Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The Melodifestivalen webjoker selection is over and Maria Ben Hajji with I mina drömmar emerged as the winner and qualifier. A ballad in Swedish seems to be what they are lacking in the line up master minded by Christer Björkman..... And in true SVT style the song is taken off line until the MF circus hit town again.

With the fourth heat of Melodifestivalen webjoker candidates completed we now have the eight entries that will fight for the one slot in the MF semifinals line up. This webjoker final will be held on November 7, 2011. Here are the entries that you can listen here : 1. Maria BenHajji – I Mina Drömmar 2. David Nestander – Beautiful Love 3. Bowties – Need to Know 4. Caroline Coquard – Ingenting, Ingen 5. Trison – Forever By Your Side 6. Grand Slam – All Day All Night 7.  TBA – Heartbeat Away 8. Never Alone – Marilyn Monroe

Another week has passed and two more songs qualified for the Melodifestivalen webjoker final. Ingenting, ingen by Caroline Coquart and Marilyn Monro e by Never Alone are the lucky ones. The last eight songs are here to listen and vote.

The first week's songs have been voted and the qualifiers for the next step are I mina drömmar and All day, all night . The next eight songs are online here to be voted. This blogger is still waiting for something good to listen to...

The Melodifestivalen 2011 webjokers have been voted: Jonas Mattson with On my own and Julia Alvgard with Better or worse . Both worthy additions to the line up and way better than last year's horrid addition....

The voting has ended and we have the five finalists for the webjokers final next Monday wherefrom two entries will be selected to take part in the Melodifestivalen 2011 semifinals next year.  Jonas Mattson will perform On my own written by very Finnish sounding Peter Autio and Sari Autio Olsson. Apparently a favourite and indeed it's a jolly little number that can gain a lot of a good performance or sink like a rock. As Christer Björkman said even SVT has no idea how the singers will be live until they start rehearsing on Sunday! Next is Billy with Daniel Vollbratt's song Tusen nätter (A thousend nights). Propably got in with teenage girls votes? Julia Alvgard will sing Better or worse by Manne Hjelm, Ola Holstad and Joar Lenz. A little bit r'n'b that needs to be re-arranged badly and then it could turn into something very beautiful. Engla will sing Don't stop , another r'n'b wannabe with heavier beat that is not really going nowhere. It's written...