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Schlager-explosion Linda Bengtzing is back this year with her Melodifestivalen single "E det fel på mej" and compilation of some old best and unreleased fresh stuff "Min Karusell - En samling" - both have entered Top-20 making this year pretty successful for Linda. Three of tracks that you've probably missed are duet with Brolle "Varför gör du som du gör?" from previous Linda's album "Vild & Galen", recently released track "Kärlekens barn" and brand new schlager "Män i uniform". You can listen to all of them below.

And sure don't forget to get charged with Linda's performance at Nyhetsmorgon - something that always delivers tons of fun and it even doesn't matter what, where and how is performed, there's only Linda and schlager-hurricane she takes with her on the stage.

Efter sex veckors Melodifestivalsfokus ska vi äntligen utse en vinnare ikväll. Äntligen upprepar jag. Skönt att resan är över för denna gång och vi kan börja fokusera på Düsseldorf och Eurovision Song Contest. Det är trots allt den tävlingen som jag tycker är intressant.

Jag var på gårdagens generalrepetition och kan konstatera att jag fortfarande inte har hittat några  favoriter. Det är mycke retro över låtarna och vi befinner oss i årtionden som 50-, 60- och 80-talen.

Mellanaktsunderhållningen blir som vanlig bäst. Eller vad sägs om Nanne Grönwall, Lena Ph, Ola Salo från The Ark och Christer Sjögren som rockar loss tillsammans.

 
 1. Danny Saucedo: In The Club  
Composers: Fredrik Boström, Peter Boström, Danny Saucedo 
Låten har växt för min del och vinner den så får jag väl vara hyfsat nöjd. Snygg dans som tyvärr kräver så mycke koncentration att Danny blir något av en stone face.

2. Sara Varga: Spring för livet    
Composers: Sara Varga, Fredrik Boström
Låtar från andra chansen har en tendens att bli folkkära och det är vad som hänt med Saras låt. Absolut inget för Eurovision men Sara har fått sig genombrott bland Svensktoppspubliken.

3. The Moniker: Oh My God!
Composer: The Moniker
Andra chansen låt igen och Moniker får betraktas som tävlingens dark horse med sin 60-tals pastisch. Trallvänligt så det förslår och refrängen sitter som klister. 

4. Brolle: Days: "And 7 Nights"   
Composer: Brolle
Norrländsk rockabilly i 80-tals tappning tilltalar inte mig. Hur kan 3 minuter kännas så långa! Brolle förlorar också tatueringsfighten mot Nicke Borg.

5. Linda Bengtzing: "E det fel på mej"  
Composers: Pontus Assarsson, Thomas G:son, Jörgen Ringqvist, Daniel Barkman
Klämkäck schlagerdänga som gör att foten automatiskt börjar röra sig i takt. Det svenskaste vi kan skicka till Düsseldorf och hela Europa kommer att skaka på huvudet. Linda charm kommer att behövas big time ifall denna låt vinner - men det tror jag inte.

6. Nicke Borg: "Leaving Home"
Composers: Jojo Borg Larsson, Nicke Borg, Fredrik Thomander, Anders Wikström
Rockballad får liv av Nickes nasala röst. Snygg enkel scendekoration. Tävlingens mest genomarbetade låt men troligen för bra för TV-publiken och definitivt inte en låt som den sms-röstande tonårsgeneration kommer att välja.

 7. Swingfly: "Me And My Drum"    
Composers:Teron Beal, Patrik Magnusson, Johan Ramström, Swingfly
Jag lever på hoppet fram till kl 21.55 ikväll och hoppas att Swingfly sopar bana med de andra artisterna som helst lever i ett musikaliskt förflutet. Bland kvällens låtar är "Me and my drums" bästa alternativet för Düsseldorf.

8. Sanna Nielsen: "I’m In Love"
Composers: Irini Michas, Peter Boström, Thomas G:son, Bobby Ljunggren
Underbara vackra och skönsjungande Sanna! Du blir mer och mer lik Ann-Louise Hansson. Åh vad jag önskar att Sanna hade fått den kvalitativa låt hon är värd. Nu känns 2 1/2 minuter som en transportsträcka till modulationen där hon äntliga får visa sina röstresurser.

9. The Playtones: "The King"
Composers: Fredrik Kempe, Peter Kvint
Dansbandskampens charmiga vinnare passar i folkparkerna. En hopplös 50-talslåt som kommer att hamna sista i sin semifinal ifall vi skickar dem till Tyskland.

