Melodifestivalen 2023

Twelve songs are set to compete tonight for one final time, with one emerging as the Swedish representative at the up and coming Eurovision in Liverpool, ...

This is the level of quality I’ve come to expect from Melfest, and I’d be shocked to not see this in the top 3 of the final this year!” What I love about this performance (even if you take Loreen’s former ESC win out of the equation) is that this is a piece of performance art and looks like a music video NOT a live performance. The song itself is weak and not memorable, but that’s not the point and what it asks of Kiana is not excessive and an appropriate showcase for an up-and-comer and she hits the notes and the marks accordingly. Phillip – 8.5 – “I have actually enjoyed many of the songs in Swedish this year. “Rhythm of my show” is a serviceable trashbanger current in an ocean of dull and mid, and for that tiniest of glimmers it provides, it’s an entry I can root for.” Connor – 7 – “This song has had a massive glow-up for me as I really wasn’t a fan in heat four, but something clicked in the semi-final. Lee -8.5 – “Fittingly for a song titled “Air,” this has a fantastic atmosphere! I also appreciate the mix of English and Swedish in the lyrics, and the incorporation of traditional African music influences, which is like some of the music that I enjoy listening to in my free time. “If I was king for a day I would treat you royally” and his insistence that you could simultaneously be royal and rebel in his analogy, for example.” Boris – 5 – “Well, “Royals” sure is a song. Lee – 5 – “If not for the inclusion of Jon Henrik’s joik, this is a relatively pedestrian pop song. “Never give up” is anathema to what I value in an ESC song; it’s a stilted, cliché-ridden and IMMENSELY BORING charity song full of “believe in myself” platitudes and sweet nothings.