Aftonbladet reports that Peter Jöback is one of the two remaining jokers and that his song is a 'winning song'. These reports haven't officially been confirmed, but let's just take a moment and pretend that they're right.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Peter Jöback is like someone who could stop Darin from winning. I. HATE. THIS! Please don't steal the victory from Darin. Please please please Peter! Gosh, even my mom adores him and she's a rocker chick. Damn. Damn damn damn damn.

My day just got a lot worse. A loooot.

I'm happy about Ola taking part in Melodifestivalen this year - he's so darn cute. His 2008 song was great too (ahem, I still sing it in the shower, not ashamed at all) so hopefully next year will be good as well and hopefully take him to the MF final. I wouldn't really expect him to get a top 3 or anything there though, I mean... He's competing with Darin. D-A-R-I-N! The MF 2010 winner who'll defend the blue-yellow colors in Oslo.

Semifinal 1: Örnsköldsvik, February 6th

Semifinal 2: Sandviken, February 13th

The MF entry "Åt Helvete För Sent" has been disqualified.

Why? Well, to make a long story short - because SVT are a-holes with bad judgement.

Apparently the songwriters and SVT strongly disagreed on which artist the song should be given to.
Songwriters wanted Sara Löfgren, SVT wanted Rikard Wolff.

“- The situation is very unfortunate, but our decision is logically simple. Melodifestivalens rules are indisputable: if you are in the competition you accept that SVT has the final say in the choice of artist. If you pull the rug out form under the artist that SVT has chosen, you no longer respect the rules you accepted when you chose to apply for this contest, says Thomas Hall, project manager of Melodifestivalen 2010.”

You can listen to "Åt Helvete För Sent" here:
http://extra.expressen.se/sound/112709-184936.mp3

Sounds perfect to me, why fix something that's not broken? Besides, the last thing MF needs is that old twat Wolff. Anyway, now we wont see either of them on stage 2010.

.. who had to be announced AFTER Darin. Because people will so care about him.

The second MF joker to be revealed is Salem al Fakir (It's ok - I didn't know who he was either. The only thing that rang a bell about his name was the Salem part, but I associated it with Days of our lives. Woops) with the song Keep on Walking (I'd rather call it keep on dreaming, but that's just me). As I've never heard of him before, I had to YouTube his music and well... I guess everything non super schlager after Caroline af Ugglas last year is a big step up, but ... geez. This. Is. Not. Melodifestivalen. Music. GAH! I want glitter and glamour, not some curly haired guy with a piano or whatever instrument he's playing.

Maybe I shouldn't judge too early, maybe he'll shock us on stage looking like this;

I have some doubts though.

...by our incredible source womenly intuition.

Both Mandy and I are convinced that Darin will be the winner of Melodifestivalen 2010, that he will win the ticket to Oslo and sing his way to victory there too. And he'll be the hottest guy in the contest next year, and we can proudly say 'he's Swedish' when girls and gays drool a whole tsunami over him.

Who cares what the song is like, we want eye candy, and our eye candy will take us all the way to Oslo. Remember where you read it first... or second. Or 125683th.

So guess what? The 3 hosts for Melodifestivalen 2010 has now been revelaed:

Måns "MEGA MUMS" Zelmerlöw, 23 (artist, former MF participant x2)
Christine Meltzer, 34 (comedian)

and hear this:

Ivan Drago Dolph Lundgren, 52 (actor)

Say it with us now - W T F ?

We thought Mark Levengood hosting "Fear Factor" would be more likely.

Dolph will only be present at the first semifinal in Örnsköldsvik and at the finals in Stockholm (you know because he's busy being a big-shot action star) But we are promised features of "clownery, singing and dancing" in the remaining semifinals.

We wanted to come up with something unexpected and glamorous, says Jonas Alassaad.

Ladies and gentlemen, cats and dogs, Hadise's and people-who-actually-manage-to-sing-live-while-doing-some-really-amateur-dancing-moves; the biggest pre-Eurovision party of them all, Melodifestivalen, has had their first ever publically selected song chosen and it's a song that makes Bulgaria 2009 look like a masterpiece called Come and get me now (probably refering to the last place of the heat it will take part in). This could be unfair for the other contestants since the 7 other entries in this songs heat will have an easier time getting top 5, seeing as last place is already reserved.

Mandy and Sandy think this could classify as torture, but we're not sure. We'll look into the law book tomorrow or something. Until then, we won't give you a link to the song as we're actually decent human beings (and we couldn't find the youtube link for it anyway).