1 - Nordman - YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! YES! YES!!! YES !!! YESSSSSS
2 - Casanovas - OMG still hyperventilating on the floor and cannot get up from Nordman (YES!!!! YES!). These verses are like a gay Bond theme! Love everyone saying Linda Bengtzing would be dying to send this when that chorus is basically just Värsta schlagern. But to be fair, she was totally dying to send that too
3 - hang on just need to go back to 1 - Nordman - OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG YES YES YES DEAR GOD CAN THEY PLEASE JUST SEND SOMETHING LIKE THIS ONE YEAR
okay 3 - Marcus & Martinus - give this hot shit to MOHOMBI! I will defend Winners to the death, but this is totally what he should've sent if he wanted to go for the win. Can't wait to hear what the drop's like, hope it's as good as Jasmine Kara - Gravity's
4 - Laurell - the Margaret apology tour comeback I never dared dream of (OMG hope Margaret's okay) - she slays!
5 - Melanie Wehbe - I'm so sorry but in the 'gladiatorial songwriter cagefight for the last slice of bacon' stakes, Laurell totally wins this round. Imagine for the purposes of this mental image an imperious Fredrik Kempe sat in a toga and gold leaf laurel crown at the head of the Lidköping arena/colosseum, louchely waving a balloon and staring penetratingly at Marcus and Martinus as he idly contemplates which of Melanie and Laurell will win eternal glory (the right to write a song for Cyprus's Eurovision entry this year), and which will be condemned to eternal shame (the right to write a song for Germany's Eurovision entry this year)
6 - Ida-Lova - it's nice but I spent the whole thing being distracted by the fact she has the same face as Ace Wilder and wondering if I'd cracked the case of her disappearance. I mean it's not like it'd be the first time she pretended to be an 18 year old, even if a ballad would be EXCEPTIONALLY deep cover on her part
7 - Paul Rey - I am immediately so sorry for defending this in advance - my fight or flight instincts kicked in the second it opened with a guitar. I get that this Radio 1-at-its-worst pop has its place but this could be a STEFAN single and I am sad every time something like that happens. Why did they let two Victor Crone singles into the lineup this year? As a wise woman once said - get the fuck out of my gay pop contest! The power of Alcazar compels you! [flicks bottle of Andreas Lundstedt's semen at Paul Rey like holy water]
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It's a good week, the best so far! I think this year is going to be like 2007 - ultimately not that great and a little underwhelming, but each heat better than the one that came before it, and still a few hot classics to take home at the end of the season. Okay going back to replay Nordman now bye