Last year was a very successful year and 2012 begins with a big tour in Sweden, Växjö News has met Eric Saade in Teleborgshallen, where he is on stage on April 11, and talked about Melodifestivalen and his indoortour Pop Explosion.
Last year was the victory at Melodifestivalen, two released albums and a third place in the Eurovision Song Contest. Additionally he sold the most records in total of all Swedish artists. It's easy to say that 2011 was a successful year for the artist from Skåne.
-That was wonderful, he says.
The explanation for this amazing year is of course the impact and the victory in Melodifestivalen, but Eric Saade also believes that his fighting spirit and the fact that he always enters wholeheartedly in what he does plays a major role.
- I always make a perfect show. I dance and sing at the same time and there are not many people in Sweden who do. People like it simply, he says and continues:
Now, however, it is out of schlager. It's great to have taken the next step and started to build something new, self-composed music, he says.
- I finished Melodifestivalen. It was a great way to start your career on, but I've already moved on and have bigger goals. Melodifestivalen is never your own, it's someone else's program you will visit.
He looked up, however, on the first round in Växjö and Loreen, who went straight to the final, impressed him.
- It's the best number I've ever seen in a Swedish Melodifestival of all time. I can not see anyone else go to Eurovision.
When pop tour rolls on investing last year's winner on their own tour. In spring he will visit 15 arenas across Sweden and now he travels around to some of them to check out what's up.
- I have high expectations of this audience. It's probably the smallest stage, but I like that because then it will be very intimate. I think it's gonna be a hell of a move in here.
After two festival tours, it was time to try something new. Eric Saade seems satisfied that it became an arena tour. He says that the best thing about this spring's tour is the freedom to decide. He has himself designed the scene.
- For the first time I can adapt depending on myself. Everything will be customized for me to make the perfect popact.
Pop Explosion is called the tour and he describes it as a bold popact dance number after dance number, with a good band and a fat light show. The actual shape of the concert, he has invented himself.
It's the audience which determines if there is any show or not. On stage will in fact exist decibel meters, and to get up on stage Saade wants the audience to scream so much so decibel meters reaches red.
- Decibel Meters will come up when an act is over. Then it's up to the audience to let so much so that it goes up to red. Then it will pop out of hell and the next act begins, he says and continues:
- I like when you involve the audience during this show, they will be highly involved. They decide if I'm standing on stage or not.
Original and pictures: VäxjöNytt / translated by Linda / no guarantee for 100% correctness
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