The back story to this is that Georgia tried to compete in the Eurovision song contest with a Russia-critical song. It wasn't allowed to enter because political messages are banned in the competition, but Russia was very pissed off. And then, of course, the Swedish satirists-comedians felt compelled to poke at the wound, so they did a "Russian" performance meant to look like an entry in Melodifestivalen, which is Sweden's own competition to select entries for Eurovision. And as mentioned before, Russia has no sense of humor and got angry.
Yes, the Russian embassy got mad, and there was some news articles about it (That was the ones that was referred to at Parlamentet), they demanded an apology, but that made the whole thing even more funny, them taking this so serious especially the line "Goodbye Putin" angered them I think, and getting offended. Some reporter went to Moscow and showed it to ordinary Russians on the streets, I think, and they just thought it was funny. It's an interval act from Melodifestivalen, which is the biggest TV-show annually in Sweden, so yeah, it has a pretty big budget.
The Russian embassy said they thought the artists should be put in a mental asylum. I got the feeling somehow that they thought it was hilarious but had to hold their faces straight and play the game. One typical FSB guy that the tv interviewed as he passed outside the embassy said that it hurt somewhat and was inappropriate to make fun of national symbols. That bear doesn't look like much and I can understand his remark. He said something like "Russia is different today, no mafia" which is interesting, he comments the schlager mafia, not the song itself. Maybe that's what hurt the most?
Melodifestivalen’s former name was Schlagerfestivalen, hence the schlager mafia joke. Btw, Melfest is Sweden’s Eurovision preliminary show. The winner is our Eurovision candidate.
He is famous because he has won Swedish Melodifestivalen one time in 1992 and been working a lot for Melodifestivalen and Eurovision Song Contest since 2002, even helped other Baltic country set up the show with help of SVT (Swedish Television). Russia didn't like this, even Russian embassy protested about this Melodifestivalen interim show. During an interview with the news site The Local Russian Embassy said this within quotes "It is inconceivable to us that Sweden can show such ignorance and misleading picture of Russia." "The portrayal is abhorrent." 😂🇷🇺🇸🇪
The controvery mentioned in Parlamentet came because Anatolij Kargapolov (Russin Diplomat inStockholm) made a statement in a Swedish newpaper. "It's unimaginable that Sweden can show such ignorance and misleading picture of Russia" and "This portrayl is detestable" This got picked u pin all media and finally SVT's project leader for Melodifestivalen, Ronnie Lans, made an apology and sent flowers to the Russian embassy, but later SVT withdrew their apology. If i understood it correctly it was the depiction of the Russian Mob that bothered him, because if you look at what Russia themselves did when hosting Eurovision just weeks later you could think that they took notes from Grotesco. Russias interval act th-cam.com/video/ih_Qk2VYywU/w-d-xo.html
Importen edit is that an appology was sent from SVT, and when it became public, it was retracted. Would have loved to see the flowers presented as an appology being asked back.
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Tinngeling its Tinkerbell from Disney Peter Pan.. Yes, Russia got upsad becourse they made fun of typical Russia stereotype and said good bye Putin. In Sweden this was hit song..😊
When the Tingeling song was presented, the Russian embassy in Sweden thought it was controversial and too stereotyping. so it had to change the song a bit. but it was still banned. but it was played in the end anyway. what i have heard
Hilarious. Putin of course went ballistic. Kind of when Adolf watched Chaplins masterpiece "The Dictator" I guess. Strongmens do not like to ridiculed. That makes it even funnier.
Dazvedanja Putin!! The cultural things coming from Russia is as we know quite good at least from the time before the revolution. I like how they mash these two sides of Russia together in this show. Schlager is a genre here as well, but i am not sure your shclager translates to ours, it is not the same genre. Like Waterloo is schlager here other famous schlagerartist is Nanne Grönwall, Linda Bengtzing, Magnus Carlsson, Jessica Andersson, Pernilla Wahlgren... and more.
Too bad this was out of competition. Sending this song to Eurovision Song Contest and make the Russian "government" even more angry would be totally worth it, and so fun :)
Yes Schlager music is for very very old people or people with very poor taste in music but saying this in Sweden is a crime worse than murder hehehehe! Just play along if they ask you if you like it or you will never be accepted by the "In-Crowd" .
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The back story to this is that Georgia tried to compete in the Eurovision song contest with a Russia-critical song. It wasn't allowed to enter because political messages are banned in the competition, but Russia was very pissed off. And then, of course, the Swedish satirists-comedians felt compelled to poke at the wound, so they did a "Russian" performance meant to look like an entry in Melodifestivalen, which is Sweden's own competition to select entries for Eurovision. And as mentioned before, Russia has no sense of humor and got angry.
Yeah the Russians were somewhat annoyed. The song is in nonsense-Russian except for "dasvidaniya Putin" "goodbye Putin".
Yes, the Russian embassy got mad, and there was some news articles about it (That was the ones that was referred to at Parlamentet), they demanded an apology, but that made the whole thing even more funny, them taking this so serious especially the line "Goodbye Putin" angered them I think, and getting offended. Some reporter went to Moscow and showed it to ordinary Russians on the streets, I think, and they just thought it was funny.
It's an interval act from Melodifestivalen, which is the biggest TV-show annually in Sweden, so yeah, it has a pretty big budget.
