People always complaining about Sweden sending ”safe” choices. That we’re not daring enough. But no we send the songs that we like and enjoy. Swedes love typical modern radio songs that we can sing along to. And we’re gonna continue to send those kinds of songs to eurovision because it’s what we prefer.
Many wanted us to send songs with Jon Henrik Fjällgren but I think that people would still complain whatever Sweden would send. It´s more about ignorance and jealousy because that shines through the attitudes so clearly.
i hate when they say they don't like it because it's relied on staging, okey so let everybody stand on a dark stage with one lamp on the artist then. no!! good staging is a big part of making eurovision a great show so don't complain on a successful and staging
Yes, I'm Swedish but omg come of it! It's getting really old seeing the half-assed UK songs in the final especially when many countries really try and send great songs but don't even qualify. Sweden loves ESC and have many talented producers and artists, that's why we "try hard" both on our own songs and when hosting. And why don't you complain about Europe instead, that continually votes for Swedish entries and hires Swedish teams/writers to "over"-produce their own songs i.e. Russia (2011, 2013-2016), Cyprus (2016-2019), Azerbaijan (2010-2019), Netherlands (2013, 2015, 2019) and Bulgaria (2016-2018). Many of these scored very high, in my opinion partially, because they were well produced, they don't get hate like Sweden does. UK should take notes from countries like Australia, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia and Italy (and, in my opinion, Sweden) that actually tries to send good stuff. Sure I think it would be fun to send something different to ESC, but I don't blame the Swedish people for voting on something they (and Europe) like in Melodifestivalen and something they think would do good in ESC.
Hey chloe, if you didn’t knew already, we send the songs we like the most, we don’t send our artists based on gender. It’s a music competition last time I checked.
@Rasmus Andersson I agree with you. I haven´t seen any stupid or rude comment from a Swede to a Norwegian. We can all have different opinions about the songs but to say that Sweden could poop on stage and get scores is really disrespectful. Even if we have different opinions we should tell them with respect.
I don't think the judges over rate Sweden, I think Europe under rates them. When the songs get releases im always like "YES! I Cant wait to see Sweden" and every other country im like "oh what did they do this year"
@Muzaffer Mercan still getting top 10 every year so thats pretty good to me. the juries might give them a bit too much points but i can't say imo they haven't deserved to finish where they have in the 2nd of the century so i'm happy the jury gave them as much points as they needed to finish as high as they have been finishing
@Muzaffer Mercan if you like the songs why were you on the side of this argument. I get that the juries put them a bit too high like i have already said but i'm happy where the jury overrated them has them finishing which isnt exactly 1st or top 3 but i agree with the different tastes thing lets be civil
@@EurovisionChloe i dont think they so similar to get as annoyed as you are if other countries did similar songs to what sweden have done recently you wouldn't dislike as much. tbf it would be nice if did something a bit more outside the box but if you saw melodifestivalen this year john lundvik got every 12 points from the juries and won the televote it was a pretty unanimous decision for that type of song to represent sweden although i felt was a bit different than the last few years songs
@@kevindeering1457 It's almost obnoxious. Also realise that not all televoters are die hard ESC fans. They probably get bored of seeing Sweden send the same thing. There is a reason why they flop the televoting. People are tired.
At this point I want us to just skip a year, Still do Melfest but just not Eurovision. It's getting rather annoying being Europes successful punchingbag, It's like being the Smart kid in school that gets beat up and bullied during recess.
Personally, I think it's not about your participation. It's more about Sweden should be a little more daring and send something that isn't usual for them (like La voix in 2009). For example, you've got Norrsken this year but the juries hurt it, but with the televoters it was 3rd! :( Of course, sending a potentially successful commercial sounding song isn't prohibited. It's just that some viewers and fans are getting tired of these songs getting way more points than some songs that has more to offer in terms of originality, ethnicity and vocal aspects (for example Greece or Albania this year). Tack så mycket for reading 😊
@@airellrm4449 La Voix? It was awful, and ended up at 21st place out of 25, with only 33 p. Most countries gave it 0 p. I remember being so sad back in 2009, when it won Melfest, over Sarah Dawn Finer´s Moving On, which I still think it amazing, and Måns Zelmerlöw´s catchy Hope & Glory. With either of those songs Sweden would´ve been top 10, perhaps top 5. I don´t think I ever been as disappoined watching Melfest and having that opera disaster winning.
Yes, Sweden is like the kid who is helping everyone else out, write the essays of like a third of the classmates, help them with their style and everything, and the class room, and is liked by the teachers, but not by the other kids who aren´t doing as well.