10. Eric Saade: Popular 
Composer: Fredrik Kempe
'Folket' vill troligen att Eric Saade  ska vinna och det vill också min brorsdotter Marie som är sju år. Det säger en del om var han har sina fans. Jag hoppas på de 11 internationella jurygrupperna och att de  genomskådar supercharmiga Erics glaskrossar dagispop.

Thanks to Giannis Papoutsakis, oikotimes.com, for excellent photos!

This is a Melodifestivalen semifinal to remember. It became as exciting as expected. The biggest surprise of all was Linda Bengtzing who got most of the televotes. The second surprise was that Love Generation only reached second chance. The third surprise was Melody Club who failed compleatly and ended second last.

 Linda Bengtzing with her Swedish schlager "E de fel på mig" charmed the viewers and so did Nicke Borg with his tattoos and his power rock ballad "Leaving Home". Linda Pritchard and Love Generation get a second chance next weekend in Sundsvall. That heat will be extremely exciting.


Here you find interviews with the finalists, made directly after the show.







Source: Lilian.
Behind the camera: Andreas Nilsson

Jag har anlänt till Malmö och i morgon börjar helgens aktiviteter med genrep inför deltävling 4 i Melodifestivalen. Det blir min första deltävling eftersom Göteborg fick stryka på foten till förmån för Finlands final. Det finns dock en nackdel med att vara i Malmö just nu - jag missar Danmarks final på söndag.

Jag hoppas och tror att detta kan bli det mest intressanta startfältet i år. Rock, webbjoker, dansband, stompschlager, pop och berömda Amerikanska låtskrivare. Det finns rutinerade Melodifestivalsdeltagare och flertalet debutanter. Därmed inte sagt att debutanterna är några noviser på scenen. Snarare tvärtom.

Bland låtskrivarna känns det inte lika nydanande. Fredrik Kempe, Thomas G:son, Alexander Bard, Ola Håkansson med flera.

Utan att ha hört låtarna så finns det stor chans att det även denna gång är bäddat för herrarnas afton medan damerna får nöja sig med andra chansen. Blir det så innebär det att vi efter Malmö kommer att ha en rejäl manlig övervikt i finalen. Sju manliga finalister och en kvinnlig, dvs. Sanna Nielsen.

Malmö startfältet:
Melody Club: "The Hunter"
Julia Alvgard: "Better Or Worse"
Lasse Stefanz: "En blick och nånting händer"
Linda Pritchard: "Alive"
Anders Fernette: "Run"
Linda Bengtzing: "E de fel på mej"
Nicke Borg: "Leaving Home"
Love Generation: "Dance Alone"

Source: SVT

Today we'll get new press-reviews of Malmö semifinal but it's already too much of news to hold them so I'll give it article. First of all we've got new covers of Brolle, Anders Fernette, The Moniker and Julia Alvgard, we love Anders' one especially and hope that this bad rock-guy style means we'll get some strong pop-rock entry from him.

The Playtones will release new album "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" on March 9th, it's produced by Jimmy Jansson and Karl-Ola Kjellholm (The Pusher) as their MF-song "The King" and you can already check its snippets below. Unfortunately we didn't find something better than "The King" but the key is that it's not our style, still maybe you'll find something for you.

Rehearsals of the fourth semifinal have already started on places and you can check some pics with Julia, Linda Pritchard, Anders and Love Generation.

Linda Bengtzing has new song "Män i Uniform" on her site and song sounds even better than we've found it before.

And finally exciting news that you could already read on Schlagerprofilerna, Poster Girl and Schlagerfiasko blogs but I should mention once again. Today in new QX-issue it was revealed by Christer Björkman and Edward af Sillén that next rare songs will be out on rarities CD in golden pack of MF:
Sarah Dawn Finer - Not a Sinner nor a Saint
Sonja Aldén - Night of Passion
Sonja Aldén - Invincible
Linda Bengtzing - Headlines
Agnetha Kjörsvik - Hero (Freebee, backing singer of Charlotte in Belgrade)
Brandsta City Släckers - En gång för alla
Timoteij - Run (initialy recorded in English)
Jessica Andersson - Jag ljuger så bra
Fredrik Kempe & Shirley Clamp - Du och jag mot världen

Sarah's "Not a Sinner nor a Saint" was presented few days ago on Poster Girl's blog, so here we show you another track that will appear on that compilation and we like it in this version not less than in final version!

