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New bunch of Melodifestivalen participants is delivered and we check 1-minutes rehearsals of next schlager-heroes of this year.
Youngblood have presented "Manboy"-cousin armed with torches and Thomas Benstem's choreography. Maria BenHajji has brought 203 candles and her upgraded schlager-ballad. Mattias Andréasson from E.M.D. starts his solo-career with American electronic pop-mix of Oscar Linnros r'n'b direction (my absolute favorite of this semifinal by snippets). Love Generation are back with RedOne's marching dance-tune and Alex Sparrow-inspired show from Sacha Jean-Baptiste. Carolina Wallin Pérez has melancholic indie-track, bunch of drummers and butterfly-confetti. Andreas Johnson doesn't break what worked well for him when he has started with "Sing For Me" arena-oriented pop-rock. Molly Sandén's song is Leona Lewis-sounding dramatic ballad that I can't compare with any other song Molly did before but I save my judgments before I'll listen to it in a full version. And finally Swedish writer Björn Ranelid with ex-Caracola Sara Li. I'm not even gonna try to understand that buzz around Björn, I'll be just enjoying Sara Li's lovely bubblegum-part that sounds especially good after Björn's "there-is-such-a-promising-dance-production-so-read-faster-and-let-the-chorus-start" part.

I have a good news, not very good news and stunning news!
First of all we've got hosts of Melodifestivalen-2012 and I should say fantastic hosts - Sarah Dawn Finer (I bet no one expected Sarah as a host but what an amazing interval acts she can deliver!), Gina Dirawi (or Ana Gina - popular blogger I told you about in connection with Rebound's comic video for "Hurricane") and famous actreess Helena Bergström (some foreign hardcore-schlager-fans may know her by movie "Livet är en Schlager"). Incredible line-up as personally I adore Sara and Gina and though I didn't see loads of Helena I'm sure she's gonna be very nice and entertaining person.
Not that good news are that Never Alone haven't won webjoker contest. Instead Maria BenHajji (backing vocalist on MF and Allsång På Skansen in the past) has won with the song "I mina drömmar" which is not bad but is just too "Med hjärtat fyllt av ljus" to except some big breakthrough on actual contest. But songwriters' and Maria's dream to get to MF has come true so congratulations to the team.
The greatest news are that we're gonna know full list of songs and songwriters of MF already tomorrow!!! Newspapers like Aftonbladet and Expressen use to discover who's the most possible to perform this song not longer than in a day and usually guess around 80% of artists right so since tomorrow we're gonna get probably the hottest few days of all preparations period.
I should finish with something schlager-related and it's gonna be some schlager-covers of current Idol season, we've got two really worthy ones.