Nomi Tales - this feels like a song gifted to Eurovision Twitter who claim Melfest is just generic pop songs. Well, here’s your witchy little number straight outta Norway’s Melody Gran Prix. I like it, although suspect it will go the way of
@ButterTart favourite Stormbringer and
@VoR ’s girl Icarus in that it’s a quirky opener that comes last.
Schlagerz - I’ve already seen some nasty girls online saying this is crap. We only have one minute. Everyone knows that this genre of song only works in its entirety:
Minute one: annoying
Minute two: okay well maybe life can be fun, let’s just see where this goes
Keychange
Minute three: DECEASED because life has peaked
Erik Segerstedt - instantly impressed - I get a Constellation Prize feeling in that it is a worldwide HIT. this is the dark horse.
Klara - how many times can a one minute clip be played on repeat? I feel quite emotional because this is probably one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. Initially I was frightened because I thought it was going to go into generically-clubby-Jark-has -died direction a la Cascada, but then that piano came in. The piano, if I may just say, is one of humanity’s greatest achievements and here it is used to full effect. The minor key yearning and longing of a female who might not hit all the notes is my favourite thing about music (my favourite song is the grandmaster of this: …Baby One More Time) and so to see this represented here well, what can I say except that this exponential growth from Hammerström is other-worldly. If I had longer I would draw a Venn diagram with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on one side and Klara with a K on the other.
Fredrik Lundman - this is NOT what it was meant to be. I wanted Rednex!
Kaliffa -
Sound engineer: well we’re all done here Mr Kaliffa
Kaliffa: no no no, make it more Medina-ier
Sound engineer: but sir, the system can’t handl-
Kaliffa:
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