Yksi, kaksi, kolme, sauna! That’s been the motto for the new darlings of Melodifestivalen 2025, KAJ, since they entered the stage in heat 4 in Malmö. And according to you readers out there, they are also the ones you want to see win the Melfest final tonight and go to Eurovision for Sweden.
The Finnish-Swedish humour group and their entry “Bara bada bastu” got almost 50% of the nearly 5,000 votes cast in our poll, followed by the (still) bookmakers’ favourite Måns Zelmerlöw with “Revolution” in second place and Klara Hammarström with “On and On and On” coming in at third position.
Result of Melodifestivalen 2025 poll
- KAJ – “Bara bada bastu” – 48.55% (2,420 votes)
- Måns Zelmerlöw – “Revolution” – 13.48% (672 votes)
- Klara Hammarström – “On and On and On” – 11.57% (577 votes)
- Meira Omar – “Hush Hush” – 6.46% (322 votes)
- SCARLET – “Sweet N’ Psycho” – 5.88% (293 votes)
- Greczula – “Believe Me” – 4.03% (201 votes)
- Dolly Style – “YIHAA” – 3.25% (162 votes)
- John Lundvik – “Voice of the Silent” – 2.35% (117 votes)
- Erik Segerstedt – “Show Me What Love Is” – 1.58% (79 votes)
- Annika Wickihalder – “Life Again” – 1.30% (65 votes)
- Maja Ivarsson – “Kamikaze Life” – 0.90% (45 votes)
- Saga Ludvigsson – “Hate You So Much” – 0.64% (32 votes)
Total votes: 4,985
We will be back with the live discussion article tonight at 19.15 CET.
What do you think of the convincing victory for KAJ in the poll? Can they do it again tonight? Let us know in the comments below.
I hope all Mellolovers get a great night wherever you are
Stop worrying about fan outrage and what fans think, just vote for what we like and whatever happens in Basel, happens. Don’t forget Mello and ESC is about joy and music
Same to you, Denis!
I am heading out now, and sadly won’t be joining all you beautiful Wiwi-ers for the live discussion. No doubt you will all be very upset over this, but please don’t let it ruin your evening… 🙂
See you on the other side, folks!
Whatever result, winner should always be respected. No matter how they win
They can send Zelmerlöv free just seeing, if juries still licking him now there’s others like Austria hopefully steal points of them.
Zítra, Morgen, morgen, demain, orio is not too far <3 it is another day <3
Tomorrow, mechar, domani, holnap!!
My favorites are Scarlet or Klara but once again, Sweden will make the wrong choice. I don’t understand the hate on women that are not Loreen on this show.
The Mans revolution is considered the worst thing imaginable in music while KAJ are hailed as saviors and super fresh whatever, while the sauna song’s also got 6 songwriters involved, including the ever-present Wrethov… Some nuance for the eurofans, if you don’t mind.
3 of those 6 song writes is KAJ. There must be a Swedish person in the song writing team. Someone from Mello production asked KAJ to take part and probably suggested them to contact Werthov. As far as I know, KAJ doesn’t have any connections to Swedish song writers before this.
KAJ wrote the original demo and Werthov then mellofied it and actually added the Finnish words.
It’s a bit disingenuous to say ‘6 songwriters involved’ when half of them are KAJ themselves, both it and revolution are 3 songwriters + the performing artist.
The point is that KAJ are also polished and formulaic, just a slightly different branding that eurofans prefer (with a more memorable chorus compared to the competition also tbh)
I’m still expecting mans to win today, but I hope I’m wrong.
Of course you do.. Surprise! Not.
I’ve been following this year’s Melodifestivalen each week & I would totally agree with the finalists, I would love KAJ to go to Eurovision, singing in Swedish with fantastic staging , would be so cool for a change. My top 5 would be, KAJ, Erik Segerstedt, Greczula, Scarlet & Mans Zelmerlow. It’ll probably be another Swedish/Finnish entry going for the win again this year, just shows the talent at the top of Europe.
