Sweden wants its own Linda Lampenius

Wednesday is the so-called intermission day in Eurovision. Next up is the general practice for Thursday’s semifinals, which both the media and the public can watch.

In Thursday’s semi-final, Denmark and Australia will be among the favorites to win. Denmark is represented Søren Torpegaard LundAustralia Delta Goodrem. The traditionally highly successful Ukraine is represented Lekaand also the representative of Romania returning to Eurovision after a two-year break Alexandra Capitănescun it is believed to advance to the finals and do well there.

Finland Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen advanced to the final on Tuesday. Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Moldova, Israel, Serbia, Croatia, Lithuania and Poland also reached the finals.

A lot more will also happen in Vienna on Wednesday: the performers in Saturday’s final Erika Vikman and Lordi gave a concert in the evening at the Eurovision Song Contest.

This article tells the latest news from Eurovision Wednesday.

Finland’s performance is praised in Sweden

Finland Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen’s semi-final performance on Tuesday garnered widespread praise in the Swedish media.

Expressen’s by Maria Brander this year, the audience bows before Suomen and Linda Lampenius. He calls Lampenius “as a Barbarella Amazon armed with a violin.”

According to him, in the Finnish performance, everything happens as part of an opera-like grandiose staging, “which moves towards a climax and its own dimension in Eurovision divinity”.

Today’s News Hanna Fahl drew attention to how the system drew uneven semi-finals: for him, Tuesday was of higher quality than Thursday’s semi-final. This year, according to Fahl, the strongest songs were actually already heard during the first half hour of Tuesday’s first semi-final, when Parkkonen and Lampenius performed a “sweaty love story about an imprisoned man and a violin Amazon”. In addition to Finland, Fahl mentioned in a positive sense the songs of Greece, Croatia and Israel.

Fahl bets that not Sweden Felicia join the battle for the top.

“Maybe we can claim that Linda Lampenius is Swedish if she wins? She has dual citizenship after all,” suggests Fahl.

Swedish Dagbladetin Andreas Hödmark reminds that violinist Linda Lampenius is the first to play an instrument live at Eurovision in 28 years. He bets that Lampenius is also the first contestant to have been involved in a television series In Baywatch. After seeing all the fire shows on stage, Hödmark is not surprised that Lampenius and Parkkonen are the favorites to win.

“Musically, the performance is really melodramatic and pompous, which is perfect for Eurovision, but not quite as good for the ears,” Hödmark evaluates in his mildly critical article.