“What do you mean, you’ve never seen Melodifestivalen?!” Jasper and I are on our way to a staff meeting of local Eurovision website Eurosong.be we both write for, and with eyes full of disbelief I stare at the self proclaimed Diva in my passenger seat. “As Eurovision fan you’ll think MF is delicious, sometimes it’s even better than Eurovision itself” I utter enthusiastically. Jasper solemnly swears he’ll give it a chance someday.
Cut to yesterday (two years after the above happened, I need to add), when out of the blue I get a message on Twitter that says: I’m finally doing it, MF here I come! “Sure took you long enough” I mutter under my breath. But I’m curious to see what he’ll think and am prepared for a truckload of superlatives.
That was just a tiny bit presumptuous. If semi 1 & 2 weren’t all that then semi 3 was the absolute low point of the season. Again some Eric Saade got to open the show. Again the lovely alternative song didn’t stand a chance. Again we got songs we’ve heard many times before in many different versions (which is no wonder when Thomas G:Son & Fredrik Kempe keep on rearing their heads every other song). Again we got vocal talents that weren’t that talented at all. Again the most ridiculous performance was rewarded with a place in the final. Again it was something so outdated in song and performance even San Marino would utter a shy “thanks, but no thanks”. Again our bubble burst.
This third semi must have been the absolute worst I’ve seen since I’ve started following MF in 2004, and I simply refuse to lose any more time and energy on it than I did yesterday. Which is clearly what Jasper thought as well, because after 3 messages things got very silent on the other side of the Twitter channel. Can’t even blame him. It could have been a fluke, this semi. But then again, if you take a look at what’s made the final so far… I’d completely understand if you’d never tune in to SVT again, Jasper. I’m ever so sorry for having done that to you.
Dimivision 