@@Asa...S well I still stand by La voix being one of Sweden's better entries and hell no it wasn't awful, at least for me. Maybe you Swedes there just hate non-mainstream songs like these so much over there that since 2011 no daring entry ever made it again to ESC from Sweden. Well idk but please, at least send something in Swedish (or any other language native to Sweden) for crying out loud! I don't dislike Sweden in ESC. I just think they should spice things up a bit more and juries should know that it's not just Sweden that creates quality music in Europe (let's remember that many countries send entries of similar quality and vibe to Sweden's year after year, just to end up NQ or in the bottom 5 of the final). I don't have a problem with the other Nordic countries as much because they dare being different once in a while, especially Denmark & Finland for me.
I don't think so, she just thinks that we are hopeless who always send in songs that are trendy pop songs with "cool style" singers and she find those songs and that mentality of always doing so boring and frustrating. I fully agree (a Swede) as well. We really should have more simple songs with more folksinging or pop songs with ordinary singing in front of a microphone, maybe even in Swedish, in the same kind of those that we sent in the past like "Den vilda" from 1996 or Anna Bergendahl*s Kingdom come or if you prefer, like Iceland did in 2013 or Portugal in 2017.
This really shows how subjective music is. For every year there are some who love it, some who hate it. I feel like Sweden gets a lot of negative comments and is harshly critizised every year by eurovision fans. But I'm just realising that it doesn't matter what we send, we will always get critique either way. So might as well just send the song we enjoy most, jam along and not care about others opinions 🤷♀️
I still don't get why eurofans would throw so much hate to Sweden just bcs they do their job so well. Y'all might be bored of the pop songs they send, but this is what they are really good in. And as long as the results still confirm this, I don't see any reason to complain. Thanks for amusing me so much year after year dear Swedes, your Eurovision repertoire is just impressive and it wows me to see how seriously you take this task!
Chloe giving hate to Sweden for no reason. If she never knew what the country was and listened to the songs she’d probs like half of them or more 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
@Rasmus Andersson it has literally happened every single year since 2012 (2016 only exception) There werent even 200 points to give away in the early years. Those earlier years don't even relate to this video
@Rasmus Andersson Funny how it's only Swedish people who say that, and no one else from other countries defends that statement lmao. I mean, it makes sense. It's your NF, you choose the songs that u want to go to ESC. Doesn't mean everyone else likes it, and the televoting results clearly show that.
SK Z You know that in Swedens NF, we have national juries from other countries in Europe(just like in Eurovision) to vote on what they think is the best. That is one reason why Sweden’s songs gets so many points. For example: John Lundvik got all the 12 points and got a good result in Eurovision by the juries. Robin Bengtsson was actually chosen by the juries instead of Sweden’s personally choice which was a guy named Nano. Another reason why Sweden gets many points by the jury is because Sweden is one of the best countries in the music industry! If you think about it, most of Eurovision songs has a Swedish producer in it. I think people are just jealous because Sweden always serves quality and gets the reward from the juries. I hope Sweden gets a better televote this year!
@@jullee9908 If Sweden sends Dotter, then I hope they do well, because that's a breath of fresh air and something different from the bland songs they send every year. That's real quality. If they send Paul or Robin, I'll laugh and hope they flop in televoting because they're gonna get 100/200+ points from jury anyway
Ah i love Chloe and the rest just feeding me as a (swede) with their salty tears. I just laugh along about it. We write so many other countires entries like Cyprus 2018 and Azerbaijan 2011. So we are basically competing against ourself. Feelsgoodman. But everyone always praises a slowed down ballad song that all sound the same that 50% of Europe sends. But nah that's different.
I agree that we send similar things every year and that is most cuz that is what we are good at. But Chloe. When did UK send something that was unique? And when did UK do good in Eurovision? Bit a while ago. So I am not sure that you should only be mad at Sweden. You can look at your own country too ;)
@@EurovisionChloe Just saying once again. You have the right to have your opinions but your attitude stinks. Don´t hate Sweden, that is childish and that is what shines and comes through with your attitude. Eurovision is about love and respect so remember that!
@Rasmus Andersson Det går bra då vi har en internationell jury som röstar i Melodifestivalen vilket sedan avspeglar sig hur det går i ESC. Nej, om man analyserar låtarna så är de faktiskt olika men folk är bara så hatiska och avundsjuka. 2016 skickade vi en låt med reggae vibe, 2017 med funky vibe, 2018 old school pop och 2019 en låt med gospel vibe.