Who are the male sauna dancers? WHO ARE THEY??
they would be a fun choice, but Klara is still my favorite even tho she will not win. Why do Sweden hate her? 🙁
I love Klara, she’s what I imagine would come out of a S wedish woman making machine, if one was to exist
I love Klara, she’s what I imagine would come out of a Swede making machine, if one was to exist
Dane all my replies are awaiting approval. No idea why. But I agree with you
I really wanna see her on the Eurovision stage one day
Why would they hate her? Her song was #1 on the charts
I dont know. That is what I ask lol
Even if swedes vote for Kaj to win it will be the international jury that will give Mans the win.
I actually think the juries should not be putting Mans first – yes its a good performance and yes he is a good singer but the song is too much of a carbon copy of Heroes for me personally that would push him down to about third.
Can we dare hope?
On the other hand, if the predictable result comess to pass, we’ll get to see Måns’ face when he receives about at many televotes in ESC final as John Lundvik or Benjamin Ingrosso did.
Hopes and jokes aside, I do believe that KAJ can win the televote in May. I see no other song with this potential yet, while there are several jury magnets this year.
Predictable Swedes will once again choose an alternative of Robin Bengtsson, Robin Stjernberg, Benjamin Ingrosso, Tusse, John Lundvik etc.
Worst Melodifestivalen I’ve had to witness, you could throw most of the songs in this final into trash right away.
I do still think it will be Måns. Even with televote support. Because Swedes votes on what will do best at ESC. And I think he will get the most widespread support among all groups, maybe not the highest in all but high from every group
So I don’t think it’s as close as people believe it is..
That said, every act is good and would be a worthy winner
I thought the same, and that the juries will no doubt swing it for Måns… but now I’m starting to believe that KAK can do it.
KAJ
(KAK were cack)
Kak is whack
Not sure if KAJ can get the support that is needed. We know they have the Spotify and the young. But the non Spotify? The elders? The radio listeners,? In Sweden radio is still popular and much more used than Spotify. And KAJ has not been doing well at radioplay. .
All will be revealed in 7 hours!
I hate this country destroyed wonder contest fix contest turn in really factor BGT money maker show. Remember old days best sing now big joker
Eloquently put
LOL
I would love to see KAJ win. Måns is just a copy of his last entry
His last entry was also a copy. I see a pattern.
I would love Kaj to win, it would be something different and fresh for Sweden. But I think the juries will swing it in the favour of Mans. Hope I’m wrong but I want Bara Bada Bastu on the stage on Basel
Seeing KAJ win would be the perfect riposte to all the Sweden haters who say that Sweden only produces polished slick manufactured pop. The irony that it has taken a group of Finns to get the Swedes anywhere close to sending a song in the Swedish language for decades.
if this is selected tonight, it will win Eurovision. If Mans is chosen. I don’t think he will win. He doesn’t have the overall love there was for Loreen.
It’s strange really, because Swedes love to listen to these type of songs outside of the competition. Like Hooja for example. It’s not just a Finnish phenomenon. This is just a different packaging.
We don’t hate Sweden, we just BEG for something out of the box for once, sending older winners just to grab votes due to past popularity seems like a petty move to me. It unfortunately worked once, hopefully it won’t work again. Bara Bada Bastu, assuming KAJ will win, will be my 2nd place behind Austria. I’m not joking, I love that song and it would be a very pleasant surprise.
Loreen was not sent just to grab votes, or because of past popularity… she was sent because Tattoo was by far the best entry in Melodifrstivalen 2023. 500 million streams on Spotify don’t come based on nothing.
Mika Newton must be very happy with her rewarded plagiarism….
Rewards from the legal case that never happened?
Just listen to Mika’s song or get appointement for your earing problems…
LOL, still beating that?
You honestly think if they would “steal” , they would do it from a obscure album track from a singer they never heard of?
Again: have you listen to Mikas’s song???
Yes, snippets of it. If every song that sounds similar to others is considered plagiarism then creativity would be dead..
Besides, what we think is irrelevant. It’s what the courts think that matters and there never was a case so..
Whatever… money buys everything: it doesn’t sounds similar, parts of it – the most memorable of it- is totally the same. Think whatever you want.
Well now It’s done and Europe can breathe again. Sweden will not be in the top this year.. .This contest has changed and now it is not about the best quality anymore , no you will have to be quirky or silly to settle with the ESC fans . This is a new era for the contest and as a ESC and Mello fan this makes me sad , so sad. The news yesterday here in Sweden blew up because of this and I get it , this is not Swedish music or our music legacy. I feel so bad… Read more »
They even won the audience poll at the rehearsal which is usually a good indication of the general audience mood. And I hope the international jury has at least a bit of overlap with the international audience, so that KAJ might sweep it all.
