Almenäs bjuder in Show Interview April 2012 - read on page 3!

Derek wrote:

Miranda wrote:Here it is I hope you enjoy, it was really hard sometimes, but I hope it's readable!



Now we have reached the finale pf this series. During eight weeks I have met exciting and interesting people here on Solvalla. We have eaten some food, bet on horses, and have had nice
concersations. Tonight's guest I got to know in this year's Let's Dance, and here behind me she are dancing, Helena Paparizou.
You're not dancing Helena.
E: What?
We decided that you were going to dance a bit behind me.
E: No, I'm haning out in the bar.
No, but we said so. You were going to show us your work here.
E: I would love to dance cha-cha, but no one wants to see me on tv anymore.

Welcome Helena!
E: Thanks Jessica! I was thinking if you can't dance, you can at least chew. You have to train up your cheek muscles.
Now we are training our cheek muscles, laughing, eating and talking. It wasn't such a long time since we last met on Let's Dance.
You were highly tipped to win, but then you went out as the second person.
H: Yeah...
I don't think I was the only one who was shocked about that. Why do you think it turned out like that?
H: The thing is, I don't what to think about, is it that people forget to vote, or do they think, she has already done this, she can already dance, she doesn't
have to participate, and there are others who can't dance who we can vote for. But for me it is ok, it is like what I said the same night I went out, I'm so happy I got this request
from tv4, that they had thought about me when I have been away from Sweden for so many years.
Now when it has been, how many weeks?
H: two weeks has past. It has hurt. But I have to say this, during the fourth show I went to Gothenburg and there we had a cozy Friday.
With the family?
H: With the family. All of members in the Paparizou family, nieces also and we hung out in front of the TV, we shouted and cheered and had a really great time. So it will be very much Let's Dance
even though you're gone, and soon I will go back to Greece for a short while, and will be back again. But i will log on the internet, read about what's happening with all of them.
Who do you think will win now that you're gone?
H: It's really, really tough to know, you don't know.
You have to say someone. Who do you think?
H: I'm going to say, it depends that they do well every time. I have that feeling that I want either Anton or Molly to win. That's how i feel.
May the best one win, it's always the people who are going to vote. About two weeks ago, I was a contestant, now I can vote. I will always vote
for the ones I enjoyed during the evening.
But, you and David don't meet as often in the rehearsal and training halls, do you have any gossip that we don't know about? Has anything excting happened behind the scenes?
H: Mostly for my part it has been that henemark is always there, and Tobias gives you a massage, because I went past their training hall, henemark's and Tobias. I'm so sorry for telling this, but Camilla (H)
said to me "I have no inspiration, I don't know what to do" and suddenly Tobias started stripteasing there and I was like " What's happening here?!" and opened the curtains and thought I wanted to be in there too.

Are you single now?
H: yeah, I am single.
Completely? 100 % or 95 %?
H: It kinda gets around 90 now, because I have dared to try the thing called dating.
Oh.
H: It's exciting, but it's really hard. Especially when you have been with someone for 12 years. Now I have been single for more than a year, and I felt I needed to try it.
That's exciting. Are you dating in the american way, so you date multiple guys at the same time or do you date as we do in Sweden, one at a time?
H: one at a time. Oh, god. But maybe you should try the american way, but then you have to the guts to do it.
Your dream guy?
H: My dream guy...It's so easy to say that you want your guy to be hot, I have seen so many hot guys, but as soon as they open their mouth, it's just like "Oh my gosh..." Go home to bed.
And that's not good enough?
H: No it isn't. I want a man, that's a real man. He has to know what do with his life, he should be ok with the fact that he has a woman on his side.

