Penelope
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Not being funny, but I'd *love* for the UK to be stuck in the kind of rut that had got us top ten every year since 2014
It's actually not. The international jury vote is similar to ESC but not the televote.The Swedish voting system is literally Swedish viewers plus essentially a direct analog of the Eurovision jury vote....if it results in safe entries it's because it's basically the perfect vetting process for Eurovision.
Oh wow, is that really what people do? I hate the uber-ification of ratings.At Mello "Kalle" has a phone and will give 3-5 votes to each act he finds mildly stimulating because "it's not nice to give any less" (think Amazon ratings), the only acts given 0 will be the weird ones who makes him cry. I would like to lecture all the Swedish toddlers that sadness is also an emotion they will need to learn how to cope with but I don't think that's going to help my case.
Sorry - was The Mamas winning supposed to be a bad thing?It's actually not. The international jury vote is similar to ESC but not the televote.
The Swedish televoter grades each act by giving them 0-5 "hearts" while at ESC you only vote for your favourites.
At ESC that means Lucille can throw 20 votes to the Raven queen and give zip to all the other acts while 5 yo diaper boy "Kalle" may convince his mom to call in once for the most shiny disco ball.
At Mello "Kalle" has a phone and will give 3-5 votes to each act he finds mildly stimulating because "it's not nice to give any less" (think Amazon ratings), the only acts given 0 will be the weird ones who makes him cry. I would like to lecture all the Swedish toddlers that sadness is also an emotion they will need to learn how to cope with but I don't think that's going to help my case.
Anyways, the Swedish voting system is the reason the Mamas won last year and explains why there's so many MOR acts in the Melfest final each year. Worse yet it makes most established artists afraid to be inventive as they'd risk NQ in the public vote only SFs.
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Sorry - was The Mamas winning supposed to be a bad thing?
Just think about it. Jury vote has ended. and it's Tusse vs Saade for the win. You're an 11 year old who will have to go back to school on Monday and face all your friends (and bullies) who have all seen the show. Because they have befriended you on the the app they can also see how you voted.A further issue is that at the Melfest finals the public get's to see the complete jury vote before the public voting ends. That heavily favours the IJ top 3.
None, I still have some balls leftHak how much of that was your personal journey during this year's Melodifestivalen final
Amazing choiceIt's fine, I can change.
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