Juries do not know or care about fans, why should they?
They do, because Mello juries ARE fans. They’re not like the juries in May who are music industry types, they’re just a group of anonymous people assembled by the local HoD as a favour.
Their job is to judge which act will do best in ESC. Most of them hear the songs for the first time in final. They do not know about who the fans want and why should they?
Well… tell me who these jurors actually are? It’s not very transparent. I think they are just fans.
And most of the internatione juries are the same as in ESC. Singers, dj. Radio personalities. Doubt they all keep up
Who are they, where do you see their names?
Well obviously it’s not fans. It’s not random selected unknown people. They say at the beginning the juries consist of people who work with music, just like in ESC. It’s not fans. It’s musicians, dj, radio bosses. This year for instance one of the Swiss hosts are part of the jury. Princ from Serbia is another one
No, I’m fairly sure they are just the spokespeople we see on TV. They’re not on the actual jury. The French spokesperson this year is the French HoD, it would be total conflict of interest to have her be a juror. Same with Princ.
They just read out the scores, they don’t decide them.
But sometimes they are on the jury. Tooji in 2012 was part of the jury. In 2023 Croatia revealed their jury members and their HoD was jury president. And the spokesperson was also jury member.
Sometimes the countries reveal who is on the jury
They don’t reveal their names. All we know there are 8 countries as usual with 5 people in each group that work with music. And they’re job is to find the most competative entry that can make the biggest impression on an european public.
I must add that I think that last part tastes a bit sour..
Most of the audience is children though so it’s not indicative. Last year Medina won the poll.
Nope, last year Marcus and Martinus came first in the audience poll, Medina second and Smash Into Pieces third, just like the actual public results.
Eurovision does not really need Kaj or Mans. But Sweden needs Kaj to win to shift the mood and have a new perspective after more than a decade of Sweden producing the same thing over and over again. Many don’t like Sweden not because it’s bad. On the contrary, it’s very good but sometimes in a bad way. Sterile.
I have said it even before. I love candy, but I cannot eat it every day for breakfast lunch and dinner for 15 days straight.
Having said that, either Mans or Kaj is top 5 in Eurovision.
PERFECT DESCRIPTION, honestly comes out way better than the way most of us can express our thoughts and then we get misunderstood of spreading hate speech. What you’ve written is exactly how I feel about Sweden in the contest.
Why should we suck up to fans? Let us send what we like and what happens happens
Exactly!
Trust me, you WILL vote for what you want. It’s the international jury that will screw things up.
Sweden actually has a lot of good options this year. As much as I want Klara to win and go to ESC, since she’s my favorite and because I think she deserves it, KAJ is the one that will do the best for Sweden. It could win the televote.
Surprisingly, I’m enjoying 3 songs in this final – Måns’, Klara’s and Maja’s. Would’ve been more if 24K, I’m Yours or Funniest Thing had made it. I only checked the performances of my two favorite songs and I never thought I’d say this, but I’d like to see Måns back at Eurovision. Due to Klara’s weak vocals, the song suffers live while Måns’ comes alive. It’s a good song and the strong whirlwind finish is glorious. So are the tempo changes of “On and on and on” but those vocals are not. Måns is so clearly the best, he earned… Read more »
The KAJ hysteria is real in Sweden. Now they have put lasers in the show. And it’s quite insane. I think the only ones who can destroy it is the juries. And perhaps the older age groups in the televote. I’m torned with it. But I don’t mind sending those boys. If we could get a descent televote instead 😀 Even Måns thinks KAJ will win. But for me it feels like selling out one thing against another. But good luck to both of them. And all the finalists. This will be very exciting.
KAJ would be an incredible choice! They’d get my vote in ESC all the way from the U.S.
This is what the juries should be looking at, the fact that there is a song not in English being loved all over the world, its very rare. Kaj should be the jury winner.
Happy Mello Day, people.
I can totally see this winning the whole ESC. Even in a much stronger year than this…
LET THEM EAT MANS!
I’d eat Måns tbf
Theee was a joke that inclided a tw**, but it got lost along the way lol.