2023-05-14 01:47:43
Loreen, already first in the competition in 2012, is the second artist to win Eurovision twice after Johnny Logan for Ireland in the 1980s.
Finland, with singer Käärijä, took second place and Israel third. Twenty-six countries competed for the final of the 67th edition of the competition.
Loreen succeeds the Ukrainians of the Kalush Orchestra, who triumphed last year with “Stefania”, a song mixing hip-hop and traditional Ukrainian music. Eurovision was held in the UK, which came second last year, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This year, it was represented by the electro duo Tvorchi, who finished sixth with “Heart of Steel”, a song inspired by the resistance during a month of siege at the Azovstal factory in Mariupol and applauded by the audience.
Minutes after their stage performance, Tvorchi posted on Instagram that Ternopil, their hometown, was attacked by Russia. Ternopil “was bombarded by Russia as we sang on the Eurovision stage about our strong hearts, our indomitability and our will,” they wrote. “Europe, united against evil for peace”, they added.
Several songs evoked, each in their own way, the war. As for Switzerland, the 21-year-old St. Gallen Remo Forrer launched a message of peace in a serious tone with “Watergun”. In 2022, the Swiss Marius Bear was ranked 17th.
The big winner, Loreen, performed with “Tattoo”, a pop anthem about unconditional love. The Swede was the favorite of the bookmakers. However, this new participation was for her anything but obvious, until she listened to this song.
“When I heard ‘Tattoo’, before anyone even told me about Melodifestivalen [la sélection suédoise qui détermine la contribution à l’Eurovision, ndlr], I felt a pleasure mixed with terror. I understood that something was happening“, she confided to the daily Dagens Nyheter. And she then bent on an iron discipline to achieve the number one grandiloquent strand.
Real name Lorine Talhaoui, the 39-year-old artist was born in Sweden to parents of Moroccan Berber origin. The eldest of six children, she grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, where she lives today. One of his sisters, Markiz Tainton, is a cook and regularly appears on television.
Finland was in a completely different niche with singer Käärijä’s frenetic “Cha Cha Cha” and his fluorescent green puffy bolero.
Like last year, Russia was excluded from the competition. This edition was organized in Liverpool, but in the name of Ukraine. The colors of Ukraine, blue and yellow, were hoisted everywhere in the city of the Beatles.
“When I arrived yesterday” in Liverpool, “I cried” as blue and yellow are everywhere in the city, explained Lana Bilko, a Ukrainian who has been living in the United Kingdom for a long time.
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