It's time for new schlager-heroes to visit Linköping this week to fight for tickets to Globen and we're getting probably harder pack of names than it was in first semifinals. Eric Saade looks like even bigger favorite by odds than Danny was before 1st semifinal followed surprisingly by The Playtones (because of Dansbandskampen win + Fredrik Kempe's song I guess), Shirley's Angels (oh, this project looks more and more interesting!) and again surprisingly newcomer Sara Varga (Sara sounds very Anna Bergendahl these days so probably repeat of Anna's success is expected here as well). Simon Forsberg, Sara Lumholdt, Sebastian and Linda Sundblad go close next. There are no outsiders by bookies and no outsiders by good sense. Everyone has strong background, songwriters or label support behind. Tomorrow evening we'll hear first press-reviews and maybe then we'll get first winner-feeling responses (what I miss for now).

Takling about news of participants.
Linda Bengtzing joins artists already announced about wish to release new albums before Melodifestivalen-final, her compilation "Min Karusell" except MF-hits/MF-rejected hits ("Hur svårt kan det va", "Värsta schlagern", "Alla flickor", "Jag ljuger så bra", "E de fel på mig", "Victorious") will also include fan-favorite "Not that kind of girl", duet with Brolle "Varför gör du som du gör", "Kärlekens barn" released on separate EP in 2009 and brand new song "Man i uniform" that you can already listen in the end of this video. Some karaoke-tracks are already included as bonuses.

Linda Sundblad after making soundtrack for "Let's Dance" show on TV4 year ago this time has recorded soundtrack for another TV4's "Sveriges mästerkock" show. As we always love Linda the most with a bit rockier sound (yes, she's gonna stay Lambretta-Linda forever for us) we really like it!

Talking about other news. Love Generation's leak this time doesn't seem to cause any consequenses due to Thomas Hall's response to escsweden.com.

If you remember this year we'll get CD with rarities celebrating 10 years of new Melodifestivalen, Sarah Dawn Finer has revealed that it'll include demo for Alcazar's "Not A Sinner Nor A Saint" recorded by her. And you can already listen to that demo on Poster Girl blog!

The Moniker in recent chat with Aftonbladet's readers revealed that he's album is on the way.

Anniela's album will be out on March 14th and MF-single "Elektrisk" will be released there in English version.

Brolle and Anders Fernette also record new albums and Anders already has preliminary tracklist on his blog (with "Lola", "Hungry Eyes", "Tell me Why" but unfortunately without "Don't Stop").

Loreen also revealed she has so much stuff that she could release three albums but for now her closest aim is to release next single "Sober", you can check its acoustic version below. Very beautiful song!!!

Simon Forsberg who will compete this Saturday in Linköping seems to be ready for the fight and due to pics from rehearsals he's gonna be alone on the stage, we'll know for sure later. Check also video from rehearsal and other pics on Schlagerfiasko.

Tomorow Göteborg will get schlagerized in full-mode meeting Melodifestivalen's 2nd semifinal gang of artists - Brolle, Loreen, Babsan, Elisabeth Andreassen, Sanna Nielsen, The Moniker, Anniela, Christian Walz - not a weak selection at all! And how strong their songs will be we'll know already tomorrow from press-reviews. Due to odds and polls the biggest favorites are Sanna, Brolle and Christian but will they stay faves after tomorrow prelisten? We'll see!

For now we'll turn our face to other updates.
Dilba's single "Try Again" has made debut on iTunes today and going road of Le Kid single has reached #1 of iTunes chart with Le Kid on #2 and Rasmus Viberg at #45. It's gonna be really one of the strongest meloyears if even not qualifying songs are doing so well.

Talking about success of MF-2011 among viwers, show in Luleå has collected 3 014 000 viewers in front of TV-screens (that is neither record nor a fail) and on the other hand only 320 608 of votes that is the lowest first semifinal figure for the last 10 years (since semifinals system was introduced).

Recently Schlagerprofilerna revealed that no Melodifestivalen DVD is intended to be released this year again because of lalbel not satisfied with low sales due to sharing video in Internet and all videos in free access located on SVT site.

Linda Bengtzing has taken part in commercial action Schlagerfeber - talent contest held in Onoff stores net, Linda is gonna be coach for folk's talents and judge as well. Contest will be held through February, you can see trailer here (and our friends say that booklets with Linda are already all over). I just wonder how Melodifestivalen management will take it.

