Sweden Eurovision 2023 - Music Teacher analyses Tattoo by Loreen (Reaction) 

4:52 this bit is just bliss to my brain. Its my favourite bit of the song because its built and built to such a powerful, visceral pay off.

This song makes me emotional. Finland's song makes me exstatic 💙💛💙💛💚💚💚

Yes dude! Finally someone who actually understands what this song is about! I'm a musician myself and just like you understand the copyright thing about ABBA at the start of Tattoo. That a song is vibe-wise and sound-wise inspired by another song isn't a rip off neither a copyright infringement. Both the chords and the notes for The Winner Takes It All are different from Tattoo. While the first part melody for the ABBA song starts low and goes upwards with the final note goes down again, the melody sequence for Tattoo starts high and goes down the scale with the final note goes up again. Tattoo is absolutely a grower and you're right about it's about expectations hearing it for the first time. It's not as direct "easy listening" as Euphoria, which btw Tattoo shouldn't be compared with for obvious reasons. The best part comes after the bridge when the song goes full power and there's a switch of chords and melody before the familiar sounding last "You're stuck on me like a tattoo" lyrics line. The build up and sublime arrangements is pop perfection and Loreen conveys the emotions of the song as only she can do. The staging enhances the song. At the end of the day Eurovision is about the whole package of song, staging and the live performance from the artists voice-wise and how the choreography is executed.

The way they play on her North African roots is sheer genius. It's still growing on me after no idea how many listens and I keep hearing new stuff without even trying. 💞 People seem to be actively looking for reasons to discredit her.

They had problems with the smoke machine as you can see in different parts of the performance, the smoke covered her and the screen just looked beige/brown.

I actually really love this song, haunting and mysterious. She reminds me of the frozen Inca girl coming to life.

Really interesting reaction - it helps me understand a lot better why I enjoy it much more now compared to first listen (the part you pointed out about the build up of the melodic scale). Thanks! Going to see her again tonight in Amsterdam and will listen out for this :)

Great analysis. Interesting to have someone analyse the different parts that holds it together. Subliminally we probably like these small melodies that re-appear in new songs again.

your reaction with the dropped jaw in the opening shot, the smile, then the dropped jaw again when she starts to sing is everything. goddamn adorable.

Great review

I don’t know if I’m the only one hearing Madonnas “Frozen” during the bridge?

Pro analysis. Thank you. You're fair.

Interesting reaction - thank you! And particularly for the thoughts about the intro, as I have been wondering a long time about why it sounds so incredibly familiar. Anyway, Tattoo is a good song. And that is it for me - unfortunately. Personally, I feel that the song never reaches the hights I was expecting, i.e. the progression falls somewhat short.

Also you -- tiny hand clapping zoomed in at the end. Made me giggle.

There was fault in the lights/smoke at that performance, it was a much larger stadium than before, and yes the song gets better and better... STILL GREAT BY LOREEN!

I definitely wouldn't think there would be a copyright issue, but it _is_ a bit distracting because I keep expecting it to morph into a cover of The Winner Takes It All somehow xD It doesn't help that I just watched Mamma Mia with my family a few weeks ago

tbh to me this song sounds like one long intro that never realy gets going

Love how ppl bring up copying w loreen but not any of the other contestants. Finland and norway both heavily took inspos from songs. Limited chords and combos lead to that.

So interesting to see your musical input! Almost wish you could've explained some more. :O

Give her the trophy already

You understand that as a Swede I get tears in my eyes when I see this. I shudder all over when she takes those high notes. The ending is fantastic. Loreen, you make me so proud to be Swedish. 😍

I didn't like this at first. Had SO high expectations because of Euphoria being the best song to ever win ESC. Got disappointed the first time I heard and saw Tattoo. But it started growing and I started loving it after listening to it like 3-4 times. I like the build up and all the feelings that she express with both voice and body. Would love to see a reaction of Euphoria, the first song she won with. That's all about voice, movement, feeling and simplicity. There aren't many reactions since it won before reactions was a thing.

