Sweden in Eurovision

[1Q84e]

"Den vilda" is the best song we have ever sent to the ecs.

[baraettord]

I can't deny it. it was better back in the days. way better.

I don't watch Eurovision anymore, no fun, no good :(

[codrodcm]

proves that Sweden are simply the best at producing songs for Eurovision They say Ireland is best and i am from Ireland but they cannot do the different types that Sweden seem to...we are good at Ballads Sweden are good at everything would have preferrd KOM this year but still you have another strong entry.

[Fabian81]

What I personally feel less happy bout Sweden's entry over the last 10 years was the fact that it focused in some of them too much on what they called "schlager" music ... using Abba-sounding music as if Abba was or ever were schlager music. Sweden can do a lot lot better than just "copy pasted Abba" and they had so many wonderful entries prior to 1999 ... when i think this problem started.

[HeathenMaiden]

The ABBA-esque music you speak of is kind of what traditional and popular Swedish music sounds like most of the time, though. The point of the ESC is to send songs that represent the culture and music of your country. And Sweden is all about melodic, cheerful, catchy tunes. I don't think the majority of the Swedish songwriters are trying to sound like ABBA on purpose. That kind of music is just in our backbone. And it was in our backbone well before ABBA.

[Fabian81]

Well maybe you're right but in terms of music I feel more impressed with what was done in the 80s or 90s than these days. I don't really believe that in those days music coming from sweden was so "abba related", I understand that it was still related to what culturally Sweden is in terms of music but the "abba esque vibe" is just too obvious to let it go. And when it's overused year after year as it happened these last 10 years it becomes boring and less exciting. Sometimes we need to change!

[Fabian81]

Elisabeth's 1982 entry sounded to me like a sneack preview of what 1985 victory for Norway would sound like but a bit better. Even Kikki's song that year was better than this Chips' entry.

[Eriikk82]

looking back at this sweden has the best songs in eurovisions history by far! kind of timeless music, thats maby why they did'nt won more!? People are to much into trends so they just want komersial radio music that fits in the right year!

[bellainmyheart]

"En dag " med Tommy NIlsson är grym, borde ha vunnit.

[EastSwede]

Dolt medeltida buskap bakom 3:e låten??!! "Alla flickor små bör låsas inne då"

Eren skriven av herr Fritzl elr?

[Bergvallar]

vart är 1968 den e ju bra:D

[pommfritzo]

stad i ljus är total gåshud, iofs inte här men i den svenska uttagningen. här var han ju tyvärr förkyld...

[Trulsrohkig]

Kikki Danielsson ftw!

[mab73]

Jill Johnson's wonderful "Kärleken är" is missing....

[Fabian81]

Yeah that was also one of my favourites ... maybe because it wasn't that popular in ESC or had achived higher scores it was excluded here saddly.

[EinZwergkaninchen]

aaah isn't When spirits are calling your name the best one. he has such an amazing voice. though i like most of them a lot!

[noonespeciel]

What are the years of the songs?

I like song number 2. If I knew the year, I could hear more.

I tredje sang da hun synger 19 år, så tænkte jeg og så forstår man bare ikke mere, i mens synger hun "litten man forstår"

[euro19952009]

I think that's the Swedish entry for 1961.

[noonespeciel]

Thank you. It was.

Why is her name small bobies?

[RKdoom]

babs not boobs

[Furienna]

He real name is Barbro (the Swedish form of Barbara), and "Babs" is a nick form for Barbro.

[ph0220]

The second song is from 1960

[EriicTheKing]

omg :D

[euromilo]

where is Lena? in Sweden, "Det gör ont" is the 3rd most succeful song of MF history...

[AdriannaLisa]

do you have whole '62 performance? Can you send it to youtube? I think it would be the best quality video of this song.

[Hencytje]

Om det är någon som kan sjunga så är det Jan Johansen. :p

[JJSWE]

and where is Lena Philipsson, if I can ask?

[Alixx2]

As an answer for your question... I didn't have that video, so sorry. But I'm sure you can find it on Youtube anyway, just search for "Eurovision 2004 Sweden".