Last night Sweden voted Loreen and ‘Euphoria’ as the winner of Melodifestivalen 2012.
And we think that most people would agree that it was a fantastic result – no matter who you were supporting. It was hardly a massive surprise, but Sweden did at least give us an exciting results show. Nobody had any idea who the winner was going to be between ‘Euphoria’ and ‘Amazing’ until the last two set of votes were announced.
So let’s talk about ‘Euphoria’. Well, we’ve never heard anything quite like the reaction she got in Globen arena last night. Not just from winning, or from performing the song, but from the moment she was actually brought from backstage into the arena to get ready for her catwalk entrance. An eruption of love and appreciation that got bigger as host Sarah Dawn Finer started to announce her. It was a big WOW moment, which in turn introduced another wow moment – the most important one of the night - Loreen’s winning performance.
Truly a worthy winner. Sweden loves it, and it seems like this morning all international pop fans with their eye on Melodifestivalen, love Sweden for choosing it as their winner. Oh yes, that brings us to that other matter of fact that a Melodifestivalen win entails – ‘Euphoria’ going on to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. We haven’t heard most of the other songs that will be going to Eurovision in May, so it’s not quite fair to state that ‘Euphoria’ should rightly win the whole thing. But let’s face it – it’s going to take something genuinely incredible to better it. So we’re hoping that Sweden gets a good, if not the absolute best result at Eurovision in May.
In the wake of last night, let’s not forget about the evening’s other valiant contender though – Danny Saucedo.
In any other year, last night could well have been his night. Sweden loved ‘Euphoria’, but they clearly really did love ‘Amazing’ too. In fact, ‘Amazing’ got more televotes last night than most of the winners of the last ten years. In the all time rankings, only Loreen’s ‘Euphoria’ and The Ark’s ‘The Worrying Kind’ received more. And that might be some comfort to him today. Hopefully. The other comfort should be taken from the fact that he gave a brilliant performance last night. The best he could have done. All he could have done.
As for the rest of the show – well it was just as fantastic as we’ve come to expect from Melodifestivalen 2012. The opening number ‘Baku, Baku’ that sent up ‘New York, New York’, Eric Saade’s dance performance that incorporated a medley of his hits, the interval act that saw Helena Paparizou take on Eric’s ‘Popular’, and lastly Sarah Dawn Finer’s brilliant EBU sketch – we love that woman!
It’s slightly painful that it’s all over. But we’ve got an incredible winner out of it. Melodifestivalen 2012 is going to be difficult to beat in terms of entertainment. So a massive congratulations and thank you goes out to all of those involved, from scandipop.co.uk. A-a-a-Amazing!
A fantastic entry, a well-deserved winner. It’s currently playing on repeat and is definitely a new entry at #1 in my Eurovision rankings
Euphoria was the clear favorite, since the beginning.
I loved Danny’s performance and he looked really disappointed when he didn’t win…hope he doesn’t give up and will participate again next year
Anyway, I’m a bit sad that melodifestivalen is over, it’s always fun to watch…looking forward to Eurovision now
Danny did a very good performance and was in my opinion a very worthy winner. Loreen was very good too but I preferred Danny’s song and performance.
Loreen was good but Danny was absolutely AMAZING! I really hope that next year he will try one more time and then he will win.
Euphoria is a worthy winner
but I still love amazing more. I felt bad when I saw danny with all disappointed face
I hope the same, Danny will try to participate next year =). His time will come, I believe it
Anyway, congratulations Loreen and see you on the throne of ESC in Baku 
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Six weeks of joy are now officially over. Loreen is more than a deserved winner. I hoped for a little bit more points for Molly, but like the voting showed, almost everybody disappeared in the shadows of Loreen. Danny really didn’t deserve a win and I’m glad it was Loreen to give him a hug and not the other way around.
I hope and believe Loreen will do a great job in Baku, but let’s not overhype it. It’s still eurovision
I don’t see it being a winner in Baku although Loreen’s show was great. I think if she puts a spell on everybody, like she did last night, she might win,
I think the Loreen song still aint nothing special…..dont so what all the fuss is. Aftre listening to the 10 final songs i think Soliders should have won.
Please Danny better than loreen? AS IFFFFFF!!! his song was totally mediocre, and his vocals really not even good, Loreen took it by a landslide because it was the better by a landslide. She is the artist that recieved the biggest amount of calls in a final, in the history of Melodifestivalen
A great summary Scandipop! Melodifestivalen 2012 was for me the best show in years. Loreen’s Euphoria was the best song this year and I think everyone was just as bummed for Danny – including Loreen. His performance was spectacular and gave us a awesome Melodifestivalen final. For the first time I liked every song in the final – even Thorsten Flinck. Looking forward to Eurovision and kudos to Sarah Dawn Finer’s EBU skit- glad scandipop enjoyed it as much as I did.
dont so what and aftre….my last text’s speeling and grammer was bad..sorry
Wow, so happy that she won! She was my favorite from the beginning. I can see it winning Eurovision also. Many countries have boring/crappy songs this year. Loreen is pure perfection.
I other national finals and from what I’ve seen, I agree with Mark, a lot of crappy entries this year. So she has a good chance of winning,.
I don’t love “Euphoria” but I can see/hear what other people are seeing/hearing.
I think her biggest competition at ESC is gonna be Tooji from Norway.