Now you have come back to Sweden with big steps you have to say. You have been in let's dance, and you have performed on MF. Are you aiming for a new take in Sweden? A new carrier? You have been gone a few years.
H: I Have been gone a few years, the last thing I did in Sweden was the world championships with "To all the heroes..", and that was 2007 if i remember it correctly. And then a lot happened in my personal life, my dad past away
I wasn't ready to come back, but then I felt, no it's time to do what should have been doing for several years now. It's great fun, because I'm dealing with a new record company here in Sweden. Tomorrow is my first day when
I'm going to go in and do some demos(?)
Fun.
H: So i think it's really fun. then I wanted to broaden my life as a singer a bit. Last year I was in the jury, in Sweden I was a contestant in Let's Dance, and now I feel it's for some musical, some film..
Do you have anything concrete going on?
H: yeah I have some funny requests, but i can't talk about them. It's top secret, but it is really fun actually. I'm so happy, and this will be really exciting. But you don't just get requests, you
have to audition also to see if you're right for the part, because they can decide, now this doen't fit.
I also have heard rumours that Christer Björkman has nagged you on participating in MF.
H: He's so cute Christer, I think he had made up his mind, but he gave up this year. He was like, No Elena I'm not calling you to ask if you can compete, I want to ask you if you want to
perform last year's winning song, and I thought this I wanted to do, it's going to be a burlesque number.
It's kinda like a circus, the whole Eurovision thing when you see it from the outside.
H:Yes.
But what was the strangest thing you saw?
H: the weirdest thing for was that my zipper broke 5 minutes before I had to go on stage.
Oh! What did you do then?
H: What did we do? We shouted loudly, it was a dress that Roberto Cavalli had sown, and we panicked. And we tried to mend the zipper, and luckily everythings there, doctors, seemstresses, everything is there. So a seemstress comes along, and she
sows the whole dress together really quickly. God how I panicked, I thought I was going to faint before I went on stage.
So she sowed you into the dress?
H: Yeah, she sowed me in.

But you are a competitive person?
H: No.
But you have competed in Eurovision and Schlager.
H: But I never thought, I have to win now.
So you haven't got hooked on gambling?
H: i have lost some money on a casino once, but I have been here to Solvalla once before. I then I lost around 500 sek (around 50 euros). And I never win.
Then you have gambled once?
H: But it is like this, some are lucky in games, some are lucky in love. I hope it will be love this time around.
But now you are going to try gambling. You are going to challenge the Lemur in the cage.
Now it is like this, we have our Lemur who gambles. But it doesn't go so well, last week the lemur did really bad, the horse didn't place good, but for Elving (?), who actually knows a lot about trot, he didn't do good either, because his horse was really
far behind. Now you are going to bet on this saturday, yes it is right the program i have. In V75 1.
H: You know this kinda stuff pretty good I noticed.
yeah, i'm pretty good at this. What are you going on now?
H: that was actually exactly what I wanted to ask you, because should you choose depending on names or what should i look on?
Well, it's really tough to learn all the statistics on the short time we have here now. But i would recommend you going with a name that sounds good. Gut feelings is an important feeling when it comes to trot.
H: Domino Sund.
Domino Sund?
H: because if he wins, i will keep on gambling, and it will become a domino game. It will be like you play every saturday.
Yeah, but that's good. it's rolling on every saturday. Helena chooses number 5, Domino Sund, now let's see what the lemur has chosen.
It seems like the lemur has a thing for this nr 7 Orechetti, that's the second time he chooses the same horse.
H: Who?
The lemur.
H: Aha, ok.
So we'll see how it goes. If you or the lemur is the better to bet.
H: So let's see Domino Sund. It'll be exciting.
Soon loreen are going to Baku and compete in Eurovision. Do you have any advices for her?
H: i think she just has to stay herself, she is an amazing performer, it's a superb song..
Do you think she has a shot of winning?
H: i think she has extremely high chances of winning, I will vote for her.
Last week, ulf Eveling was here, he sent you a question.
H: he did? ok.
He has interviewed a lot of people, known as unknown, foreign as swedish, 30 000 interview I thought he had done in his life, that's quite many. The question he sent was very special, and asked "Why?"
H:Why?
yes.
H: Why why? That's why!
(both laughing)
A great answer! let's cheer to that!
H: Cheers!
If you dare to cheer with water.
H: yes, i do. Water is the most holy thing exsisting.

