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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Melody Club presents first postmelovideo of this year for their single "The Hunter".
Last Saturday wasn't pretty successfull for the band when they haven't managed to qualify from MF-semifinal but this week band releases new album "Human Harbor", that we didn't listen to but are very intrigued by that as "The Hunter" has become truly stunning (and underestimated) comeback of this great band, video is pretty colourful, atmospheric and cosmic, we buy it all and hope you will too.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Composers: Kristofer Östergren, Erik Stenemo, Jon Axelsson, Nicklas Stenemo (= Melody Club)
När jag vaknade i morse hade jag Melody Clubs ”The Hunter” i huvudet. Tänker inte dra någon annan slutsats än att de har en refräng som fastnar. Bandet satsar på en schackturnering snabbt rocktempo. Sångaren Kristofer Östergren gör ett rejält gympapass under sina 3 minuter och han ska ha all heder för sina Mick Jagger moves. Hoppas han klarar entréhoppet från flygeln på 2 meter utan att få men för framtiden. Kläderna får extra stilpoäng – svarta lackkavajer och slipsar med röda västar. Håller tummarna för at det inte blir schackmatt.
Composers : Julia Alvgard, Manne Hjelm, Ola Holstad, Joar Lenz.
Webbjoker Julia har fått en jättesnygg scenografi som lyfter hela numret. Julia sång känns äkta och hon har en bra röst. Jag tycker lite synd om henne eftersom hon hamnat i tävlingens svåraste startfält. Kläderna har en del att önska. En elegant klänning hade passat bättre ihop med scenografin.
Composers : Alexander Bard, Ola Håkansson, Tim Norell
Det är alltid vanskligt att veta vad ett seglivat dansband som Lasse Stefanz kans ställa till med. De har en trogen beundrarskara bland svenska folket och börjar de rösta så kan detta bli kvällens skräll. Låten är genuin svensk dansband av klassiskt format. Originaltexten på engelska har bytts till svenska.
Linda Pritchard – ” Alive” Composers : Oscar Görres, Fredrik Kempe
Linda står för kvällens mäktigaste ballad som ger mig associationer till ett flertal ESC-bidrag från länder som Polen, Ungern, Slovenien. Det första som dök upp i mitt huvud var Isis Gee som sjöng ”For Life” för Polen 2008. Linda har en ypperlig röst som kommer bättre till sin rätt i denna låt än i den discodänga hon framförde ifjol. Då tog sig visserligen "You're Making Me Hot" till andra chansen. Det är Linda värd även i år men hon har ett kompakt motstånd som också vill vidare.
Composers : Desmond Child, Negin Djafari, Hugo Lira, Ian-Paolo Lira, Thomas Gustafsson.
Det här är en energisk bra poplåt som kräver en bra sångare som kan ryta ifrån. Tyvärr känns Anders Fernette för svag i rösten och man har dränkt hela låten i ljudmatta som gör att han hörs ännu mindre. Akrobater som hänger i tygstycken tar bort fokuset än mer. Kvällens svagaste låt.
Composers : Pontus Assarsson, Thomas G:son, Jörgen Ringqvist, Daniel Barkman.
Det är inget fel på Linda - hon ska ju låta såhär. En rejäl stompschlager som gör alla traditionalister lyckliga. Det är nästan så att hon börja komma upp i Nanne Grönwalls energinivå. Linda sjunger om sin rejäla hemmaman som kan ”Plocka ur en diskmaskin och byta olja på min bil”. Trots det vill hon helst spola honom för någon mer exotisk variant. Kanske lyckas hon i sin kycklinggula klänning och lårhöga gula plaststövlar.
Composers : Jojo Borg Larsson, Nicke Borg, Fredrik Thomander, Anders Wikström
Nicke Borg är en hårdrockaren från Backyard Babies som genomgått en mental förändringsprocess och hamnat i Melodifestivalen av egen fri vilja. Han har i alla fått mycke lovord för sin rockballad som han framför med härlig nasal-raspig röst. Jag hoppas att folket gillar tatuerade män och röstar honom vidare.
Composers: RedOne, Bilal "The Chef", Teddy Sky, AJ Junior, Jimmy Joker, BeatGeek
Årets mest hypade låt pga Lady Gaga-låtskrivare RedOne. Jag ska medge att jag varit ytterst skeptisk. Fyra castade tjejer som sätts ihop till en popgrupp. Gärna olika färg på håret. MEN när denna låt så lyfts man till en högre nivå i det som kan kallas produktionshantverk. Wow-känslan infinner sig trots att låten gå under epitetet adrenalinstinn euro-disko. Scenografin är ursnygg. Nu krävs att svenska folket tänker Eurovision Song Contest och inte dansbandsdax. Rösta för Love Generation och Sverige kanske står som värdland för ESC 2012.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Daily MF: Singles from Danny, Eric Saade, Melody Club, Sara Varga, mix from Dilba and Malmö rehearsals
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Don't forget that tomorrow you'll be able to watch last 4th semifinal of Melodifestivalen in 20:00 by Stockholm time here and maybe tomorrow we'll see the winner of this year. Snippets of rehearsals were presented yesterday and below you can find links and our thoughts about them.
