Showing posts with label Melodifestivalen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melodifestivalen. Show all posts

Monday, 20 May 2013

My Melodifestivalen 2013 Top 4


Here's a little ranking I did for MF, thought I'd post it here.
My Top 4 Melodifestivalen Final Songs:

#4 - 7 Points - Robin Stjernberg - You
The overall winner of MF. It wasn't the worst choice that Sweden could have made, and it's a pretty decent song.

#3 - 8 points - Louise Hoffsten - Only the Dead Fish Follow The Stream
This was a very pretty little song, and this could have done well at ESC. I mean, look at how well Anouk's song about birds falling down did for the Netherlands, this type of song is what the contest needs.

#2 - 10 Points - Yohio - Heartbreak Hotel
Now this was bloody brilliant, and this song was insanely catchy. I would have been very happy if this had won MF. In fact, when the votes first came pouring in, it looked like Yohio would win the contest. But alas, it wasn't to be.

#1 - 12 Points - Ravaillacz - En riktig jävla schlager
My absolute favourite song from Melodifestivalen 2013. I don't care what anyone else says, I loved this. The Swedish language is just great to listen to (seriously there needs to be more songs in Swedish in MF), and I really hope that one day Sweden once again chooses a Swedish song to represent them. Not to mention that Tommy Körberg sent two of my favourite ESC songs of all time in 1969 and 1988. This is clearly the true winner of Melodifestivalen.

Honourable Mentions: Copacabanana by Sean Banan was hilarious, but I'm not sure Sweden would have wanted it to represent their country.

Friday, 15 March 2013

Melodifestivalen and Google Translate

Looking at articles on Melodifestivalen 2013 and in particular my favourites Ravaillacz, I discovered that Google Translate translates 'Tommy Körberg' as 'Jump the gun'. Why it does this, I don't know, but looking further into this, it seems that Google Translate has a lot of trouble with Swedish names.
For example, typing 'Carola Häggkvist' into google translate gives the result 'Sweet Dreams'. Markoolio is now 'Metallica'. And finally, Niklas Strömstedt means 'Diamond Rio', whatever that is.
It's all very confusing, I don't know how they reach these conclusions. I still don't know what 'Diamond Rio' means. Silly google. That's all for now, and if you know any more weird name translations, leave a comment!