SMILO: Three guys with a big passion for music

Time for a new MELFEST interview! Here are the answer of SMILO:
Name: Arvid Ångström 
Birthday: February first
Height: 170cm
Favorite color: Sunshine colors
Favorite food: Meatballs with mashed potatoes
Shoe Size: 8
Where are you right now? Somewhere in Southside Stockholm
3 things that make you happy: Music, coffee & sunshine
What’s your strangest talent? Walking in heels
What is the strangest thing you have in your room? A mystery door that leads nowhere
What are you really good at? Writing music
What are you really bad at? Hmmm.. Nothing, really.
What would you do if you were invisible? Try to get eye contact with all the people I walk by
Childhood idol: Jimi Hendrix
Childhood memory: Building a treehouse with my grandfather
Tell me something no one knows about you: I'm full of secrets ;)
If you were a girl for a day, what would you do? Learn makeup. Then use it to never look tired again
Favorite movie: The Big lebowski
Favorite TV series: As of right now I’m addicted to "Suits"
What is your guilty pleasure? Chocolate
Name a song that never fails to make you happy: Funny the way it is - Dave Matthews band
Can you teach me some interesting words in Swedish? Lagom - a word explaining something that is not too little and not too much.

Name: Oscar Berglund Juhola

Birthday: 6 may 1992

Height: 1.84 m

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite food: Gyros

Shoe Size: 44.5

Where are you right now? In Stockholm at my place

3 things that make you happy: Hammarby, music and my friends

What’s your strangest talent? I’m very fast.

What is the strangest thing you have in your room? A large picture of myself on the wall.

What are you really good at? Ice skating

What are you really bad at? Cooking

What would you do if you were invisible? Travel a lot.

Childhood idol: Peter Forsberg (hockey player)

Childhood memory: All the hockey tournaments I´ve been playing all around in Sweden. 

Tell me something no one knows about you: I’m not going to tell you, that’s why it’s a secret ;)

If you were a girl for a day, what would you do? haha, see how it is to be with a boy.

Favorite movie: Intouchables

Favorite TV series: Prison Break and The big bang theory

What is your guilty pleasure? Football.

Name a song that never fails to make you happy: Genom eld och vatten with Sarek.

Can you teach me some interesting words in swedish?  Glädje - happiness

Name: Dennis Babic      

Birthday: 25 December 1992

Height: 185 cm

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite food: Lasagne

Shoe Size: 44

Where are you right now? Home

3 things that make you happy: Cars, music and speed

What’s your strangest talent? I have no idea

What is the strangest thing you have in your room? A small donkey

What are you really good at? Cars

What are you really bad at? Stand on my hands upside down

What would you do if you were invisible? I can’t think of anything right now

Childhood idol: Michael Schumacher

Childhood memory: Travel around Sweden and play all kind of tournaments (Floorball and soccer)

Tell me something no one knows about you: Yeah right… good try ;)

If you were a girl for a day, what would you do? Go bag shopping to see if it’s really that much fun…

Favorite movie: Dumb & Dumber

Favorite TV series: The OC

What is your guilty pleasure? Gossip Girl

Name a song that never fails to make you happy: Avicii - Levels

Can you teach me some interesting words in swedish? Köttbullar - Meatballs

Hello guys! Welcome to Melodifestivalen. How are you? 

D: Im fine, thanks!

O: Hi, Im good, thanks

How would you describe the group? 

D:Three guys with a big passion for music, especially Electronic Dance Music.

O: We are three guys from Stockholm that loves to make happy music. We complement each other well. 
A: Three happy guys making music.

How did you meet each other? 

D: Me (Dennis) and Oscar are childhood friends and we met Arvid through the nightclub life here in Stockholm because we all have worked like DJs before.

A: We met through the dj culture in Stockholm city

You are one of the participants of Melodifestivalen 2016. How did it all begin? 

D: Through a competition named “Svensktoppen Nästa”. We went all the way to the big final in Gothenburg. We didn’t win but a jury with Christer Björkman and a few more persons chose us to get a place in this years Melodifestivalen. 

“Weight of the World” is the title of your song and it’s written by all of you, Anton Göransson, and Robin Daneilsson. How was it working with them? 

D: Good, Anton and Robin are two very talented guys so it was a pleasure to work with them.

O: It worked very well and it was really fun. 

A: It was great! I mean, we already had the Idea for the song like 6 months ago, and finishing up with Anton and Robin Was just perfect :)

What’s the story behind the song? 

D:It’s a song that’s very “today”, the lyrics tells us how the world is but it also have a sound that you can hear today on radio or festivals but with our unique touch on it so you can hear it’s a “SMILO SONG”

O: It’s a song that describes how the world is today and that we together can make it to a better place. 

A: We wrote the Idea for the song early and it was about the troubled situation the world of today faces. We wanted to make a song that not only could make people happy and dance, but to think twice about the world we live in.

Describe the song with 4 words: 

D: Party, dance, melody and joy

O: Party, happy, dance and lyrics. 

A: Message, happy, EDM, anthem 

What can we expect to see on stage for the performance? 

D: A good lightshow, we really want to take the festival feeling to this stage.

O: A spectacular lightshow. 

A: I can’t tell you anything about the performance other than it's going to be something special :) we hope we can bring something that never have been done in Melodifestivalen before.

What do you think about the voting app? 

D: It’s good; if it works hehe last year I heard the app went down

O: It’s perfect, because everyone has a Smartphone now.

A: It's great; a lot of people use their smartphones for stuff like this. Why not? :) 

What do you like about Eurovision?

D: It’s a party for almost the whole world and that you don’t see every day

O: I like that you compete with other countries. 

A: The tradition of keeping it one of the Biggest Celebrations of the year. 

What do you dislike about Eurovision? 

D: Hm, I don’t know actually
A: Nothing really

Tell me the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word:

Friendship: Loyal / Forever / Trust

Nightmare: Monsters / Dreaming / Darkness

Cake: Sugar / Princess cake / Chocolate

Goosebumps: SMILO / Our song / Our song "goosebumps"

Fangirling: What is “Fangirling” / Commitment

Dreams: Summerburst festival / Nightmare / I’ve got a lot of them ;)

What are your plans for 2016? 

D: To make more good music and travel around and do many gigs

O: To make a lot of music and have a lot of gigs.

A: To play at as many shows possible and to write more music than in 2015:D

Is there anything you want to say to close the interview? 

D: Thank you and I hope you love our song!

O: Hope you will enjoy our song 

Thanks to SMILO for the interview! Good luck in Mello!

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