Sweden SWEDEN 2025 - KAJ - Bara bada bastu

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[b4ld3r]

Overall Melfest was much more fun this year than ESC, with a stronger line-up than we've had in years, plenty of fresh faces and great hosts. And one of the most exciting voting sequences in years. Karin and the team should be very satisfied, while ESC is in its darkest spot since the 00s, I'd like to think Melfest got a slight revival. I hope the lineup next year is even better and that we get one Swedish language song with serious money behind its staging like BBB.

I also hope next year SVT finally finds a scriptwriter who understands Melfest/ESC and isn't named Edward af Sillén. The love he has for the contest is admirable and he can continue to commentate if he wants to, but I think his scripts are a certain degree of self-satisfied and smug which I dislike. I dislike the mythology around him (and Petra too for that matter).
Surely there can be someone else who can write a decent script without us returning to the dark years of Clara Henry, David Lindgren or Fab Freddie.

 

[freerider]

Overall Melfest was much more fun this year than ESC, with a stronger line-up than we've had in years, plenty of fresh faces and great hosts. And one of the most exciting voting sequences in years. Karin and the team should be very satisfied, while ESC is in its darkest spot since the 00s, I'd like to think Melfest got a slight revival. I hope the lineup next year is even better and that we get one Swedish language song with serious money behind its staging like BBB.

I also hope next year SVT finally finds a scriptwriter who understands Melfest/ESC and isn't named Edward af Sillén. The love he has for the contest is admirable and he can continue to commentate if he wants to, but I think his scripts are a certain degree of self-satisfied and smug which I dislike. I dislike the mythology around him (and Petra too for that matter).
Surely there can be someone else who can write a decent script without us returning to the dark years of Clara Henry, David Lindgren or Fab Freddie.

Or they can keep SIllén but invite some new force to help him and Rehn and the others. Fredrik Andersson the comedian could probably come with some good jokes although they might not be politically correct. Some shock effect would be good. Henrik Dorsin would be a great host perhaps together with Keyyo.

 

[b4ld3r]

Or they can keep SIllén but invite some new force to help him and Rehn and the others. Fredrik Andersson the comedian could probably come with some good jokes although they might not be politically correct. Some shock effect would be good. Henrik Dorsin would be a great host perhaps together with Keyyo.

On paper there are infinite options, Sweden has way too many comedians. Maybe Michael Lindgren could do it, who's behind Herr Talman and Svenska nyheter and Grotesco's Tingaling sketch from Melfest 2009.

But I think just because someone is successful in another show doesn't mean they are good Melfest hosts or good at writing Melfest, people seem to like David Sundin in Bäst i test but he was a truly awful Melfest host. And everything I have seen from Edward outside of Melfest has been truly awful, especially the movies he's directed.

The only (recent) exceptions I can remember from non-Edward years being good are the episodes from 2021 with Oscar & Anis and Per & Pernilla respectively. Måns & Shima did an okay job in the final that year too.
The Björn stuff from 2024 was okay but repetitive. I remember Oscar's solo year being okay but I don't remember much from it.

 

[Fluke]

I liked Fab Freddie, because his spots were so bad it was awesome. I would like to banish Sillen forever though, along with Henrik Schyffert, Henrik Dorsin and any other Henrik they have in mind.

I'm genuinely surprised they haven't had Robert Gustavsson as a host yet, seeing as he actually competed once, but i guess he's busy starring in crappy tax-write-off remakes of Swedish movies that were mediocre in the first place... what about Jonas Gardell?

 

[freerider]

Robert Gustafsson would be nice especially if we hosted Eurovision before hes to old. Gardell was good and sharp in the 1990s. But he also did a good hosting in the 00s with Mark. But perhaps it would be to much focus on Gayness. And a little repetitive.

 

[Fluke]

It was actually a joke, i didn't realize he actually hosted once (didn't watch it then, who did?).

Anyway, if KAJ hosts they gotta perform a new version of "Nessum Dorma" titled... "Nästan Vinna".

 

[FilipFromSweden]

I can't help but feel that Sweden got robbed. Europe asked for an entry like Bara Bada Bastu for 10 years and towards the end it was almost as hyped as Tattoo. If you discount the nordics + Estonia's televote, we got 137 points. I know I'm biased but Bara Bada Bastu really was the best song with the best staging and the best concept. Seeing it on the stage, it was the third time in my life (next to Euphoria and Tattoo) that I got a winner feeling from it (which I didn't even get from Heroes)

 

[sigi]

I can't help but feel that Sweden got robbed. Europe asked for an entry like Bara Bada Bastu for 10 years and towards the end it was almost as hyped as Tattoo. If you discount the nordics + Estonia's televote, we got 137 points. I know I'm biased but Bara Bada Bastu really was the best song with the best staging and the best concept. Seeing it on the stage, it was the third time in my life (next to Euphoria and Tattoo) that I got a winner feeling from it (which I didn't even get from Heroes)

How can Europe ask for a song?

