You have no idea how mad the Russian diplomats working in Sweden got after this. It was great!

It's a mockery of Russia and President Putin, which lead to massive protests from the Russian Embassy officials 😂

And yes, many Swedes thought it was the best number of the competition :)

One thing strikes me. The Swedes are so incredibly professional. This was apparently an interlude number in the Swedish final of Eurovision Song Content, yet they bring out the whole artillery of comedians, musicians, dancers and songwriters. And everything served with a smile. They are only 10 million, yet they are always at the forefront when it comes to it. Impressive country.

This music performance made the Russians so mad their embassy protested and demanded a apology from the producer 🤣

Funny songnumber played while waiting for the votes in Swedish eurovision competition. If I remember correctly the finals were goin to be held in Russia. They really crammed a lot into this number with ballalajkas, military soldiers, prostitutes, the mafia, it just kept coming. And yes, Grotesco is a surprisingly musical humor group. Russia hated it!

Henrik Dorsin is one of th biggest musical comedy geniuses sweden has ever seen.

The rhyme. "...let me see you booty swing, Putin, Russia, rockring" Rockring being hula hoop. xD

The thing is that this "inbetween performence" outscoped all the competitors of mellodifestivalen!

Russian friend of mine laughed so hard he got stomach cramps when he saw this! No, he's not a Putin fan! ;-)

Thats Melodifestivalen, the contest that deside what song will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and I can tell you that Melodifestivalen is HUGE in Sweden, no other country makes such an effort to chose the song.

This was a piece of a halftime show in the Swedish competition for European Song Contest and created a minor diplomatic crisis with Russia. They were furious. 🤣 "Tingeling" is btw Tinkerbell in Swedish, probably named the song that without any rational reason at all. 😁

This was the break feature in the Swedish Eurovision selection. The Russians went completely crazy and summoned the Swedish Foreign Minister to the Russian Embassy in Stockholm for a formal protest for mocking the Russian people, they demanded an official apology, called the artists insane and should be executed. Funny thing about the whole thing was that the song was sold in mass editions in Russia Russian people had no problem at all by the song, just Putin and the Russian Troika...

When I first saw this, I thought "This was fun, but the army choir felt a little outdated. It is not the Soviet union anymore." And then, when Russia hosted Eurovision, what did they have as one of their performaces? A huge army choir...

When the tourists leave Ukraine, one mandatory item on the peace agreement should be that Russia should have this as their national anthem

The whole "tingeling" gag is a very long one, building up over several 'episodes' of Melodifestivalen (the swedish eurovision selection tournament). Unfortunately it's very hard to appreciate most things in this if you haven't watched the buildup, and that's if you're being swedish. Not understanding Swedish I'd say you'r perhaps getting 20% at most, but it's still enjoyable :)

As far as I remember, this became a hit in Sweden. It's fun when the interval acts become big hits and go on competing for a spot on the radio hitlist 😂

BEST FUCKING MIDDLE ACT IN THE MELODY FESTIVAL EVER! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Oh, the backlash on the news after this, such good memories

It was the midshow for the swedish eurovision show that year. it was fkn glorious. I love how they warned our diplomats afterwards. You really should have watched it with subs, the swedish commentary makes it 10 times funnier

This is still one of my absolute favourite middle acts from Melodifestivalen, it's still such a banger, still obsessed. I'm a little bummed that you didn't watch it with subtitles, you miss a lot of the conversation going on but yeah.

The whole Tingeling shebang was a "running gag" pause entertainment all through the Swedish qualification rounds to decide which song we should send to Eurivision. Every qualification was in a different city and they made one version of Tingeling for each city, corresponding to the style of the most famous artist from that city. And then on the finals this number came up and, well... yeah Russia was... not 100% pleased...

Lol I remember the russians didn't exactly appreciate this homage song. Fkin snowflakes. :D And yeah the music absolutely slaps, they had no reason to go this hard with a sketch like this but I'm glad they did.

This is a swedish classic. Russian television did something similar about Sweden to revenge but nobody saw it outside Russia…lol.

This is awesome so premium. That show was even better than the actual contenders HAHA still is to this day Loreen would have zero chance against these.