Melody Club - The Hunter - very warm melodic pop-rock track with Spring positive feeling and cool guitar-part, much warmer and schlageristic than we could expect from Melody Club with stable professional performance.
Julia Alvgard - Better or Worse - beautiful ballad performed by sensual Julia's voice with dark blue background and Julia looking very charismatic and nice.
Lasse Stefanz - En blick och nånting händer - "Simply The Best" in dansband-arrangement, sorry, but it's SO not our style.
Linda Pritchard - Alive - song was written by Oscar Görres and Fredrik Kempe so on one hand it's what you could hear from previous presented Linda's songs and on the other hand it's a lot in a style of Linda's "Hollow". It's all about incredible Linda's voice that makes whole pack sounding amazing but remembering that even "Moving On" hasn't reached the final directly we're especially scared for Linda.
Anders Fernette - Run - Anders' dynamic guitar pop that we use to love and this song doesn't seem to be exception, but it's hard to judge by snippet of rehearsal where Anders obviously doesn't feel comfortable vocally, we'll love it in studio-version however.
Linda Bengtzing - E de fel på mig - probably biggest disappointment, it's s classic Linda's track sounding a lot like Värsta schlagern but weaker and without whole-packed performance of Hur svårt kan det vå, still Linda gives it all on the stage but I guess she won't qualify to the final directly.
Nicke Borg - Leaving Home - classic big rock-ballad with loud guitars and everything you can expect, I'm not sure that it's song for Nicke though, I'd imagine it better with some more screaming loud vocal, otherwise it doesn't go whole road for me.
Love Generation - Dance Alone - very effective performance with 90s eurodance song that screams to get into Globen and girls are gonna be on fire this year in Sweden but is the song will be as big favorite as press now claims? I'm not sure, it's still not what Gaga could release but wishing luck to girls, they do great job on the stage and I'm not gonna be against if they'll win whole contest.
After rehearsal due to public voting Melody Club has colected 47% (!!!) of votes today (that is not much less than after Eric's performance), so do we have new favorite that will be able to slip into first place of the final while Danny will be sharing votes with Eric and Sanna with one of schlager-ladies Jenny/Shirley/Linda having big chance to get there? We'll see tomorrow but due to svenskaspel Melody Club currently goes 2nd for the win.
Four new singles covers have come from Danny, Eric Saade, Melody Club and Sara Varga, you can check them above. Melody Club's EP will also contain b-side "Anyone Else" and Joniverse Remix for "The Hunter". Probably now you say - oh my! Is it gonna be the first or the only melomix this year? And I say - no. In a few days mix for Dilba's "Try Again" from Jacob Czitrom is gonna be released and we really like that Romanian-dance sound in verses with dark baseline decorating chorus so fine! And hope it's not the last mix for "Try Again", this song deserves maxi-single after charting so successfully on iTunes. By the way talking about not qualifying songs success in common chart - it's obviously not so well comparing with last year. Week ago Dilba debuted at #20 and Le Kid - at #31, this week chart has only Christian Walz at #30. Hope it'll go better when the rest of the songs will be released after 4th semifinal.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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.
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
Monday, February 7, 2011
Le Kid who were left 5th in Melodifestivalen's first semifinal last Saturday celebrates victory today. Their newly released single "Oh My God" has reached #1 of Swedish iTunes-chart in the first day of sales! Impressive start and hopefully big hit of this year. Rasmus Viberg has also charted on iTunes with single "Social Butterfly" (currently #25), Dilba's single will be out very-very soon and Jonas Matsson's single also to come (thanx to Schlagerprofilerna for covers).
Talking about forthcoming singles - Sanna Nielsen who will perform this Saturday has also presented her stunning cover before and today we get another one and also pretty amazing cover of single "My Heart Is Refusing Me" from Sanna's Göteborg rival - Loreen. We already starts to fall for Loreen exploring this dark mysterious image and we're sure her entry is gonna be something very special! (stort tack for cover to Schlagerfiasko)
Melody Club today unleashed cover, tracklist and release date of their new album "Human Harbour". Besides MF-single "The Hunter" album will include previously released "I Don't Believe In Angels" and recently performed in XL-live "Sweet Disaster" and "Dreamers Wasteland". Album will be released in one day with Sanna's one - on March 2nd (few days after 4th semifinal).
