Amazon, Avicii, Håkan Hellström and the heirs. The Grammy Gala 2020 hardly offered any fat shakes. The big surprise of the year, in that case, stands for the big winner himself, who has taken his career in a direction that not many people had guessed.
Molly Sandén has been an active artist since 2006 when she was 14 years old, but that she would take home this year's pop, this year's album and the very heaviest prize, this year's artist, at the Grammisgalan 2020, no one had believed just a few years ago.
Molly Sandén has been that Mello girl who shows up in How to Let It and Let's Dance and who made voices to various Disney characters. But who Molly Sandén himself really is has been more unclear.
Today, Sandén stands as Grammisgalan's big winner for an album that is both gripping and personal, modern and classic at the same time. She has also grown into a world renowned songwriter, praised by the copyright organization ALIS with the Copyright Hero Award, for a songwriting conflict that she resolved with that honor.
Molly Sandén is well worth its prices, but then it should also be said: the competition has hardly been murderous. No mega album by Robyn, nothing new from Seinabo Sey. Tove Los's album did not live up to expectations. Snoh Aalegra's songs are beautiful and good, but what about them is new and what do they really say about 2019?
Last year's starting field wasn't bad, but it wasn't very exciting either. It is difficult to beat Einár in the category Newcomer of the Year, but at the same time it does not hurt that Jelassi, known for the super single Keff boat, receives no prize. Not only because she is a rapper of rank, she also tells stories that differ from the right now homogeneous Swedish hip hop represented by tough guys like Einár, ZE and Dree Low.
With a little luck, she takes a backseat to Molly Sandén, no, not musically - but by growing and combing grand slam in the future.