Abba replaced by Loreen at Stockholm airport
Published: 29 Jun 12 15:55 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/41744/20120629/
Loreen, the winner of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, will soon have her portrait hung in Stockholm's Arlanda airport to fill a gap left when a picture of Abba was taken down after Benny Andersson demanded it be removed.
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This time, however, it's in the form of her very own portrait, which is set to replace a picture of Swedish super group and former Eurovision Song Contest winners Abba that had previously hung in Stockholm's main airport.
“It is a fantastic honour, and it feels incredible to be part of the Stockholm Hall of Fame along with these other Swedish figures,” Loreen said in a statement.
The picture of Abba that had been included in Arlanda's "Hall of Fame" was removed earlier this year after Andersson protested against controversial renovations of the Slussen interchange in central Stockholm.
Andersson hoped to use his portrait as leverage to block the planned renovations, and when plans proceeded, the singer held true to his word.
“I have no desire to be a billboard for a city that makes unreasonable decisions like this,” said Andersson to Dagens Nyheter (DN) at the time.
“I am not available for use anymore."
Loreen's portrait will hang alongside the portraits of other Swedish icons, past and present, including film director Ingmar Bergman and King Carl XVI Gustaf.
The portraits have their home in Stockholm’s two international terminals, and Loreen’s will be placed in Terminal 5.
Over 19 million people land in Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport every year, according to Swedavia, guaranteeing even more exposure for the Swedish pop-star.
Erik Bloom
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If Benny wants out then Bjorn, Agnetha & Frida should remain with individual portraits.
However, she can be bigger than Abba if she is serious. She drew the record crowd in small town borås consert this week. The first question i get asked outside of sweden, once they know I i am from sweden is how is Looren. She popular all over the worldd now. She can be greater and she should be greater.
Andersson is too low to be catching a fit over Loreen. A success without a successor is a failure. We supposed to have many Abbas by now.
sweden reminds me of some b grade reality show that comes on at midnight so appropriate she should be revered in your society.
how embarrassing.
Records are meant to be broken. I cannot hold brief for her but she has all the potentials to beat Abba record. Go girl
Actually, the record for the most points in Eurovision history is still Alexander Rybak's "Fairytale" which won for Norway in 2009 with 387 points.
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, just saying.
You have something against pink and pale people, are you racist?
On a more serious note, what comments on here strike you as racist? I see maybe 2 out of 18. Hardly sounds like "full throttle" to me. Perhaps you should rethink your knee-jerk reflex racist accusation complex?
to change the image of sweden and make it look as a non white country
totally political
take over of the country step by step
brainwash from the ads
think what a child who doesnt have any mind filter can absorb in his head
he will think that she is the "normal "swede
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