Sweden in Eurovision: All songs from 1958-2020 - Reaction 

‘Stad I Ljus’ is a massive song in Sweden, and is usually played as the last song at student parties and sometimes nightclubs.

"Its weird seeing Sweden with rock" *EUROPE with the final countdown:* Am I a joke to you?

Lill Lindfors singing in 1966 came back 1985 as hostess for the eurovision and dropped her dress. She turned 80 in april 2020. Still one of Swedens most popular and loved artists.

Christer Björkman went like, "well if I can't win the contest, might just own it instead!!"

There's one thing that people often miss to mention when it comes to why Sweden won in 2015. Måns Zelmerlöw is ridiculously handsome and charming. He knows how to work the camera. He is the reason that he won. Combined with a good staging and and good song. maybe not the best song. But the artist that charmed the audience the most.

As a Swede; What REALLY makes me like Diggi-loo Diggi-ley is the way they are harmonizing. It's so so satisfying !!

Fun fact, Björn Skifs is "The Blue Swede", Hooked on a feeling, aka. the "hogachaka song":

1979 - Ted Gärdestad was a musical genius, his songs have carried me through so many difficult times. Imagine if he'd been in ESC with Come Give Me Love!

I love "Se pa mig" and "When Spirits are Calling My Name."

Have to agree with previous comments, you two have such different musical tastes that watching the two of you react together makes this all the more enjoyable

Fun fact: The woman next to Roger Pontare back in 1994, Marie Bergman, is the same singer who was the blond girl in the group Family Four, who competed in 1971 and 1972. Together with Carola, she's the only Swedish artist who has performed three times in the ESC. Great to watch this reaction! 👏👏👏👏👏 My favourites from each decade: 1959 - Brita Borg 1965 - Ingvar Wixell 1971 - Family Four 1988 - Tommy Körberg 1996 - One more time 2000 - Roger Pontare 2012 - Loreen 2020 - The Mamas

Lill-Babs (real name Barbro Svensson= who won 1961 was enormously popular in Sweden all her life (and loved by all, it more or less triggered national grief when she died two years ago). In 1963 she at one point had The Beatles as the opening act during a show (they even shyly asked her for her autograph). When the latter made their breakthrough and became world famous, Lill-Bab's first response was "What? Those little kids!"

OK stop! (Sorry couldn't help myself!) Great video guys - I think this format of two of you reacting/reviewing really works well, and the fact you've got different Eurovision experiences and tastes makes for more interesting commentary. Will look forward to the next one of these!

Biased Swede here, but I love it when we go full style, full production, full unapologetically pop. I didn't even vote for him in Melodifestivalen that year, but Robin Bengtsson's "I can't go on" might just be my favorite Swedish performance from the 2010s... or it could just be that I was swayed by that criminally gorgeous dancer with the long hair. lol

"Your breasts are like swallows nesting" is basically a litteral translation of the swedish lyrics "Dina bröst är som svalor som häckar", and no, it makes no sense in swedish either. ;) Apparently the songwriter wrote the lyrics just an hour before the deadline for submissions for Melodifestivalen.

Good to see that Roy liked their 1996 effort by One More Time. Almost everybody forgot that the composer (and sitting at the piano) is Peter Gronvall, who is actually the son of Benny Andersson from ABBA (from an earlier marriage in the sixties before he married Frida).

fun fact: One More Time- the wild one: the guy(peter grönwall) in that group is actually the son of Benny Andersson, yes the one in ABBA. roger potare is belongs to the Sami people, so he singing "when the spirits are calling my name, together with a blackfoot a sami joiker and an inuit from greenland he has legit for it.

ABBA actually wrote a song for the 1975 contest, but the song sung by a duo called Svenne & Lotta lost in Melodifestivalen to Jennie, jennie. But they used it anyway in their next ABBA album, so Bang a boomerang became a hit song anyway.

I calling to dear Swedish people, Turkey gave 12 to Sweden when Sweden was hist in 2000. I just wanted to say :) 🇹🇷❤️🇸🇪

Been waiting for this! This channel always has the best reaction videos, you give facts on the songs along with opinions which is appreciated. My top 5 from Sweden: 1. 1984 2. 1968 3. 1994 4. 1965 5. 1988

There's a brilliant video of Tommy Körberg is outsinging Celine Dion when they are doing Beauty and the Beast, you should look it up.

