As the winner of Melodifestivalen 2010 and Sweden's representative at Eurovision in Oslo in a few weeks, Anna Bergendahl went from relative obscurity in Sweden to being one of the biggest hits of 2010 so far. This was her first single since her appearance in Swedish Idol in 2008 where she finished fifth.
This is My Life reached #1 on the Swedish charts on March 5th in the first chart released after all of the Melodifestivalen songs were made available to the public (which also made it the odds-on favourite to win in the final). It stayed at #1 for 4 weeks and only dropped out of the top 10 for the first time this past Friday May 7 and still sits at #11. Her album Yours Sincerely was released this April and reached #1 in its first week as well. It just goes to show what Melodifestivalen can do for someone's career!
The song is really just about Anna's unique voice and is the kind of song that you'll probably either love or hate. The studio version definitely does her voice more justice (as it should) but the real difference comes with the remixes that have happened to appease the Eurovision-loving public who are all over that kind of thing. The Niclas Kings remix is the definite standout while the Kaveh Azizi remix sticks a bit more to the original song.
With Eurovision this year looking like it might be one of the worst in recent memory (save for maybe some voting drama to make it all a bit more exciting?) there still need to be some favourites and if only by default of being Swedish this is definitely one of my top 5. After hearing it enough times you really do kind of fall for her voice and just looking at her - it's kind of hard not to love her!
Check out videos of Anna performing the song live at Melodifestivalen and the remixes. All the best in Oslo!
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