WHEN?: Saturday 6 February 2021
WHERE?: Annexet, Stockholm
Last year’s winners The Mamas were the 1st of 28 Melodifestivalen entries in what was a topsy-turvy year that was the 1st since 1956 without a Eurovision Song Contest.
- Read on for reasons including our finalen and Andra Chansen predictions
- Kadiatou One Touch (Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Anderz Wrethov) PREDICTION: 5th
We might not have written a great deal about Kadiatou in our Heat 1 preview but we’ve been enjoying her recent singles Christmas Night With You and Best I’ve Ever Had in the run up to the reveal of these Heat 1 snippets. The 60-second clip we’ve heard of One Touch very much sets the scene for a modern dance track with promise.
2. Lillasyster Pretender (Isak Hallén, Jakob Redtzer, Martin Westerstrand, Ian Paolo Lira, Palle Hammarlund) PREDICTION: 7th
Gravel-voiced rock is far from our go-to music genre but this is so out there that it’s going to attract an audience. 2nd in the running order is far from ideal but there’s usually a metal entry that makes the finalen and this could well be in with a shout.
3. Jessica Andersson Horizon (David Kreuger, Fredrik Kempe, Marcus Lidén, Christian Holmström) PREDICTION: 6th
We don’t mind admitting that we’re long-time fans of Andersson and were willing this to be uptempo and in a similar dance floor-friendly vein to her last entry Party Voice. Andersson’s performance is always impressive and her diction means the storytelling of this Carola-esque anthem shines bright. Invincible part two.
4. Paul Rey The Missing Piece (Fredrik Sonefors, Laurell Barker, Paul Rey) PREDICTION: Andra Chansen
Rey did far better than we were predicting to even reach last year’s finalen and we’ve been enjoying that radio-friendly ditty in the run-up to this heat. The Missing Piece feels a little bit more uptempo and again we’re far from convinced in the run up to Saturday.
LISTEN TO ONE-MINUTE CLIPS OF THESE SONGS
5. Arvingarna Tänker inte alls gå hem (Not going to go home at all) (Stefan Brunzell, Nanne Grönvall, Thomas G:son, Bobby Ljunggren) PREDICTION: Finalen
Nanne is 1 of the songwriters here and this is exactly the type of old-school schlager with a driving beat and way with an old-school melody that saw us fall in love with Melodifestivalen 2 decades ago. The man band’s last entry did far better than we were expecting and this was the most fun of the 60-second clips. After Bjorkman’s departure, will there be a place for this in the Melodifestivalens of the future?
6. Nathalie Brydolf Fingerprints (Andreas Stone Johansson, Etta Zelmani, Laurell Barker, Anna-Klara Folin) PREDICTION: Andra Chansen
The contest’s 1st big ballad and the success of this will very much depend on the quality of its performance. The recorded minute we’ve heard has promise and a sensitive song such as this might be better suited to a studio without audience as we have for the 1st time in many a year in 2021.
7. Danny Saucedo Dandi dansa (Danny Saucedo, Karl-Johan Råsmark) PREDICTION: Finalen
Will this year’s pre-contest favourite suffer the same fate as 2020 Heat 1’s Felix Sandman and bounce straight to Andra Chansen? This isn’t a Saucedo showstopper in the vein of his 3 big top 3 Melodifestivalen finishes but it’s cute, catchy and credible from the clip and, although not a winner perhaps, this will do better than many are predicting.
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