{"id":6275,"date":"2013-04-02T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2013-04-02T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:40:15","slug":"robin-stjernberg-wins-melodifestivalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/robin-stjernberg-wins-melodifestivalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Stjernberg wins Melodifestivalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now this is relatively old news, but it is certainly still relevant! This year, Sweden will send Robin Stjernberg, winner of this year&#8217;s Melodifestivalen, to Malm\u00f6, a city in the very south of Sweden, with his song <em>You<\/em> to perform in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. For those of you who are unaware, the Eurovision Song Contest is a music contest that is held every year, to which most of the countries of Europe contribute one original song each. The winning country hosts the next year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest. In Sweden, Melodifestivalen is a domestic contest that occurs previous to Eurovision in which the people of Sweden vote for the artist who will represent their country in Eurovision.<\/p>\n<p>While I did just say that the &#8220;people of Sweden&#8221; vote for the artist who will represent them in Eurovision, that&#8217;s not the whole story. Since 2009, a number of juries from other countries taking part in Eurovision have had 50% of the say in who should win Melodifestivalen. The other 50% consists of text message and telephone voting from within Sweden. When presenting the poll results, each country presents their number of points awarded to each song individually, and then the hosts of the contest present the Swedish votes. This year, the international jury gave Robin Stjernberg the most points and Yohio, another contestant, the fewest points. The Swedish people, however, gave Stjernberg second place and declared Yohio their winner. After all the votes were tallied, however, Stjernberg won the contest and Yohio got second place. Now, in May, Stjernberg will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest of 2013 in Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: Is it really fair that Stjernberg won over Yohio even though the Swedish people, whom the winner of the contest is to represent before the entirety of Europe, quite clearly wanted to see Yohio on stage in Malm\u00f6? Eurovision is, after all, an opportunity for every country involved to show a little piece of themselves the way their own people wish for them to be represented. What do <em>you<\/em> think? Feel free to comment!<\/p>\n<p>In Stjernberg&#8217;s defense, however, his song is not at all bad and he was the second favorite of the Swedish people. Here is his performance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yh_P1JQiO8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Embedded video\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here is Yohio&#8217;s performance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8C49hM_2aOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Embedded video\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to reading your thoughts and ideas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now this is relatively old news, but it is certainly still relevant! This year, Sweden will send Robin Stjernberg, winner of this year&#8217;s Melodifestivalen, to Malm\u00f6, a city in the very south of Sweden, with his song You to perform in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. 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