Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

This year's Melodifestivalen may have been musically rather boring and average but has turned out to be rather entertaining if you like some male bonding. And we are not talking here simple hugs after qualification or such, but kissing! Even with some tongue action at times it seems. The culmination must have been (so far) the on stage kiss in dress rehearsals when Mattias Andréasson was playing the part of Tone Damli who was absent from her duet with Erik Segerstedt. The song Hello, goodbye nicely deals with a one night stand.... (If Erik and Tone ever kissed, I must have missed that.....) Sean Banan was kissing literaly everyone after his qualification but for example Anton Ewald, Christer Björkman himself and Måns Zelmerlöf shared some spit with him on camera.... Anton also fell victim of overjoyed Robin Stjernberg's kisses (and tongue) when they both qualified from the second chance round. Another couple doing some tongue action were Army of Lover's Alex...

Here we have them. Two more will make the final line up in Friends Arena in Stockholm next week and then travels from the huge arena to small intimate Malmö in May for the Eurovision 2013 final. Will it be Martin "I always wanted to be in Modern Talking" Rolinski? Will Behrang sawa dance to the final? Is it the last hello and goodbye to Erik & Tone? Will Cookies burn their flags? I think I would go for Martin and Cookies 'n Beans (or Robin or Anton depending on mood!) Robin Stjernberg - You ( here ) Eric Gabb - Vi kommer aldrig att förlora ( here ) Caroline af Ugglas - Hon har inte ( here ) Behrang Miri - Jalla dansa sawa ( here ) Erik Segerstedt & Tone Damli - Hello goodbye ( here ) Anton Ewald - Begging ( here ) Cookies 'n Beans - Burning flags ( here ) Martin Rolinski - In and out of love ( here )

Looks like there's a change in Sweden. The aertists for the first two semifinals were revealed today and most of them seem to be newcomers to the contest. We do have Cookies N Beans and David Lindgren trying again in the first one, Sean Banan and Erik Segerstedt in the second with some other familiar names like Jenny Silver and Pernilla Wahlgren, and then there's also Tone Damli after all. And a lot of familiar names among the songwriters, too, from Måns Zelmerlöw to Ingela Pling Forsman and Thomas G:son.  And we also have the songwriters of Eurovision winners of 2011 and 2012 neck to neck, too, as also Bjurman and Örn are there.... SEMI FINAL 1 KARLSKRONA (February 2) Cookies N Beans – Burning Flags (Fredrik Kempe) Mary N’diaye – Gosa (Åsgärde, Frändå, Mary N’diaye) YOHIO – Heartbreak Hotel (Fransson, Lundgren, Larsson, Göranson, YOHIO) Jay-Jay Johanson – Paris (Jay-Jay Johanson) Anna Järvinen – Porslin (Björn Olsson, Martin Elisson) David Lindgren – Skyl...