Deltävling 2- Melodifestivalen 2012 Göteborg

Does Ulrik- have the right stuff for Melodifestivalen 2012?

So let's have a look at Goteburg semi final this is one of my

Favorites for the reason we find 3 veterans returning for a new-go at Melodifestivalen glory.

Andreas Lundstedt without his Alcazar girls! with a powerful song of bitter sweet love.

Then let's not forget

Sonja Alden - she has a great melo track record as a singer and song writer

So it's gonna be a hard battle for those two slots at Globen. We may just see the first popular ballad come out of

Goteburg.

I have this crazy crazy idea that Timoteij - or the TimTams as my blog-translators calls

these folk-chicks- have great potential we think to win Eurovision with

the right schlager-tune! so these are the names schlager fans know already well

The other 5 all debut in Melodifestivalen- the very New Kids on the block-

Top-cats- will sing 'Baby Doll' a tune wrote by one half of Lili & Susie a duo who are always welcome to melodifestivalen - even if they are not going to give us the pleasure of a performance in 2012. That's to be done- by none other than a young Rock-a-billy/ dansband called 'Top cats'. The three guys who are very easy on the eyes (see below) and

should give us a breath of fresh-air and even a saucer of milk! who knows?

Ulrik Munther- back in 2009 Ultik Minther won Lilla Melodifestivalen & went on to win Nordic MGP 2009 with a song he wrote himself 'En vanlig dag' a very typical swedish pop hit.

He has found fame with a huge debut album- and is credited as making Lady Gaga 'Born this way' his own way with a cover of this great international pop hit. He is already a popular favourite to win this year- even before the song is made public - so don't let under estimate The Ulrik.

David Lindgren- at just 25 years of age David is a new swedish star of musical theater - with roles in High School Musical, the German version of Mamma Mia & Hairspray. So it will be interesting to see how young David does, as so many Musical stars have gone belly-up in Melodifestivalen. Let's see if the tune is something to shout about?

Thomas DiLeva- it's amazing Thomas has not eventured into melo- land before now as he

could be considered to be a New Age version of Demis Roussos from the 70's and often wears those

same kafta's. Thomas has been around since the late 80's and released an amazing 17 albums, the most recent one

in 2011.

The Running Order

1. Soldiers – Ulrik Munther

2. Baby Doll – Top Cats

3. I din himmel – Sonja Aldén

4. Aldrig aldrig – Andreas Lundstedt

5. Stormande hav – Timoteij

6. Shout It Out – David Lindgren

7. Det går för långsamt – Mimi Oh

8. Ge aldrig upp – Thomas Di Leva

Then last but not least is already a big Melo fan favourite is Mimi Oh with her own brand of 80's style

electro pop- her Ep '1986' was very popular in Sweden last year- Mimi's Melo entry is called 'Det Gar For Langsamt'

in the meantime while we wait for this tune to come out- the same songwriters have released

'Sakerhetsnal' (Safety Pin)

as a teaser of what to expect from Mimi Oh next month.

We feel a schlager classic coming up in this Melodifestivalen tune- already!

LOOOK ! Lili och Susie- 'Show me Heaven' Vid- (or- Show me Your muscle dancers)

Gimme Gimme Gimme a Second Chance- as Swedish votes dropped some BIG artists from the Mf final !!

This weekend we saw Sweden's 'Andra Chansen' heading towards the final 11 songs now confirmed for Globen Finale on 14 th March 2009- This has seen some of the Mf favourite Artists and songs go forward to the final, in the past and been a great way of capturing the best of the songs that just missed out. However this year a lot of real excellent songs missed out. Two of my favourites BWO & Lili & Sussie lost out, this could be down to them both been drawn together in the same dual. If these acts came up with less than average songs, it would be a little understandable. "Show me Heaven" & "You're not alone" are both equally worthy of the final
and BWO have spoken how their act was perfectly put together for a Moscow audience.
I think the band are right on the money, if anyone else they know how to sway in the Eastern vote in ESC. They have had huge success with some of their early songs over in Russia and beyond. Lets see how the singles go in sales chart after Mf, this often shows a different story. Meanwhile as Sweden strides to be different and comeback on the Eurovision stage. They have already dropped some of the most promising songs and acts in Mf. Another one is Velvet's "The Queen" I could see this track qualifing easily in the Eurovision Semi Final. Oh well someone has to lose.
The winning songs that went through to the final were "Moving On" Sarah Dawn Finer with Caroline Af Ugglas "Snalla snalla" ( 'please please'- send me to globen!! ) these songs along with International jury choice Sofia. Out of the whole line-up for 2nd chance I personally would have picked these as the bottom 3. Lets see what happens in Globen, its still gonna be very
schlager-tastic!

"okey okey" LILI & SUSIE Melodifestivalen 1989