The part that made even Putin mad was the part "Doswidanja Putin", literaly meaning 'Goodbye Putin"... Plus the other stereotypes mixed in. Well, the russians didn't like us after that. 😂

I see it more like a tribute that represents everything we LOVE about Russia! It's pretty often the "middle act" in the "melodifestivalen" is better than the actual contestants and the winner.

Since this song came along, I haven’t attended a party without this song playing! 🎉

If i recall right the swedish PM was summoned to the russian embassy to explain this top tier mockery.

Almost every song that is written by Swedish people is a banger, especially if it's mockery since you definitely can't be mocking someone with a bad song 😂

This is so funny because Russia had Eurovison song contest that year and and their middle acts were pretty much spot on what Groresco did 😂

It's even more brilliant and funny if you understand Swedish and know the comedy series Grotesco. The song was actually performed as a middle act in a Swedish Eurovision qualifier and the Russian embassy threatened to call home its ambassador.

It's partially a parody. That is a real contest, they are performing at 'halftime'. In short, Melodifestivalen is the swedish contest leading up to Eurovision. The winner of Melodifestivalen gets to represent Sweden in Eurovision. :)

This was actually the best song in the show that year, too bad you couldnt vote for it! I feel bad for the ones going up on that scene after this performance!

Now, THIS is entertainment!!🤣😂🤣

I will never get tired of listening to this masterpiece and seeing foreigners react to it 💛💙

Melodifestivalen is the name of the "local" Eurovision to decide what song goes to Eurovision.

I remember how outraged the Russian embassy was after this. ♥

Hahaha😂 so happy that I got a big laugh near christmas time 🤩wonderful… Please… do more Grotesko😆😃

Melodifestivalen is basically a multi week competition with several smaller competions spread across the country culminating in a finale where the swedish contribution to Eurovision is selected (I say that, but there have been a few instances where the swedish winner wasnt the one to go to Eurovision for some reason or another) this was the midway entertainment during the finale. It would easily have won that year if it actually competed. Some context as to why they wanted to mock Russia and Putin in particular. This was 2009, shortly after the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. And russia had recently introduced some legislation to make life tougher for their LGBTQ+ community... and frankly, you cant have Eurovision without the LGBTQ+ crowd. Russia tried to censor Eurovision when there was gay contributions, but the Eurovision crew put a stop to that. Either you show all of it, or you dont get to show it at all.

A few more things that will give some more context: - Grotesco has a sketch (more like, an entire episode) where they parody an unspecified american drama film and throughout the entire thing they do intentionally incorrect but american-sounding English as dialogue. You can still understand it mostly, its just wrong. I dont speak russian, but I am pretty sure they are doing some of that in this song too - singing russian-sounding words with some actual russian thrown in. - two of the actual russian things thrown in are "goodbye Putin" and "cheers, Lenin" - The "national anthem" they burst into briefly at one point is even the old Soviet National Anthem - the music that plays when the Prisiadki dancers (the ones that dance almost like Riverdancing(?)) is an old russian melody made famous through its inclusion in the (originally) Russian-made game Tetris. - another funny thing about the diplomatic incident this sparked is the interview where one russian spokesperson primarily cites the reason of including a dancing bear into the mix as "perpetuating a stereotype from the 90s" where apparently russian mobsters used to keep pet bears and train them to dance or something? Its funny that they chose that thing to mention in the interview lol

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What really made this hilarious was the reaction from Russians😂 I'm old enough to remember visiting the USSR, and right after that era ended in "young new Russia" (think airport security smoking cigarettes and asking "Do you have GOLD in suitcase?!" with stern faces, awkward silence, and breaking down in hilariois laughter "make fanni, fanni, joke!" 😂) and then seeing the transformation. One of my friends literally has the most cohesive extensive collection of recordings of Soviet and Russian pop music post union ever, and that includes footage, and this spoof could not have been more spot on! It went from Alla Pugachova to a twlve yearolds first impression of 80s synthpop with Ziggy Stardust makeup and the kitchest, gayest most fantastical props and costumes and stuff ever imaginable in no time at all, it's actually a section of nerd-cukture unto its own (some of it with pretty cool music in its own way). This spoof is so benign that Russians being upset by it really demonstrates what a young sissy is. Imagine Americans being crazy upset by all the stereotypical humor about fat American hillbillies and Hollywood airheads and gangsters? No it's not possible bc stereotypes are part of satire, and if you can't take it with a chuckle you're not adult enough for satire period (of course satire is and always was very dangerous in totalitarian regimes, so thanks for very much driving the irony home). A zillion and one hilarious skits and songs have been broadcasted worldwide on the Orange Mussolini of the west, but a "tingeling" poke at Russia hosting Eurovision makes actual Russian officials go ballistic, hahahaha 😂how's that NOT the funniest thing ever?? 😂

