Melodifestivalen 2010-2019 Survivor ROUND THREE

Vote for your LEAST FAVE

  • Timoteij - Kom (2010)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sanna Nielsen - I'm In Love (2011)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ace Wilder - Busy Doin' Nothing (2014)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mariette - Don't Stop Believing (2015)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mariette - A Million Years (2017)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Wiktoria - As I Lay Me Down (2017 WILDCARD)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    25

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Having had two near misses in three years, Mariette went into Melfest 2018 with high expectations behind her, including a heat-four pimp slot that set tongues wagging that she was going in as the one to beat.

Sadly that turned out to be very far from the case. There are elements of For You that I like a lot. The production on the verses, a hook that would've made a fabulous pre-chorus if something, anything followed it. But for a song that was pushed so aggressively by the producers, it's genuinely shocking how half-written it sounds. That middle eight is actually unforgivable.

A real wasted opportunity, and she was very lucky she had enough goodwill (and was in a weak enough final) to do as well as she did.




10th: Mariette - For You (5th 2018)
11th: Louise Hoffsten - Only The Dead Fish Follow The Stream (5th 2013)



NEXT!
 
Timoteij - Kom (5th 2010)



Sanna Nielsen - I'm In Love (4th 2011)



Molly Sandén - Why Am I Crying? (5th 2012)



Ace Wilder - Busy Doin' Nothing (2nd 2014)



Mariette - Don't Stop Believing (3rd 2015)



Ace Wilder - Don't Worry (3rd 2016)
 
Wiktoria - As I Lay Me Down (6th 2017 - WILDCARD)



Hanna Ferm & LIAMOO - Hold You (3rd 2019)
 
I wanted rid of ‘For You’ because in context it was such a disappointment, whilst not being an outright terrible song. ‘Don’t Worry’ is a terrible song.
 
For You is a gentle love song, je t'adore. The lyrics of Why Am I Crying are so shocking that there's no getting past it for me.

You cannot hear this and not giggle:

I don't miss your dirty clothes on the floor :(
No one leaves the lights on anymore :o
The towels are hanging just where they should :)
It's drop dead quiet in my neighborhood :shy:
 
(obviously I'm in absolutely no way in too deep on relating to each Ace Wilder entry and her overall life trajectory)

I have to say though, of all the new Melfest stars of the 2010s Ace Wilder is probably the one I identify with the most, particularly in her narrative as she developed across the competition, which eerily echoed the Bildungsroman journey of being a graduate in your twenties

Busy Doin Nothin: the sound of the first six months after you've graduated, as your parents progressively see how openly scathing they can get that you're still unemployed in their house and practically rubbing their faces in it by waking up at noon every day. You have not left to meet a friend at the pub within an hour of the time you were actually supposed to meet them since some time during the second year of university. You only finally feel compelled to find a job and move out after trying that toast sandwich they had on the BBC frontpage when you run out of JSA one day and having a moment of clarity written in lightning about what a dirty little dropout you've become

Don't Worry: mid-twenties now - the sound of your first year as a professional (in name only). LOL, you're such a hot mess!!!! Obviously you're smoking weed all the time because that's all you can afford and you're doing crazy dumb stupid shit like making out with your boss and forgetting to pay rent - adulting is hard!! But you know what - wild anecdotes make you feel like you're having a life when most of your money goes on the £3 Tesco lunch meal deal and when you can't afford to go out for the last two weeks before payday!

Wild Child: you are now in your late twenties. You have been ground down mercilessly by the professional world, loathe yourself and everything you have become completely, and yearn for nothing but escape. You discover MDMA, cocaine and ketamine. Each weekend you regress to a beautiful childhood, a kingdom of dreams. Everything is fine. You are a child now. Tomorrow belongs to you
 
I genuinely think Mariette would have been so much better off going with her followup single after For You for the 2018 pimp slot - this was GARGANTUAN and so well suited to a big stage show, and sounds way more like a winner

 
For You is a gentle love song, je t'adore. The lyrics of Why Am I Crying are so shocking that there's no getting past it for me.

You cannot hear this and not giggle:

I don't miss your dirty clothes on the floor :(
No one leaves the lights on anymore :o
The towels are hanging just where they should :)
It's drop dead quiet in my neighborhood :shy:
:D

It speaks to those of us jilted like Miss Babs time after time.

I also like thinking it is about Eric Saade.
 
Now that one of Mariette's weaker efforts is gone, it's time to get rid of Ace's weakest.
 
I far preferred the original template of Hold You




(!!! at that somehow racking up nearly TWO BILLION VIEWS!)
 
I will, however, gladly switch to Molly if it looks like Ace is at all starting to run away with it. We must PROTECT our society's elders
 

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