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Though earlier it was announced that Loreen's new single "Crying Out Your Name" will be out on Monday it was already presented on Spotify and you can check it below.
The song as it was revealed before sounds in a style of previous singles (melodically probably closer to "My Heart Is Refusing Me") but while it's growing in verses and you expect tune to go dance in chorus there comes a big live drums section (I guess this is what Loreen meant when she said it's inspiring by garage style). Really worthy follow-up though it's difficult to compete with "Euphoria".
But even bigger Loreen's news of this weekend is that snippets of her debut album "Heal" are unveiled (thanks for the tip to Olivier) and you can listen to them here!
The most precious thing about the album is that it has become quite holistic magic work with Loreen's voice wrapping the whole album in a hypnotic bubble of dark electronic ballads like "Everytime" and "Do We Even Matter" and dance-tracks rolling around Loreen's original way of bringing up dance and drama (not attached to the same formulas but glued really well by Loreen's wonderful voice). I understand solution of label to release "MHIRM" in remixed version, it fits the common direction of the album much better but including "Sober" in remix-version seems weird to me, track in its version loses its personality and steals another hit from the album. I also do hope that "See You Again" will become the next international hit, I believe this lighter side of Loreen also having international radio-friendly production is right what singer's career ouside of Sweden needs.

1. In My Head (Björn Djupström, Lorén Talhaoui, Moh Denebi)
2. My Heart Is Refusing Me (Björn Djupström,Lorén Talhaoui, Moh Denebi)
3. Everytime (Espen Berg, Marianne Sveen, Simen M Eriksrud, Tobias Frelin)
4. Euphoria (Peter Boström, Thomas G:son)
5. Crying Out Your Name (Ana Diaz, Gino Yonan, Jakob Hazell, Moh Denebi, Niklas Jarl, Svante Halldin)
6. Do We Even Matter (Björn Djupström, Lorén Talhaoui, Moh Denebi)
7. Sidewalk (Adam Baptiste, Björn Djupström, Lorén Talhaoui, Tobias Frelin)
8. Sober (Ali Payami, Björn Djupström, Lorén Talhaoui, Moh Denebi)
9. If She's The One (Moh Denebi, Björn Djupström, Lorén Talhaoui)
10. Breaking Robot (Moh Denebi, Ali Payami, Björn Djupström, Lorén Talhaoui)
11. See You Again
12. Heal (Gino Yonan, Moh Denebi, Peter Cartriers)

This June Loreen has taken part in MTV World Stage concert in Göteborg making epic performance that we could only check by videos made from audience.
Now TV-footage is out and this is absolutely worthy watching. And re-watching. And re-watching again!

Loreen has become a real fierce of MTV World Stage festival held last week in Göteborg. And like a proper upcoming European star she has made performances of all her songs anything but ordinary, all three released hits "My Heart Is Refusing Me", "Sober" and "Euphoria" were performed in special versions. "Euphoria" has got a big drums intro and was finished as a hard electro-mix. "Sober" has turned to an utterly dramatic pop-rock song and "MHIRM" was presented in live-session dreamy version.
All we have is videos recorded by public so I could only choose videos of the most appropriate quality of what we have. But it's still worth watching or at least listening.
The event is said to be aired on MTV internationally later this year but I can't find official information when.

Let's make the beginning of a week more cheerful with new works from (probably already) dance-veteran of Swedish club-music Ali Payami who has come up with two fresh mixes for the latest singles of two faves of our blog - Linda Sundblad and Loreen.
Loreen was already working with Ali on "My Heart Is Refusing Me" and Linda on "Oh Father". Both mixes have become quite laidback and atmospheric, not what I can directly see being played on the dancefloor but both versions are really beautiful. Check!

We're delighted to see that though Loreen's latest single "Sober" hasn't successfully charted it has become pretty big on the radio and Loreen hasn't left us without bonuses finally releasing this song earlier this autumn.
Along with official radio-edit there was also very beautiful acoustic version that has appeared online and I can't help but imeddiately share it with you.

We start a season of haunting for a new Loreen's track "She's The One" that was one of options to be released after "My Heart Is Refusing Me" but finally they've chosen "Sober" and we think it was right though "She's The One" sounds quite promising.
Recently Loreen has performed new track during live set in Stockholm trade center Gallerian and below you can check the result. I've got a feeling keyboard-player had really hard times with untuned sound, so you should understand that it's just a rough sneak peek of the song that can finally become pretty different in studio version but currently seems to be in a trend of Loreen's dance music with its ragged club-synths, expressive vocals, delicious strings and this time lighter, less dramatic melody line.
You should check full performance though as two other songs - acoustic "My Heart Is Refusing Me" and awesome intimate version of "Sober" with synths sounding very beautiful were just perfect!

Whole summer Loreen was teasing us and we were teasing you about her upcoming release - second single after incredible "My Heart Is Refusing Me" - "Sober" and finally it's officially out!
From the first listen "Sober" goes in the same direction as Loreen's previous track, it's all around dancing on a broken glass, ballad dramatical marching verses explode with Swedish House Mafia-smelling choruses and all range of Loreen's emotional vocal.
It just couldn't disappont us as Loreen has presented right what fans expected from her but what still sounds fresh and pretty strong as new single choice.

This year Loreen is gonna be one of those stars we'll be maniacally following step by step. Girl has given to us what we're always hungry for - fresh, original and vocally incredibly powerful stuff and she'll be paying for this by our attention.
First good news have arrived from QX issue where Loreen has appeared on the cover, if you don't read Swedish you can read the most interesting on Schlagerfiasko that you can always rely on in delivery of the most important news in schlager-world in English.
What we wanted to know the most - Loreen will release EP this autumn, it will include 6-8 tracks but before she'll release another single. Now Loreen has started her summer tour with Rix Fm festival and people who visited first concert could already see her performing "My Heart Is Refusing Me" with dancers and "Sober" in acoustic version but today we've caught how "Sober" is going to sound in studio production. You can check it in live performance below and to our pleasure it's exactly in the same vein as "My Heart Is Refusing Me" - starting as ballad and turning into modern dance-track reminding Swedish House Mafia's "One" after the chorus and sure you get a big emotional Loreen's voice in a pack.

I can't leave you without mentioning this lovely dance-performance of "My Heart Is Refusing Me" by The DIVAstators, they always do fantastic work and it's not exception, loads of drama, dances and bloody schlager-massacre... but you should better watch it yourself till the end.

One of our biggest favorites of Melodifestivalen-2011 Loreen has visited studio of XL Live to perform her Melodifestivalen-hit "My Heart Is Refusing Me" with one of her songwriters Moh Denebi in acoustic and to prove one more time what a brilliant singer she is! Tones of broken feelings in every sound and every key especially touching with nothing but guitar and beautiful Loreen's voice. Another performed song was forthcoming single "Sober". Loreen will compete this Saturday in Second Chance round of Melodifestivalen and currently she's the most successful participant of Second Chance on iTunes staying #5 so we really hope she has a big chance to break through to the final.