{"id":31052,"date":"2026-05-04T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/31052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:53:44","slug":"%f0%9f%87%b8%f0%9f%87%aa-sweden-it-feels-amazing-to-be-here-felicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/31052\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Sweden: &#8220;It Feels Amazing to Be Here&#8221; &#8211; Felicia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to catch up with Felicia, Sweden\u2019s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, following her first rehearsal.<\/p>\n<p>Following her first rehearsal in Vienna, we spoke with Felicia, who will represent Sweden with \u201cMy System\u201d. She discusses how it feels to make it to the Eurovision stage, the changes to her performance, how she is dealing with the pressure of being one of the favourites, new music and more.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview with Felicia here:<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank Felicia for taking the time to speak with us again, and we wish her the best of luck. Felicia will perform \u201cMy System\u201d second in the first semi-final on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Sweden debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 and has gone on to be one of the contest\u2019s most successful countries. The country has won the contest 7 times, tying with Ireland, the most recent being in 2023. Abba\u00b4s win in Brighton 1974 with the song \u201cWaterloo\u201d marked Sweden\u2019s first victory. Since missing out on the final in 2010, the country has gone on to finish 3rd twice and has won the contest three times. Only in 2013 and 2021 did the country place outside of the top 10 in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We had the opportunity to catch up with Felicia, Sweden\u2019s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[20859,20860,20975,2788],"class_list":{"0":"post-31052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eurovision","8":"tag-eurovision","9":"tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","10":"tag-felicia","11":"tag-headline"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}