🇸🇪 SWEDEN EUROVISION 2024 REACTION - MARCUS & MARTINUS - UNFORGETTABLE - JURAVISION

[@Rockelund]

They are a "wow" moment. They will not be forgotten by voters.

[@Flokarl1]

When the DJ play this track in a summerclub...I will defenitely get crazy and dance my ass of!!!

[@priyant8523]

Oh in the car it sounds amazing!

[@emilia4355]

I really like this song + staging and am very happy we decided to send it. The esc ''fandom'' will as usual think it's boring but I have a feeling the larger mass that aren't on youtube/twitter will enjoy this way more, just as with Loreen.

[@annikabengtsson3552]

👏🏻

[@Cussie3]

Loreen was received a lot better than this. Its a similar feel to the Dance You Off 2018 performance from Sweden and I can see this having a similar result. 7th, so still not bad.

[@emilia4355]

@@Cussie3 that is both true and slightly unfair. Good led-staging just simply can't be done then? The song is completely different. I think people are so eager to nitpick and tear down what Sweden does that they find things that are like "what?" And it just screams unfair to me as a swede. Alas, there's no point in being mad since we do win a lot but it still sucks

[@Cussie3]

@emilia4355 Good LED can be done and its done here, but I think audiences watching at home don't tend to gravitate to performances that seem like music videos. I mean the close cut angles and side panels that try to create the illusion that you're not actually on a stage. That's where I got the 2018 Sweden similarities from. This will still do well and would be on the left side of the scoreboard without a doubt, but I see it being one of Swedens lower placings over the last few years.

[@Demelza7_7]

​@Duchess_Fake_SmileYeah.. if they have sung: " He's unforgettable.." everyone would suck it up!

[@pjsvenska3338]

You two are super charming

[@MagnusS27]

If you’re into avant-garde, originality and party - Mello isn’t the right choice for you! Mello is seen as THE song contest and engages Swedes much more than ESC that is seen as a bombastic show with weird, crazy and at best with funny songs and performances. Of course this is not true for all Swedes but in general I think it’s true (our young generation may see it differently though). Swedes love radio friendly pop music and have arguably the best song writers and producers in the world. We see Mello as a song contest where the best song with the best artist and performance should win not as a festival promoting new artists and avant-garde music. Hence we tend to vote for the song we like the most - not the one with the best chances to win ESC. More often than not this means the winner is a generic but contemporary and radio friendly pop song, highly produced with creative and high tech staging. Personally I think the Swedish music industry have a too tight stronghold over Mello and I would wish to maximize the number of entry one person could be involved in to say max 2! Music is personal and subjective and to me the important thing with a good song and performance is that it’s affecting me in any way, shape or form! To me this happens when it’s genuine, authentic and raw regardless of the genre. Since I’m from Sweden having a melancholic state of mind, I’m more into more meaningful slow paced songs rather than upbeat party types of songs.

[@innsoro]

ММдемсики таке собі , були і кращі заявки )

[@Tvjunkieful12]

The song is okay (agree that Air was better, and better than Tattoo) but the staging of Unforgetable I don't like at all. Most of the time we barely see Marcus & Martinus or any of their dancers, the whole stage is just flashing lights and some silhouettes moving about. The staging should enhance the performance and elevate the artists, not hide it and make them silhouette extras in a lightshow. Air last year was much better staged. Lights and choreography (sometimes quick, other times slow) illustrated various types of air, which again underline the sentiment of the song, them being able to breathe without air because of love (whether that was brotherly love for each other, or directed to others is a question of interpretation). Why their movement was restricted to a square, instead of taking use of the full stage, is still a mystery to me. But other than that Air, both as a song and performance, was perfect in every way.

[@Rik77]

Oh I thought the opposite, the staging is completely wow and elevates the song massively. Without it I think the song is very average.

[@marcuso.carlson332]

Welrdest comment so far.

[@k.j.hulander2204]

Melfest is an arena for flop Swedish celebs and artists who don’t have the material to stand on their own legs. It really is a circuit separate from the rest of the music industry in Sweden. Most liked celeb trumps good song in Melfest.

[@Tvjunkieful12]

Not quite. Mello is the most important arena for Swedish musicians since even if they don't win, having qualified for the Melfest final will help secure lucrative summer gigs from folkpark gigs to tv programmes like Allsång på Skansen or Lotta på Liseberg - with the additional Spotify traffic and media attention that comes with it. Liamoo, Danny Saucedo, Anna Bergendal, Wiiktoria, Sanna Nielsen, Carola, Benjamin Ingrosso, Eric Saade - the list goes on and on of Artists who broke big thanks to having been noticed from their Melfest appearance. Not to mention Loreen and ABBA.

