Many have been surprised - and not pleased - with Robin Stjernberg's victory with You in Melodifestivalen 2013. Gustav Dahlander explains some possible reasons why the international juries preferred Robin and snobbed YOHIO. The juries voted on Friday and in the rehearsals all favorites seemed to have failed in way or the other: YOHIO missed the long climax vote and was saving his voice it seems, Ralf Gyllenhammar gave a nervous and less inspired performance and was all but pleased after it. He was back on track on Saturday, as was YOHIO, too late. Ulrik Munther wasn't in top form either, partly caused by problems in his ear piece it seems. Anton Ewald had some hip problems in his dance number. It didn't harm his vocal perfomance (but then he wasn't singing anyways) but his dancing, that the number was entirely built upon. So, Robin just got better and better by each performance and it paid of. He had however quite a struggle to get that far: in his semifinal he finished 3rd only and went to second chance. In the second chance round's first voting he was 2nd behind Anton, and in the second round with top-5 he was 2nd behind Martin Rolinski, and in combined result 2nd again.
In duel he finished against Martin and won him only with 2.175 votes, or less than 2% of the votes! In final YOHIO got almost 100.000 more televotes than Robin but it was already too late.... but he can always fish on his "people's favorite" status and milk some pity and victimism and end up being huge in Sweden and in fan community. Just like Sanna Nielsen and Nanne Grönvall, also the most televoted and dropped by the jury in the past.... Truth to be said, it didn't go so well for Martin Stenmarck and Charlotte Perrelli, but ... YOHIO might have repeated Sweden's fate in Malmö 1992 being just too weird and plastic for a general European viewer and voter? (Whereas Björkman may have been a victim of the "11th everywhere" rule.....)
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