HalamaK
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First Impression Festivalen is back! It's time to once again celebrate the coming of the Mello artists and judge them based on nothing but past achievements, potential and evil gossip. This thread will feature previews of the artists and production and what they’ve done up until this point. My goal is to put up three presentations of acts per day, one in the morning, one mid day and one in the night until all of them are done 10 days from now.
Dream Teams
In this new format everyone gets to be their own A&R Manager and pick their own stable of beloved artists. Participate by putting together your own dream team of Heavy Hitters, Sloppy Sludgers and Unknown Underdogs.
Heavy Hitters
These are your Danny and Carolas. Big name favourites who've gone DTF multiple times, are established artists bellowed by the Swedish public competing with mainstream songs directed at the mass market.
Past MF Heavy Hitters:
- Lena PH
- The Ark
- Måns
- Molly Sandén
They may be famous, loved and even great musicians but somehow things have just not come together to be fully competitive in the Melfest arena. Some are well known artists just looking for their big break. Some might be pigeonholed into an outside genre whilst others are too abrasive or desperate to be taken seriously. Whatever the case these Sloppy Sluggers know how to get by in an increasingly competitive environment.
Past Sloppy Sluggers:
- Malena Ernman
- Björn Ranelid
- Thorsten Flink
- Linda Bengtzing
These are your complete unknowns. Sure, they may have reached as far as the preselections of idol, been in a cog in some once known but now obscure music collaboration under a different name or even written a recent semi-competitive Melfest entry. Either way no one but the most rabid MF fan knows that they competed in Melodifestivalen twice a decade ago. Don’t worry about it, it’s probably something the artists rather you forget anyways.
Noteable Unknown Underdogs:
- Marie Lindberg
- Frans
- Klara Klingenström
- Cornelia Jacobs
Artist allocations
Heavy Hitters (Choose 2)
Loreen
Marcus & Martinus
Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Arc North feat. Adam Woods
Mariette
Tone Sekelius
Wiktoria
Paul Rey
Panetoz
Seasoned Sluggers (Choose 2)
Nordman
Theoz
Victor Crone
Loulou LaMotte
Eva Rydberg och Ewa Roos
Elov & Beny
Axel Schylström
Smash Into Pieces
Uje Brandelius
Casanovas
Unknown Underdogs (Choose 3)
Laurell
Emil Henrohn
Kiana
Melanie Wehbe
Maria Sur
Rejhan
Tennessee Tears
Eden
Ida-Lova
Signe och Hjördis
Pick Your Team
Please post your own dream team in the following format:
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Please post your submission before 1900 GMT on the Monday the 30th of January. You can change your team at any point up until the deadline.
she’s been surprisingly productive musically lately. There’s been numerous songs attached to Loreen in recent times and why she chose Tattoo is still a mystery other than that she’s publicly stated felt “something” when she heard the song. All the talk says she’s entering with a strong entry. Similar to Euphoria and contrary to Statements (for which she was a part of the creation team from scratch) this was a finished song delivered to Loreen which she’s since meddled with and “made hers”. The story I chose to believe is that this entry was first submitted with Cazzi Opeia as the intended performer.
). She did however get a bit burned after her last two attempts failed to meet her own expectations. Multiple sources says Mariette as late as last year claimed she would not enter Melodifestivalen again unless she had a winning song. As such, expect this to be her last attempt at Eurovision glory for a good while.
