tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2401850518188492952.post7803228981098075349..comments2024-03-28T01:55:59.381+02:00Comments on Tobson in Euroland: Tobson takes on Melodifestivalen 1987TobSonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15901219097013459250noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2401850518188492952.post-20923846977997412352015-11-17T13:42:25.613+02:002015-11-17T13:42:25.613+02:00Thank you so much for this comment. I'm so hap...Thank you so much for this comment. I'm so happy whenever anyone finds pleasure in my blog posts, especially under hard times like we had recently. I think loving the things we love and enjoy the things we enjoy is a great way of resistance. :)<br /><br />As for Lotta Engberg's song, it was quite right for a mainstream Swedish taste at the time. We just enjoyed the taste of plastic, I suppose. This song is hardly seen as Lotta's best anymore, in our defence. :)TobsonHelsinkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05064793414035776105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2401850518188492952.post-6338682946926284452015-11-16T19:41:27.376+02:002015-11-16T19:41:27.376+02:00Thank you, Tobias, for keeping me away from watchi...Thank you, Tobias, for keeping me away from watching all of the news last weekend, while instead reading all of your great Melfest posts of the good old 80's days. It got me back to normal life for a few hours and gave me a spark of hope in these sad and crazy days after the European 9/11 in Paris!<br />I share your view that 'Dansa i neon' by Lena Philipsson was (by far) the best song in the line-up of 1987. And it is still one of my favourite songs over all Melodifestivalen years. I will never get how the Swedish public/jury could go for that Carnival Schlager by Lotta Engberg as their ESC entry that year?! <br /><br />Thanks for this great series of Melfest posts that I enjoyed reading very much, especially last weekend!<br /><br />Greetings from Germany,<br /><br />Wolfgang <br />Wolfgang Schmidtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2401850518188492952.post-73140695669262800212015-11-11T11:18:03.008+02:002015-11-11T11:18:03.008+02:00Arja Saijonmaa is the great diva of whatif's i...Arja Saijonmaa is the great diva of whatif's in Finnish-Swedish Eurovision history.<br /><br />I remember the excitement in Finland when we learned that our own Arja Saijonmaa was near winning the Swedish selection. Her entry was played in the Finnish selection show and after that year YLE tried several times to get her to take part in the Finnish selection. In 1988 she said no to a very Lasse Holmish entry (written in swedish) "Svart och vitt", which finally was sung capably by Helena Miller and which lost with one point (can't you see the irony) to "Nauravat silmät muistetaan". With Arja as a singer that song would have won for sure. <br /><br />Two years later Arja finally said yes and came third in the Finnish final with "Gabriela" which was an ok song by Petri Laaksonen (composer of Sata Salamaa and Eläköön Elämä) but not as effective as Svart och vitt would have been with Arja Saijonmaa at the helm. <br />Mikko Suhonenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012195065958165960noreply@blogger.com