Top 10 Review: Sweden (John Lundvik - Too late for love)

It's the turn of ... Sweden! The Nordic country that always gives us joys in Eurovision and that is only one year away from equaling Ireland as the country that has won the Eurovision festival the most times (twice in the last decade - 2012 and 2015 with Loreen and Mäns Zelmerlöw ) and that has the mythical Melodifestivalen as a selection system, a real mass phenomenon in Sweden.

John Lundvik / Eurovision

This year, John Lundvik gave the surprise prevailing in the final to the favourite Wiktoria and others like Lisa Ajax, Bishara or Anna Bergendahl and achieving the victory with "Too late for love", becoming the first contestant in Eurovision history that will be present in the same edition as a singer and as a composer (he is also the author of the song chosen by the United Kingdom: Bigger than us)

The staging, in charge of the omnipresent Sacha Jean-Baptiste, reminds of Austria 2018 and César Sampson with those golden lights and that platform. And in general, comparisons are inevitable even if the songs do not have a strong resemblance between them.

What makes this song really special is that gospel choir that accompanies Lundvik on stage. The voices of the choristers give an almost spiritual air, almost as if it were a prayer or a hymn to love. That, together with the sensitivity and the voice of Lundvik manage to transport you to a celestial atmosphere in which you get to think: "This is what should sound when you go up to heaven".

Hey, how you’ve been? I wonder, do you ever think of me? Say, am I wrong To wonder if it could be you and me?

Is it too late for love? Mhm Is it too late for love? I wanna know Is it too late for love? I can’t take no more Is it?

I could be the sun that lights your dark And maybe I would lit your world with just one spark I could make it burn for you and me If I could be there I would be there Hear me I could be the sun that lights your dark (Oh, is it too late for love?) (Is it too late for love?) Hear me I could make it burn for you and me

Days came and went But nothing ever really felt the same But you left a space Where everything reminds me of your face

Is it too late for love? Mhm Is it too late for love? I wanna know

I could be the sun that lights your dark And maybe I would lit your world with just one spark I could make it burn for you and me If I could be there I would be there Hear me I could be the sun that lights your dark (Oh, is it too late for love?) (Is it too late for love?) Hear me I could make it burn for you and me (Oh, is it too late for love?) (Is it too late for love?)

We could be a storm that rages on And maybe we would own the ocean carry on I could be the sun that lights your dark And maybe I would lit your world with just one spark

I could make it burn for you and me If I could be there I would be there Hear me I could be the sun that lights your dark (Oh, is it too late for love?) Is it too late for love? (Is it too late for love?) It isn't is too late for love? Is it?