2023-05-13 23:02:30
Sweden, represented by singer Loreen with her track ‘Tattoo’, won the Eurovision Song Contest for a record seventh time on Saturday in the final hosted by the UK in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine .
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Loreen, already first in the competition in 2012, is the second artist to win Eurovision twice following Johnny Logan for Ireland in the 1980s, and the first woman to achieve the double.
Twenty-six countries competed for the final of the 67th edition of the competition. Sweden thus joins, 49 years following the victory of ABBA with “Waterloo”, Ireland at the top of the ranking of the countries with the most victories.
Finland, with singer Käärijä, came in second, Israel in third and France, represented by Quebecer La Zarra, in 16th place. France has not won since 1977 with Marie Myriam.
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 following 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 regarding our strong hearts, our indomitability and our will,” they wrote. “Europe, united once morest evil for peace,” they added.
Several songs evoked, each in their own way, the war. As for Switzerland, the young singer Remo Forrer launched a message of peace in a serious tone with “Watergun”.
– Berber –
The big winner, Loreen, performed with “Tattoo”, a pop anthem regarding 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+, even before someone spoke to me regarding Melodifestivalen (the Swedish selection which determines the contribution to Eurovision), I felt a pleasure mixed with terror. I understood that something was happening,” she confided to the daily Dagens Nyheter.
And she then bowed to an iron discipline to achieve the bombastic number one 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.
“I have nomadic origins, I am Berber, but I am also Swedish, I want my cheese grater and people to call me before arriving at my house”, added the singer, to this newspaper, while her origins have been repeatedly mocked by the far right.
– Neon bolero –
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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