#Sveriges Radio

[bethaven]

So, I sat in my car to drive home from work today when I got a really happy surprise. I had just listened to the Heartstopper playlist, before leaving work, so I knew that was the one opened in my Spotify-app. But I wanted to listen to a podcast instead, so I grabbed my phone to change, but no matter how I did it I couldn't pause the music. Then I realized my Spotify-app played a different Baby Queen-song than the one I heard through my car-speakers. Then I looked up to see that I hadn't even turned on Bluetooth-mode on my car stereo - the music came from the radio. Suddenly I screamed for myself "THEY'RE PLAYING BABY QUEEN ON SWEDISH NATIONAL RADIO!"

Oh how the smallest things can make you happy sometimes!❤️🎶

[iambountyfan]

ionnalee at Sveriges Radio where she will soon be live talking to P1 Kultur about writing her new albums CLOSE YOUR EYES and BLUND in two languages. 🌊

[ifreakingloveroyals]

Through the Years → Princess Sofia of Sweden (149/∞)

31 October 2022 | Before the autumn holiday, also called the reading holiday, Princess Sofia has read a children's book on Barnradion in Sveriges Radio. (Photo by Mattias Ahlm/Sveriges Radio/Kungahuset)

[moaskimutis]

Vår reporter Moa Skimutis har träffat Nomfusi, som beskrivs som en ny Miriam Makeba.

Bare ett fåtal artister har förmågan att imponera en publik lika mycket före Lionel Richie som Nomfusi gjorde.

Nomfusi föddes i en kåkstad KwaZakhele i Östra Kapprovinsen i Sydafrika. Hon växte upp med en ensamstående mamma som var medicinkvinna och en frånvarande pappa, som avtjänade ett långt fängelsestraff.

Nomfusi lät sig dock inte nedslås av sin situation och har nu blivit en av Sydafrikas starkast lysande och mest kända stjärnor. Nomfusi strävar efter att inspirera andra med sin världsbild att "livet handlar om val" och att "man måste övervinna sinnets fattigdom först".

Nomfusi varierar musikstilar som afropop, afrosoul, gospel och ballader med maskandi-gitarrer och dansanta township-rytmer.

[bojonascarlsson]

2024-03-18 En kväll i rymden 

Ikväll var på Kulturhuset i Stockholm och lyssnade på En kväll i rymden med Marcus Wandt var mycket intressant. Delar av det kommer på Långfredagen på morgonen i Vetenskapsradion.

[ollywears]

Olly Alexander wearing an AREA A/W 2022 Crystal-embellished bralette in an interview for Sveriges Radio P4 (April 15, 2024).

[iambountyfan]

ionnalee will be on Sveriges Radio P3 tomorrow at 11am (Swedish time) talking to Tina & Calle about her new albums CLOSE YOUR EYES/BLUND. 🫶🇸🇪

[svedupelle]

har inte tillgång till artikeln från mobilen men vad i helvete är ens detta

[liljakonvalj]

Lasse Berghagen är död

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

ABBA - Waterloo 1974

"Waterloo" is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA, with music composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics written by Stikkan Anderson. It is first single of the group's second studio album of the same name, and their first under the Atlantic label in the US. This was also the first single to be credited to the group performing under the name ABBA. The title and lyrics reference the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, and use it as a metaphor for a romantic relationship.

In 1974, "Waterloo" represented Sweden in the 19th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton, winning the contest and beginning ABBA's path to worldwide fame. The song differed from the standard "dramatic ballad" tradition at the contest by its flavour and rhythm, as well as by its performance. ABBA gave the audience something that had rarely been seen before in Eurovision: flashy costumes (including silver platform boots), a catchy uptempo song and simple choreography. It was the first winning entry in a language other than that of their home country; prior to 1973, all Eurovision singers had been required to sing in their country's native tongue, a restriction that was lifted briefly for the contests between 1973 and 1976 (thus allowing "Waterloo" to be sung in English), then reinstated before ultimately being removed again in 1999. Watch the performance in Swedish here. Sveriges Radio released a promo video for "Waterloo" that was directed by film director Lasse Hallström, whose first notable English-language film success was What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993. ABBA recorded the German and French versions of "Waterloo" in March and April 1974; the French version was adapted by Alain Boublil, who would later go on to co-write the 1980 musical Les Misérables.

The song shot to number 1 in the UK and stayed there for two weeks, becoming the first of the band's nine UK number 1's, and the 16th biggest selling single of the year in the UK. It also topped the charts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway, and Switzerland, while reaching the Top 3 in Austria, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. Unlike other Eurovision-winning tunes, the song's appeal transcended Europe: "Waterloo" also topped the charts in South Africa, and reached the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, and the US (peaking at number 6, their third-highest-charting US hit after number 1 "Dancing Queen" and number 3 "Take a Chance on Me"). In 2005, at Eurovision fiftieth anniversary competition Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, "Waterloo" was chosen as the best song in the contest's history.

"Waterloo" is featured in the encore of the musical Mamma Mia!. The song does not have a context or a meaning. It is just performed as a musical number in which members of the audience are encouraged to get up off their seats and sing, dance and clap along. The song is performed by the cast over the closing credits of the film Mamma Mia!, but is not featured on the official soundtrack. It is also performed as part of the story in the sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, by Hugh Skinner and Lily James.

The Australian film Muriel's Wedding (1994), features "Waterloo" in a pivotal scene in which lead Toni Collette bonds with the character played by Rachel Griffiths. The film's soundtrack, featuring five ABBA tracks, is widely regarded as having helped to fuel the revival of popular interest in ABBA's music in the mid-1990s. "Waterloo" features prominently in the 2015 science-fiction film The Martian. The song plays as the film's lead, played by Matt Damon, works to ready his launch vehicle for a last-chance escape from Mars. In "Mother Simpson", the eighth episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns plays "Ride of the Valkyries" from a tank about to storm the Simpson home, but the song is cut-off and "Waterloo" is played, to which Smithers apologizes, advising he "must have accidentally taped over that".

"Waterloo" received a total of 89% yes votes!

(the video is posted by ABBA's own account, not Eurovision's = safe to watch)

[gustafsnightangel]

Just to be able to listen to him….

🥰🥰🥰

It’s also available on iTunes podcasts. Just search Sveriges Radio Vikingar

[edvinception]

Short interview with Edvin and new picture

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/edvin-ryding-maktigt-att-mota-fans-fran-hela-varlden

[l3o-lion]

Has tumblr heard about the fate that befell this year's gävlebock yet??

According to the news, climate change stuff giving us a weird summer this year caused the hay to still have lots and lots of grains in it.

...The birds found out about the grain. Specifically the jackdaws. They are very happy about it.

And now the goat is slowly falling apart, entire chunks are missing from its horns. Gävlebocken has become a giant bird feeder.

Warning to anyone who was planning to have sex in gävlebocken this year: it might not be a great idea, considering the holes.

Photos under the cut

Photo: Rikard Berglin/SVT

Photo: Minna Pyykölä/Sveriges Radio