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Sweden reveals artist names for Melodifestivalen
The 15 names revealed now include the two previously announced artist wild cards, Darin and Salem Al Fakir. Most of the names are first timers in Melodifestivalen, but also veterans like Jessica Andersson and Andreas Johnson are included. The list of currently known artists and song titles (in alphabetical order by the song title):
Heat 1, Örnsköldsvik 6 February 2010:
Jenny Silver - A place to stay
Jessica Andersson - I did it for love
Salem - Keep on walking
Ola - Unstoppable
Pain of Salvation - Road salt
Frispråkarn - Singel
Anders Ekborg - The saviour
Linda Pritchard - You're making me hot-hot-hot
Heat 2, Sandviken 13 February 2010:
Artist TBC - Come and get me now
Andra Generationen & Dogge - Hippare Hoppare
Anna-Maria Espinosa - Innan alla ljusen brunnit ut
Hanna Lindblad - Manipulated
Kalle Moraeus & Orsa Spelmän - Underbart
Eric Saade - Manboy
Andreas Johnson - We can work it out
plus one more wild card
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Previously announced wild card:
Darin - You are out of my life
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I expect good schlager from Ola and Jessica Andersson (like Kalla natter in 2006)!! 
And good rap from Frispråkarn!! Yeah finalt rap in MF!! 
@ Marky
I think you can expect smth good for you from this one:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=ES4Ylyx1YVE
"KEVIN BORG ..... Is he still on tour with "High School Musical" in Sweden?"
Great Potential, yes he is until 28th Feb 
@Vladimir P
I'm with you on Sarek.
I really really wish to see KEVIN BORG represent Sweden. What is he doing right now? Is he still on tour with "High School Musical" in Sweden? I wish to see Kevin for Sweden and Lawrence Gray for Malta at Eurovision this year. They both have such impressive voices!!!! Best wishes to both of them.
Some singers I hope for in the next round:
Pernilla Wahlgren
AVE (Avatar versus Eve with ex-Alcazar Annikafiore)
Magnus Carlsson
Lena Ph
Sarek
I hope at least one of them will take part
oh well, a typical not surprising list, even though yes, Jessica and Andreas are already almost certain to go to final.. Pain Of Salvation probably too, though Salem could be a surprise with Darin, who knows? Then Ola is also pushing his way up like Andra G. who are back.. the rest are, thank god, new to MF
Great! Pain of Salvation are in!
Ok we already have andreas johnson please try again sanna nielsen and Linda bentzing.... I want one of you three to make a very short trip to Oslo!
Most of these artists were predicted by the tabloids and they are not exactly new, even though they are new to MF. As I mentioned in another thread Linda Pritchard has appeared in MF twice, in 2006 as a backing singer and in 2008 in the opening act
Layla
Anders Ekborg is one of our greatest musical artists (Chess, Evita, JCSS, Jekyll & Hyde). Hanna Lindblad is also a musical artist (Saturday night fever, Beauty and the Beast, A chorus line).
TBC = to be announced I think "Come and get me now" is the web wildcard.
New names could be good, but I don't care if it's old or new names in ANY national final - singer or songwriter. As long as I like them they can return every year for all I care. It all depends on what the songs sound like and not necessarily on who sings them. How do we know they are not all new schlager-pop singers for instance? I will wait til I hear the songs before I form an opinion on them.
So for now, judging by other songs on YouTube from these "new names", here is what I think;
Andreas Johnson: Could be good, I have liked a few of his songs before.
Salem: He made me excited with "Roxy", but unfortunately that was his ONLY good song... So hopefully his MF entry will be qually good as "Roxy".
Ola: Awful.
Jenny Silver: There were no original songs with her on YouTube so I can't say anything about her other than that she sort of sings well.
Jessica Andersson: She is just the type I don't like and want to see more of. Judging by the title it seems very likely to be some schlager pop ballad, but can't be too certain of course.
Pain of salvation: I want more of these genres in Eurovision and it's great that they are in MF, but sadly, only 1 out of 8 songs I heard so far were good. Hopefully the MF entry will make 2.
Frispråkarn: Rap??? Yuck. Enough said.
Anders Ekborg: He sings well, but I don't know if there were ANY original songs by him on YouTube so I will have to wait for the real song to know better.
Linda Pritchard: I doubt I will like her as she BUTCHERED "Fast Car" 
Hideous songs on the tube. Plus she looks like a DQ and her Idol performances sucked - she slaughtered several classics.
Andra Generationen: I am guaranteed to like them because this kind of music I easily like, but they will of course not win...
Anna-Maria Espinosa: She's not bad, so this is more promising. Several good songs and good covers on the tube so this has the most potential to me of all. Plus it is not schlager, but sounds like indie.
Hanna Lindblad: Nothing special with her on YouTube at least. She sings well though.
Kalle Moraeus & Orsa Spelmän: So this is more traditional? Maybe a traditional sounding up-tempo song in Swedish. I like what I heard with them at least.
Eric Saade: Cute guy, but haven't heard enough of him. Not much on YouTube and there it was nothing special. Plus the title is so unpromising...
Artist TBC: ???
Darin: Sucks bad.
So for now I am most excited to hear Espinosa and Andra Generationen. Also Salem and Pains of Salvation, even though they had almost no good songs.
Andreas Johnson again what a complete bore!
Good to see Jessica Anderrson back, hopefully she put more effort into 'I did it for love' than she did for Kalla nätter!
the problem with the andreas/ carola duet was that they appeared to be singing at each other instead of to each other. if switzerland had had andreas singing " the highest heights " they would have made the final im sure
I'm glad there's many new artists. It's good to keep any contest fresh and new. Therefore I can't really comment on any singers, as I don't know them I do like Jessica, she doesn't have the best voice in the world, but she is a good solid singer, and really pretty So it's all good with me Andreas Johnson is a bit meh for me, the only good thing is that he duetted with Carola, but he did kill her off ! So yeh, he's okay, just a bit meh
I'm happy to see Jessica Andersson again, and I'm also excited about the new names. I guess we'll have to wait and see what they bring.
there was many new names 
Anyway i hope this will be a change, because obv people dosen't like our old artist any more, so maybe this is a good start
It would be cool to see AVE (Avatar Versus Eve) in Melodifestivalen since a member of it is my favourite (now former) member of Alcazar - Annikafiore
Sounds promising, even though I've only heard about Pain of Slavation from this list.
im glad to see adreas johnson again , he a great singer
I really like Jessica Andersson and I'm happy that she's taking part, but I don't like Andreas Johnson.
I LOVE Jessica Andersson! but please, in swedish
How about kevin Borg? Would love to see kevin represent Sweden and Lawrence Gray represent Malta. They used to sing together on Maltese television....Two remarkable and exceptional voices!!!!!
You see Princess Engla?? We LOVE Melodifestifalen! Im happy about the list! We are very exited about the new names, and personal Im very exited about Andreas Johnson!
Andreas Johnson, Jessica Andersson!!!
Andreas Johnson!!!
exciting exciting
Very excited about the return of Andreas Johnson- excited too about what the quality of this years acts will be?? and also to who the other singers yet to be revealed are.
Good Luck Sweden 
I am glad some countries have already started selecting their possible representatives
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