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 edited 5d ago

Lol, Sweden got top 10 in a year (2024) when they did anything they could to do bad at a point of self sabotaging..

Thats' not really a sign of "sweden is at risk of not doing well"

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u/Playful-Rope1590 Espresso macchiato 5d ago edited 5d ago

I don't believe this sabotage talk. Why would any country voluntarily sabotage themselves? Let alone SVT? They always go for gold, even when hosting. The winner's mentality from SVT is well known in the fandom And even if fhey set out to sabotage they did not do a good job then. It still was a very slick professional performance as usual from Sweden. And for once it actually looked better on the ESC stage than in Mello since they used the stage more.

There was no need to sabotage. The song was not a winner candidate eitherway so kinda pointless to sabotage it