The adding of the national anthem is kinda made funnier because it's one of the first swedish memes that got huge late 90s early 2000s, basically someone just badly translated what the rusdian national anthem sounded as in swedish. "Tell him heidi looks like a tv-antenna" etc where some of the "translation". There was also another classic called "ansiktsburk" (face jar) that I think was another poorly translated song.

On Spotify you can hear like 10-15 different versions osv Tngeling. The fictional story is that Pilman wrote a song in the 70’s called tingeling. (The version they play in the boombox) And the album has like different versions of Tingeling. Hiphop, Reggaeton, Britney-pop very nice!

One of the groups greatest sketches is "Ett kilo mjöl". Truly the peak of swedish comedy.

I still think this was the best song that year 🤣Imgine if it was real and they won and sang it in eurovision, I would pay loads of money to see that 🤣🤣 they should do a come back now when eurovision is held in sweeden again

Love the fact that Russia made a satire song to mock Sweden back after this one. Not nearly as good but still funny. Particularly enjoyed the joke about putting canons on old Volvos in that one. Mostly because it would most likely work perfectly.😂

The event was held in Globen, a globe shaped arena that you can see rolling away in Grotesco's The Gothenburg Portal. The funny part was that the Russian contribution wasn't far away from Tingeling.

This is not a parody on the Melodifestivalen, this is on the real competition and I loved it! But it is a long story before this happend

This is why we in the Nordics can accept a country like Sweden. Their expertise in mocking the russians is in high demand up here .

This was a serial over all the swedish sub-competitons to chose the eurovision participant, where we followed the guy in the fur hat and his pursuit of success with his song Tingeling. And his was the last episode in the final.

This is just half of the story. The Grotesco song was featured, in february 2009, as a satiric interval act in the Swedish Song Contest, the show that sellects which song we will send to the Eurovision competition. The previous year Russia hade won and was therefore hosting the Eurovision in May 2009. What nobody knew in february was that Russia had planed an interval act at Eurovison on the exact same theme, but with no irony... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZ-mlK9htszPqHk.html

I loved how much this annoyed the Russians, haha 😆 good song, very catchy 👍

Love seeing your reactions to Grotesco! I hope that you react to Grotesco - They will never stop the dance music video next! :D It also created minor drama due to people being upset about what kind of music video they filmed at a church.

This made russia go balistic. It was so funny!

Grotesco sketches are mostly more subtle and ambiguous. For this number they had to crank up the stereotypes two notches, so everyone, not only the Grotesco-fans, got it. Had it been Russian, it would have been done (much) more professionally (choreography). I do think that this is one of the best intervals that "melodifestivalen" has had.

This paus-act was actually better than all of the performances in esc this year

It's not a Eurovision parody. It was an intermission in the Swedish musical competition where the Swedish contribution to Eurovision is selected.

If I can give a tip for a song to listen to by the way; I can highly recommend the Swedish made song "One more Time - Highland". Hope you like it 👍 great vibes

You absulutely need to do the next part of Dj Trexx, Grotesco-They will never stop the dance!

Christer Björkman that the Russian boss talk about in the beginning is a legend in the Swedish Melodifestivalen. He has played a huge part in organizing the event. And was also hired by US, when the arranged a similar music contest than Eurovision Song Contest.

I remember this sideact from melodifestivalen, its legendary and everyone was going around singing it lol. That year it outperformed the real acts, and that is kind of funny.

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In sweden we have a televised competition that determines who we'll send to eurovision. This is kinda the half time show.