[@k.j.hulander2204]

@@Tvjunkieful12 you cannot be serious. These TV programmes you mention and the summer gigs are exactly what I mean by the Mello circuit. These names are mostly b-list artists whose catalogues are limited to their Mello hits. Carola is a legacy name so you cannot count her here. Likewise, Abba got their career momentum from ESC and never returned to it since they moved on to bigger and better things. But these other names, their careers depend entirely on these low-brow family entertainment TV shows like Mello, and in the case of Ingrosso, on his family’s reality show. There is a thriving music scene in Sweden outside of Mello where you find the actual hits and artists who can sell albums and who can tour on the merits of their material and not their celebrity. These artists would never lower themselves to Mello. The Mello fan base is children and the material thus caters to children and families. This family entertainment bubble is NOT the most important arena for musicians or for music.

[@Merecir]

@@Tvjunkieful12 None of that is success, only failures go to folkparks and skansen. Being noticed in Sweden is not a sign of success, as Sweden is a tiny market. Real success is to be #1 on the US/UK charts and play on arenas all over the world. All of those you mentioned (besides ABBA of course) live solely on the Eurovision hype. Even Loreen is a mediocre nobody in the global perspective.

[@Tvjunkieful12]

@@Merecir Is that so. No, it is not actually. Many artists in Sweden earn a lot more money after having been in Melo, than they did before they appeared there. That is simply a fact. They earn more from performing in larger venues, more listeners on apps like Spotify and similar, and often other job offers - television host, guests on tv chat and entertainment shows, musical roles, movie or tv serie roles - not to mention sponsor deals and freebees. Just being in Melodfestivalen strengthens the longivity of a career. Qualifying for the final is like winning the lottery for an upcoming artist. It require a lot more resources to launch an artist world wide, than to do so in a smaller market. And when those costs can be lowered even more by having the artist in Melo, that's even better. Thanks to Melo a song and production reaches a large and broad audience without Contrary to your claim most Melo artists are also songwriters. Danny Saucedo, Robin Stjernberg and Cazzi Opeia are among those who have been songwriters for other Melo artists when they haven't participated as artists themselves. Cazzi Opeia even competed against another of her Melo songs. The songs, and songwriters, in Melo are not inferior either. As an example David Kreuger and Jorgen Elofson have penned many songs for Melo, but also number 1 megahits, like Fool again, If I let you go, I lay my love on you and My love, for the Irish boyband Westlife. And also hits for Britney Spears, Boyzone and Kelly Clarkson. Plus the Pop Idol UK winner and first runner up competing singles Evergreen, for Will Young and Anyone of us, for Gareth Gates. To mention some of the internationally established artists they have worked with. So you can claim Melo to be mediocre at your heart's content, but that doesn't make it true. The majority of the artists, and the songwriters, choreographers, costume designers or set designers in Melo are up to the same standard of any multimillion selling international artist and the resources around them.

[@Tvjunkieful12]

@@Merecir Many of the songwriters delivering songs for Melodifestivalen year after year have written international hits too. Two of them, David Kreuger and Jørgen Elofson have penned and produced songs and hits for the likes of Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Boyzone, and several of Westlifes UK number 1 hits, including My love, Fool again, I lay my love on you and If I let you go. Kreuger even co-wrote Undone, Sanne Nielsen's Swedish Eurovision entry of that year. It came 3rd. in the ESC, if I am not mistaken. The other writer of that song, Fredrik Kempe, also - among many of the songs he has penned for Melo - wrote Manboy and Popular for Eric Saade in Melodifestivalen 2010 and 2011. Coming 2nd. and first, respectively. Popular coming 3rd, one tiny point behind Italy in 2nd, in the ESC final in Frankfurt. Jørgen Elofsen, like many other Swedish songwriters, have also penned Eurovision entries for other countries. He wrote one of Irland's ESC entries. But other songwriters who reguarly supply songs for Melo, like Thomas G:son, have written for several countries and numerous times. Malta, Georgia and Azarbaijan among them. For G:son, and a few other songwriters and producers, songs intended for Eurovision is their main occupation. By choice and demand. Not because they are not good enough to write music outside the Melo & ESC bubble. Most songwriters supplying songs for Melo write other songs too. Similar with the artists performing, and often co-writing, the songs. The professional quality, voices and performances of most of them do not stand in the shadow of world famous superstars. There are the odd Hollywood wife and novelist reducing the average quality of the vocal performances somewhat. But those are the exceptions. Most artists, as well as songwriters, producers, choreographers, set designers and more involved in creating the entries are as good as it gets. Which also is reflected in the results of the Swedish entries in the ESC. 4 of last years writers of Tattoo, not including Loreen herself, winning Eurovision for the second time. Peter Bostrøm and Thomas G:son also wrote Euphoria, and Joy and Linnea Deb also wrote Heroes for Måns Zelmerløw. The 4 of them having contributed to 3 of Sweden's 7 ESC wins. Mediocre, you said.

[@ChesterWhite-qo1lb]

I'm with Jurij, the song is basic and unremarkable. They need the staging otherwise it's nothing.