måndag 19 september 2011
Swedish Pop Culture 2012 - Allsång på Skansen
Swedes love to get their sing-a-long on. I can’t emphasize this enough. There are numerous TV-shows where we basically just watch an audience sing popular songs together with famous and not-so-famous artists, board games that make you and your guests do the same at home and summer tours completely dedicated to the phenomena. Allsång på Skansen (Allsång = everybody sings, Skansen = park in Stockholm) is the oldest and dearest (?) of the TV-shows. A beloved host leads the way and old people stand in line for days to get a seat (some of them perish in the hot sun but it is WORTH IT). Famous artists go on in an attempt to boost record sales and the evening papers get headlines for the rest of the summer. “So-and-so forgot the lyrics to his own song!”, “The flower-attack you never saw coming!” (actual quote!) etc. etc. Everybody wins. Except maybe good taste and sophistication.
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SvaraRaderaallsången ftw
SvaraRaderaI laughed at 'Allsång...' and the rest of singalong shows during my first 10 years in Sweden. Then I ignored it the next 5 or so years. Then, a couple of years ago, I caught myself laying in my sofa, singing along to 'Så ska det låta'. Scary... Surströmming nästa?
SvaraRaderaGoran, quasi-philosopher
Oh but I know! Slowly but surely they wear you down...
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