The Russian embassy said they thought the artists should be put in a mental asylum. I got the feeling somehow that they thought it was hilarious but had to hold their faces straight and play the game. One typical FSB guy that the tv interviewed as he passed outside the embassy said that it hurt somewhat and was inappropriate to make fun of national symbols. That bear doesn't look like much and I can understand his remark. He said something like "Russia is different today, no mafia" which is interesting, he comments the schlager mafia, not the song itself. Maybe that's what hurt the most?
Schlager in Swedish is the same as in German, it's a music genre.
The Russian embassy declared that Sweden had poured a bucket of contempt over the Russian people
Melodifestivalen’s former name was Schlagerfestivalen, hence the schlager mafia joke.
Btw, Melfest is Sweden’s Eurovision preliminary show. The winner is our Eurovision candidate.
He is famous because he has won Swedish Melodifestivalen one time in 1992 and been working a lot for Melodifestivalen and Eurovision Song Contest since 2002, even helped other Baltic country set up the show with help of SVT (Swedish Television).
Russia didn't like this, even Russian embassy protested about this Melodifestivalen interim show. During an interview with the news site The Local Russian Embassy said this within quotes "It is inconceivable to us that Sweden can show such ignorance and misleading picture of Russia." "The portrayal is abhorrent." 😂🇷🇺🇸🇪
Christer " Näst sist" Björkman is also famous for having finished second to last, when he himself represented Sweden in Eurovision! 😂😂😂
And the irony is that this was far better than any of the competing entries
Greta Thurnbergs mom won that year.
They were insanily mighty mad 😊And I loved it
Pihlman was just the surname of Henrik Dorsin's character.
Pihl meaning arrow
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Oh yeah Russia was mad they even made a song mocking sweden aswell Yesterday Live_ Russia attacks Sweden parody
It was in the melody festival in the same year that Russia was to have Eurovision.
The controvery mentioned in Parlamentet came because Anatolij Kargapolov (Russin Diplomat inStockholm) made a statement in a Swedish newpaper. "It's unimaginable that Sweden can show such ignorance and misleading picture of Russia" and "This portrayl is detestable"
This got picked u pin all media and finally SVT's project leader for Melodifestivalen, Ronnie Lans, made an apology and sent flowers to the Russian embassy, but later SVT withdrew their apology.
If i understood it correctly it was the depiction of the Russian Mob that bothered him, because if you look at what Russia themselves did when hosting Eurovision just weeks later you could think that they took notes from Grotesco. Russias interval act th-cam.com/video/ih_Qk2VYywU/w-d-xo.html
Importen edit is that an appology was sent from SVT, and when it became public, it was retracted. Would have loved to see the flowers presented as an appology being asked back.
Pil in Swedish means arrow or a willow tree.
tingelig is the swedish name for tinkebell
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To be VERY clear, it was NOT the Russian Athem, but the anthemnof former Soviet,🙃
Tinngeling its Tinkerbell from Disney Peter Pan..
Yes, Russia got upsad becourse they made fun of typical Russia stereotype and said good bye Putin.
In Sweden this was hit song..😊
It’s also a silly word for pen.is. 😅
This song almost started a war! 😅
Schlager is a German loan-word to Swedish with the exact same meaning. (It is "hit music".)
When the Tingeling song was presented, the Russian embassy in Sweden thought it was controversial and too stereotyping. so it had to change the song a bit. but it was still banned. but it was played in the end anyway. what i have heard
Russia was crazy mad about this
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Christer Björkman was some kind of hot shot in the eurovision (not just for sweden)
Hilarious. Putin of course went ballistic. Kind of when Adolf watched Chaplins masterpiece "The Dictator" I guess. Strongmens do not like to ridiculed. That makes it even funnier.
Dazvedanja Putin!! The cultural things coming from Russia is as we know quite good at least from the time before the revolution. I like how they mash these two sides of Russia together in this show. Schlager is a genre here as well, but i am not sure your shclager translates to ours, it is not the same genre. Like Waterloo is schlager here other famous schlagerartist is Nanne Grönwall, Linda Bengtzing, Magnus Carlsson, Jessica Andersson, Pernilla Wahlgren... and more.
This was so much better with your reaction!
Yes Dorsin
One more time for the motherland is crazy ❤❤
Yes, this lead to anger from Russia 😁
Schlager = Melodifestivalen
Veyrrrrry mad 🫣😬😀
It's Eurovision Song Contest
YEs the russians were very upset. hahah, very funny.
Russia was Quite Mad - there was a lot of outraged complaints from the Russian embassy at the time!
Too bad this was out of competition. Sending this song to Eurovision Song Contest and make the Russian "government" even more angry would be totally worth it, and so fun :)
Russia are unable to produce music that rocks like this, no matter how they tries it only will be Kaaaaalinka kalinka kalinka maljaaaa.
Yes Schlager music is for very very old people or people with very poor taste in music but saying this in Sweden is a crime worse than murder hehehehe! Just play along if they ask you if you like it or you will never be accepted by the "In-Crowd" .
The russian embassy in stockholm complained about this song 😂
Subtitles in English would make this alot better the comedy is great
F Erdogan and F Putin - Yes. They go furious. The office of Putin did.
Well, yes, one of the lines in the lyrics literally say "goodbye putin"(in russian) 😂
lol u actually like it
Did you react to the other Tingeling performance ? #ChrisSweden
Philman is last name🇸🇪
Russian politicians got VERY angry about this, it was a little bit of a circus for a couple of days.
You should fix the sound. The sound from your mike is a lot louder than from the clip.
You should really react to Henrik Dorsin-tomten är en kommunist (Santa is a communist)
Putin was very mad.😢
Sweden tv needs cc
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