@@EurovisionChloe when we have sent something different like "The ark" in 2007, "la voix", "Frans" or so we never been rewarded for it so we just sent the one we like the most instead. Even though I do not always agree unfortunately.. Wish we could send different songs but we get even worse results then..
It sounds like some of the other countries supporter getting a bit jealous of Sweden's success, doesn't it?! LOL! To me (a swede) I really liked the last one. John Lundvik - Too Late For Love. It was one of our best song in my mind. The winner if the song wasn't from Sweden. The jealousy from the people in other countries toward Sweden's period of success after success took that away from him. Said really. (Leave a stain on the competition, really.) A tacky move if you ask me. Vote for the best song and live your jealousy (well) somewhere else during the competition. People, just so everybody know. We don't want to win this often. We just want to put on a good show. (Like it or dislike it, that's fine, just don't vote against a song just because it's from Sweden.)This type of protest destroy the competition in the long run. It's said to see this reaction. (The song was to good for that.) To all the jealous people out there who think they doing a good thing. Just remember that Sweden have produced almost every single final the last ten years do to the fact that every other country seems to think that we does this best. We have produced or written between 10-30 % of the songs in every final the last couple of years. (Quite a few winner from outer countries.) If we start to feel that this competition is to unfair, we just might start´s to fall out of love from the whole thing... Guess what happen then? We just might decide to do something else. (Our music industry don't need the Eurovision - Our own national competition gives us all we need.) Sometime people can benefit from knowing who we are. So listen; The main feature of a Swede is probably our sense and need for fairness. (That's why we are a country where everybody stand in line and politely wait for our turn and so on.) That's a huge part of us. (Corruption is almost unheard of in Sweden.) Try that and you lose every chance to make a deal here. That's why this type of demonstrations toward Sweden (if they continue 4-5 years in the future) might make us leave the scene althougheter) The win is so unimportant We just want party and that can't happen for us if we feel Europe is unfair in their judgement towards our artist just because they are from Sweden.) Do you really want that?! A Eurovision where Sweden opt out?! Really? Well then just keep this up. I promise your wish will come true With that said. I do understand if you get tired of the same country in the top year after year, but really. We spend several month with our semifinals until we get the top ten songs in our country followed by a big final. The final it's just as big as the Eurovision final. Do you really think this going to give us really bad songs most of the time or does it give us really good songs who have a decent chance of ending up among the top ten?!
I agree with some of what you said. But don't talk about fairness, cuz yous finish in the top ten basically every year. The public do vote for yous but its just not in the quantities that the juries give you so it seems less. Like when Ireland got 62 points from the public in 2018 I was fuckin delighted. Yet when John Lundvik got 93 points he looked like a child who had just been told they have to go bed on their birthday. So please, don't throw a tantrum because people are voicing their opinions, and just be grateful that you country does well every year
@@gavincurtis9758 Well, I am, but to be honest. I really don't care about the competition, I just want it to be fair. I'm actually more interested in seeing the show (different countries contribution) Most of the time I don't like the winning song from Sweden (I prefer one of the other ones who lost in the Swedish completion (Melodifestivalen) In the finale I hope for a good place for Sweden but vote for the best song. (Perhaps one time out of ten I think the Swedish one was best.) Okay?! All the best my friend. 👍
About Eric Saade “not deserving Top 3” is bullshit, yes the lyrics sucks... his voice is meh... BUT THE SHOW STOD OUT SOOOO MUCH!! So many ballads and that show was AMAZING! That’s why people voted on him, he stood out
Chloe: What do you think about Dotter’s Bulletproof? Too generic? To much focus on staging? I think the song is rather unique and furthermore if you watch her live performance (not the studio version) she actually delivers some attitude and emotions (which has been lacking in the last years mass-produced pop entries from Sweden).
@@marinnens4227 but it's not a valid reason to not like a song due to the singer being a male. And no, it's not Sweden's "thing". Some years the songs sung by men have been stronger. 2015: 3rd: Mariette 2016: 3rd: Ace wilder 4th: Wiktoria 2017: 3rd: Jon-Henrik Fjällgren and Aninia 4th: Mariette 2018: 5th: Mariette 2019: 2nd: Liamoo and Hanna Ferm You're making up a problem that doesn't have to exist. Neither Sweden, SVT or the songwriters are sexist. So it's a coincidence.
@@marinnens4227 Between 2000-2010 we sent more female singers than male singers. People are just trying to apply weird feminist thinking everywhere with no critical thinking whatsoever.