Linda Pritchard's dress is gonna be made not less than by Royal family designer Lars Wallin who had previous Eurovision-experience with Sweden-2006 and Azerbaijan-2009.

Daniel "The Moniker" Karlsson has appeared in XL-Live with very nice acoustic performance. Interesting fact is that both Daniel and Christoffer Hiding participated in the same season of Idol leaving on 4th and 6th place (EMD's Mattias was 5th) so it's gonna be interesting if both will meet in the final.

Today we've got a whole bunch of schlager-related news I'm gonna share with you right now!
Everyone's and everything's updating styles closer to the biggest Swedish music tv-event of the year - Melodifestivalen and here are the brightest examples which we can't miss to mention - Dilba is looking gorgeous on new photos with big dark hair and red stylish jacket and Linda Bengtzing is coming back to her long hair with very fresh and young look like it wasn't 6 years since Linda has entered competition first time.

Site of Melodifestivalen also has change its look today and now you can watch there presentations of artists talking mostly about their families, favorite songs, dishes and what they are going to do when they'll win. Site has got its editor Elsa Billgren that you can look at here, page where you can ask Christer Björkman about everything here and you can even participate in contest to get tickets to the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen in Luleå sending answer to question what Danny, Dilba and Pernilla Andersson use to do in nature (not together dirty minds!) to melodifestivalen@svt.se
Also now we've finally got the title of Love Generation song and it's "Dance Alone" written by RedOne, Bilal "The Chef", Teddy Sky, AJ Junior, Jimmy Joker and BeatGeek. If these names (except RedOne) don't tell you anything it doesn't mean you didn'n hear songs written by them:

"Poison" Nicole Scherzinger
"Money Honey" Lady Gaga
"Bumpy Ride" Mohombi
"Straight Through My Heart" Backstreet Boys
"Breathing Your Love" Darin Featuring Kat DeLuna
"Step Up" Darin
"Oui Mais... Non" Mylene Farmer
"The Fall" Sibel feat. Lazee
"The Silence", "Broken Heels" Alexandra Burke

Impressive? No, it smells like world hit!!! And hopefully Sweden won't reject it.
You can also check running order in semifinals and I'll remind you that 1st, 6th and 8th places are considered as lucky ones. So Danny, Eric Saade and Love Generation look like biggest favorites to get their tickets to the final and by the way Carola, Charlotte Perrelli and Malena Ernman performed last in 4th semifinal so definitely SVT will make everything to provide Love Generation's victory and we don't mind at all!

LULEÅ 5 FEBRUARI
1) Dilba
2) Swingfly
3) Jenny Silver
4) Jonas Matsson
5) Le Kid
6) Rasmus Viberg
7) Pernilla Andersson
8) Danny

GÖTEBORG 12 FEBRUARI
1) Brolle
2) Loreen
3) Babsan
4) Elisabeth Andreassen
5) Sanna Nielsen
6) The Moniker
7) Anniela
8) Christian Walz

LINKÖPING 19 FEBRUARI
1) Linda Sundblad
2) Simon Forsberg
3) Sara Lumholdt
4) The Playtones
5) Shirley´s Angels
6) Sebastian
7) Sara Varga
8) Eric Saade

MALMÖ 26 FEBRUARI
1) Melody Club
2) Julia Alvgard
3) Lasse Stefanz
4) Linda Pritchard
5) Anders Fernette
6) Linda Bengtzing
7) Nicke Borg
8) Love Generation

And finally today we've known two artists who refused to participate this year, it's popular indie-artist Håkan Hellström who has released #1 album "2 steg från paradise" and 2 Top-10 hits in 2010. And another act is Treadstone - fresh rock-band that I told you about this Summer debuted with amazing single "Six Feet Under" and now before release of album "A New Day Sun" on January 19th they present single "S.O.S" that they were asked to participate with but refused. Here's new video for "S.O.S" - powerful Foo Fighters-smelling rock-song that we'll definitely be missing this year.

Dansband, vispop, stompschlager och rap. Ungefär så skulle man kunna stildefiniera de första klara artisterna inför 2011-års Melodifestival. SVT med Christer Björkman i spetsen släppte under torsdagen namnen på fyra av de tävlande. Om ca två veckor kommer ytterligare namn och proceduren lär fortgår ett flertal veckor framöver. Allt för att hålla spänningen vid liv och Eurovisions fantasterna på halster.

