Her song “Cool Me Down” was a fan favourite in the Polish national final, and now Margaret has her sights set on conquering Sweden, with a live appearance on the summer singalong show Sommarkrysset.
“Cool Me Down” was written and produced by a Swedish dream team, including Arash who represented Azerbaijan at Eurovision in 2009, and Linnea Deb who co-wrote “Heroes”. Margaret’s Swedish record company is pushing the power pop of “Cool Me Down” in Sweden, and it’s already reached the top 40.
On the Sommarkrysset stage, she wore a hairy black jumpsuit (!) and some golden shoes, joined by two dancers. While Margaret gave a poptastic performance that rocked the Gröna Lund stage, her vocal performance didn’t match the studio version fans came to love. She seemed unable to deliver the lyric “Imma light a spark and let the crazy out”, with a prerecorded vocal always coming in to take over.
But Margaret put on a good show, and the Sommarkrysset crowd were loving the big pop sound she delivered.
Sommarkrysset 2016 – line-up
Over the next few weeks, Sommarkrysset will join Allsång på Skansen and Lotta på Liseberg as part of the Swedish summer singalong shows. As expected, the line-up is full of Melfest acts, including Boris René, Samir & Viktor, SaRaha, Wiktoria, Mariette, Charlotte Perelli, Albin & Mattias, Isa, Alcazar and Måns Zelmerlöw.
16 July: The Fooo Conspiracy, Boris René, Caroline af Ugglas, Nääk & Nimo with Kaliffa, Jennifer Brown
23 July: Samir & Viktor, Little Jinder, Takida, Elisa Lindström, Movits!
30 July: SaRaha, Malena Ernman, Amanda Winberg, State of Sound, Jakob Karlberg, Evelina Olsén
6 August: Wiktoria, Perelli & Brolle, Mariette, Flying Illusion, John de Sohn, Albin & Mattias
13 August: Isa, Dua Lipa, Doug Seegers
20 August: Måns Zelmerlöw, Alcazar, Shawn Hook, Rebecca & Fiona
I still don`t understand why people criticize her? Her vocal isn`t so bad.
And I really likes this song! 😀
This year’s (nearly) Kate Ryan
By the way i would love to hear this song singing by a man
If someone read this and can sing… please make a cover! xD
I love her songs…
but honestly her live is not the best
Weave = snatched. I hope she heavily promotes this song abroad, it was top 10 on iTunes in Russia a while ago!
So Jamala will not perform there??? oh no
Those who hate Margaret’s performance don’t know anything about music! Seriously, this woman songs better than Paris Hilton and Yoko Ono!
Where is Michal Szpak? 🙂
Margaret’s songs are so good, but her stage presence is bloody awful.
The comments section here is very interesting from a sociological/psychological point of view. Why do so many people waste energy and write negative and/or hate comments? I would love to see behind those hater and troll minds. I mean, this is just pop music, it’s supposed to be fun. If you don’t like it, then why even bother and write things like “This would have flopped”, “boring song”, “She really is awful”, “Performance also not good” and so on. Especially considering she is NOT off-key, but perfectly in tune. And not everyone has to be a Mariah Carey. I will… Read more »
This would have flopped so badly. She simply cannot sing live.
She cant hit the low notes. I cringed hearing those notes. She didnt even sing some of the lines, pretending to be dancing really hard. Meh.
Such a boring song that it doesn’t matter that her vocals are massively off.
She is not a perfect vocalist but the blond Rihana has a memorable voice, attitude and star quality. The song is great of course and had it competed in ESC it could have enjoyed the biggest chart success of the bunch.
She really is awful..she sucks the life out of a fantastic song
Tbh she would’ve been a fan flop with those vocals. Performance also not good.
Correction: Margaret was joined by two dancers.
As much as I was disappointed that Poland didn’t select her for Stockholm, if she hasn’t been able to improve her vocals even now, several months down the line, her missing out was probably for the best
She’s improved since the National Final
I like her vocals. I think she did better here than on the Polish final.
She still would have lost to the majestic 1944. Cool Me Down’s competition would’ve been Dami and Sergey.