 

[deletingpoint]

I hope swedes are not disappointed?
KAJ didn't participate at melfest to win eurovision, it was supposed to be a fun journey. And then the fandom hyped it up so much that the bookies joined in and suddenly it was in a big lead to win.

This song was supposed to be your fun ride with no expectations, no pressure to win. The 'let's just see what happens' entry. I'm a bit mournful that the hype kind of robbed your opportunity to be unexpectedly thrilled that it got 4th place and so many people voted for it.

 

[Gera11]

I can't help but feel that Sweden got robbed. Europe asked for an entry like Bara Bada Bastu for 10 years and towards the end it was almost as hyped as Tattoo. If you discount the nordics + Estonia's televote, we got 137 points. I know I'm biased but Bara Bada Bastu really was the best song with the best staging and the best concept. Seeing it on the stage, it was the third time in my life (next to Euphoria and Tattoo) that I got a winner feeling from it (which I didn't even get from Heroes)

No, y'all got into your heads that it's something different from Sweden therefore it must win. The odds fueled this hype, true, but it wasn't as widespread as you thought. We've seen it happen in the past as well with Occidentali's Karma.

This song was supposed to be your fun ride with no expectations, no pressure to win. T

I'm starting to think the Swedes are too ambitious to do a no expectations entry

 

[Looren]

I'm a bit mournful that the hype kind of robbed your opportunity to be unexpectedly thrilled that it got 4th place and so many people voted for it.

Yeah 100% agree with that, like imagine back in Melfest when they just performed in their heat if you had told everyone who loved that it would get top 5 at Eurovision we would be all over the moon, the goal back then was just to maybe be a threat to Mans in the Melfest televote

I'm glad this went to Eurovision, it was the first time since 2014 that I had Sweden in my personal top 10 and the first time ever that I had them in my top 3, so I hope this entry will help bring change to Melfest, and it got top 3 in the televote (which is kinda equal to a top 2 considering what happened) so this is actually a fantastic result for them

 

[FilipFromSweden]

How can Europe ask for a song?

 

[FilipFromSweden]

I'm starting to think the Swedes are too ambitious to do a no expectations entry

What am I to expect when it's first in the odds, wins OGAE and is the most streamed on Spotify, even over the Italian song?

 

[sigi]

What am I to expect when it's first in the odds, wins OGAE and is the most streamed on Spotify, even over the Italian song?

90% of OGAE members are boomer and they are always fanwanking on Sweden. But anyway...4th place is a fantastic result. You should be proud of Kaj and your country.

 

[blue00eyes]

Interesting voting from Austria btw... one jury member ranked Sweden 1st, the other last

 

[Realest]

 

[ESC94]

It seems the Sauna theme was a bit too "typically Nordic" to get broader appeal among viewers in other parts of Europe. The further south you go the less points the song got.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I'm a little surprised it only got 5 from Germany. Schlager style song plus sauna culture.

Still, it got a good televote...i know many expected 1st but 3rd is still really good. It got points nearly everywhere.

 

[ESC94]

I'm a little surprised it only got 5 from Germany. Schlager style song plus sauna culture.

Still, it got a good televote...i know many expected 1st but 3rd is still really good. It got points nearly everywhere.

Well, you find saunas in almost every big city in , but I wouldn´t say people here are really that crazy about it. In fact most people I know actually really HATE sweating, so they would never enter a sauna.

 

[Sammy]

Well, you find saunas in almost every big city in , but I wouldn´t say people here are really that crazy about it. In fact most people I know actually really HATE sweating, so they would never enter a sauna.

I love sauna!!!

But I once had a finnish friend here and we went to the sauna in Munich He was baffled by all the fuzz we do in Austria and Germany in the sauna (the whole ritual with making the air circulate with the towels, the special treatments with salt, honey, different scents,…). When he told me about it (not wisely IN the sauna chamber) he found himself being lectured about how to sauna properly by some german guests who concluded their speach by underlining that „that‘s how it is also done in Finland, and they invented it“
My friend said nothing more but I had difficulties to conceal my laughter.