Each of the second chance losers of the winners entered the competition in a free-for-all to get your votes. The top five voted songs progress to the second second chance round, and from those the top 4 are placed into duels.
The first 5 qualified for the second second chance round were Linus Svenning, J.E.M., State of Drama, Martin Stenmarck, Helena Paparizou, and Outtrigger.
Features of this part of the program is our lovely host in drag finding some piercings that are secretoops!
Then of course we have last years Eurovision sinner Emmelie de Forest who performed her Rainmaker song which will no doubt be performed at the Eurovision Song Contest. It featured a bunch of shirtless men dancing around.
Of those top songs the following duels were arranged, with my thoughts.
Duel 1 : Outtrigger – Echo vs. Helena Paparizou – Survivor
I wasnt all that surprised that Outtrigger did well in this competition because really it grew on me, but they couldnt overcome the power that is Helena. She garnered over double the votes, and progressed to the Final of Melodifestivalen with her diva anthem Survivor.
Duel 2 : Linus Svenning – Bröder vs. Martin Stenmarck – När änglarna går hem
The soft yet hard representation of Linus is very interesting, and his soft yet powerful song about his brother clung to hearts of the whole country. Despite Martins attempt at a weak comeback and a song that it outside of his abilities, the voting was within 6000 televotes and Linus Svenning progressed to the final.
Surprisingly State of Drama was not chosen, and fell at 5th place, where I believe it could have replaced Martin Stenmarck who was really only a couple of thousand votes ahead. The song was better, but there was no clear favourites in this one.