Swedish~ Stereo~

Season of tv-concerts in Skansen has started today when Sweden was celebrating its National Day. Before watching it you should realize that it's more about summer atmosphere in Sweden rather than loads of hits and highest pop-elite. If you're lazy to watch a whole concert here are some highlights of it:
8.11 - Sonja Aldén performing Lars Winnerbäck's "Stockholmskyss" in a nice dansband-schlager way.
27.58 - Thomas Stenström singing his new song "Full Av Liv" which hasn't become my cup of tea but you should check this artist anyway, he gets a heavy promotion and probably will be bigger in Sweden soon.
32.03 - "Gabriellas Sång" by Hanna Lindblad who seems to never suffer from Melodifestivalen-flops making. Lady just go and find another success on TV, in theater, pop-career is postponed but it's just a matter of time, right?
47.28 - Louise Hoffsten singing old Alice Babs' hit "Rengtunga Skyar".
53.00 - Panetoz who have made medley of their #1 "Dansa Pausa" and Swedish classics "Deirdres Samba" and have actually lived this party up. That was nice watching Royal family being into this performance.

In the end of July Stockholm will host annual Pride festival with loads of different public events and open-air performances, as a rule it gathers most interesting and currently important schlager-names, so some of approved ones are Hera Björk, Hanna Lindblad, Jenny Silver, NEO, Safura, Anne-Lie Rydé, Rebound, Mariette Hansson, Caroline af Ugglas, sure this list's gonna be much longer in a few weeks.
Every year Stockholm's Pride gets it's official anthem and this year is no exception and it's Ankie Bagger & Peter Gustafsson who provide the anthem this time. It's not the first work of Ankie and Peter together, year before they recorded their first schlager-experiment "Du kan inte lura mig" (joke song about woman fallen in love with gay-guy) written by Thomas G:Son that reached #4 of chart.
"Secret Weapon" is as classic disco-schlager as it can be, like it or not, and sure it's gonna suit its aim very well, the song is written by Ulf Ekwall, Fredde "Francis" Jernberg and Charlie Mason. You can check enjoyable live performance of it below, it really lifts the song to a new level and changing this dead audience to open-air party people it could sound and look really great.

You can check the list of other Stockholm Pride's anthems of 00s. Best one to your opinion?

Jonas Hedqvist - I am What I am (2001)
Christer Björkman, Rickard Engfors och Shirley Clamp - La Vie (This is My Life) (2002)
Alcazar - Someday (2003)
Nina & Kim - Universe of Love (2004)
Leana - Dance With a Stranger (2005)
Christer Lindarw och Stockholms Gaykör - Kom ut! (Go West!) (2006)
6 am feat. Cissi Ramsby - I'm Gay (2007)
BWO - The Bells of Freedom (2008)
Marit Bergman - Casey, Hold On (2009)