Swedish pop music icon, Eurovision Sweden’s 2018 representative and two-time Melodifestivalen finalist Benjamin Ingrosso continues to release new music and is back with his new EP “mommy’s boy”.
About “mommy’s boy”
Soon after his double single release “Funny Feeling” and “Waste My Time” a few weeks ago, and ahead of his ‘What Happens Next’ arena tour starting this month, Benjamin reveals four new tracks on his ‘mommy’s boy’ EP, including the titular track.
About “mommy’s boy”, Benjamin says:
“Mommy’s Boy” is a kind of confession where I’m working with a self-image that doesn’t match reality. It’s about someone who is perceived from the outside as confident and perhaps a little vain, but who deep down struggles with low self-esteem and just wants to be chosen and validated,
And about the other tracks on this release, he says:
“Nice to Meet You” depicts the contradiction of the hopeful feeling of finally starting to get over someone, while at the same time, on some sick level, you don’t want to move on. “Deep Diver” is a deep dive in its most literal form and the song
“cliché” is about not being able to let go of the thought of whether you could have done something differently to change the outcome of a love relationship.
Melfest fans may also notice a familiar face involved in the release as it features Melfest alumni Victoria Silvstedt on the cover.
The EP makes up half of his new studio album “baby don’t say that, i’m sensitive” which releases in March 2027.
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Who is Benjamin Ingrosso?
Benjamin Ingrosso is a Swedish-Italian singer, songwriter and record producer born in 1997. As a child, he appeared as the leading role in several musicals and took a keen interest in music and musical theatre. In 2006, Benjamin won the Lilla Melodifestivalen Contest, the youth version of Sweden’s Melodifestivalen, with the song “Hej Sofia”. He represented Sweden in MGP Nordic 2006 in Stockholm, where he placed fourth. In 2014, he competed in and won the SVT celebrity dancing show Let’s Dance. After representing Sweden at Eurovision in 2018, he released his first album, ‘Identification’, and has gone on to three release further albums, several of which have reached number 1 in Sweden.
Benjamin Ingrosso’s Eurovision journey
In 2017, Benjamin made his Melodifestivalen debut with the song “Good Lovin'”, which he co-wrote with Louis Schoorl and Matt Pardon. He would place fifth in the final of that year’s Melfest. Benjamin returned to the Mello stage the following year with the song “Dance You Off”, written by Ingrosso himself, with Louis Schoorl and K Nita. After reaching the final of Mello 2018, Benjamin won the contest, earning the right to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon.
Benjamin performed in the second of the Semi-Finals in Lisbon, qualifying for a spot in the Saturday Grand Final. At the close of the jury voting sequence, “Dance You Off” had received 253 points, earning the 12 points from the juries of eight countries, and placing him in second before the addition of the public televote. At the close of voting, Benjamin received just 21 points from the viewing public, scoring an overall 274 points. “Dance You Off” eventually would finish in 7th place in the Contest in 2018.
When Sweden hosted the Contest in Malmö in 2024, Benjamin returned to the Eurovision stage as an interval act. Performing in the interval of the first of the Semi-Finals, the singer performed a medley of his hits “Look Who’s Laughing Now”, “Kite” and “Honey Boy”.
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