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Sweden’s Loreen Makes Eurovision History After Her Song Tattoo Triumphs At Song Contest

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Swedish singer Loreen has made Eurovision history after triumphing at this year’s contest.

Loreen famously first won the competition back in 2012 with her signature song Euphoria, and made a return to the Eurovision this year with her offering Tattoo.

With her second Eurovision win, Loreen matches former Irish competitor Johnny Logan as the only entrant to win the song contest on more than one occasion.

Johnny first won Eurovision in 1980 with What’s Another Year, and later repeated the feat in 1987 with Hold Me Now. Five years after that, a song he’d written called Why Me? was the winning entry for Irish singer Linda Martin.

She went into the competition a firm favourite to win, and wound up leading the way during Saturday night’s final with 583 points.

Her nearest competition was Finland, whose song Cha Cha Cha finished in second place, with 526 points.

Meanwhile, it was not the strongest night for UK entrant Mae Muller in Liverpool, where the event was held on behalf of last year’s winners Ukraine.

Mae finished in second to last place after closing the show with her rendition of her entry I Wrote A Song.

Johnny Logan in 1987
Johnny Logan in 1987

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Loreen’s win also means Sweden now matches Ireland as the country with the most Eurovision wins, with seven each.

Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will mark 50 years since Sweden’s first win, when ABBA stormed to victory with their hit Waterloo.

ABBA were Sweden's first Eurovision winners in 1974
ABBA were Sweden’s first Eurovision winners in 1974

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Later Swedish winners included Herreys’ Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley, Carola’s Fångad Av En Stormvind, Charlotte Perelli’s Take Me To Your Heaven.

Måns Zelmerlöw was Sweden’s most recent winner after triumphing with his song Heroes.

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Daði Freyr Doing Atomic Kitten’s Whole Again At Eurovision Was A Total Vibe

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However, an unexpected tribute was paid to the Liverpudlian girl band as the 67th Song Contest took place in the northern city on Saturday night thanks to Icelandic 2020 and 2021 act Daði Freyr.

During the interval, the stage played host to a Liverpool jukebox, which saw classic Eurovision artists singing songs originally made famous by acts from the city.

It featured the likes of Netta singing Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Right Round and Sonia reprising her 1993 entry Better The Devil You Know.

But one particularly surreal moment came as Daði Freyr belted out an unexpected rendition of Whole Again, originally made famous by Atomic Kitten in 2000.

On Twitter, it was giving fans all the surrealism and nostalgia…

This year sees Liverpool host Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine, who triumphed in the 2022 competition with Kalush Orchestra’s Stefania.

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Pink Claims Christina Aguilera Wanted A Fight On Lady Marmalade Set Over A Chair

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Pink has delved deeper into her somewhat complicated history with Christina Aguilera, claiming the Genie In A Bottle singer wanted to get into a fight on the set of their Lady Marmalade video… over a chair.

Earlier this month, Pink made headlines when she threw apparent shade in Christina’s direction when she admitted in an interview with Buzzfeed UK that the 2001 music video “wasn’t very fun to make” because there were “some personalities” on set.

She then said fellow Lady Marmalade collaborators Lil’ Kim and Mýa “were nice”, pointedly leaving out Christina.

Pink has since been asked about her comments during an appearance on HBO Max’s Who’s Talking To Chris Wallace?.

The host said that based on the video, Pink would’ve “kicked [Christina’s] ass,” to which she replied: “Well, Maybe.”

She continued: “Our personalities just didn’t…not everyone is supposed to like each other and that’s ok. Back then, our personalities did not mix at all and that was ok. We hugged it out and kissed it out and we have many times since.

“The shade — where people get it twisted with me is that if you ask me a question I’m going to answer it honestly,” Pink said.

“I’m going to tell you my experience of how it happened. That’s not shade, that’s just honesty. I should know better by now that total honesty doesn’t work in this world. People want to hear nice things and want you to clean it all up for them and that’s just not my way.”

Pink and Christina Aguilera have a somewhat complicated history
Pink and Christina Aguilera have a somewhat complicated history

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The presenter then asked if Christina really wanted to fight with Pink on the Lady Marmalade set.

“She did,” the So What singer replied. “She was upset that I was sitting in her chair and was going to shut down the entire production. I didn’t know I was sitting in her chair.

“And also, I was homeless at 15. You can’t talk to me any kind of way. You picked the wrong one. But that’s over,” she continued.

“It’s an interesting story, but it probably happens every day in every workplace. Some people just don’t get along, and then they figure it out and they realise what’s important, and they hug it out and move on.”

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HuffPost UK has contacted a representative for Christina Aguilera for comment, and is awaiting a response.

The pair’s feud dates back many years, with Pink previously claiming tensions first began when Christina’s manager started trying to call the shots during a meeting about who would sing which parts.

Reports later claimed that Pink was unhappy when her collaborator, Linda Perry, started working with Christina, even allowing her to record a track the songwriter had penned, Beautiful, that the Missundaztood star initially had her eye on.

Pink later claimed that things had even turned physical between them, telling Watch What Happens Live in 2017 that Christina “swung on me in a club”, recalling the incident as “hilarious”.

Christina subsequently said she wouldn’t “swing on” Pink joking: “She could beat my ass! Are you kidding me?”.

In 2016, the pair appeared to have put their beef behind them when the former appeared as a guest mentor to help the latter on The Voice.

Pink later tweeted that she and her one-time rival had “made amends”.

Last week, Pink responded to a now-deleted tweet about her Buzzfeed UK interview, writing: “Y’all are nuts. Xtina had shit to do with who was on that song.

“If you don’t know by now – I’m not ‘shading’ someone by telling it over and over and over what actually happened.

“I’m zero percent interested in your fucking drama. If you haven’t noticed, I’m a little busy selling… and by selling, I mean tickets and albums and bake sales and shit.

“Also – I kissed XTina’s mouth. I don’t need to kiss her ass.”

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