WHEN?: 7pm Saturday 4 March on SVT (link to watch below)

It’s been one of the most surprising Melodifestivalens ever and we’re very excited about the upcoming four duels that will see our eight-strong final become a dozen.

• Read on for our Andra Chansen predictions and the heat performances

DUEL 1: FO&O:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU2tAfDt6lA

OR Det Vet Du

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUKTr6Q2e7I

VERDICT: A tough one: FO&O don’t quite have the quality of song that we were hoping for and De Vet Du were a lot more fun than we were imagining beforehand. FO&O‘s fanbase to swing it for them.

DUEL 2: Axel Schylström

OR Lisa Ajax

VERDICT: Axel gave a great performance but Lisa’s song has really grown on us in the last fortnight and, despite the swearing, we’re going Lisa Ajax.

DUEL 3: Boris René

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MoS7XjxDkI

OR Dismissed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9VT8Ta_on8

VERDICT: Two songs we love for wildly different reasons. We suspect Boris René has the fans to see him through but we’d prefer it the other way around.

DUEL 4: Anton Hagman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUVO4R9vlk

OR Loreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN-7vQq18Zg

VERDICT: Perhaps inevitably our two favourite AC songs are drawn together. We’d prefer Anton to go through because we think he has the more commercial song but would imagine Loreen‘s star power will handbag him. Statements is proving quite the Marmite entry. We loved the Kate Bush imagination around the visuals but still feel the song is a bit of a racket.

• Picture via Facebook courtesy Loreen. Watch Melodifestivalen here. There’s no afterparty after Saturday’s show. Join us on this site on 4/3 for our final predictions and for clips of all the songs.
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