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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Heavenly! A month before her film 'Monica Z' opens in Sweden on September 13th, Edda Magnason sings "Sakta vi gĂ„ hem genom stan” (Slowly we walk through town) LIVE on SVT's AllsĂ„ng pĂ„ Skansen, Stockholm, August 13, 2013, on the last show of 2013. With lyrics! Now THAT'S how you promote a film featuring great music!; #monicaz, #eddamagnason, @manszelmerlow, @svtallsang, @PeterBirro



runforyourlife71 YouTubeChannel video: Edda Magnason - Sakta vi gĂ„ genom stan - AllsĂ„ng pĂ„ Skansen. Uploaded October 23, 2013. http://youtu.be/Tqmp6q7jGkg

 Heavenly! A month before her film 'Monica Z' opens in Sweden on September 13th, Edda Magnason sings "Sakta vi gĂ„ hem genom stan” (Slowly we walk through town) LIVE on SVT's AllsĂ„ng pĂ„ Skansen, Stockholm, August 13, 2013, on the last show of 2013. With lyrics! Now THAT'S how you promote a film featuring great music!; #monicaz, #eddamagnason, @manszelmerlow, @svtallsang, @PeterBirro

 Updated in 2014

 My last blog post on Edda Magnason and the news regarding her role playing Swedish pop culture icon Monica Zetterlund, complete with both the official video of 'Sakta vi gĂ„ hem genom stan' and the official trailer for the biopic "Monica Z" was on July 26, 2013 titled, Trending at HBB with Sexy Swedish Ă©lan: Edda Magnason channels iconic Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund for her upcoming biopic "Monica Z"; Edda Magnason - Sakta vi gĂ„ genom stan (Official Video); Opens nationally in Sweden on September 13th, but premiering at 'Way Out West' film festival in Göteborg from August 8-10; #monicaz, @PeterBirro
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/trending-at-hbb-with-sexy-swedish-elan.html

Above, a tweet from Sveriges Radio on the news that Monica Z has been selected to compete at the upcoming Montreal Film Festival. 
In Swedish, though...
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article17290129.ab

After I watched the Edda Magnason video a few times I went looking around to my usual smorgasbord of online Swedish media and pop culture sites to see what's what in Sverige in the middle of August.

Even a perfunctory reading of things makes perfectly clear that there are lots of fans of singer and AllsĂ„ng host MĂ„ns Zelmerlöw who are not happy about the news that after three great years of entertainment, MĂ„ns will not be returning to host the popular show next summer, meaning that Tuesday night wasn't just the last show of the summer, but also the last one to be hosted by the energetic and multi-talented MĂ„ns.

But the thing is, it's his choice, not the choice of the management at SVT, who are very happy with the job that he has done and love the ratings he brings, since it's the number-one show on TV in the summer, last week drawing 1.7 million TV viewers in a country of about 9.5 million people, less than half the size of Florida..
http://hd.se/noje/2013/08/12/tv-toppen-zelmerlows-allsang-flest/

 Quite simply, MĂ„ns wants to be able to do other things musically and artistically, and have the freedom in his schedule to tour during the summer if he chooses, or do some touring but also spend time with his friends during the glorious summers that the whole country thinks about most of the year.
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5616356
As MĂ„ns put it plainly after the show to the Swedish news media after confirming he would not be returning:
Jag kommer jÀttegÀrna tillbaka nÄn gÄng i framtiden, men först mÄste jag fÄ göra min grej, jag drömmer ju om att turnera nu och dÄ ska det bli sÄ.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article17290129.ab

Still, many of his supporters started a Twitter hashtag name for their fight to.... well, not sure what exactly, since it's his choice to leave after three years, but you have to admire the dedication if not the logic: #AllsĂ„ngNeedsMĂ„ns
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Alls%C3%A5ngNeedsM%C3%A5ns&src=typd&mode=realtime











I must admit that MĂ„ns and his engaging personality have really grown on me a lot the past three years since his first year in 2011, when he was not as well-known to me, obviously, as he was to the average Swedish music listener and pop culture follower.
I'd seen videos of him singing or on Swedish TV shows, of course, and had read about him in the newspapers, magazines and websites, to say nothing of the music blogs, but I had no strong opinions one way or the other, though there's no mistaking his talent.

After three years of watching him via SVT Play, http://www.svtplay.se/ now I actually know some of his go-to moves during the show and which songs are his go-to songs, as well as which ones I've come to like best, whether in Swedish or in English.

To end this post, I'm going with a happy video that includes him which I posted here on the blog back in July previewing my trip to Stockholm this past January, back when I still thought I'd be going to Iceland after visiting Sweden for about nine days and would be able to catch the Aurora Borealis while in Iceland for three days. 

It features the recurring opening montage of aerial scenes of beautiful Stockholm used on AllsĂ„ng pĂ„ Skansen in the summer of 2011, the first year MĂ„ns was at the helm, and featuring a multi-generational all-star squad of singers joining him in singing the show's theme song, Stockholm i mitt hjarta, the song that begins the sing-along every week.
The one song that everyone in attendance, regardless of age or musical tastes, pretty much knows by heart after watching the landmark summer TV show for years.


MĂ„ns Zelmerlöw, Björn Skifs, Loa Falkman and Peter Jöback sing "Stockholm i Mitt HjĂ€rta" (Stockholm in My Heart) from the intro of a 2011 episode of SVT's "AllsĂ„ng pĂ„ Skansen" in Stockholm, Sweden. http://youtu.be/JEPvZBDOjdc

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