Dance-band, vispop (=mix of ballad & pop), stomp-schlager and rap. The artists confirmed yesterday for Melodifestivalen 2011 are representatives for these genres. SVT with Christer Björkman in lead has given us four names for next year’s contest. A few more names will come in a couple of weeks and I suppose the procedure will continue for several weeks or months. The excitement must be kept alive and fans hold in tension.

I'm starting to feel a bit schizophrenic

Om fortsättningen ser ut som starten så tyder allt på att vi kanske har 32 låtar och 32 musikstilar att ta ställning till. Ur ett bildningsperspektiv är det fantastiskt men fungerar konceptet för att skapa ett ”nytt” startfält inför 2011? Personligen tycker jag det verkar oroväckande likt tidigare år.

If it continues as it started we might end up with 32 songs in 32 different genres. From a music educational perspectives it’s fantastic but is this the right kind of concept to create a “new” kind of starting field for 2011 and to improve Sweden’s chances? Personally I think it is very similar to previous years.

Själv har jag en dröm om att Orup skriver alla låtarna och utser 3-4 artister som framför dem. Det är visserligen ingen ny idé utan snarare en återgång till 50-60-talens koncept. I modevärden blickar man ju ständigt tillbaka och vintage, retro och recycle är supertrendigt. Varför inte testa det konceptet i Melodifestivalen.
I have a dream that Orup will write all the songs with 3-4 different artists performing them. This is of course not a new invention but a return to the concept used during the 1950-60. The fashion world is always looking back in time to find inspiration. Vintage, retro and recycling are trendier than ever. Why not give this concept a try in Melodifestivalen.

De fyra första klara bidragen är följande - hur det låter får vi vet i februari-mars nån gång:
These are the four confirmed song – how they sound will be a secret until February-March:










Song title: "En blick och något händer"
Composer: Alexander Bard, Ola Håkansson, Tim Norell
Artist: Lasse Stefanz

Song title: "E de fel på mig"
Composer: Pontus Assarsson, Thomas G:son, Jörgen Ringqvist
Artist: Linda Bengtzing

Song title: ”Me And My Drum”
Composer: Teron Beal, Patrik Magnusson, Johan Ramström
Artist: Swingfly

Song title: ”Desperados”
Composer: Pernilla Andersson
Artist: Pernilla Andersson
 
Source: SVT
Photos: SVT, Poplight, Lilian

Today SVT revealed first 4 artists who'll perform at next year Melodifestivalen, all of them are quite popular so undoubtfully you've heard at least few names from list of artists and songwriters. If you didn't I'm gonna present you all artists during Autumn. But giving fast look on a list you can mention schlager-veteran-artist Linda Bengtzing with schlager-veteran-songwriters like Thomas G:Son so if there's someone who has doubs it's gonna be huge schlager, I would advice you to forget about them. Due to Linda's revelation she's fallen for this song from the first listen and she promises that no one will stay unsatisfied, even Bert Karlsson (another hint that song will be very schlageristic). Utterly popular dansband-group Lasse Steffanz will perform with the song of coming back songwriting team from 90s - Norell Oson Bard, actually this team already has huge experience with dansband acts but still it's interesting what Alexander Bard will bring to this song from his huge music portfolio after trio broke up. Probably mostly I'm excited about Swingfly - rap-artist who presented set of pretty nice singles not so along ago mixing hip-hop with fresh sounding pop, I'm gonna tell you about him later.

Pernilla Andersson - Desperados
(Pernilla Andersson)

Linda Bengtzing - E de fel på mig
(Pontus Assarsson, Thomas G:son, Jörgen Ringqvist)

Lasse Stefanz - En blick och något händer
(Alexander Bard, Ola Håkansson, Tim Norell)

Swingfly - Me And My Drum
(Teron Beal, Patrik Magnusson, Johan Ramström)

Another Melodifestivalen-newcomer is Pernilla Andersson who's not newcomer for Swedish audience in common though. She's relatively fresh name on indie stage but has already managed to release 4 albums for 3 years and all of them charted more or less well. Last one "Ö" has debuted 3 weeks ago at #11 of album-chart and right now Pernilla presents new single from it - "Som En Ö". Like the most of Pernilla's stuff this song is gentle guitar pop, a bit melancholic with feeling of light sadness and relaxing mood. You can check live performance of it right below.

