Missing the Eurovision final for the first time since 1958 (when they have wanted to take part) and after 49 entries the 50th turns out a fiasco. Sweden is under shock and apparently people don't know to handle this and take it all too seriously. Ask Finns for help. After all we are experts, after missing every other year in 1990's and many finals have been stopped in semifinals, too.
But last night, after the last envelope that didn't say Sweden but Denmark (a song written by Swedes and rejected from melodifestivale one might like to point out) a silence fell to the Swedish delegation.
Fast forward: Anna locked in a room crying and getting crisis help from SVT. (How very Swedish!)
Fast forward: teary eyed Anna meeting the press with a weak smile.
Meanwhile in Sweden the headlines of tabloids are crying out a fiasco asking should Swedes stop participating? Close down Melodifestivalen? Do Italy and keep Melodifestivalen but stop Eurovision? Fire Christer Björkman and everyone involved? Björkman seems to be getting the most of it. Thankfully. It would have been so easy to blame Anna but it's not her fault. She was great and chosen by the Swedish people.
Meanwhile Sweden missing the final is headline news in both Norway and Finland - maybe with a little hidden pleasure in them? :-)
And after all there are still four Swedish written/produced songs in the final: Azerbaijan, Denmark, Norway, Georgia and Ireland. Oh and Robert Wells for Belarus. Isn't that enough?
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