The historic first failure of Sweden to make the Eurovision final seems to have prompted four days of quiet reflection across the nation. Today the results of this introspection were published.

Sweden uses an Idol style tv-series, entitled Melodifestivalen, to select who will represent the nation in Eurovision. With the most SMS votes, the winner this year was Anna Bergendahl with This is My Life. Unfortunately this performance was not “strong” enough to make it to the Eurovision final.

At the time of publishing Anna had 3500 Facebook fans.

Meanwhile the Facebook fanpage entitled The Swedish guy from Eurovision 2010 was so hot has accumulated 6000 fans. This guy is Eric Saade, and he was the runner-up in Melodifestivalen this year with the disturbingly named Manboy.

This has lead to the obvious conclusion that Eric should have represented Sweden this year. While I think the Manboy tune is far more catchy than Anna’s, I just can’t get over the title.

(Personally I think This is My Life was better than many of the songs that made the Eurovision final.)