed over the pre-show favourite Danny, in what had been billed as a battle of boy-band alums for the contest's top spot.
Third place went to The Moniker's "Oh My God!", with Sanna Nielsen's "I'm in Love", taking the fourth spot.
Fifth place went to Swingfly, who performed "Me And My Drum".
Heading into the final, the hotly tipped Danny, who made the Melodifestivalen finals in 2009 as a member of boy band E.M.D. was thought to have the edge over Saade, an ex-member of the boy band What's Up.
The two were neck and neck after the international jury votes had been tallied, with Saade having a slim two-point edge.
But after the 1.32 million votes cast by Swedish television viewers were counted, Saade's lead grew by more than 40 points, securing his place at the top.
Saade will now represent Sweden at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf, Germany in May.
Saade's song was written by Fredrik Kempe, who also wrote "Manboy" and has written the winning song of the Melodifestivalen three out of the last four years.
See Eric Saade perform "Popular" in the video below
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I will be popular, I will be popular
I'm gonna get there, popular
My body wants you girl, my body wants you girl
I'll get you when I'm popular
Such powerful lyrics for the generation of today!
then there was that other clown singing "in the club".
was he pregnant or what ?
ok i blame the young girls and people with bitter taste music.what happened to the radio with good songs.this is a disaster.ok we are sending a song that has popular repeated after and after again.
Some of whom would vote for the song they possibly thought their own country's song could beat :/ ...and of course there was San Marino...the epitome of music trends?!
rather ashamed that our British jury voted for Eric.
then again at least there was a contest and a vote... we have had Blue thrust upon us. we have no choice...but going on past efforts, perhaps that's reason enough.
But how though?...A-ha, by creating a 'international jury' that no one sees or knows of...
Crux of the matter, it doesn't matter who sang what really well, they were never going to make it anyway. Some other peanut than Bert Karlsson decided so...
Having said that my little boy of 7 really loves Eric and probably would have voted for him if he knew how to operate a mobile phone.
What happened to the culture of music? A song with 3 lines of lyrics repeating over and over. How brilliant of composition is that with 5 chords?
A cheap techno-disco tune sounding like it came from the 80ies.
What about those leather outfits? One of the dancers are pawing all over him in public. A bunch of gays?
This is so testeless that it is embarrasing !
A new tune that teens is going to chew on for a couple of weeks? "I wanna be popular"? Baaaaaaaarf!
If there is 1 thing that really sux about Sweden this is it. Thankfully the rest is all good.
A song in Swedish would not even make it to the final...
I would completely like to agree with you "Madstadlad" when you critize the lyrics. But, as a song was written to reach as much public as possible then there is only one explaination for your opinion. You see definitely what you really want to see and want to hear. Wrong if you think that most of the youth nowadays takes it easily lying down. I really do not think it will be like you see it.
In my opinion, the song is very smart written because it contains phrases like: "I put my hands up in the light/ you see me DANCING FOR MY LIFE/ I will be popular, I will be popular/ I ´M GONNA GET THERE, POPULAR/ [it reminds me on the competition which will be holds in Germany]. The best part, which I like to see instead of yours is "BE SOMEONE, BEFORE YOU´RE GONE".
Greetings,
Leonardo