MarinneNS - in 2020, both winner and runner up in MelFest were female, and if you go back you’ll find that it’s actually quite balanced over time. Total between the years 1999 and 2020: Male solo artists, 9 (-00, -05, -11, -13, 2015-19). Female solo artists, 8 (1999, 2004, -06, -08 to -10, -12, -14). All female group, 2 (2002, 2020). All male group, 1 (2007). Mixed group, 2 (2001 and 2003).
🤔😟🤨🤨🤨 I am really confused.... I dont feel like neder of Robin, Robin, Anna, Måns, Frans, John, Erik, Loreen, Sanna or Benjamin had similar songs but ofcorse it your on opinon but whats the main thing from the other countries that Sweden do wrong or/and to similar? As I said I just dont get it so I am wundering, is it just becose most(NOT ALL) people who hate all the songs dont like it only becose its from Sweden, and in that case why??😭 😂 Thanks for the greet video!❤️❤️
I think Benjamin, John and Robin Bengstsson are just similar cause of the music style, all of them are pop songs, focused on love and all. Robin St. and Frans were just additional, cause people didnt want to send "eurovsion songs" Loreen, Mans, Sanna, Anna and Eric were different, imo xd
people say the jury loves us cuz its sweden. or they love us cuz we have a good qualification system and quality songs. Lets be honest many hard core eurovision fans hate that sweden always do well, tell me is frans and robins song similar? HELL NO. is robins and benjamins songs similar? HELL NO. Is benjamins and johns song similar? HELL NO. So tell me why do we get this hate? Oh cuz we are good keep hating
Haha I think its hilarious to watch all the ones from UK. The ones saying its boring and pop, im a swede and don't like half of them and I agree, but let's head over to UKs eurovision songs yeah?
Holy crap they are so harsh on Sweden? Sure I understand if they think they are overrated but they send quality every year... EXCEPT LUKE AND DAEVA! You cool
“Where’s the different?” ... how about half of the other Eurovision entries that are written and produced by Swedish teams? Also, forgot to mention, every time Sweden *does* send something different it gets shot down, so... wdym.
These reactions are a hard NO from me... Don't need this negativity in my 2020 😂 Sweden annually shits on most of the other countries and people are sooo butthurt over it.
CHLOE pls listen to benjamin and then john and say to me that they are singing a similar song cuz they are not ur just hating sweden cuz we have quality music, and also the melodifestivalen is bigger here then eurovision itself, we vote for the winner of melo not what we wanna send to eurovision, just such hate for 1 country
2010: Underrated Masterpiece 10/10 2011: Why didn’t they win? 9.5/10 2012: amazing but so overrated 9/10 2013: I Love this underrated entry so much 10/10 2014: there were much better songs that year 7/10 2015: Måns 🥰🥰🥰🥰 one of my all time favorites 10/10 2016: it’s Great 8/10 2017: Great Performance 9/10 2018: well Amazing performance good song but 2018 was such a strong year it fell flat 7/10 2019: it’s really great 8/10 I’m not a Sweden Stan but their performances are always High quality. 😊
What a lot of people don't get about eurovision in general, is that staging nowadays is essential to winning or doing well. Like it or not if you don't have APPROPRIATE staging, not overdown but not boring either, you will end up failing. Sweden is a master at staging. They elevate mediocre numbers and supporte great ones. People saying they send the same thing every year don't realise, that they practically send different songs every time. They make an effort every year, more so than any other country, and for that they should be rewarded. There is a lot of jealousy involved when ESC fans start to bash swedish entries.
Chloe, if you gonna bash Sweden so hard you might aswell bash the competion knowing that some of the highest figures in the making of the competion are swedish. And a lot of songs are swedish that don't represent us. Most of the time Cyprus and Azerbaijan
So here's the thing. Sweden uses international jurys in their national selections so whatever they send to esc they'll know will work well with the jurys. Harder to predict the televotes though...
FACT: It is tougher to win the Swedish competition than it is to win the whole contest. So many excellent songs were killed early. Loreen could've won three times. She only got to participate once. Then she slammed it. If Sweden could send three entries every year, they probably all would end up top 10 and one of them would have great odds to win it.
I mean , Sweden puts alot of heart and soul into Melfest so we send quality every year .. because we CARE about ESC .. Don´t hate on us because we send quality .. and also , others countries can thank sweden for the production of ESC and their songs because we can do the work ..
