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We don’t want to host if KAJ’s sauna song wins Eurovision, says Swedish city of Malmö
Officials in the city, where last year’s competition was held, say it is too big an event to do every two years
The song – called Bara bada bastu(Just sauna) – is top of the streaming charts in Sweden and Finland on Spotify and is a favourite to win Saturday’s final in Basel. Dublin was the host city in 1994, 1995 and 1997 – a 1990s Irish run that began with the town of Millstreet in County Cork staging it in 1993. As well as promoting the merits of sauna culture, Sweden’s entry also puts the spotlight on Finland’s 290,000 Swedish-speaking population and the Vörå dialect spoken in the bilingual Finnish municipality where KAJ are from.
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