Sweden 2012: Loreen

Artist name:

Loreen

Song title:

Euphoria

Song writer(s):

Thomas G:son, Peter Boström

Year:

2012

Language:

English

Country:

Sweden

Starting position semi-final 2:

Points in semi-final 2:

181

Rank in semi-final 2:

Starting position final :

Points in final:

372

Rank in final:

About the participant:

Loreen was born as Lorine Zineb Noka Talhaoui in Stockholm 1983 and is of Moroccan-Berber descent. Her family moved to the village Gryta just outside the city of Västerås where she grew up.

The first time Loreen go introduced to a wider audince was in 2004 when she entered the Swedish Idol 2004 competition where she finished in 4th place. In 2005 she released her first single The Snake together with the group Rob'n'Raz. The years that followed saw Loreen working as a host for the TV-show "Lyssna".

In 2011 Loreen was back in the spotlight as she entered Melodifestivalen 2011 with the song My Heart Is Refusing Me (which she co-wrote with Moh Denebi and Björn Djupström). The song came 4th in the second semifinal in Gothenburg and reached the Second Chance heat where she lost in the first sing-off duel to Sara Varga. Despite not qualifying to the final the song became a big success and entered the different swedish music charts. A follow up single named Sober was released in the autumn the same year.

In 2012 Loreen was offered to sing Euphoria at Melodifestivalen. She hesitated to enter the competition again but in the last days before the official presentation of the artists she decided to accept to take part.

About the selection:

32 songs competed in the national selction Melodifestivalen in four heats during February. The songs with SMS and telephone votes from each heat were directly qualified for the final while the third and fourth placed songs got a new chance to qualify through a Second Chance heat held in March

10 songs competed in the final on Saturday the 10th of March in the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm. The result was decided by 50% jury (from 11 international jury groups) and 50% SMS and telephone voting. After the jury votes it stood clear that someone of the beforehand favourites Loreen and Danny Saucedo was going win. In the end Loreen won with a total of 268 points, receiving 114 points from the jury and collecting 154 point from the televote (getting 32,7% of the peoples votes). Danny who sang Amazing finished second with 198 point and Ulrik Munther singing Soldiers was third with 88 points which was the same amount of points as the fourth placed song Shout it out by David Lindgren.

About the song:

Euphoria is a song with a modern energetic dance beat. The number involves a lot of movements and dancing from Loreen and during the last minute of the song she is joined on stage by a male dancer.

The song is written by the experienced duo Thomas G:son and Peter Boström.

Lyrics:

Why,
Why can't this moment last forevermore
Tonight,
Tonight eternity's an open door
No
Don't ever stop doing the things you do
Don't go
In every breath I take I'm breathing you

Euphoria
Forever, ‘til the end of time
From now on, only you and I
We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

Euphoria
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

We are here
We are alone in our own universe
We are free
Where everything's aloud and love comes first
Forever and ever together
We sail into infinity
We're higher and higher and higher
We're reaching for divinity

Euphoria
Forever, ‘til the end of time
From now on, only you and I
We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

Euphoria
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

Forever
We sail into infinity
We're higher
We're reaching for divinity

Euphoria
Euphoria
We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

Euphoria
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

Euphoria

We're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up

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