Gunilla Persson is the slightly strange bird in Melodifestivalen this year. Thursday’s open rehearsals gave a first glimpse of what the reality star’s performance will look like.
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The song “I won’t shake (La la Gunilla)” is a country-inspired pop song with guitars, which was taken from Ennio Morricone music to Sergio Leone’s western movies. Four cowboys dance around the star who sings her song wearing a glittering silver dress and with minimal choreography.
Gunilla Persson canceled all interviews before her rehearsals in Växjö on Thursday, but told TT earlier this week about her number:
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Gunilla Persson surrounded by her four cowboy dancers.
— We have a number that is very good. There are four dancers, male dancers. Very “high class”, I want to represent what I stand for, she explained.
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It was an unusual situation to enter the Melodifestival stage for Gunilla Persson, who revealed before the rehearsals that she had barely practiced singing with a microphone before and had never used so-called “in ear” headphones that professional artists use to be heard on stage.
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Gunilla Persson may not be known as an artist, but has performed publicly before. In 2015 she rapped along with Doggy Doggelito in the short-lived TV3 program “Gunilla thinks till” and in the early 1980s the reality profile toured with the music group Happy Ladies in Japan for six months.