During Stockholm Pride week Linda Bengtzing, Anna Bergehdahl, Jill Johnson, Sarah Dawn Finer and Magnus Carlsson gave English interviews to oikotimes and great news are that both Magnus and Linda are definitely want to come back to a big spotlight of future Melodifestivalen. Linda seems to be especially eager about comeback. Unfortunately Sarah is not so eager about it but doesn't want to say she'll never do it again. Well, you'd better check it yourself right below.

Interview with Sarah Dawn Finer
Interview with Anna Bergehdahl
Interview with Magnus Carlsson
Interview with Jill Johnson
Interview with Linda Bengtzing

And you can also check some well-recorded performances during last week. Second record of Rebound's performance is a bit distorted with agonizing dying fans but this is what actually makes me laugh to tears everytime I hear it.

MaryJet - Dear Mr. President
Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life
Björn Skifs - Fångad i en dröm
Shirley Clamp - Min kärlek
Shirley Clamp - Med Hjärtat Fyllt Av Ljus, Att älska dig
Jan Johansen - Se på mig
Jill Johnson - Crazy in love
Göran Fristorp (Nova) - Sommaren Som Aldrig Säger Nej
Svenne and Lotta - Bang A Boomerang
Christer Sjögren - I Love Europe

As you can remember year before after giving birth to first child Linda Bengtzing has made her comeback on the stage of Liseberg with big schlager-medley of her songs "Alla flickor", "Jag Ljuger Så Bra", "Hur svårt kan det va?" participated in Melodifestivalen. Yesterday audience could get deja-vu watching Linda with this schlager-medley again but this time in a full power and expression she usually provides on the stage of MF, also together with Velvet they performed "Victorious" and it feels like every new performance of this song is stronger and stronger. Velvet as another representive of schlager-royalty couldn't leave audience without her Melodifestivalen-hit and performed "The Queeen" (around 40:00) in all her brilliance. Also you can check performances of another guest-artists Robert Wells and Joel Alme and karaoke with public of Arja Saijonmaa's "Högt över havet" and Ted Gärdestad's "Satellit", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and others here.

Linda Bengtzing - Alla flickor
Velvet och Linda - Victorious
Robert Wells, Velvet & Linda Bengtzing - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Robert Wells - Satellit
Robert Wells - Nocturne
Joel Alme - No Class
Joel Alme - The Queens corner

I'd like to put your attention on one interesting show being popular in Sweden in 90s. Sure many of you know about Fame Factory (talent-show in the beginning of 00s) and artists which came from it (Linda Bengtzing, Sandra Oxenryd, Magnus Bäcklund, Mathias Holmgren...) but then many of these singers were already not newcomers for Swedish audience participating before in show "Sikta mot stjärnorna". The aim of participants was to imitate different big stars and the winner of every show qualified to the final. The winner of the final was sent to European final. In this amazing show you could see Sandra Oxenryd as Carola, Magnus Bäcklund as Tom Jones, Mathias Holmgren as Nick Kamen, Cecilia Vennersten as Mariah Carey, Caroline Wennergren as Ella Fitzgerald and you can also watch yourself performances of Linda Bengtzing doing Lene from Aqua, Shirley Clamp doing Maria McKee, Bosson as Michael Jackson and Date as Take That.

If you didn't hear the story of this song it's quite simple but touching. Last year schlager-daddy Thomas G:Son gave a birth to the new schlager-anthem and has sent it to Melodifestivalen - the place where all (almost all) schlagers become legends but evil people didn't accept it and threw it out. How dramatical! Well, as long as this world has some hot schlager hearts beating these stories still can finish with happy ends. Two schlager-moms Linda Bengtzing and Jenny "Velvet" Pettersson adopted this pure child and has made it as glorious as only these faboulous ladies can. The story goes and we've got new really nice mix of this song!

This week Sommarkrysset hasn't left us without another Melodifestivalen-2010 discovery, fresh pop-project and premiere of new single from one popular artist.
If you're really into Swedish pop you couldn't miss great hit of this Spring "Kom" from new girl band Timoteij, band whose album has become golden for one day. Another freshest pop-project that I've been talking about is Rebound!, they performed their successful debut single "Hurricane" with Sara Varga as DJ. And finally Eric Gadd presented his new single "Rise Up!" from forthcoming album "Rise Up" that's gonna be released in July. Host of the show this time was Linda Bengtzing and foreign guests were American Joshua Radin and Scottish Amy Macdonald. Check their performances below.

Eric Gadd - Medley
Amy Macdonald - Don't Tell Me That It's Over
Joshua Radin - I'd Rather Be With You