Thanks a lot Miranda. Judging by this text it was a very interesting interview! Really liked her responses to the questions and I'm also very happy to know she's working on new songs (wish I knew what kind of songs she will try out in the studio these days) and that she's planning to broaden her career in different fields (cinema & theatre). In my opinion she's not just a singer and the fact that she got too much stuck on her music career all these years might be a contributing factor to her psychological breakdown and her career decline (at least in terms of live performances and lack of promising plans).
She's an overall entertainer so she can probably be good in acting as well. But I'll wait for her to prove me right, very promising news indeed!

Miss KA wrote:People please do not always quote miranda's full translation!she really did a great job but we don't need it 5 times on each page.

Miss KA wrote:People please do not always quote miranda's full translation!she really did a great job but we don't need it 5 times on each page.

Miranda wrote:

Miss KA wrote:People please do not always quote miranda's full translation!she really did a great job but we don't need it 5 times on each page.

i think we do, it's my ego moment now

Miss KA wrote:

Miranda wrote:

Miss KA wrote:People please do not always quote miranda's full translation!she really did a great job but we don't need it 5 times on each page.

i think we do, it's my ego moment now

Svenskjäveln wrote:She have hard times to remember the year she making things, the song heroes was 2006 and not 2007, wasn't?

So long we do not hear this from Helena: "One of my favourite moments was when I won eurovision, if i remember correctly it was 2003." it doesn't bother me.

I am so glad over this interview, that we finally heard that she is still working on the Swedish comeback.

Svenskjäveln wrote:Yes, I do not know how a dealing with a record company looks like. But I hope it goes well for Helena and she gets a good contract with a good record label!

Svenskjäveln wrote:

Miss KA wrote:People please do not always quote miranda's full translation!she really did a great job but we don't need it 5 times on each page.

I must say the same thing. Just makes the page longer with no reason.

Aftonbladet reported about the "gossip" Helena told about Camilla Henemark, a contestant in Let's Dance:
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(That video you should be able to see, so maybe you all can watch a little bit from the interview there! )

Svenskjäveln wrote:

Stathis wrote:I think that according to her words that her first priority is music and that's why she revealed some relevant plans....
Well, the movie things is probably very secret too. But I also think that her music plan is her main plan.

because of the demos? I hope so. I remember mainly the musical/movie thing.... musical would be fine though, but only if we get a record of it...
"Are you dating in the american way, so you date multiple guys at the same time or do you date as we do in Sweden, one at a time?"
try to imagine that. Helena doing multiple dating, and half of the guys are her fans. what a crazy question I especially now have in mind things like speed dating, and cannot get akos out of this picture.
thanks so much for your translation. Tack sa° mycket!

Svenskjäveln wrote:She have hard times to remember the year she making things, the song heroes was 2006 and not 2007, wasn't?

So long we do not hear this from Helena: "One of my favourite moments was when I won eurovision, if i remember correctly it was 2003." it doesn't bother me.

I am so glad over this interview, that we finally heard that she is still working on the Swedish comeback.

Miss KA wrote:

Svenskjäveln wrote:

Stathis wrote:I think that according to her words that her first priority is music and that's why she revealed some relevant plans....
Well, the movie things is probably very secret too. But I also think that her music plan is her main plan.

because of the demos? I hope so. I remember mainly the musical/movie thing.... musical would be fine though, but only if we get a record of it...
"Are you dating in the american way, so you date multiple guys at the same time or do you date as we do in Sweden, one at a time?"
try to imagine that. Helena doing multiple dating, and half of the guys are her fans. what a crazy question I especially now have in mind things like speed dating, and cannot get akos out of this picture.
thanks so much for your translation. Tack sa° mycket!

then I feel I should make a visit soon in Sweden to make that speed date

Paparizakias wrote:Is it easy for someone preferably Swedish to find how % was the avarage of the audience who watched the tv serie?

Svenskjäveln wrote:

Paparizakias wrote:Is it easy for someone preferably Swedish to find how % was the avarage of the audience who watched the tv serie?

"Almenäs bjuder in" can't be watched by so many. It doesn't go on television so we will never know, is my guess.

But if I set the rate really high I might guess that 100 000 people have watched it. But I get a feel that it is to much.