We're ignoring the Albanian song as it's rubbish and shouty and can only be improved by a great-big-gay-hands-in-the-air disco remix, so it's time for the Schlagerboys' highlights of the 2011 schlager year. Hurrah!
5. Meeting Jenny Ace of Base at the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix Opening Party (well, downstairs at a little bar somewhere in Copenhagen) and getting her to choose her favourite Blue-head-on-a-stick and her running her fingers over Duncan, Simon, Lee and the other one and then saying "I will have them all!". Obviously we told her she was an absolute 90s Europop icon and she replied in a deadpan voice that she wanted to marry both of us. LEGEND!!
4. Alcazar's absolutely final ever live performance (until someone offers them another schlagertastic anthem for Melodifestivalen in a couple of years time). Clearly the classic line-up is still the one that includes (Mi Amore) Annikafiore and Magnus Carlsson but Lina, Tess and Andreas made the 10 hour wait at the front of Stockholm Pride stage, putting up with rubbish Ukrainian boybands and blokes in their underpants doing inappropriate things on a stripper's pole and not daring to go to the loo in case we couldn't get back through the throngs again, worth it).
3. We were in Stockholm earlier in the year aswell to see Sanna Nielsen at the Rival Hotel. She was fabulous, although it was all a bit acoustic. We queued for a CD, which she signed, and obviously we told her she was our favourite. But there's no doubt that the schlager highlight of being in Stockholm in April was wandering past Åhléns department store, realising that there were various celebs shaking fundraising tins for UNICEF, and then seeing, OH! MY! GOD! Lil Lindfors. We were schlager starstruck to see such an icon whilst just wandering round in the street. We had to wait ages as she was being hogged by some bloke and his kid. We did feel like elbowing the child out of the way to get at Dame Lil, but felt this wouldn't have gone down too well. Eventually we got a chance to buy a charity badge, tell Ms Lindfors what an icon she is and then, as this moment would probably never come again, we asked her to sing a verse from the song she sang during the opening of Eurovision 1985. OMG!!
2. New schlager icons were born this year. We knew Dame Shirley was back, Back! BACK!! in Melodifestivalen 2011 and we knew she was going to be accompanied by her Angels, but we didn't realise that the Angels would very nearly eclipse Shirley in sheer schlager fabulosity. The performance of "I Thought It Was Forever" turned Shirley's Angels into icons, what with all the strutting on enormous heels and all those hair-flicks.Then the Angels got taken on as backing singers for Azerbaijan at Eurovision and then went on and won!!
During the week in Düsseldorf we met the Angels in the Euroclub. They were hanging out with a load of Swedish people, so we felt it was appropriate to tell them they were fabulous, took a photo and then asked them to do a couple of "I Thought It Was Forever" hair-flicks for a rubbish schlager video with us screaming in the background. OMG!!! It's THE schlager move of 2011!
1. There is only one schlager icon that can top a Shirley's Angels hair-flick and that's Dame Kirsten Siggaard, the ultimate Scandinavian schlager diva. There we were, minding our own business in the press room in an arena miles outside of Copenhagen, watching the dress rehearsal of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, when Dame Kirsten walked in eating a bran muffin. We pounced on her and, bless her, she even said "Oh! The Schlagerboys!", although it was probably more in fright whilst thinking "Why on earth didn't anyone tell me these pair of stalkers were here?" and eyeing up the quickest escape route. Dame Kirsten had a huge schlager influence on both of the Schlagerboys in our formative years and after we'd had a photo, told her how fabulous she was and explained what a huge icon she still is, we had to have a sit down.
Lovely guys. Much sweden in that blog, so much that i hope you Will cancel the trip to the norwegian final and choose Engberg, perelli and sweden again :). Wish you à wonderful new schlager year. Your friend Niklas in Stockholm :)!
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Lovely guys. Much sweden in that blog, so much that i hope you Will cancel the trip to the norwegian final and choose Engberg, perelli and sweden again :). Wish you à wonderful new schlager year. Your friend Niklas in Stockholm :)!
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