Jenny Silver today revealed in chat with Aftonbladet readers that her album is planned for this Autumn and Swingfly's new album "Awesomeness" will include (among others) songs recorded with Kleerup and is planned to be out soon after Melodifestivalen final.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Yesterday The Ark first time presented their (probably the last in The Ark history) single "Breaking Up With God" at Grammis awards, today we've got a nice backstage video containing also some clips from performance. We don't know if it will serve as music video in future. Would be a bit strange remembering about how massive The Ark videography is but however it was touching to see them apart from stage extravagant image as ordinary people.
Among another artists on the stage audience could see performances of Malena Ernman, Håkan Hellström, Anna Järvinen, Lykke Li, Magnus Carlsson and others. People could even see Håkan Hellström, Eva Dahlgren, Melody Club and Tove Styrke singing together with The Ark one of The Ark's big hits "Calleth You, Cometh I". Melody Club and The Ark on one stage, isn't it symbolic few weeks before MF?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
I've got 3 important news regarding Melodifestivalen-2011 which I'm gonna share with you right now!
First one and the most important that we oficially have got new 8 announced artists and the most exciting word here is new! Just like Linda Bengtzing from the first bunch only Sanna Nielsen can be called here schlager-veteran and just like Linda she's coming with support of Thomas G:Son (I guess we're gona have a lot of G:Son's songs this year after his Top-5 on Eurovision this year). But not alone - Peter Boström, Bobby Ljunggren and Irini Michas are hard team behind the song "I'm In Love" so it's gonna be schlager of higher calibre.
Another one participant who already participated in Melodifestivalen but not solo is international sensation Danny and again song is co-written with Peter Boström (yesss!!!), Figge Boström and Danny, song is called "In The Club" so everything's pointing to the saddest heartbreaking ballad in the world, nah, this team is made for dancefloor killer-hit and the final in Globen without any "if" and "but"!
But the name I'm completely blown away is Dilba! One of the most inspiring artists of Sweden with music that's completely out of time is finally back after a long break and I'm so happy she's coming to Melodifestivalen. What makes it more interesting is that she's coming with Niklas Pettersson (responsible for some Velvet's and Daisy's hits) and Linda Sonnvik (who worked with Belle before) who wrote the song "Try Again".
Second ex-A*Teens part Sara Lumholdt is coming to Melodifestivalen with the song "Enemy" by Niclas Lundin (this year's song of Erik Linder) and Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad (Le Kid). Unfortunately Sara hasn't managed to properly establish solo-career so hopefully she'll make it this time.
Among loud names of this bunch you can also find Melody Club - popular pop/synth rock band that rotates in speculation lists not the first year and can easily be this year The Ark with the song "The Hunter".
More fresh names are Loreen (first Idol participant who completely disappeared for years after the show) with the song "My Heart Is Refusing Me" co-written with Moh Denebi and Björn Djupström and even newer for big audience Simon Forsberg with Fredrik Kempe's song "Tid att andas" and Rasmus Viberg with "Social Butterfly" written by another schlager-veterans - Amir Aly and Henrik Wikström. I'm gonna tell you about them a bit later.
Another exciting news are for all who's gonna visit Sweden to see Melodifestivalen next year. Tickets sales will be open this Thursday on October 21st so you'll be able to buy them from outside of Sweden on http://ticnet.se Prices and dates of concerts and general rehearsals are mentioned here.
And the last news. This week has shortened amount of webbjokers participants to 100 so you can check the chart and take a look at which songs are still in competition and which are going to leave it next week here. We have 25 favorites left so keep hoping that someone of them will reach the final!
Рор-solo
Nadina - Change of heart (127)
Engla - Don't stop (142)
Jonas Matsson - On my own (240)
Mona Ersare - Over the Rooftops (245)
Ghena - Stand here (269)
Maliq - Believe in me (115)
Anna Palmér - Echo (147)
Eurovision pop
OneVoice - Varje steg (299)
Schlager/Dansband
Emil Johannisson - En sekund (153)
Göran Frödin - Kan du inte välja mig (#206)
Trison - Lovar & svär (211)
Pop-group
Fredrik och Magnus - Get out (162)
Adam Sandahl - Att vakna vid din sida (112)
Marcus & Fredrik - She's making my day (261)
Predicament - A fist full of maybe (104)
MLVNS - Denight (139)
Jazz/Visa
Natalie - Just a dream (204)
Conny Andersson - Kura Skymning (208)
Lise Edman - Ta mig som jag är (329)
Rock
Ann-Christine Johansson - Sanningen ska segra (255)
Ballad pop
Julia Alvgard - Better or worse (118)
Niklas Dahlquist - Här står jag för dig (180)
Fabian - Simple life (262)
House/techno
Keylas - Crying in my dreams (131)
Various
Anton & Dejo - I wanna be with you (185)
By the way you can already mention logo of Melodifestivalen with silver gradient background in sales shops so seems like we've got new color of Melodifestivalen-2011!
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