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11.3.06
Carola to the wonning!*

The final eight songs in Sweden's Melodifestivalen are available for listening here, in advance of tonight's heat. And oh my god, does Carola's song sound like a winner! I had a sneak preview of this down the phone from Sweden yesterday, and it's as good as I thought. Pure schlager by numbers; a Christmassy intro, slow start, quick build to a climactic singalong chorus, and a big long note near the end. If only she wasn't such a homophobic God-botherer, we could love her...

PS. If anyone still remembers Carola as the little pixie who won Eurovision 1991, you're in for a shock. She has transformed herself, not entirely without a scalpel, I suspect, into something rather glamourous, in the Victoria Beckham mould.

*An in joke. Sorry.


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