Loreen Euphoria | Best Eurovision Song ever?

I love it, my wife even more, the kids start dancing when it plays, and my mother gets excited. This is the simple reason why Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with Euphoria, because Loreen created a song that almost everyone loves. Loreen herself explained it like this:

Euphoria has the ability to change the mood of whoever listens to it, a virtue that is not the result of chance, but of a production and scenography studied to the millimeter.

To understand the success of the song, we must understand its origin. It was composed by two regular Eurovision authors, Thomas G:son and Peter Boström.

• In fact, that same 2012, Thomas composed the song with which Pastora Soler represented Spain, ‘Quédate Conmigo (Stay with me)’.

Although it was not composed by Loreen, she brought it to life with her voice, and above all with her dancing. Loreen studied many Eurovision performances 🙇 and detected a common problem, they lacked spirituality and authenticity.

She set to work to polish a perfect and well thought out performance, she would not wear shoes, she would be disheveled, there would be little light … it would be so pure that not even her eyes would be seen. That way she created a simple but involving show. Loreen said:

I had never experienced euphoria before and with this song I think I feel something very similar, a state of mind where you manage to detach yourself from everything and feel enlightened.

Believe it or not, the day before her first performance for Melodifestivalen, the Swedish Eurovision pre-selection, Loreen received a call from her producer telling her that she had destroyed the song with her changes, like the siren that starts Euphoria.

• Loreen didn’t back down, she did it her way, being chosen as Sweden’s representative for Eurovision 2012.
• The day after, her producer called her back in tears and apologized, he had been blown away by the performance.

One of the key parts was her dancing, which was not really a choreography but Loreen’s natural movements expressing freedom, simply what she felt when singing Euphoria.

It soon became the favorite song in the betting to win the LVII Eurovision Song Contest, which in 2012 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It became so popular that a few days before the festival, Euphoria was the third most listened song on Spotify worldwide 🔝

But more trouble would come. On the day of the dress rehearsal before Eurovision the professional juries from the countries watch the performance to decide their votes. It turned out that as part of the show some artificial snow was falling on Loreen. She accidentally inhaled some snow and had to stop singing for a few seconds to cough and get it out of her throat, although she came out of it just fine.

Finally, on the day of the Eurovision grand final Loreen gave a masterful performance, which kept us all in suspense for the entire three minutes of the performance.

When it was over, all the fear that Loreen confessed she had that it wouldn’t work, vanished. She stood in the middle of the stage as the crowd screamed feeling the connection with the audience.

Loreen was proclaimed winner of Eurovision 2012 with Euphoria getting 372 points 👏

• She was the second highest scoring participant in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. The first was Alexander Rybak at Eurovision 2009 with Fairytale.
• t received the highest score (12 points) from 18 countries, beating the record of highest scores also held by Alexander Rybak.
• The song received points from all participating countries except Italy.