2nd: Carola - Invincible (212 points)
Where one goes, the others follow...
In the wake of Lena's career revival in 2004 - scoring herself as number one hit and number one album in the process - other 80s icons decided to get in on the game too, with Nanne Grönvall scoring the biggest hit of her career and only barely missing out on the Eurovision ticket with Håll om mig the year after. And so of course, the nation's biggest 80s icon of all (Främling being the biggest selling album of all time in Sweden), twice-Eurovision entrant and part-time skeksis Carol Hagbits SAW HER OPENING
Practically deciding the result of that year's Melodifestivalen the second her name was announced, schlager odyssey Evighet went into the contest with sky-high expectations and somehow managed to meet them all, sending gays, flag manufacturers and audience members into fits of ecstasy on its debut (literally - my favourite part of this performance is probably the random audience members going into SPONTANEOUS RAPTURE throughout
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Naturally, everything else was
left mulch in its wake. Lena - in perfect poetry, hosting the contest that year - summed up the expectation asking a dead-eyed Carola in the final if she'd already booked her hotel in Athens. And so it followed. Sadly, on arrival she was beaten out by the only other flesh-eating monsters entering that year's contest. The evil being defeated, she was exiled back to Sweden forevermore
6 x 12 (Madison, win the game, Broomhelga, Pingu, Soldi, Zu 2)
2 x 4 (Kratz, ButterTart - LOCK YOUR DOORS AND STOCK UP ON SHOTGUN SHELLS, GIRLS!)