Ah another week, another heat finishes in the race to represent Sweden in the Eurovision song contest. And that is what quite rightly dominates Swedish Saturday night television there. Here? We get Take Me Out where fellas of varying hotness are judged by a panel of 30 single, horny, desperate women and still no-one has picked Welsh Lucy for a date despite her practically lying legs in the air with a neon sign pointing at her vagina. And on the other side, there is Lets Dance for Comic Relief where celebrities (and Katie Price - insert neon sign pointing at vagina comment here) do "comedy" versions of famous dance routines. it's usually dreadful. Though Russell Kane did entertain with his spot on Crazy In Love by Beyonce. Marv. And now for the best of this week's melodifestivalen...
THE RETURN OF ERIC SAADE:
Things called Popular tend to do quite well really don't they? Turn of the millenium tv show "Popular" was very good indeed (bit over dramatic at times) and essentially still better than anything Glee comes up with. "Popular" the song from the ace musical Wicked is rather pleasing and a wry little ditty if ever I heard one. So of course a come back single launching his second album promotion and his entry for melodifestivalen is bound to do well for the dashing young Mr Saade. It will be impossible to find a video of this performance from last night's show for a while as it sailed through to the finale on the 12th March and SVT are most protective about the tunes until that has aired. What you need to know about the tune though is that it is essentially Manboy fathering the baby of It's Gonna Rain with another energetic dance routine thrown in to boot. It's not entirely different to the latter song, yet there's an enthusiasm and catchiness about it that completely reels you in and has you boogying along way before the song has finished. It's completely euro-disco and possibly the runaway winner of the show, but that remains to be seen. What I would like to see is what would happen if Simon Curtis attempted a tune like this (and had a dance routine to match)... Eric needs to visit England and do a nice tour of the gay clubs before releasing a deliriously giddy trifecta of singles (Popular, Manboy and It's Gonna Rain). For much more on melodifestivalen, do visit wise folk like Damian, Nick, Postergirl and Scandipop :)
Top 21 songs of the week:
21 ~ Danny Saucedo, In The Club (NE)
20 ~ Brandon Flowers, Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts
19 ~ Scissor Sisters, Whole New Way
18 ~ Tove Styrke, White Light Moment
17 ~ Rochella Danishei, Michelle
16 ~ Avril Lavigne, What The Hell
15 ~ James Blunt, Too Far Gone
14 ~ McFly, That's The Truth
13 ~ Sanna Nielsen, I'm In Love (NE)
12 ~ Britney, Hold It Against Me
11 ~ Kylie, Put Your Hands Up
10 ~ Westlife, Beautiful Tonight
09 ~ Maroon 5, Never Gonna Leave This Bed
08 ~ Shayne Ward, Obsession
07 ~ Same Difference, Karma Karma
06 ~ Le Kid, Oh My God
05 ~ Neo, Underground
04 ~ Deborah Gibson, Snake Charmer
03 ~ Take That, Kidz (VID)
02 ~ Andreas Johnson, One Man Army
01 ~ Lady Gaga, Born This Way (2 weeks)
Oooh... mashup with Mr Hayes' "Pop!ular"??
ReplyDeleteThanx for mentioning Paul ;)
ReplyDeleteAs I see you don't have too much of MF-singles to your bag and that's what going on with me as well. Though I have more but still much less than previous years. Really hope this year will fix it with albums from participants who've presented not the most proper for competition songs. Many promise, I wonder when Le Kid will release their.
I was quite upset with Take That for a while about them releasing "Kidz" instead of "S.O.S.", but I've been won over. What song does does the "la la la" chant sound like, though?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm not quite on the "Popular" train, but you might be on to something--even though Eric's singles might not do well in the UK, I imagine you're right about a gay club tour doing well for him. His performance style would really shine in that type of venue.
Oh, how lovely it is to see such a Swede-heavy play list from you!
Thanks for the shout-out :)
Ah the return of Eric. Impossible to find to listen to on the net but i'm sure it's a brilliant tune. Hopefully. :) Will he topple the Gah next week?!
ReplyDeleteBill - great idea! How could i forget that Popular>!?!
ReplyDeleteDamian - yeah i always look forward to the albums that spring up after MF. Le Kid is a definite fave i'm looking out for :)
PG - I was upset about SOS and still hope it will be a single, along with Wait. We'll have to see. Maybe Eric's Popular will become more popular with you over time, ho ho.
Ben - i can exclusively confirm he will topple Lazy Gaga Bored This way :P