USA – In a recent interview, Christer Björkman assured everyone that the American version of the Eurovision Song Contest is underway. The contest will see acts from all 50 US states compete against each other for the win, through several rounds.
“We are, at the moment, negotiating about it and it’s very close. There’s nothing signed yet… it takes a lot of lawyers and a lot of hours for them to work out every detail in the contract and that’s what’s actually happening right now but if everything works out, we will be moving there as soon as they let us in and we will, hopefully, be on air with the first American Song Contest ever in 2022. We are, at the moment, negotiating about it and it’s very close. There’s nothing signed yet… it takes a lot of lawyers and a lot of hours for them to work out every detail in the contract and that’s what’s actually happening right now but if everything works out, we will be moving there as soon as they let us in and we will, hopefully, be on air with the first American Song Contest ever in 2022. We have plans for arranging specific packages for Eurofans to come over and visit us once we are up and running.”
NEW INTERVIEW
In a new interview and while speaking about AMERICAN SONG CONTEST we were surprised by his phrasing. Although we thought it was a sure-thing, a done-deal, he says the following (and everyone can understand what he means!)
“We will see. It might happen. We are at the moment negotiating about it and it’s very close. Nothing is signed yet. It takes a lot of lawyers and a lot of hours for them to work out every detail in the contract and that’s what’s happening right now. If everything works out we will be moving there as soon as they let us in and we will hopefully on air with the first American Song Contest ever in 2022.”
MODESTY IS FOR MODESTS
Christer Björkman also spoke in a very modest way (#not) on how he can bring the UK back to the trophies and he would love to leave Melodifestivalen for such a project.
“They should’ve done that ten years ago. I’m still amazed they haven’t called me… Yes, definitely. That would’ve been something that could’ve made me go (leave Melodifestivalen) already ten years ago because that is the ultimate challenge. That is to actually bring the BBC back on track […] I grew up when this contest had two countries that won all the time. It was either France/Luxembourg, but that was the same artist. It was all in French, and they used artists from France anyway, and it was the UK, and every year I longed for the new hits coming from the UK and from France and Luxembourg, and then I don’t know what happened. It’s like they must’ve had so much know-how about this contest, and somewhere along the line that got lost and I believe because the UK fans are really devoted and if they found the Christer of the UK and gave him authority to actually commit to an idea they could easily turn this around.”