The dansbandsmusik has clearly been pois... inspiring Sweden's efforts for ages

Björn Skifs was also part of the original cast of Chess, Tommy Körberg played The Russian, Björn Skifs played The Arbiter. Chess was a collaboration between Tim Rice, Björn and Benny from ABBA.

You probably already know this but the backing singers for Tommy Nilsson were other entrants for that years Melodifestivalen, Chips from 82 were Elisabeth Andreassen who was 1 half of Bobbysocks who won for Norway in 85 and she represented Norway in 94 and 96 with 2 of my all time fave entries, and the other member was Kikki Danielsson was was Sweden's entry in 85 and Peter Gronvall the piano player and co writer of the 96 entry and husband of Nanne is the eldest son of Benny from ABBA.

Fun fact: Malena Ernman (La voix) is actually Greta Thunbergs mother

If i remember correctly sweden and Finland have the most rockbands in the world and Sabaton is very popular

Ok, stop! ;) I just gotta say that "Stad i Ljus", "Imorgon är en annan dag", "Eloise", "Hero" (much better performed in Mello than in Euro), and "The worrying kind" are sooo underrated! xD And if we could just erase 2001-05 from our memories that would be great...(maybe apart from afrodite)

Sorry hello again, but I have more stories. My grandfather was Roger Pontares teacher at school. Roger saw my grandpa at the store when he visited my hometown and ran after him like a fan instead, ignoring all the people running around him. Why he did was was just because my granfather was known as a very good and nice teacher and all the students loved him and remembered him. Ive met many of his former students who all say the same. I guess also because my grandfather didnt act like he was a celebrity when they spoke, and he didnt know how to pronounce his stage name. Pontaaaare Edit: Roger is from the north, lappland where the native saamis livew. I dont know if he has saami blood though. Just thought id mention it since his song "when spirits are callng my name" can be confusing to those who dont knwo that sweden also have natives that are in many ways very similar to the native americans. I know of at least two sami jojk singers who actually do soundtracks for american documentaries about their native americans, Sofia Jannok is one of them for example.

Carola in 1983 is doing one of the best vocal preformances in ESC history, pure love !

John Lundvik wrote UK’s song 2019 and France’s song 2020 and His own ofc and that is why they sounds the same :)

The 1996 one, the guy on the piano is the son of ABBA:s Benny Andersson

Thank you! It was fun and interesting to listen to your reactions! 🙋‍♀️🎶

While I dont particularly dislike 2009 Malena Ernman, that was the year Alcazar should have won and ROCKED ESC...

Lill Lindfors from 1966 was the host of Eurovision 1985. She lost her skirt when she entered the stage. The best host ever together with Petra and Måns.

Celine and Tommy has a duette! It's Beuty and The Beast. Check it out.

Huh haa!! Thank you for your comments! A tip going forward might be that the listener/viewer hears a bit of the song first - and then you comment? As of this your commenting is way to high, I can´t even put on more volume here (to hear the songs) because you are much higher once you come in. Thank you though, for checking this one out! 🙂 Greetings from Sweden.

I love the interplay between you two. You have some really good points when discussing about the songs, and I like the commentary for some of them (The one for Take Me to Your Heaven was particularly passionate, from Matt's POV. I wouldn't say it was the greatest winner ever, but it's understandable in the context of 1999). I love how Roy really likes Den Vilda--that's my favorite Swedish entry ever! I'm not sure if it's my favorite from 1996 or the Voice; both are very ethereal and have amazing lyrics. If you do another one, can I suggest France, Greece, or Yugoslavia? It would be interesting!

