Eurovision 2025 campaigning

[nineveh_uk]

I am not a big Eurovision fan, but for once I'm reccing a song. More specifically, I mean a silly comic song with a catchy tune despite being in a Finnish-Swedish dialect, very cleverly done, and generally I think that this year's Eurovision Song Contest should be won by KAJ: three Finns competing for Sweden with a song in praise of saunas. I know this because antisoppist and I watched the final of Sweden's Melodifesten competition on Saturday. 12 songs, whittled down from 30 in the semi-finals, from 2000 entries. This was the sole one in Swedish, and apparently Sweden's first non-English entry since 1998. Apparently certain stalwarts of the Swedish Eurovision circuit are very unhappy. Diddums. This is an excellent, bonkers song that's actually memorable, and Måns' entry was very professional, very dull, and didn't deserve to win.

Anyway, you should vote for Bara bada bastu:

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With English subtitles.

I am also delighted by their

Version 1, on the consequences of driving without winter tyres

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Version 2, on taking the ferry to buy cheap alcohol in Estonia.

Comments

[azdak]

OK, so that was brilliant! I'm very taken by the dancing as well as the singers and I hope it will soon be available with Swedish subtitles so I can appreciate it in its full bonkers glory. I also really liked Nissan bromsa but there is something very weird going on with the Swedish subtitles on that one.

[azdak]

Oooh, have just seen that the version with English subtitles actually has Swedish and Finnish ones too!

[nineveh_uk]

The dancing and whole package makes the charm. Well-assembled bonkerness!

The weirdness of the Nissan bromsa subtitles is because they're in the particular Finland-Swedish regional dialect that they perform in rather than more standard Swedish.

[azdak]

But a lot of the words sound like standard Swedish (to my admittedly not highly-attuned ears). Perhaps it's a sort of local pride to transliterate the dialect even when it isn't strictly necessary?