Charlotte Perrelli – Hero, 2008

Charlotte Perrelli – Hero (2008)
“Hero” is a 2008 pop song performed by the Swedish singer Charlotte Perrelli. It represented Sweden at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Year: 2008
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Europop, Ballad, Schlager

Europop

A style of Pop music which incorporates different elements from Euro House and Dance music styles. Typical Europop projects include boy bands like No Mercy, Worlds Apart, Backstreet Boys and N'Sync, as well as formations like Ace Of Base, Army Of Lovers and ATC.

 Ballad

A popular narrative song passed down orally. In the English tradition, it usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines. Folk (or traditional) ballads are anonymous and recount tragic, comic, or heroic stories with emphasis on a central dramatic event; examples include Barbara Allen and John Henry.

 
[ Lyrics: Hero ]

Everything has a beginning
Everything comes to and end
Take it or leave it
You’d better believe it
Be my lover, be my friend
Try to deny what you’re feeling
And you know that you’re heart will say no
Love will last longer
Growing stronger and stronger
If you stay and don’t let go

Chorus:
Oh, out of the light
Like a star, like a hero
Love will survive
Oh, taking the fight
Is the life of a hero
Staying alive
This is a story
Of love and compassion
Only heroes can tell
Oh, out of the light
Like a star, like a hero
Love will survive

Heaven and earth keep colliding
But we love on a world of its own
Oh, there you can’t fake it
Just make it or break it
Only you can find the one

Chorus:
Oh, out of the light
Like a star, like a hero
Love will survive
Oh, taking the fight
Is the life of a hero
Staying alive
This is a story
Of love and compassion
Only heroes can tell
Oh, out of the light
Like a star, like a hero
Love will survive
Oh, survive

Heroes can live on their own
But heroes never die alone

Chorus:
Oh, out of the light
Like a star, like a hero
Love will survive
Oh, taking the fight
Is the life of a hero
Staying alive
This is a story
Of love and compassion
Only heroes can tell
Oh, out of the light
Like a star, like a hero
Love will survive
Charlotte Perrelli

Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven". Since 1999 Perrelli has released seven albums and multiple singles. She once again won Melodifestivalen in 2008 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with her song "Hero".
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Schlager

Schlager is the German word for "Hit". Initially, it has the same meaning, a big success.
Later "Schlager" became the term for a kind of easy listening pop music, trying to please as many people as possible in German-speaking countries and Benelux. In "Schlager" nearly all kinds of music styles are possible. Songs from the musical genres Country, Rock 'n' Roll, Pop, Swing (and in a few cases Hard Rock) count as Schlager when the English lyrics are exchanged

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