Happy days, Melodifestivalen,the annual and only-ever-so-slightly-totally fixed national precursor to euro-vision is back.
Needless to say I'm a big fan. There are many reasons: the oft repeated, and unintentionally hilarious choreography, the bizarre band names, and the wide range of musical styles. Sadly it's normally all too easy to see who'll get voted through to the final, but the strange assortment of acts always amuses and horrifies in equal measures.
Tonight for example we had power ballads, boy bandery, an ageing soul artist, a scattering of ex-talent show kids, and a Manga obsessive from Sundsvall who sang a song which had more than a passing debt to the Manic Street Preachers "Generation Terrorists" sound.
As it was only the first show we didn't see any Swedish Dance bands or Timotej (yes they've entered every year I've seen it so far) and no serious novelty acts like Dancing bear or the Liquorice Allsorts backing dancers of two years ago. We did however get to marvel at some truly madcap backing dancer action (the usual single line / octopus of recent years and followed by some weird vogue style hand waving) and odd preppy stylings courtesy of David Lindgren.
Anyway, the show seemed to go mostly to my expectations except for manga wannabe Yukio going through to the final and the obvious second choice coming in last postion. The fickle Swedish general public...
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