Ulf Gudmunsson: "Anni-Frid
Lyngstad, Was this unexpected?"
Anni-Frid Lyngstad: "I would have to say yes. I hardly dared to hope
for it."
UG: "But did you feel that this song would hit home with the European
audience?"
AL: "Yes, I felt that we stood a fair chance. But I never thought we
would win."
UG: "What was it about this song that you thought would appeal to
people?"
AL: "I think the title, to a great extent. “Waterloo”.
UG: "Stikkan Anderson. You wrote this song. Why does one write a
schlager about waterloo?"
Stikkan Anderson: "When you write a Eurovision schlager…you don’t
write a schlager for Sweden but for Europe and the rest of the world. The first
thing you do is to take title that you think will be understood by everybody.
Last year’s song was similar. It was called “Ring Ring”. That title was the same
in all other languages. Last year you did a schlager about telephoning each
other."
UG: "This year you did a schlager about how 40,000 people died.
Cynically put…"
SA: "Yes, that was very cynically put. That was not our intention.
Waterloo is a famous concept all over the world. It represents something that
has happened in history. It doesn’t have anything to do with people dying. Nice
angle, I must say."
UG: "What does it mean for Sweden and Swedish schlager production to
win this event?"
SA: "To start with, I think it means a lot to Sweden as a tourist
country. Sweden has been doing this for 19 years and entered the Eurovision, and
now we finally won it. So, next year, journalists from all over the world will
come to Stockholm."
Thanks to Sam Shervz