Loreen became a world star overnight when she won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song “Euphoria”.
But how did the song become her from the beginning?
One of the artists participating in Så mycket bättre 2020 is world star Loreen, 37.
Then came Euphoria Loreen’s song
In the program, the singer Helen Sjöholm wonders how the winning song Euphoria became just Loreen’s song, and there is an answer to that!
The truth that many may not agree with is actually that Loreen refused at first.
– I refused that song when I first heard it. I said no!, says the artist in Så mycket bättre. She continues:
– So I had certain requirements, including a siren in the beginning. And it would enter strings and it would enter one with the third. It needed to be a little suggestive, it needed to represent who you were then.
But how did the performance come about? Was it Loreen’s idea?
– That’s how it came about. I said yes, and then I went into my corner and created the performance, says Loreen.
Christer Björkman’s words about Loreen and Euphoria
Melodifestival general Christer Björkman, 63, of course has strong memories of the song Euphoria and Loreen’s contribution to the Melodifestivalen and Eurovision Song Contest.
– One of the strongest memories I have of Euphoria was that I would go to a rehearsal room where Loreen would then show what they had thought they would do. And I know I was extremely hesitant about what I saw. I probably had a very hard time imagining that that crab dance would be historic, says Christer Björkman in the program and ends with the statement:
– The magic and grandeur of what she had created was clear to me when we made the first public rehearsal. Then it was clear. Then it was like this ‘no one will be able to beat this’.
And so it became! Loreen finished as a winner in both the Melodifestivalen and then in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.
• Source: https://www.hant.se/noje/sanningen-om-hur-euphoria-blev-loreens-lat/7158588
• Translation: via Google Translate, the translation may not be completely accurate