Melodifestivalen is the competition to decide what song goes to the Eurovision that year. And since the previous year Russsia won, then 2009 would be host in Russia so therefore a small joke on them :)

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They just flipp the bird in the Ruzzian face =)

this wasn't a parody of eurovision, but the national swedish contest to decide the artist to represent sweden in eurovision. it's more important than eurovision itself here in sweden. and sadly this was only an intermission act, that people couldn't vote for, since it was better than all the actual competitors

I have noticed that you have meny Swedish people here commenting, me included 😅😅😅😅 The Russians was really pissed off after this LOL

Intersession music at Swedish ESC. And hated by Putin and his Russian friends. So just because of this I’ll share Tingeling every where

Geez, takes me back to working on a vessel with a Glaswegian crew. Took me a good two weeks to process the phonetics. English is my third language, though. Appreciate you're making fun of Sweden making fun of Russia. We all need that now. Upvote and Eyjafjallajökull.

This was a Eurovision interstition. ”Da svedanja Putin”, ”Goodbye Putin” I contained the Soviet anthem and the Tetris game music as asides.

This is the Swedish finals for the eurovision, ”melodifestivalen” (melody festival), its like 5 semifinals and then a big final winner goes to eurovision

This is actually the swedish qualifiers for the European Song Contest. Live and all :)

In the intro they say -Damn it's cold here -Yeah, but you haven't dressed properly. Everyone in Moscow has a fur hat. Moscow in russian means fur hat. *Grabs kids teddybear* -There you go. I'm the fucking greatest! 🤣

You should react to "They will never stop the dance" its by Grotesco aswell, and I think you would like it

Doing a satire number where you take Every. Single. Steretype and dial it up to 11 and then add actually enjoyable music is what makes this work so damn good. The Russians didnt see it that way though, a few months later they even did their own version, with the same music, pointing out every single swedish fuckup from the last couple of centuries. Poltava being a centerpiece, a time where Carl XII lost a battle against a inferior russian force after a failed invasion of Tsarist Russia.

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"Do svidaniya Putin" in the lyrics means Goodbye Putin :P

✨Tingeling Tingeling come on baby shake that thing✨

Tingaliin should have won Eurovision!

Also tingeling is a old folk musik dance band kind of song and they remade it into a disco pop song 😂

I loved this the best song that night 😍 You should watch the video they did on Swedish slager night 2021 😀 Grotesco they will never stop the dance 👍

i loved this song, russia was so upset XD

tror ryssarna blir förvånade om vi skickar ut denna låt med live band på fronten om dom väljer att anfalla oss 🤣🤣

Russia was not happy after this. 🤣

in order to fully appreciate joke, you also have to understand the undertones of the Swedish language, they said a lot of things jokingly that were not translated. they make fun of E-type as well, which completely eludes a non-Swedish-speaking audience

The favorite sketches with grotesco in my mind is : - ett kilo mjöl , i think there is a subtitled version on youtube, - niklas och skärpet, sadly no version on youtube

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The best part is the russians got SOO pissed, and then they a shitty denial-parody on Eurovision in moscow that didn't hit at all

The Sweded cannot help go make hit, even when they're trying to make a satire...

"Eurovision parody" 😀. Yes you can say that... 😀 Melodifestivalen is the Swedish qualifying contest for the Eurovision.

Melodifestivalen is the Swedish selection competition for what song would be featured in Eurovision song contest and this is is an interlude number. And somehow the interlude numbers is always the best 😅

Hello. You liked the video of Sven Melander where he interviewed a little girl and asked her what she wanted most in the whole world. There is a very funny comedy about swedes going to Canary islands to celebrate christmas in the sun, you must se it, it is called Sällskapsresan and has english subtitles or dubbed to english and then it is called the charter trip. It contains all the stereotypes of swedish tourists, Sven Melander and his friend are going to Canary islands just to drink cheap alcohol, because alcohol in Sweden is quite expensive, and very cheap in the Canary islands because it is a free trade area, one couple with a photcrazy husband, his luggage contains of cameras and film, two sisters who are only there to pick up men and get a suntan etc. With a little luck you might find the english version online, Good luck.

I remember when this song was released in Sweden (2011?) and foresaw your video. The Swedish lyrics mimic Russian accent in Swedish perfectly and Henrik Dorsin mimics Swedish Gothenburgian English accent. Dorsin (the bald guy) is a comedy genius.

You are right, this was a pause number in the Swedish "melodifestivalen" where you qualify to the Eurovision song contest. Massive amount of viewers both live and especially, of course, on TV. I think what the Russians was most mad about was that a little bit of their national anthem was played in this song 🤪

I like how the the announcer is like: ”Is it tingeling? It’s time to switch channel, folks!”

That was hilarious to whatch😅😅😅