Loreen returns to Eurovision after a decade… and all that entails! After winning Melodifestivalen 2023, the Swedish artist will travel to Liverpool next May to present Tattoo in front of Eurofans – not only from European territory – from all over the world and fight for the crystal microphone.
About her to come back, the singer said she was full. “It feels amazing. It felt very natural, very natural and very easy. I feel like it’s the right thing to do,” he told LOS40. However, the impact he had Euphoria for all these years he has been very powerful. With this theme, she won the European Song Contest in 2012 and for ten consecutive years was chosen as the best song in Eurovision history. That is to say, it is already quite an anthem and one of the classics in the recent history of the contest.
Could you feel pressure this year when interpreting Tattoo, knowing the impact of his past candidacy? Well yes and no. “For me, the pressure is to create something authentic. And, sometimes, pressure is good because it focuses you, it disciplines you… For that reason, I enjoy that kind of pressure, but always from the creative realm more than from any other aspect. Either way, I usually use it as a constructive energy.”
“I’m back and I never thought, even in my wildest dreams, that I’d be back, because sometimes you don’t know what’s best for you. Sometimes you think you know where your life is going but, you never know and now i’m back here and i couldn’t be happier,” she told us.
Euphoria there Tattoo: the Ying and Yang of his passage to Eurovision
We couldn’t avoid asking him about the two songs, which he assures us “They look a lot alike and, at the same time, they are opposites to each other.”
“Ultimately, (in both) I’m channeling the dynamics of the song. When you sing out loud like that, it can be very exciting. If you pay attention to the dynamics of Euphoria in comparison with Tattoo they are very similar. For example, in kinematic shapes, the starting point of Euphoria has a strong beat (/paaaa/) and in Tattoo there are several (/ta-ta-ta-ta-ta/)”, he explains.
“They are like the Ying and the Yang: Euphoria it was the full moon (moonlight), nocturnal and mysterious; while Tattoo it is diurnal and it is perceived. It’s very bright. In many ways it is the opposite of Euphoria, but similar at the same time. In both I am barefoot, during the performance I move to the rhythm of the energy and let myself flow into the staging”.
His relationship with Blanca Paloma
At the PreParty held last weekend in Madrid, Loreen met for the first time white dove. About this meeting, the Swede told us that “the first thing we did was look at each other… and we connected. It was crazy, because I felt like we had known each other forever.”
“We kissed and I looked at her, because I thought about her a lot, and I wanted to tell her if she realizes how wonderful and important she is. And she looked at me, and she said: ‘ And you, and you! and me: ‘Hush, shut up, don’t say it again'”.