Oh nooooo.... a couple of hours ago I praised Eurovision Hub for being so happy, friendly and always sending positive vibes even if they didn't like the songs ("A decade of Sweden at Eurovision: The 00's)"... but at that time I didn't get that Chloe was part of this group... And when I look at the dates of these recordings this vid was made before the happy, gentle one... Soooo, maybe the happy one recorded after this one was recorded just BECAUSE there were so many swedish dislikes in this vid? In this vid Chloe sais a number of times that Sweden always sound the same. And in the happier one a lot of the others sais that Sweden does NOT sound the same.... But maybe THAT was just an attempt to make us Swedes a bit happier... so maybe it wasn't true at all... Maybe we just simply suck.... and maybe everyone knows this accept us Swedes... Oh, it's depressing really...
2010: such a masterpiece, she was robbed 8/10 2011: performance made the song, not the other way around :(( 6/10 2012: amazing, but not the best esc song ever like most say 9/10 2013: SO UNDERRATED 10/10 2014: masterpiece, she got a deserved place though 10/10 2015: never really liked it much 6/10 2016: their worst this decade 4/10 2017: enjoyable, but his melfest song from 2016 (constellation prize) was much much better 9/10 2018: i wish he had came somewhere between like 15th and 10th, 7th was just a tad overrated 7/10 2019: i never understood the hype really but it was quite enjoyable and also it annoys me how everyone thinks he flopped in the televote bc he got 93 which didn’t seem like a lot compared to the ~250 needed, but in reality he got 9th in the televote 💀 8/10 overall, sweden are pretty good in eurovision. they’re not the best, but sometimes people are too harsh.
🤪 This is ridiculous. May the best song win. Go GB or Azerbajdzjan or Sweden or Germany or......vote, vote, vote. That's how we do in Sweden. Go Mello🎶😃🇸🇪
Euphoria aside, I think 2010 was Sweden's best entry this decade just because it feels like it has so much more personality than anything else they've sent
Although I very much want to adopt Mans for the UK, my favourites of the decade were definitely 2013 Robin and 2016 Frans. I still play both of those - although the rest of the EH gang don't appear to be fans.
12: Euphoria [2012] 10: Popular [2011] 08: I Can't Go On [2017] 07: Undo [2014] 06: You [2013] 05: Heroes [2015] 04: If I Were Sorry [2016] 03: Dance You Off [2018] 02: Too Late For Love [2019] 01: This Is My Life [2010]
Poor Anna Bergendahl was robbed in the semis by 5 points like seriously their nordic relations should of got her back anyways every year Sweden just produce Amazing songs just love Melodifestivalen love Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪❤️❤️
Sorry but the real winner in the Melfest was Keep of walking by Salem Al Fakir, We can work it out by Andreas Johnson or Manboy by Eric Saade. This is my life was a rehash of the two errors called Hero by Charlotte Perrelli and La Voix by Malena Ernman
Okay, so many of you are criticising Chloe over expressing her opinion about Sweden and kinda blaming her for daring to criticise Sweden although she is from the UK. Here is my confession: I also find most Swedish entries to be lacking some feelings I'd say. Plus, I don't get the hype about Euphoria. And the argument you can use against me if you want to is that I am from France, therefore I must at least be as jealous as Chloe. Or maybe we all have different opinions!
A few suggestions of mine: 1974 - ABBA won, Gigliola almost won again, Olivia Newton-John represented the UK and the Portuguese song literally helped ending Portugal's dictatorship. 1980 - The last time until 2020 that The Netherlands hosted Eurovision, Morocco's only participation 1983 - really crazy year 1990 - Lots of songs about the fall of the Berlin Wall and new united Europe (old times!) 1993 - My favorite Eurovision year of the 90's, I literally like all the songs. 1994 - The year where Eastern Europe really entered Eurovision 1998 - The year of Dana International's victory, Guildo Horn's crazy performance
Swedes are harsh on 2013 because we didn’t fucking pick him. Sweden voted to send Yohio, but the fucking international jury that I don’t even know why we have picked “You” and just barely tipped the balance and I’m still salty 7 years later
6:27 yeah sure we send similar songs but they are all good. so instead of being oh i like the different things cuz they are different why not like things cuz they are good?
I’m sorry guys but your taste in music is very questionable. Honestly. And btw, Dance You Off is an awesome song. And let’s face it: had ANY other country sent that song it would have been a fan favourite... y’all just can’t stand Sweden sending the best songs year after year.
People don’t seem to like Sweden as much anymore 😔, I definitely don’t remember such harsh criticism for Sweden in the past. We don’t get any points from the tele-votes either, only lots of jury points for the polished quality performances 🙃
The Swedes nearly always deliver in this decade but, I wish you guys would go back even further because it took a good few years to become this perfect
