r/eurovision • u/xoxoamazingrace • 9d 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/xoxoamazingrace 9d ago

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

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u/LonelyTreat3725 9d ago edited 9d 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/xoxoamazingrace 9d ago

Didn’t know that.

But Ukraine got over 300 points from slot #2. And no, their great televote score definitely didn’t boil down to only diaspora/war

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u/SimoSanto 9d ago

They didn't choose the start 1st, the number is random, LonelyTreat confused the 2 draws.