Doin' The Omoralisk Schagerfestival '10 (3)

So it's over once again. Melodifestivalen 2010 has drawn to a close and Anna Bergendahl is our representative in Oslo later this year. Now, I haven't followed this competition all out as I been busy a couple of times, thankfully listening to much better music at parties. So I don't have a full grasp over all contestants. It's a nice song, it just doesn't lift my spirit and tells me it is an instant hit. Of course if we win I will probably just shut up. All I can do at the moment is to brag that I saw here live in 2008 when I came back from Washington. That's right, I've seen here live and would gladly show a photo from that occasion, but unfortunately my computer have either erased the pictures or somehow sent them away to some other place on my hard-drive. I don't know. All I got left is some really disfigured shots that are impossible to make any sense of. Convenient isn't?

Otherwise I don't know what to say about the finale. First thing we are shown is Sylvester Stallone, yes THE Sylvester Stallone greeting Dolph Lundgren then a music number with Survivor's Eye of the Tiger playing and everyone is dressed in boxer outfits. It can't get any cheesier then that with one exception. If you recall I've been talking about Dolph searching for the saboteur of the first show. Do you know who did? No one, it was a F***ING illusion, it was all in their MINDS. GOD DAMMIT what a cheap cop out. The middle act was deplorable, a hard rock version of last years winner that totally sucked, mostly due to the fact that it wasn't a good song to begin with. We also got a montage of earlier Norwegian and Swedish songs that was either hit or miss depending on the songs themselves. Best song was still Roger Pontares song from 2000, När vindarna viskar mitt namn. Here is the Swedish outtake of the song:

And for international readers we even have the English version:

There is of course a big difference in lyrics but it still awesome. Unfortunately it only ended up in 7th place in ESC, but of course, with todays standards in Swedish ESC-songs that's pretty high. Of course, when speaking about Melodifestivalen there is one song that's even better and describe the whole thing perfectly, Doin' the Omoralisk Schlagerfestival:

This one don't have any english lyrics so to all international reader, I apologize for the inconvenience.