r/eurovision • u/xoxoamazingrace • 5d ago

💬 Discussion What’s next for Sweden in Eurovision? 🇸🇪

This may be a bit of a "weird" post considering Sweden’s been doing amazingly well this decade, but hear me out.

Eurovision has become much more competitive lately, and I’m personally in the opinion that Loreen (Tattoo), Cornelia and Kaj were much stronger entries than the (still very good) entries they sent in between 2016 and 2019 after Mans won. I think their entries in the latter half the last decade would’ve struggled to get the same placements in this decade of Eurovision.

Tusse, and dare I even say by extension Marcus and Martinus, have proven that also Sweden is "vulnerable" at this point and not necessarily guaranteed to do amazingly well with such entries.

I think they’ve pulled some incredible entries out of the bag so far with Loreen, Cornelia and Kaj, but I question if they’re gonna be able to keep it up this decade, or if the "male pop formula" is gonna continue and leave them at risk of not doing well (outside the top 10).

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u/LonelyTreat3725 5d ago

 but at the same time not that far away from missing out of the top 10

Frankly, 9th while self sabotaging with the choice of being first in the running order is more impressive than getting a top 5 in normal conditions.

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u/xoxoamazingrace 5d ago

Forgive me, but wasn’t them going first in the running order by draw?

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u/LonelyTreat3725 5d ago edited 5d ago

No, not by draw.

They chose to go first by themselves

And the draw doesn't even set the running order position, only first half, second half or "producers choice"

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u/jb108822 5d ago

Not true. They drew a random number out of a bag, and it just so happened that they drew number 1 in the running order.