The fifth and final heat of Melodifestivalen 2025 has arrived!
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To learn more about the six artists competing this week, click here.
Read on to find out more about the upcoming performances!
Arvingarna – ‘Ring Baby Ring’
We start heat 5 with some familiar faces – it’s Arvingarna with ‘Ring Baby Ring’, and it’s that classic dansband sound viewers have come to know and love from the band. The former Melfest winners begin on a huge stair structure dressed in blue and green – the LED screen designed to look like pink, blue and purple lighting. They’re joined by 4 dancers, with the song title flashing on the screen during the chorus. Lead singer Casper, as ever, gives us a reliable vocal and lots of charisma – but there’s also more focus on the other Arvingarna members too. This is a great way to open up the final heat, and based on name recognition alone in a heat of mainly newcomers, Arvingarna are definitely ones to look out for this weekend – especially having the only song in Swedish on Saturday. The performance finished with some pyro, the lights turning off and showing the 4 members in a silhouette at the end.
Arwin – ‘This Dream Of Mine’
From our most experienced to our youngest competitor, Arwin begins alone on stage for ‘This Dream of Mine’. The stage starts off completely black with a single strip of white light behind him, which extends to show a structure of boxes as we reach our first chorus. There are some really cool lighting effects with this focusing mainly on the four boxes – which also extends to both the wall and floor LEDS, which also show smokey, wave like images at certain points. Arwin does some dancing during the bridge, before we head back to the entirely black stage ahead of a key change for the last chorus – where he also rises into the air. For saying how young he is, Arwin shows absolutely no nerves – he’s completely owning his time on stage, and despite the huge production he manages to stay the main focus.
Saga Ludvigsson – ‘Hate You So Much’
There’s been quite a bit of country in Melodifestivalen 2025, and Saga Ludvigsson is bringing us our final new country track of the year with ‘Hate You So Much’. Starting off by sitting on a glittering silver bar with a scene behind her showing cacti and Route 66 signs, Saga is dressed in green and joined by 5 dancers. There’s a lot to this performance but she hits every mark perfectly on time, and her vocals are pretty much perfect. She is an incredibly charismatic performer, which instantly captures your attention along with the storytelling we get with ‘Hate You So Much’ on stage in Jönköping.
Victoria Silvstedt – ‘Love It!’
Super model Victoria Silvstedt makes her Melfest debut with the 00s-infused ‘Love It!’. Starting in a box with lights above her, surrounded by smoke and a wind machine, Victoria is then joined by four dancers as bars of light give us a pop of pink and blue amongst the white and black colour scheme. The backing vocals are doing quite a bit of work here, but she’s having so much fun with her performance of ‘Love It’ it’s hard to take your eyes off Victoria for the 3 minutes she’s dancing around the stage. This is certainly one you need to watch to fully understand, and no matter how well it does it certainly will be remembered!
Vilhelm Buchaus – ‘I’m Yours’
Vilhelm Buchaus gives us an immersive experience for ‘I’m Yours’ – seated behind a mic stand playing guitar, it appears as though he’s in an apartment or hotel room. In the second verse he walks towards the huge “window” before heading towards the desk and turning on the lamp. Much like Victoria, but in a different way completely musically, it’s one you have to see to fully get – it’s almost like watching a music video. There’s a great part before the final chorus, with the camera cinematically moving around Vilhem (who is back at the mic stand), the staging blurred as we turn to see the back of him with the audience now front and centre. White lighting shines on him, as slowly we come back round to the front of the stage for the ending. This is vocally very good and visually impressive, and between two huge songs from Victoria and SCARLET it has the potential to connect with viewers looking for something more mellow in Heat 5.
SCARLET – ‘Sweet N’ Psycho’
One of the fan favourites in 2024, SCARLET are back to close the heats with ‘Sweet N’ Psycho’. Standing on a platform with chains going from the ceiling and connecting to their outfits, the lighting switches between white, red and green – the dancers heading onto the stage for the chorus. SCARLET come off the platform for the second part of their stage show, joining the dancers for some light choreography. The most interesting part of this – and perhaps most ‘haunting’ – is the bridge, the stage going almost completely dark as we get some head tilts in unison before they begin to control the dancers, who sway in time with their arm movements. For the final chorus we see SCARLET back on the platform, with two of the dancers rising into the air and the camera shaking and some on screen effects in the final few seconds.
Melodifestivalen Heat 5 takes place on March 1st 2025 at 20:00 CET // 19:00 GMT Live on SVT – click here to watch live.
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