You being Australian and all -- could you please please react to your ESC contribution from last year with Sheldon Riley? I'm a HUGE esc nerd, and his contribution is one of my favourites ever, and that's saying a lot. From what I understand he's famous from a lot of TV programs like The Voice? over there, so it might be an everyday artist for you, but over here it's fresh and, well... lovely. I'm sorry for spamming your comment section, but I'm so fired up, haha. Ps. Preferably the "official music video" by him, that is still live.

I could be well off here but this song, particularly the pre-chorus, reminds me of Adele’s Easy on Me. Obviously completely different genre but that’s just stuck with me

Loved your analysis.. And you did it very professionally. Thank you. A lot of people on youtube in our community I find are taking a piss at her. Because they dislike the fact that Sweden might win. Some also completely ignore the song and some don't want to admit how strong the song is .

WINNER 2023

Loreen ❤️

When you played the piano, the song I heard was "I'll stand by you" from the Pretenders ("You're feeling all alone. You won't be on your own"). This is the first year I've seen Eurovision available here in the USA, so this is my first time watching it, and I'm coming in without knowing anything about the competition, it's history or the competetors (I don't know, nor do I believe I've heard Loreen before)....with that said, hearing this during the semi-finals, this was one of my least favorite songs; it feels sort of basic, and done before and the visual portion of the song wasn't interesting at all (to me)...it didn't grab my attention and I couldn't believe it got sent to the finals, and I really couldn't understand why so many countries gave it 12 points, nor could I understand how it won compared to the other amazing entries. Your video helps me understand a little bit that perhaps because of her history in previous Eurovisions, there was some bais towards her. I know my tastes can differ from others, so maybe people really do like this, but it just didn't impress me at all. TLDR; it was Meh

Most music is based on old general. Most basic is scales, you have blues etc

I love Loreen and I love her voice. She's truly a queen of Eurovision.

It's called a Homage! It's not even meant to be a sneaky secret and I'm not surprise that people don't find it obvious, and that most people reacting negative to it does so after watching or hearing someone else informing them about it. There is nothing wrong with an homage, but let me point you in a direction to earlier years since there have been some completely shamefull years because they voted out a song that could have won the whole Eurovision. Insider people tells me that they did it on purpose because (Swedish television) SVT, Svensk Television couldn't afford to host the Eurovision, something they would have had to do the following year, if they won a year prior, so they back stabbed the clear winner. For anyone's curiosity it was a rock song called Runaways which was voted out straight away already without any competition what so ever, it didn't even make it to semi final in Sweden which says a lot. To anyone curious, here it was... already forgotten to time. It deserves it's own video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SRhCWtfobw4.html

Вибрация голоса "йо-о-о" красиво и нежно звучит! 🌷Приз ей🙂

You should see her first performance at Melodifestivalen. Was much better

Your Opinion about the Song its like Your HD598CS (closed) But it Will Grow ( open ) ... Like HD 600,660s When you really Listen to it !!!

think it was a group called PONT AERI - flying free that she was accused of stealing from, though it seemed to be the intro, rest is abba and god knows what else

The song is good and I understand why it won, but I keep wondering if it would’ve also won if sung and performed the exact same way by an unknown swedish singer. (Yes, apparently questioning things I’ll never find the answer to is what I’m doing with my life now)

The song that is accused of copyrighting is this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NgeyaExdZ-k.html But I think the progression is too logic and could have been chosen without copyrighting this song.

You're an Aussie? When a friend of mine got home from Sydney after recording an album with the producer of Savage Garden (never mind. It didn't go nowhere...) she brought back "Addicted to Bass" by Puretone. Man, am I killing that tune at the local karaoke bar! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DZE6CMm_I8Y.html

When me and wife listen this singing my minds were: "I hear it before", it was truth: 4 songs were used to generate this plagiarism music from: Pont Aeri - Flying Free, Mika Newton. Singing style from here 2012 song with the same style and ABBA. Specialists may start to say that one minor, another major - all this is bullshit, it sounds like old songs for the average listener. Nothing new, such performers should not be allowed. It's a shame that this song was missed by the organizers and it also won!

4:30 Madonna "frozen"?

How many beats are you allowed to take from another song? There are rules. The amount of notes are actually limited.

maybe its just the "sweden'' sound....😆😆😆 the brigde is a bit of Madonna's ''frozen'' to

Yes, Loreen won it! ❤ So happy the best song won this time. 🎉 What an incredible talent and performance. ❤

It was my favorite from the contest when I watched it, last saturday. The "Cha Cha Cha" one from Filand really didn't appeal to me AT ALL

DI'd you make one for Israel?

