Sweden: Anna Bergendahl – This is my life

Oh god, it’s a young girl in All Stars, a white dress, tiara and strumming a guitar. And on comes a Eurovision Pet Peeve: after the first verse, the guitar disappears but magically, it keeps playing! How does that work?! A pretty boring, but well sung, polished and catchy song, and the cheesy backing singers make up for a lot. As does Carola’s solidarity in leaving behind her wind machine for the Swedish national final. Thank you, Carola. You might just have saved this song like you do every year.