FUN FACT 1: about Christer Björkman: Since 2002, he has been a producer of Melodifestivalen, and remained an important figure in Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest where he has acted as the "Schlager President". He will step down from his position after the current Melodifestivalen 2021, which is not on tour due to Covid-19 and is held at Annexet, a roughly 3500 capacity venue in the Globen Arena. FUN FACT 2: The first out of six Melodifestivalen competition for 2021 was aired on Saturday February 6, Arvingarna won one of the two finalist spots which will be held on the sixth and final show on Saturday March 13. To learn more about Christer Björkman via an interview held by the Head Production Manager Ola Melzig, (Yes... Roughly 50-70% of the production managers, lights- and sound technicians, stage managers, studio man and other important positions during every Eurovision Song Contest are Swedes. I guess that's FUN FACT 3!), check out the video on Ola Melzig's channel here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y70c47IR80Q.html Great behind the scenes videos from the 2017 and 2018 Eurovision Song Contests. In this video Ola Melzig interviews Swedens hardest working studio man, Henrik von Zweigbergk. And don't pay any attention to the weird lights tech and operator, as well my dear friend, Tobias Brodd. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QfjQkxkQrl0.html FUN FACT 4: Ola Melzig is the head of production and partly creator of the American version of the ESC. The American Song Contest! "ALL 50 US STATES COMPETE ON EQUAL TERMS AS THE WORLD’S BIGGEST LIVE ENTERTAINMENT EVENT FINALLY ARRIVES IN AMERICA" esc2usa.com/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer_Bj%C3%B6rkman

Fun fact:1989, Tommy Nilsson and the funny background singers. They were all relatively big acts n star in Sweden and Tommy had up un til then been a background singer himself for all of them. When it was his time to enter the stage they all offered to bee his background singers as a favor.

It's weird the songs from ESC that become unforgettable in it'a homw country and those that are just forgotten about. Some that are still played a lot in Sweden are Främling 1983, Stad i Ljus 1988, Eloise 1993 and of course Euphoria 2012. Actually a lot of the Melodifestivalen songs from the 80s are considered classics, like Anna Book's ABC.

Have you guys seen Tommy Körberg and Celine Dion singing the song from Beauty and the Beast together? Seriously, you have to watch it. Tommy tricked Celine then gave her a rose. Her face is priceless, you have to watch it.

the 1968-version is a classic that even for me born 1984 heard it a million times. The ones before it I never really heard even though Monica Zetterlund was like the first star to try her wings in the US

Thanks guys, hugs from Sweden

❤ Frans! Still one of my favorites of the entries from the 2010's And according to RU-vid nr 6 most streamed ESC songs ever on Spotify (well deserved)

Fun unnecessary fact: Carola lived in my city when she was young and my dad trashed her mailbox. Twice. Now I see her at this specific store almost every month and it’s the only thing I can think about when I see her 😂

How about we hear the songs... leave your chat till the end?

The man on the piano in the video from 1996 is Bennys son from ABBA

1968 - it's very a UK 60s act called Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames an act in the best remembered for the Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde and revived in the 80s by Matt Bianco and the bonus track on the Queens of the Stone Age album Lullabies to Paralyse called Everybody's Gonna to Be Happy. I love it.

2013 I love you and I play the remix all the time

Dotter would have been a potential 2020 winner. Am I wrong?

“Your brests are like swallows that’s nesting” is straight from the Bible, as interpreted by a Swedish master poet. That line was called out at the time. The writer flat out refused to change it. And the band backed him up.

Really like this! But you should really make the music louder and your voices lower, cuz you can nearly hear the music, and you can't turn the volume up, because your voices will be very very loud :/

Siw Malmqvist was Yzma from Emperor's new groove swedish voice.

DID YOU KNOW IT THAT IS (1996) BJÖRN ULVEUS SOON WITH BEHIND OF THE PIANO...

love some of the swedish songs in the eurovision

the 80s and 90s were when we had some awesome, returning songwriters in Sweden. Some of them even performed their songs (wish they didnt lol). but in the 2000s the Swedish songwriters also started writing the EVS songs for some of our neighboring countries even across the sea. Almost became a meme at one point.

I love the 1968 entry it reminds me of a British singer called Georgie Fame - he was covered by Matt Bianco in the 80s and who the Queens of the Stone Age sort of aped and parodied the style of with Everybody's Gonna Happy with bonus track on their Lullabies To Paralyse album.

i really liked this format!

The auto tune criticism false flat on its own as every single song from a studio is auto tuned one way or another, even stage performances are auto tuned while they perform. If you mean that he sounds a bit robotic, unintentionally, at times during the song in the studio version then that is a better criticism as that can be highly distracting and just flat out sound amateurish. But don't use auto tune itself as criticism because then you are just criticizing nearly every album and artist since the 90's.

