Klara Hammarström - On and On and On

Many people are now recognising this as the greatest song of all time and making mourning plans as Sweden look set to not do likewise.

The genre of Tina Cousins has rarely sounded so wondrous.

I feel so blessed living in a time where so many songs are declared the greatest of all time (99% of them by Penelope).

Penelope said:

Many people are now recognising this as the greatest song of all time and making mourning plans as Sweden look set to not do likewise.

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Max points from the tickle torture fetishist demoscopic jury.

I wish the staging was better realised. It’s ten times the song Revolution is, but the staging just doesn’t give Eurovision/Melfest winner.

The staging is a TRIUMPH

I always try to avoid getting into Melodifestivalen - pay it no attention, just listen to the winning song etc - as I worried I'd get too invested and end up FUCKING FURIOUS some years at my own perceived miscarriages of justice.

This year I dipped a toe into watching some of the YouTubes and now here I am, bereft and QUITE FUCKING FURIOUS that Måns' subpar song with impressive-but-nonsensical overcompensatory staging will likely dash any chance of this delightful banger going to Basel

Finn said:

I always try to avoid getting into Melodifestivalen - pay it no attention, just listen to the winning song etc - as I worried I'd get too invested and end up FUCKING FURIOUS some years at my own perceived miscarriages of justice.

This year I dipped a toe into watching some of the YouTubes and now here I am, bereft and QUITE FUCKING FURIOUS that Måns' subpar song with impressive-but-nonsensical overcompensatory staging will likely dash any chance of this delightful banger going to Basel

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And neither are a patch on HUSH HUSH!

Hush Hush (Meria) is only my 2nd favourite Scandipop song called Hush Hush after this lush lush gem:



A Eurovision alumni of course:

0:00 - Klara Hammarström wakes up after a wild night out in Athens atop a crumbled pillar. She is disoriented. Her heart is on her sleeve. She vows, hungover, to keep on fighting for what she believes in, because it's the only way she can feel alive. But should she carry on with her modelling, or focus on her charity work in Africa?

0:58 - Klara's heart is beating, and so is the voting heart. Nearby, a group of homosexuals begin to molest her, desperate for her reflected glory during a time of glamour poverty (Melodifestivalen 2025)

1:14 - the chorus has begun and the gays have disappeared. Klara has realised the important thing right now is neither her modelling nor her charity work, but the man she loves. The love will go on, and on, and on. There is room on the door for the both of us

1:31 - the gays have thoughtfully reappeared in time for the second verse, summoned by the clarion call of Cazzi Opeia. They begin to perform a cult ritual ceremony around her and the plinth, recognising Klara as their new goddess replacing the one who they worshipped before, Ivi Adamou

1:51 - Klara briefly contemplates running and running and running for President. The gays push her plinth to the back of the stage to contain her brief disturbed megalomania: she must be kept a liminal deity unsullied by earthly concerns!

2:00 - the gays agree to accompany Klara in a sinister forward march for the undeniable chorus. She crooks her head as she reminds her lover that now her heart is beating, should he even begin to doubt how serious she is about this (she loves being intimidating)

2:13 - DEFCON 5. The apocalypse is commencing (Måns has been provoked by the performance so far into remembering he is competing two heats later, and has put in a call to his stage director). Gays begin scurrying for dear life across the floor to G-A-Y Late.

2:21 - Klara Hammarström is lying on the floor and cannot get up. She is surrounded by clocks reminding her that a friend's birthday drinks she was meant to go to started an hour ago, she hasn't even started getting washed and ready yet, and there's a tube strike on/no DLR today. All hope is beginning to look like it is lost... but still, Klara's heart is beating...

2:39 - the gays return to her aid to help her get up. Their deity must be helped in her final moment of need. Klara must make it to Dotter's birthday drinks/come top two at Melfest

2:51 - the final chorus begins its final march. You can't stop progress!

2:56 - LIVET BÖRJAR HÄR OCH NU! I! DAG! FINNS! BA! RA! JAG! OCH! DU!

3:00 - Klara Hammarström has once again failed to win Melodifestivalen / the Eurovision Song Contest.

BEATING
NOW MY HEART IS BEATING

Ready to declare this my song of the season.

An absolute triumph.

Apoca said:

Ready to declare this my song of the season.

An absolute triumph.

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It’s comfortably the best NF entry of the year.

Penelope said:

Many people are now recognising this as the greatest song of all time and making mourning plans as Sweden look set to not do likewise.

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I’d like to give a special mention to the person “WHOOO”-ing into the quiet bit at 2:58 before it all revs up again (aka the loudest live vocal of the final minute ).

Can’t unhear it even in the studio version.

Apoca said:

I’d like to give a special mention to the person “WHOOO”-ing into the quiet bit at 2:58 before it all revs up again (aka the loudest live vocal of the final minute ).

Can’t unhear it even in the studio version.

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I like to think that it's spiritually any of @VoR/@Sheena/me

Several participants in "Secrets of the Elite Force VIP" have distanced themselves from racism in a joint statement.

The reason is said to be a comment from Klara Hammarström during the recording of the program.

Now the artist responds – and explains the sequence of events.

Klara Hammarström voluntarily left "Secrets of the Elite VIP" in Tuesday's episode. However, information has been spread on social media that she was forced to leave due to an inappropriate comment.

Klara Hammarström explained on Tuesday that it was a misunderstanding that had been investigated . Shortly afterwards, however, four other participants – Lamix , Linda Pira , Atilla Yoldas and Mona Persson – published a joint post on Instagram in which they distanced themselves “from expressions and behaviors that can be perceived as racist”. Anitha Clemence has also commented on the incident on Instagram.

However, no one has given any further details about the incident – until now. In a message to Aftonbladet, Klara Hammarström explains the sequence of events.

According to her, the statement was made during a conversation with two other participants.

The artist then referred to a YouTube video that the others in the conversation were not familiar with. To explain which one she meant, she mentioned another, more famous video, by the same creator – where the official title contains the 'N-word'.

Hammarström writes to Aftonbladet:

"I did not mention the word in its capacity to describe a person, a group, or a feeling. I cited an existing title, set by the authors themselves, for a purely identifying purpose."

According to the artist, a third person overheard the conversation and then spread the word to the rest of the group that Klara Hammarström had used the word.

“The simplified representation, without context, led to several in the group reacting strongly,” she continues.

She believes that the image that is now being spread of the incident is misleading.

"I believe that a reference to a publicly available title set by the authors, for the purpose of identifying a sender, does not in itself constitute a racist statement," she writes.

At the same time, she expresses understanding for the historical and emotional charge of the word.

“But there is an important difference between using such a word about a person or group and referring to the title of an existing work to identify its author.”

She thinks it is important that the whole context is presented.

Oh no, she had a chat about Kanye ft. Jay-Z - Ladies In Paris without the nous to just be CANNY about it, didn't she