Listen to the chorus of "В плену" by Nika Newton. I'm not implying anything, but Loreen has the same chorus...

Swedens Queen 🥰❤

Esta melodia é de 2006.

Her first song more so

It is a plagiarism from Mika Newton's - V PLENU , which was was created from ABBA and the buildup and chorus is Flying Free by Pont Aeri - Flying Free

I think this sounds like a lame version of her winning song Euphoria

Well, you look like my son, supercute

my problem with this is that it sounds like a light version of "euphoria"

Yeh, try to tear her down , she is the winner in the end.. And She is communicating the godess she is Allat trapped in matter , in Kaba , but she is marrying the humanity in a hieros gamos, to prepare fot a shift in human mentality preparing us for leaving the planet, to live on other planets she is Ashera , Athiva , the grail Isis , and fully human and as a human she is limited as godess she is not, the matter matter in the matter. .

there must be something lighter than that structure above her...

Thank you for the musical insight, you could point out very well why I found this song extremely boring. Must be those simple 3-note mini patterns that took over everything, sometimes being hidden in the background, sometimes pushed into your face in a sequence, but it's always the same 3-note pattern. For me, it's like a pink sitcom or romcom film, where you can predict all the characters and their next movements and the whole story runs out to a common banal happy ending.

I heard all the songs (except for the one from my country) for the first time at the final and this really didn't stuck after hearing it once. For the "maybe someone who worked on ABBA" part for the melody. Unlikely, Benny and Björn write the music themselves and we'd surely know if they were on the team.

She 's connected with God! Blessings from Belgium.

There was a ukrainian girl who accused this song to be plagiat sounds just like hers. I didnt think so when i listened to her song. I dont remember her name try see if you can find it here and see yourselves.

Finland for the win !

Time to get a new job!

Stop digging enjoy the moment

you are right the melody is a rip of Abba.

It's a fine song. The only thing that is annoying about it to me is the lyrics. Isn't 'It will come a day' and 'I don't care about them all' kind of bad/awkward English?

Also the opening first sound thing 0:30 is from another old hit, and singer’s melody is from Abba. No originality at all!!!

It's a great song but not necessarily a winner - in comparison to the rest of the songs

It's so so so similar to a Ukrainian artist's song! Either plagiarised or anazibg coincidence

I do really like this song but how about the instrumental breakdown being a rip off of Frozen by Madonna?

This is a good song and this is a very bad opponent ot Finland, Käärijä...

Can't believe this actually won. The music for the Finnish and Norwegian songs was better by far in my opinion. But I guess music is very subjective...

It sounds the same cause in this genre really anything sounds the same

We won! 🎉🎉🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

Loreen is a great performer but the song rotates around a single melodic idea and ends by being boring. Exactly like last year's entry.

Calculated, done a million times before, delegation of professional song-writers behind it, mega-budget... Vs. Käärijä with 600€ initial budget for the performance in the Finnish qualification, singing in Finnish, home-made - and he was the most popular, 50% more of public votes than Sweden; The true winner

Rip you choose the worst video performance of the fog taking over the clip… Her official music video is literally her best live performance.

I need Finland to win, otherwise I die

not in tune on high notes

Like an aerobic workout. Very very boring.

O problema é que não é uma música original como tem de ser neste concurso. Nada com a música e menos ainda com a performance da cantora.😊 Não existe credibilidade nenhuma nesta Eurovision Contest! Very Sorry.

amazing artist, and not even a question on why she won! People being stuck up about that chachacha didn't win, which honestly was one of my LEAST favorite songs

For me this song was flat

Do not wash or trim your hair, grow nails for 10 years and wear industrial beige - a sure winner for Eurovision song contest!

Hi. Sorry, but I absolutely don't like this speech and the song too. There is neither music, nor drive, variety, it is a very monotonous song. She only screams. Sorry for my English ❤🙏

Finland is so much better. This is terrible act.. 👎

Bad and boring song. Pathetic lyrics. I miss Abba so much!