Sweden haters are. Early

I fricking love Heroes - I feel the same way about Mans as you do about the previous entrant who I don't like she's too Celene for me. I don't care that Heroes is a pop song with a repeative chorus - it's great. I completely agree with you about Dance You Off - it's why the televoters really didn't like it either IMO.

you said that the uk song was very similar to john Lundvik in 2019. that is not so strange because he wrote that song to.

shame they cocked up the backing vocals of la voix , so much better with the male backing as in the Melodifestivalen

Frans song If I were sorry, was accused of plagiarism. Listen to the song catch and release by Matt Simons and youll hear it!

7:02 "Waterloo" y ABBA marcaron un multiple hito: para Eurovision para ABBA para los musicos suecos y para el Europop "Waterloo" es la mejor cancion en toda la historia de Eurovision #1 en Europa #6 en U.S.A. en mi Top 5 de todas las canciones de ABBA

you're taste and mine are so different at times , I thought Anna Bergendahl should have been right up there . as for Loreen I loved her but my favourite from that year is now Spain

oh yea, Waterloo is far, far down the list of my fav ABBA songs.

Btw me and my hole family We are from sweden and we were 5 and everyone voted for the mamas so they won LOL

Listen to your heartbeat is the copy of 1996 Belgian entry.Please listen it And also two songs made by the same songwriters.

1999 - sorry Matt I'm with your friend on this one. I don't like her return with hero either. I do like The Worrying Kind.

The Mamas for 2022! 😁

It would have been nice to hear the songs instead of these guys talking constantly.

1986 should have won especially since 86 was a pretty piss poor year. I quit Eurovision for twenty years because of that year and the fact I was the same age as the winner and kinda over pop music although ironically one of the few pop bands I liked outside of Eurovision were Norwegian. I agree with you Matt about 1988 - I don't like Celene never have, never will.

Abba actually had a much better song in the 1973 Melody Festival called "ring ring" but it didn't win.

Totally agree with you about ABBA prefer their other songs I even prefer ring ring. I wonder how things might have turned out if they had sent that song instead a few years earlier x

Why is the guy on the right sitting over a greenscreen

the year 1987 is the original name Coca-Cola but they got the second name because you can not market

What happen to Sweden in 1976?

Having to listen to Benjamin Ingrosso instead of Felix Sandman is a trauma I still haven't recovered from.

OKEY STOP

I like the mamas

How Did they not know ABBA?! They were worldwide famous!

It's odd Matt loves Enya but can't stand The Voice which sounds very Enya to me or at least Clannard who Enya used to be a member of.

You guys love your one voices , hint , intwrnet dont .

Just a positive criticism: saying STOP so many times makes this video really annoying. And I love your videos. Again positive criticism

"never heard of him" :O

7:04 All the swedes are probably triggered cause of this

So annoying that you stop like every 5 seconds. 😐

Belgium 1996 > Sweden 2001.

lol the guy on the left hates all of the songs

Loreeeeeeeen!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

It pains me hearing every hard core ESC-fan on RU-vid loving "Invincible", I really dislike that one, and "Hero" with Charlotte Perelli. I generally dislike everything Carola has done after the early 1990's, and Charlotte has one good song on her resume in my opinion (Take me to your heaven)

I love your reaction, but please pause when you talk😂

I usually don’t mind what Sweden send to ESC even if they aren’t always the best in my opinion, but there is three I just loathe. Anna Bergendhal was just bad, Robin Stjenberg didn’t win melodifestivalen his year, but Bjökman desided to let a internatinal jury chose instead of the swedish voters and sent that instead and then we have Benjamin Wahlgren or ”Ingrosso” who plagirised his song, cheated (but wasn’t disqulifed for some reason) and then talked shit about the other contries songs in an interview in ESC.

Eric Saade POPULAR ❤️❤️❤️❤️

1973 best lyrics ever LOL

The Mamas will place third

I am not a big fan of Tommy Körberg but this might one of my top ten favorit youtube videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1iAGaUu5OU.html

The last Swedish song i like is from 2014 - Undo. She shouldve won😔😔😭

Not all swedish songs are realy good Many songs are a copy frome a copy from a copy. And comme on better place as there realy are